Good Morning America host Lara Spencer has issued another apology for demeaning Prince George over his love of ballet.
Spencer made the comments during a GMA pop culture segment last week when she profiled Prince George’s upcoming school curriculum. She also mocked George’s dad, Prince William, over his love of the dance.
“I’ve got news for you, Prince William. We’ll see how long that lasts,” Spencer said, inviting laughs from the crew.
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Spencer’s comments invited immediate ridicule on social media as well as from dance legends like Broadway hoofer Debbie Allen, prompting the host to issue an apology via an Instagram caption accompanying a photo of serene lavender set against some ever-so-lovely rolling hills of green. Whose idea was that?!
“My sincere apologies for an insensitive comment I made in pop news yesterday,” she wrote. “From ballet to anything one wants to explore in life, I say GO FOR IT. I fully believe we should all be free to pursue our passions. Go climb your mountain-and love every minute of it.”
.@LaraSpencer apologizes for her comments about boys and dance and sits down with 3 celebrated ballet dancers: “It has been a true education for me.” pic.twitter.com/bYJUvVGaXK
— Good Morning America (@GMA) August 26, 2019
Spencer also issued an on-air apology on Monday morning. “I screwed up,” she confessed. “I did. The comment I made about dance was insensitive, it was stupid, and I am sorry. I spoke with several members of the dance community over the last few days. I have listened. I have learned about the bravery that it takes for a young boy to pursue a career in dance. And last night, I sat down with three influential dancers who lived it – firsthand.”
Prince George, who is six years old, attends dance classes at St. Thomas Battersea school in London.
Cam
What a shock, the same Network that is handing Sean Spicer 6 figures to go on Dancing with the “Stars”, has a host that wants to mock people for doing “Gay things”.
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MacAdvisor
I am glad Prince George was six by the end of the article. Queerty has him as only four in the in the headline.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
The “fact checking” is very time consuming!! :-p
Creamsicle
I’ve come to stop expecting any kind of standards from queerty posts. Not after all the posts that are nothing but summarized reddit threads.
MISTERJETT
this from someone who has never ever made a mistake!!!!
WindsorOntario
6 works out to be 4 in queerty/gay years.
Todd.Brooklyn
Weren’t there a few articles not to long ago about how rude and difficult she was to staff? It hard to believe
Larry
She has Trump written all over her face. You can see it.
Bytemenow
She’ll be on “vacation” soon.
niles
Let’s face – this really wasn’t about ballet; and all of the dancing queens clamoring to “forgive” her is par for the course.
James
AFTER THAT COMMENT, I AM NOT INTERESTED IN HER.
wancell
What about the co-hosts who laughed with her?
Jenniferp412
You cannot say anything today without some LIBERAL crying. I do not think what she said was so offensive to get everyone so upset. Ballet is very hard and you have do be very dedicated to stay with it.
MISTERJETT
HUH??????
Viktor Zavadsky
fo guck yourself you cupid stunt…
dwes09
You must be either very stupid, or really into being laughed at.
Cam
Sweetie, you were just on the other thread screaming that LGBTQ people are to blame for bigotry because they asked for civil rights.
There are a few seats over there….please take all of them.
cubcmh
Such a double standard! If a male personality made a comment about a young woman liking activities that weren’t considered gender-normative, he’d be out the door before the end of the day!! Frankly, her apology didn’t seem all that sincere to me, and was more of a PR opportunity for her than anything else.
Viktor Zavadsky
yes…
justyouandi
I didn’t take it that way at all!
I thought she was warning Prince William that he, as a parent, was likely to be disappointed to expect his child to persevere in that which he hopes for his child. Most fathers want their son to have the same interests that they have, but kids usually find that is one way they can rebel and be independent. If Prince George takes to ballet William will be the exception to many fathers whose son does what their father hoped they would do, and will be able to share that common appreciation.
What if it was football we were talking about instead of ballet?
Viktor Zavadsky
ig’nant…
dwes09
They don’t play American Football there.
And chances are he will play football, it is not incongruous for dancers to like conventional athletics.
Viktor Zavadsky
cupid stunt…
Rex Huskey
I mean really. what rock has this woman been under?
Brian
I think some context is helpful. She also used to mock one of her gay male coworkers. She has gotten flak for homophobia before. There’s something going on in her mind… and it’s not nice. This was not a slip-up. This is who she is.
karl schroeder
She is a homophobe – probably a Trump supporter too. What her remarks demonstrated was the institutional sexism that infects many American corporations – not just television and radio. She strikes me as being fairly dumb – her unnecessary remarks show that. The ‘apology’ was barely an apology – because she did not mean it.
WindsorOntario
Her fish-face facelift isn’t helping things either. Honestly, between all these women on the 90210 reboot & all these other women on tv, what is it with these facelifts? They actually look older than if they would’ve just left their faces alone to begin with.
djmcgamester
She messed up? You think? Thing is, there’s no correlation. Or, at least, there’s nothing like an overwhelming number of gay men who do ballet. You think a Russian ballet dancer is necessarily gay? No. They train a guy hard and push through whoever is best. It has nothing to do with sexuality.