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On Monday, Sydney Sweeney appeared on The Tonight Show to promote The Housemaid. She chatted with Jimmy Fallon about her week of friendsgivings and then was confronted with a trio of Labubus doing the “6-7” meme onstage. What hairstyle is best suited for that kind of occasion? Sweeney opted for a thick, straight bob, and you know what? Her hairstylist is standing by it.
Not everyone was so into this choice. The next day, fashion commentator Blakely Thornton got on Instagram and accused Sweeney of wearing a bad wig. “I don’t want to keep talking about this white girl,” Thornton (who has worked with The Cut in the past) said in an Instagram Reel, adding that Sweeney’s team is “doing this shit on purpose. Why else would you go on a late-night talk show looking like Effie Trinket’s lost niece — the stiffest wig this side of the Mississippi — unless you want to get read for filth?”
Thornton did not hold back, adding that Sweeney looked like a “racist Jane Jetson meets Marie Antoinette” and that her red dress was giving “You got caught in a Nazi flag and added a corset.”
While he also took some time to allude to Sweeney’s American Eagle ad controversy and her widely debated party registration, it was the wig comment that seems to have really ticked off someone in her circle. Thornton later posted a screenshot of an apparent exchange with Glen Oropeza, Sweeney’s hairstylist, that took place in the comments of his first post. (Oropeza’s comments appear to have since been deleted.)
“Wasn’t a wig but you can’t get my girl’s name out of your mouth. You’re obsessed,” Oropeza commented, per Thornton’s screenshot. “Stiff where,” he seems to have added in another comment, “You’re doing a lot … Take a breath, diva. You can keep trying to spin a narrative, but we all know you just need click bait cuz your content is TIRED. If you need attention, just say that. Imagine caring this much about a hairstyle you didn’t create and a woman who doesn’t know you exist. Goodnight.”
Thornton included his own response in the screenshot, where he wrote, “I hope you get paid overtime for being a sycophant after 9pm PST. If so I can sign your timesheet. And you’re right, Black people are tired … very much so … good luck on the rest of the press tour.”
Unfortunately for Oropeza, he sort of lost this one. His comments are gone but memorialized by Thornton’s screenshot, and he didn’t manage to get a shot off that even came close to “the stiffest wig this side of the Mississippi.” At least Sweeney knows there’s still someone willing to stand up for her. Maybe he should get a Christmas bonus for daring to wade into the discourse.
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