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Jamie Lee Curtis Slams Critics Choice Awards for Joking Ariana DeBose Is an Actor Who Thinks She’s a Singer: ‘Back the F— Off’ and ‘Shut the F— Up’


Jamie Lee Curtis is fuming that the Critics Choice Awards joked that Ariana DeBose is an actor pretending to be a singer.

Jamie Lee Curtis is once again defending Ariana DeBose, this time due to a joke made at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards at the expense of the “West Side Story” Oscar winner. “The Last of Us” star Bella Ramsey and Anthony Ramos presented the Critics Choice Award in the best song category and noted how the nominees were split between songs “delivered by some of the most famous voices in the music industry” (Billie Eilish, Lenny Kravitz and Dua Lipa) and “actors who also think that they are singers” (Jack Black, Ariana DeBose and Ryan Gosling). Not only is DeBose a Broadway veteran and a Tony Award nominee, but the performer also won the Oscar for best supporting actress thanks to her singing and dancing-heavy role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” DeBose took to Instagram after the show to write: “No I didn’t find it funny.

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