Matt Lucas publicly apologizes to Millie Bobby Brown for his remarks about her look.
After the Stranger Issues star referred to as out the criticism she obtained for her look, the Little Britain actor took to social media to “present some context.”
“Expensive Millie, I simply noticed your publish and needed to reply, and supply some context,” Lucas wrote on Instagram. “Practically 25 years in the past I co-wrote and appeared in a sketch present referred to as Little Britain. There was a personality in it referred to as Vicky Pollard, who had blonde hair and at all times wore a pink prime, and within the photograph you had blonde hair and wore a pink prime so I identified the similarity by posting one among her catchphrases.”
He continued, “I believed you seemed terrific and I used to be mortified when the press wrote that I ‘slammed’ you, firstly as a result of that’s not my model, and secondly as a result of I feel you’re sensible. I’d not have posted it if I had thought it will have upset you however I realise it has and for that I apologise. Matt x.”
Lucas’ apology comes a day after Brown took to social media to name out the criticism she had obtained, saying in an Instagram video that she was addressing “one thing that impacts each younger girl who grows up beneath public scrutiny.”
“I grew up in entrance of the world, and for some purpose, folks can’t appear to develop with me,” she stated. “As a substitute, they act like I’m supposed to remain frozen in time, like I ought to nonetheless look the best way I did on Stranger Issues season one. And since I don’t, I’m now a goal.”
Brown cited a number of headlines critiquing her look from the premiere of her movie The Electrical State.
“This isn’t journalism. That is bullying,” she unhappy. “The truth that grownup writers are spending their time dissecting my face, my physique, my selections, it’s disturbing. The truth that a few of these articles are written by ladies? Even worse.”
Brown added, “We at all times discuss supporting and uplifting younger ladies, however when the time comes, it appears simpler to tear them down for clicks. Disillusioned folks can’t deal with seeing a woman change into a girl on her phrases, not theirs.”
“I refuse to make myself smaller to suit the unrealistic expectations of people that can’t deal with seeing a woman change into a girl,” she stated. “I cannot be shamed for a way I look, how I costume, or how I current myself.”
The Enola Holmes star referred to as everybody to “do higher,” including, “Not only for me, however for each younger woman who deserves to develop up with out concern of being torn aside for merely present.”
