Alec Baldwinis going silent on Twitter.
Afterposting a messagein honor ofMartin Luther King Jr. Dayon Monday, the 62-year-old actor announced he would cease using the social media service for the foreseeable future.
It’s not the first time the former30 Rockstar has quit the platform. In 2013, hedeleted his accountafter lashing out at a British journalist who claimed his wife,Hilaria Baldwin, was tweeting duringJames Gandolfini’s funeral.
His most recent departure from Twitter comes after Hilaria found herself at the center of recent controversy regarding her heritage.
Last month, the fitness instructor andMom Brainpodcast co-host, 37, began trending online when social media users claimed that she fabricated Spanish roots and a Spanish accent despite being born and raised in the United States. (The posts pointed in part to previous media appearances in which she used a Spanish accent while speaking.)
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Hilaria and Alec Baldwin in 2020.Patrick Mcmullan/Getty
Hilariafirst addressed the controversyin a video posted Dec. 27 on Instagram, confirming that she was born in Boston and that her birth name is Hillary.
She said that she occasionally “mixes” Spanish or English based on whichever she is speaking more frequently at that time and said she “grew up spending time with my family between Massachusetts and Spain.”
“This is just who I am and my life story,” she said. “It might not fit into your cookie-cutter and might not fit into a label, but it’s my weird mix of who I am.”
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She also spoke out in an interview withThe New York Times,claiming she never read the multipleHola!stories about her that identified her as Spanish and said she found it “disappointing” thather biographyon the website of her agency, the Creative Artists Agency, stated that she was born in Mallorca, Spain, where her parents now reside. (It was changed amid the controversy.)
Hilaria married Alec in 2012 and they share five children: sonsEduardo “Edu” Pao Lucas, 4 months,Romeo Alejandro David, 2½,Leonardo Ángel Charles, 4, andRafael Thomas, 5½, plus 7-year-old daughterCarmen Gabriela.
source: people.com
