Who Is Tracie Egan Morrissey? Details About the Writer Who's Called out Jameela Jamil and Hilaria Baldwin
A Strange Celebrity Feud Between Actress Jameela Jamil and Writer Tracie Egan Morrissey Made Headlines Back in February 2020. the One-Time Jezebel Editor...
A strange celebrity feud between actress Jameela Jamil and writer Tracie Egan Morrissey made headlines back in February 2020.
The one-time Jezebel editor started posting screenshots of interviews Jamil has done where she addresses her health history.
The screenshots showed that Jamil hasn't always been consistent in the details, leading Morrissey to speculate that Jamil isn't telling the entire truth or at worst, embellishing her stories.
Jamil did not takee kindly to the implications and has written scathing social media responses, saying, "First I’m lying about my sexuality, now I’m now being accused of munchausens? By an unhinged idiot who didn’t even realize in all her “research” that my car accident injury stories are “different” because they were about TWO SEPARATE CAR ACCIDENTS 13 years apart? You can keep it."
Now Morrissey is making headlines again after she accused Hilaria Baldwin, wife of actor Alec Baldwin, of faking a Spanish accent.
Who is Tracey Egan Morrissey?
Read on for everything you need to know about the allegations made about Jamil by Morrissey, as well as her recent allegations about Hilaria Baldwin.
Morrissey is a prolific writer and editor who has been in leadership positions at Bust magazine, then Jezebel, and she created the platform Broadly for Vice Media.
She left the position at Broadly over employee claims of toxic culture to become the head of non-fiction content development within Vice.
In addition, she's been published in outlets like Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times.
Most of her work is in the pop culture space, so following the lives and careers of media personalities is her main professional focus.
She also has a podcast called Pot Psychology where she and Jezebel writer Rich Juzwiak get stoned and talk about various topics. The podcast is based on their video series and book of the same name.
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What does Morrissey have to do with Jameela Jamil?
Morrissey started digging into old interviews by Jameela Jamil and noticed discrepancies in the stories she told about her life.
Apparently, this made Morrissey curious enough to start doing more research. In the meantime, Morrissey began posting her findings on her own Instagram page.
Most of what she shared was screenshots and videos of interviews Jamil has done, so everything is based on verifiable material. "All I did was look at publicity interviews [she did on various occasions] from my kitchen [and piece them on a timeline],” Morrissey said in an interview.
She didn't really start ramping up her research into Jamil's life until Jamil came out as queer on social media.
"The one thing that bothers me and sort of kicked all of this off, is [Jamil], starting back when she came out as queer last week, she kind of blamed it on the press and said that they had misreported that she was the host of this show when literally that’s what appeared in the press release,” Morrissey explained, referring to Jamil's sudden announcement about her sexuality in the wake of criticism about her involvement in the new HBO series Legendary, which is about ballroom culture, a type of performance favored by gay and trans people.
Jamil is not only appearing on the show as a lead judge, but she's also listed as an executive producer.
“As an EP [executive producer] of the show, you would think she would look at the press release before it was sent out. She went after the press for misreporting it, but it’s literally their job to report facts and what’s true, and I find that offensive. And she’s continued to blame the press [for bad coverage],” Morrissey noted.
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