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In poor style. P.Ok. Subban is dealing with backlash after making a tasteless joke about Lizzo throughout a broadcast for the NHL playoffs.
Whereas discussing the Florida Panthers and the Toronto Maple Leafs sport on Tuesday, Could 2, with fellow analysts, co-anchor John Buccigross implied that the Maple Leafs wanted to “pack a lunch” to achieve momentum after shedding to the Panthers, to which Subban, 33, retorted, “Possibly they should pack a Lizzo-sized lunch.”
The previous hockey participant’s remark earned him criticism from viewers after clips of the second circulated on social media the place customers slammed Subban for his “fatphobic” and “gross” phrases and requires his elimination started to flow into.
Subban, for his half, hasn’t particularly addressed the backlash, however he did elaborate on what the time period “pack a lunch” means following the preliminary broadcast.
“Pack a lunch … lock in!” he wrote by way of Twitter on Tuesday alongside a screenshot of the definition of the slang with the phrases “giant, sustained quantity of effort” highlighted. “Be able to compete! Convey work boots! Anticipate that they’re going to attempt to outwork you in onerous areas.”
Whereas Lizzo, 35, has not known as out Subban, this isn’t the primary time she’s been the topic of body-shaming. In August 2022, comic Arie Spears made feedback concerning the “Good As Hell” performer’s determine.
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“I can’t get previous the truth that she appears to be like just like the s–t emoji,” Spears, 48, mentioned throughout an look on “The Artwork of Dialogue.” “She’s acquired a really fairly face, however she retains displaying her physique off, like, come on, man. Come on, yo.”
On the time, Lizzo didn’t immediately handle Spears’ controversial assertion. Nonetheless, when she took dwelling the impactful Video for Good award on the 2022 VMAs, she seemingly shaded the Mad TV alum — and all of her different critics — in her speech.
“I need to say thanks a lot for supporting me and loving me. And now, to the bitches that acquired one thing to say about me within the press,” the “Particular” songstress mentioned to the viewers. “ what, I’m not going to say nothing. They’ll be like, ‘Lizzo, why don’t you clap again?’ As a result of bitch, I’m successful, hoe! Massive bitch is successful, hoe!”
All through the Grammy winner’s profession, she’s used her platform to evangelise physique positivity and inclusivity for people of all styles and sizes. Along with her musical success, Lizzo additionally created the model Yitty, which sells shapewear for all physique sorts. In September 2019, Lizzo solely spoke with Us Weekly about how she gained her confidence and why she needs to share that aspect of herself with the world
“It undoubtedly comes with time,” she recalled to Us. “I wasn’t actually given the alternatives or the privileges to really feel like a intercourse image once I was rising up. I used to be a fats black woman in Houston and I didn’t see myself in magazines.
