HASTALA VISTA IN HILARIA’S WEB BIO
Born-in-Spain claim gone
Hilaria Baldwin’s official talent bio has been scrubbed of its fake claim that she was born in Mallorca — although she is still taking it on the chin from other celebs over her bogus claim of being a native of Spain.
While Baldwin’s hotheaded hubby, actor Alec, futilely continued to defend his embattled wife on Tuesday, reports that she misrepresented herself as a native of Spain for years just kept coming.
Amid mounting criticism, Hilaria’s bio page on the Web site of her rep, Creative Artists Agency, had eliminated the claim that “Baldwin was born in Mallorca, Spain and raised in Boston, Massachusetts’’ by Tuesday.
The 36-year-old mom of five acknowledged she is a Boston native in a rambling mea culpa video on Instagram over the weekend.
She said that in her defense, she spent part of her childhood with her family on the tony island of Mallorca and partly identifies with Spanish people because of it.
Hilaria made sure Spanish culture was a part of her wedding to Alec at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan in 2012 — wearing a traditional mantilla veil as the couple exchanged rings with, “We’re a good team’’ inscribed in them in Spanish.
On Sunday, Hilaria accused her critics of mixing up the facts about her Spanish-heritage claims.
She made the assertion — despite having told Hola! magazine in a 2018 cover story that she was “born in Spain” and is raising her kids to speak
her “native language, Spanish.”
Several people have recently taken to Twitter to say they went to high school with Hilaria in Massachusetts — and described her as “a fully white girl from Cambridge’’ who “did not have her current accent.’’
Stars such as Kathy Griffin mocked Hilaria on social media for saying she feels part Spanish because she spent time on Mallorca as a kid.
“If we can decide to be the ethnicity of where our parents took us on summer vacations, then I have a Saugatuckian accent as a descendant of a long line of Michiganders,” the standup quipped.
“Catfish” cable-show host Nev Schulman added jokingly, “On this weeks episode of #catfish, we help @AlecBaldwin find out if @hilariabaldwin really is who she says she is…”
A Venezuelan immigrant wrote a thoughtful personal column for People magazine on why Hilaria’s actions, including her “fake, exaggerated accent,’’ are damaging and painful — only to be derided by Alec Baldwin.
“Fake? Exaggerated? Appropriated an accent as an adult? [Hilaria] lived in Spain for many years as a child. She lived both places,’’ he snapped back in a tweet.
The writer Ale Russian, an editorial assistant at People, had revealed her anguish at being forced to change her “beautiful” name from Alejandrina to better assimilate in the US and how immigrants’ accents are frequently a source of shame and isolation in America.
A day earlier, Alec, 62, posted a a cryptic Mark Twain quote to summarize his feelings on Instagram.
“A lie can travel halfway around thethe worldworld while the truth is putting on its shoes,” the quote read.
One of his followers wrote back, “Like your wife being Spanish when she lived in Massachusetts her entire life. I take it her accent is fake as well? FRAUDS!”
Alec replied, “Go f--k yourself.” The back-and-forths came as newly unearthed photos showed Hilaria graduating from her posh Massachusetts school in 2002 — a year before she claimed she moved from Spain to the US.
Hilaria is listed by her real name, Hillary Hayward-Thomas, in the 2002 yearbook for The Cambridge School of Weston, which lists her among its “Hollywood names.”
She said Sunday on Instagram that while born Hillary, she officially switched her name before marrying her husband to make things simpler because her family called her Hilaria.