Chelsea Handler mocks Blake Lively and Kanye West in savage Critics Choice takedown

Blake Lively and Kanye West were conscionable 2 of the celebrities Chelsea Handler took purpose astatine portion hosting the Critics Choice Award.

The awards ceremonial took spot connected Friday nighttime arsenic celebrities poured intoBarker Hangar successful Santa Monica to observe the achievements successful filmmaking and tv implicit the past year.

None of the A-listers were harmless from Handler’s cutting remarks arsenic the big took purpose astatine Nicole Kidman’s Babygirl enactment scenes and joked that Ariana Grande was ‘dating a munchkin’.

She past joked astir Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing ineligible dispute and Kanye West’s arguable antisemitic tweets.

Handler thanked Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41 – who were not contiguous – for providing a ‘distraction’ from each the antagonistic news.

‘Waking up each day, not knowing what quality we are going to perceive volition disappoint oregon horrify us, it is truthful important to person a distraction successful times similar these.

‘And that’s wherefore I privation to personally widen my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. Thank you for providing america with that distraction. I’m grateful, we’re each grateful.’ 

‘I deliberation everybody successful this room, nary substance whose broadside you’re on, we tin each hold to judge that there’s astir apt not gonna beryllium a sequel,’ she joked. 

‘It ends with us, guys,’ Handler added.

She besides took purpose astatine Kanye West who was besides not present. While introducing Jesse Eisenberg to contiguous the grant for champion supporting actress, she joked that Eisenberg was ‘from a movie we cognize Kanye West didn’t see.’

Eisenberg starred and directed A Real Pain, a movie that focuses connected 2 Jewish cousins who question to Poland to honour their grandma and larn astir each different arsenic aged tensions rise.

The comedian was making notation to the antisemitic slurs posted connected societal media by West hours earlier the ceremony.

The Gold Digger rapper, 47, spent hours tweeting connected his X relationship connected Friday greeting wherever helium weight-shamed women, targeted the Jewish community, and expressed enactment for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs -who is facing galore intersexual battle allegations.

In 1 tweet, the disgraced rapper said: ‘I’m ne'er apologising for my Jewish comments. I tin accidental immoderate the f**k I wanna accidental forever. Where’s my f*****g apology for freezing my accounts. S**k my d**k how’s that for an apology.’ 

In different tweet, helium said: ‘I’m racist. Stereo types beryllium for a crushed and they each beryllium true’.

The rapper archetypal began publically making antisemitic statements successful 2022. This led to him losing a 10-year Adidas partnership that had contributed to his billionaire status.

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