I’m not OCD, nor am I clean freak. I like to work in a controlled mess – things may seem disorganized around me, but I have my own system. But as I get older, I do get more germ-phobic. I’m really good about washing my hands as soon as I come back from any excursion and I often shower twice a day. As I get older, the less I like casual physical contact too. Unless I’m formally meeting someone for the first time, I don’t like to shake hands and I’m not a big hugger either. So… I’m kind of feeling like an Anne Hathaway Apologist in this situation. Apparently, Anne refused to shake hands with a Argentine journalist during the Interstellar junket. She refused to shake his hand because of Ebola. Fair or unfair?
Anne Hathaway just gave more fuel to the Hatha-haters. An Argentinian journalist flew to Los Angeles to attend a screening of the star’s new movie, Interstellar, and was snubbed because the actress was afraid she would catch Ebola.
Each one of the film’s stars shook Alexis Puig’s hand after he interviewed them – everyone except Hathaway, that is. The offended journalist took to Twitter to air his grievances against the Oscar winner.
Puig tweeted, “Anne Hathaway no me dio la mano ‘por miedo al ebola’ #soyunperiodistadeltercermundo,” which translates to “Anne Hathaway didn’t shake my hand because she was she was afraid of ebola #I’mAThirdWorldJournalist.”
Soon after, Puig followed up with a tweet describing how Interstellar’s other A-list cast members were more than gracious. Instead of rebuffing the journalist, they embraced him. He tweeted, “Christopher Nolan, Matthew McConaughey y Jessica Chastain estuvieron geniales en las entrevistas (y ninguno me nego la mano) Toma Anne!”
Translation: “Christopher Nolan, Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain were genial in the interviews (and none of them denied me their hands). Take that, Anne!”
So far, no cases of Ebola have been reported in Argentina. When Puig returned to Argentina, he turned to Twitter once more to give the Les Miserables actress another jab. He posted, “Gracias a todos por sus comentarios. Por suerte ya estoy en Buenos Aires, Argentina (ciudad y país libre de Ebola) …y por casa Anne?,” which translates to, “Thank you to everyone for your comments. Luckily I’m already in Buenos Aires, Argentina (city and country free of Ebola)…and at home Anne?”
I’m including the instigating tweet below. Here’s my question: did Annie refuse to shake hands with EVERY journalist she met and this is just the one guy who complained, or did she single out this one “third world” journalist because she associated “foreign” with “Ebola”? I would excuse it if she refused to shake hands with everybody – it’s not just Ebola, it’s also flu season and everyone is particularly germy this time of year. Actors doing these junkets are probably going through several bottles of Purell a day because they shake so many hands. But yeah… this doesn’t sound good for Annie. “Third world” does not equal “Ebola.”
Anne Hathaway no me dio la mano "por miedo al ebola" #soyunperiodistadeltercermundo pic.twitter.com/iqGBrAV7MG
— ALEXIS PUIG (@alexispuig) October 25, 2014
Photos courtesy of WENN.
What a freaking idiot.
I think this officially makes her a douchbag
The journalist? Yes he’s a freakin idiot.
Agreed. He’s assuming all of it. Just making a headline to get some attention.
Unless she said to him ‘I won’t shake your hand because you may have ebola’, He seems to be making it all up in the name of sensationalism.
The journalist felt snubbed. OF COURSE she has come up with an excuse now. If she had a cold, which I don’t believe for a minute, she should have told him so – to avoid exactly this situation. She’s a celebrity, she’s at an event that calls for some politeness, and she blew it. I’m not sure why everyone is hating on the journalist and accusing him of lying. Does this guy lie a lot? Does he have a habit of antagonizing stars for no reason? If so, how does he stay in business? Have any of the other people at the event come forward to verify Anne’s “cold”? She needs Purell – or she needs to come clean about not shaking hands with anyone, ever.
@belle
I hear what you are saying about professional courtesy, but IMO the journalist is an idiot for bringing Ebola into the mix. There is no way Anne or her people told him or inferred she was not shaking his hand because of Ebola.
He obviously did feel snubbed but instead of making a point about a snub (which with Anne’s history is enough to get everyone’s Hathahate on) he’s going all out with this Ebola angle.
That’s why I think he’s an idiot.
You don’t have to have a cold to choose not to shake hands with someone. Shaking hands is a very easy way to spread and catch illness, especially when shaking hands with lots of people. We don’t know if she refused to shake hands with everyone or just him. I’m guessing she was avoiding handshaking in general.
I was on a cruise last summer and went to an event where we met the captain. There was a sign specifically asking guests NOT to shake hands with the captain to avoid spreading illness. My point is I think the journalist is over-reacting and using this as an opportunity to gain a little notoriety at her expense.
If the word “Ebola” in the headline was replaced with “Stupidity” it would be a tad more accurate
Exactly what I was thinking. Disgraceful.
AnnE said she wasn’t shaking hands with anyone because she was coming down with a cold. Journo is trying to instigate some Hathahate but didn’t get the memo we’ve all moved on to JLaw.
@Abbott: Nope…poor Hathaway will always get the hate more than any other celebrity. As for Jennifer Lawrence, you may feel that way, but CB is pretty much where it was since the begining ie., some don’t like her..some do. Outside of CB, she is even more popular now than ever.
Ehhh… JLaw gets raked over the coals at dlisted and CDaN among others.
Dlisted commenters dislike them both.
Dlisted commenters dislike everybody.
@mimif , haha. I tried to think of someone who they universally fanned, but came up empty. They are a very inclusive group then.
Yeah, dlisted hates EVERYONE. LOL!. Christ, I have read nasty comments about Meryl Streep on there!LOL!. Cdan…eh, pretty much the same.
No, we Dlisters do **NOT** hate everybody! Just the stupid ones (of which there are A LOT! so we can’t help that).
And everyone LOVES! Rojo Caliente!!!! 😘
@cyndi Yeah you just hate on all the popular ones that people in the real world actually like right?
Yeah, I guessed something like that, this sounds like such manufactured BS. Lol about getting the memo.
If that’s the case, then I respect her for trying to keep her oncoming cold to herself. After I spent one entire Christmas break sick as a dog because some dumb lady coughed right in my face, I appreciate those who are considerate enough to try to keep germs from spreading.
The “journalist” is trying to get his 15 minutes.
There are pictures of Ann hugging the other cast member so I don’t see how she was keeping her cold to herself.
I just had the flu on Friday and am now nursing a cold, so I agree. If you’re sick, or starting to feel sick, it’s common courtesy to be careful and not touch others/spread it around. This journalist is a jerk who is just looking for attention imo.
Edit: My husband said last week that he’s avoiding shaking hands with clients now after getting so sick. I know it’s perceived as rude to not shake hands, but think of the germs!
LMAO can hate on both of them.
Oh brother, I’m not one to apologize for her, but nowhere did she say she wouldn’t shake hands ‘because of Ebola’. It sounds like that was the journalist’s perception, or hyperbole, in order to get attention.
I agree, I doubt she’d say that right in front of him.
Yeah, I’m thinking the journalist is stirring the pot. But why? He went in with a case of Hathahate already maybe.
Nah, I think he went for search term, “Ebola”.
I think it’s because she has spiny urchins for hands.
Someone above said she mentioned the SHE was coming down with a cold and didn’t want to give it to HIM. which sounds a lot more likely.
She gets on my nerves (except on AnnE Mondays) but I think she’s going to have the unfortunate position (she’s partly to blame) of being “that actress”. No matter what she says or does now, it’s going to be misquoted, skewed and turned around to make her look bad.
“She adopted a puppy?” “Of course she did, so she could force it to watch her recite her lines…MONSTER!”
I think she keeps perpetuating the narrative. When she was away for a while, she wasn’t as annoying. Then she came back and dredged all the same shit up again, instead of starting fresh.
Totally! And you know how many people will forever believe this story now too? Ugh. It’s like the circle gossip game you’d play in school times a million.
I agree. He sounds like he’s going in for the kill.
Not fair. My respect for her just dropped a notch here. idiot child
Note: Just saw Kiddo’s comment above mine. So I ask ok, if it wasn’t Ebola, why refuse to shake someone’s hand? Either way, very impolite and unprofessional.
It’s being reported on other sites that she said she wasn’t feeling well and wasnt shaking hands at all. Don’t know how accurate that is of course but there’s that thought?
Indeed, if that’s the case, then I stand corrected.
Maybe just warn them in advance so the know she’s not being rude?
But she thought it was ok to hug her costars? That’s what someone mentioned above too.
Um, a few weeks ago, a horrible cold knocked out half our office including me (I rarely if ever catch what’s going around, this was a nasty thing) and HELL if I was going to shake anyone’s hand. I hate when people are sick and don’t care who they’re taking down with them. It’s actually quite considerate to not touch everyone who crosses your path. I’m just saying, I’m on her side on this one.
Yea if she didn’t shake any hands because of Ebola/fly season that’s one thing.
But if she heard this guys accent and thought foreign=Ebola that’s horrible. Not to mention stupid as Argentina is in south america. This is like my bank teller telling me to look out for Ebola when she heard I was going to New Zealand.
The journalist is blowing this out of proportion so i am not going to hate on her for this. But as someone who was refused physical contact because of ebola, i was ready to rant all over the thread.
yes exactly me too 🙂 I have too many friends out there risking their lives right now coming home being treated like s**t that whenever I read about the Ebola hysteria I want to punch someone …
@Snazzy So true. And i did not even visit an ebola infected country but Africa=Ebola for most people obviously. The people who are trying to help should not be treated like that. I wish people would look into it more rather than spewing their ignorance like this.
Put there are pictures of her hugging Jessica Chastain and other cast members so she has no problem passing her germs to them but did what to get the journalist sick.
See Erinn post below for the pictuers.
I want to know how the guy came up with she didn’t shake his hand because of Ebola? Did the guy cough and hack and everyone else shake hands with him but Anne? Even then why Ebola and just not flu and gross. I probably wouldn’t shake his hand either if that was the case. He is posting in Spanish so not sure how much English he spoke, but just wondering if he thought he heard something or just trying to get publicity which he got. I just don’t think Anne is that stupid about Ebola. Not saying she is a rocket scientist, but I am pretty sure she knows she wouldn’t catch it from a handshake, the flu on the other hand is a whole different thing.
I know it was a typo, but ‘fly season’ gives me the skeeves. Since flies like to chill on poop, they are harbingers of grossness and they’re fugly as hell. Give me a bumble or honey bee any day. Bumble Bee season is everything.
Ha, sounds even worse than flu season, somehow.
there’s first world privilege and then there’s this. completely ridiculous!
Don’t see any Brazilians involved in this story tho
Did Annie actually use Ebola as an excuse, and was she joking if she did? To me, it sounds like the journalist is trying to blow the situation out of proportion for whatever reason.
She said she herself was sick and she didn’t shake hands or touch anybody so she didn’t get them sick.
That’s very considerate.
But that story is so much less fun! What can we hate her for now?
More seriously, I love that color dress on her.
I love the color but the fit is less than flattering. Reminds me of Sissy Spacek in Carrie.
I think we can hate her for her makeup in the above pictures. The best professionals in the world and her foundation on her face looks horrible. Makes her look ten years older. Its one thing when poor me screws up with my self applied half asleep application, but she paid for that.
Photo 1
Photo 2
She had no problem hanging off her cast mates though, did she? That’s where this seems like she didn’t want to touch people traveling. Honestly… just purell it up, and shake a few hands. Don’t blame it on not wanting to pass germs when there are photos of you hanging on to Jessica Chastain.
Movie stars are born germs free, don’t you know, Erinn? Jessica will never pass on Anne Ebola but an argentine journo? You bet he wil. *sarcasm*
Hugging someone without face to face interaction is probably less likely to pass on germs, unless someone is coughing and sneezing, or actually is an Ebola patient who has vomited and has body fluids all over them. The hands are the ground zero source of flu viruses and other bacteria.
Two different event, what about the dates?
Wilma- if only I’d been born of such – I have a crap immune system haha.
True Kiddo, but I can’t imagine laughing into them and things like that are much safer though. I’m an obsessive hand washer especially at work. It’s a cesspool of germs in a call center… I actually need a new bottle of purell.
Wilma- the photos are from the LA interstellar premier – same as the photos in the post. You can see the same outfits. The block quote says it was the LA premier that he got snubbed.
Erinn, I freak out over touching door handles and my …well inside my head, not outwardly. I am a frequent handwasher, myself.
I don’t know Erinn, I’m with KIDDO on this one. Before seeing those pics I thought this was suspect but Jessica’s face and hand are nowhere near her face and she’s all and keeping her face well away from/above Jessica’s. I’m an elementary teacher so I know some tricks of physical contact for limited germ exposure. And truly its a lot easier to refuse to shake a journalist’s hand than it is to avoid a costar’s active embrace. She even looks like she’s giving in with reserve.
Oh and apparently, the pics aren’t from the same day as the snub. IMO she’s excused.
Ultimately, Kiddo – I work in an office where it’s neccesary for them to put notes in each bathroom stall reminding people to flush. I’m not touching anything I don’t have to haha.
We had some big CEO types fly in a couple of weeks ago from the main office to our NS one … I had to shake hands with one of the CEO’s and he’s an amazing, cheerful, peppy older man, but I was just thinking ‘ehhhhh you just got off of a planeeee’. But then I just grabbed the hand sanitizer once he was across the building.
KC- I thought they were from the same event. That is a different ball game I suppose. She could have come on with the cold or whatever suddenly.
Argentina, (the CONTINENT of) Africa… Sammmmeee difference!
So what you’re saying is that he is European.
nm.
I feel bad for Anne. She was sick and shook no one’s hand but the press always loves to do a hatchet job on her.
If true that’s some BS. I’ve been considering unfriending a few ignorant people on Facebook because of this idiotic hysteria.
People need to inform themselves and turn off any news program that is making it seem like Ebola is a problem outside of a few select countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with really bad medical care. Outside of those countries there have been maybe half a dozen cases worldwide.
You can’t get Ebola from shaking hands. The last time I checked South America isn’t the same place as Africa.
There are so many bigger problems affecting so many people in the US.
The best way to stop Ebola from spreading is to support the doctors in Africa fighting the disease and stop being a bunch of self involved paranoid nut cases.
Not just that, it isn’t even “Africa”. It’s Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea and even in those countries the majority of the populace have not been infected with Ebola.
Exactly.
Thank you!
I guess my comment wasn’t clear enough. ‘A few select countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are affected’ HOWEVER it’s up to the infrastructure of Africa and especially its wealthier countries to help out along with any foreign doctors willing to travel there and be on the front lines to help with this outbreak.
You cannot be OCD, you can have OCD. Also OCD is not only tidying up, being controlling about how things are placed, being germophobic, etc, or even just about repetitive actions. It can also be about intrusive thoughts that are difficult to control and there is a whole wider range of what this illness can be about that makes day-to-day life difficult for a person.
There are so many wrong interpretations of mental illnesses that need to be corrected.
+1
It gets on my nerves when people say “I’m OCD” when they talk about, I dunno, NEEDING to check the stove is off before they leave the house. That’s not OCD, that’s prudent. OCD would be having to turn it on and off exactly 36 times or else they cannot leave the house. (Or something like that). I don’t have it, or know anyone with it, but I believe people with OCD don’t think the condition is quirky or cute, they’re imprisoned by it.
Yes! Thank you Ana. I was diagnosed with post partum OCD after the birth of my second child and experiencing intrusive thoughts. Up until then I had believed it to be always wanting a clean house and had unknowingly suffered from it for years. It makes me so mad when others undermine it.
She’s coming down with a cold? Then why was she hanging all over her Interstellar coworkers at the premiere? Oh, okay.
It was not the same day
Is this ‘she was sick’ story just coming out now because this has become an issue or was she really sick? Because if she was, she/her team should have made it clear from the onset that she wasn’t going to be shaking anyone’s hands. I really doubt a journo would just begin ranting on twitter if that was made clear to him. I imagine it must have felt like quite the snub if he held out his hand to her and she simply didn’t take it.
How many journalists complained about her not shaking their hand?
How many brought up Ebola?
I can’t stand this Ebola baiting.Why refer to Argentina as third world?
Shaking people’s hands is disgusting. We need to change things to being akin to bowing. You shake someone’s hands and touch your nose/eyes/mouth you are dunzo. The likelihood you don’t touch your face before you hit the Purell bottle is one in a million.
I agree Sozual. It’s not even just the germs. I get the willies after shaking a dead-fish-clammy-hand.
Agree completely. I didn’t see your post when I was making mine.
I agree. It’s a stupid tradition and I always feel very awkward doing it, especially in large groups. Yuck.
I agree, but since it’s part of her well paid job she has to do it like her other colleagues do.
Co-sign. I hate it. And hand-shakers don’t take a hint. I’ve even tried lying and saying I’ve got the flu, and they’re still all: “No worries, I’ll be fine … here, shake.”
At least once the handshake is done, it’s over. Not like people who need to pat your arm while they talk. I actually backed all the way up into a wall the other day trying to dodge a touchy saleswoman. She’d basically chased me over half the store. I wonder what goes through their heads? They obviously don’t realise we’re trying to avoid them … so do they think other people have a weird habit of walking backwards during a conversation? (And do they bitch about us? “Those damn backwards-walkers, why can’t they stand still while they talk?”)
Walking backwards is the international symbol of “PLEASE invade my personal space boundaries so I can smell your breath up close.
Hahaa
Ermagherd yall are crazy. Legit.
Journo trying to get attention. She was sick. Or she just doesn’t want to shake hands. I wouldn’t want to shake hands with 100 strangers, either.
If I were famous people would hate me. I could never be a sycophant, and would be cranky if I wanted to be. Thank goodness I can get away with it in my life!
Argentina is not a third world country, come on!
LOL! Ummm…
True, but that’s how we’re seen by some parts of the world. In here, we usually use the term in a sarcastic way.
It seems Anne has failed her geography courses. F!!!!
Argentina is in South America where fortunately there hasn’t been any case of Ebola so far. I laughed when the jorno asked: “¿Por casa, Anne?” regarding the cases of Ebola in USA. Rude and unpleaseant actress.
I think she has, but because of the one and only case of Ebola in Spain. We both speak spanish, maybe she got confused.
Our nurse is already cured btw
I’m with Anne on not shaking hands. Some people are nasty. I always think of that Andre Tally clip where he had just picked his nose, then shook Kanye and Kim’s hand. I wish it was more common for people to bow like the Japanese.
I’m not a fan of Kanye or Kim, but that just grossed me out.
Unfair and it shows how ignorant she is… Did he have the symptoms? Did he expose her to his body fluids? Does she know Ebola is not airbourne like influenza virus, right? Does she know Argentina is in South America not Africa?
Oh please. Shake the guy’s hand then sanitize yours. Or vice versa. I hate Anne anyways, this just adds to it. She sounds like so much freakin FUN
i find her annoying but i also know that she wouldnt make such a mistake in public. she would never tell a journalist that she wont shake his hand because of ebola to his face. that did not happen, he made that part up. she is way too professional and eager to please and appear sweet to screw up like that.
I agree. I think this reporter is the one looking rude. He is supposed to be a professional journalist–and he keeps goig on and on about ebola? It just looks so odd.
This makes no sense at all. I don’t believe that she’s that stupid or rude.
I think the reporter is blowing this out of proportion. How would she have known that he had ebola? Sounds like a sense of entitlement. And lots of people don’t shake others peoples hands or hug each other if they have cold. I am sorry but I can’t take anybody seriously if they go ranting on twitter about things. The reporter sounds immature and bratty. Or this could have been made up since Hatheway is a big star and he wants to make her look bad.
Meh, I call BS on this one. I can see it going like this “I’m sorry, I’m coming down with a cold”. Journo: “Ebola? ha ha”
Anne: “ha ha”.
Instant stupid story and I’m not buying it.
I don’t care for her much but this is just silly.
There’s no excuse to this. She was just extremely rude and ignorant.
A little off topic, but that dress definitely requires some kind of foundation garment.☺
There are plenty of people that don’t shake hands and there’s wrong with it. She might be germ phobic. I don’t think you could pay Howie Mandel to shake hands. It sounds like the journalist needed to make his story more interesting.
Ugh!!! What an absolute moron! I couldn’t stand her before, and now… Go back into hiding with your skinny jean wearing husband you racist assh*le!
Let’s see: saggy boobs, weird pointy shapeless stomach (no matter the spanx that we can see through the silk boring dress) , toneless arms and shoulders. And we have to add being a complete idiot to people from the so-called “third world countries” ?
The jour no is right: there are no documented cases of Ebola in Argentina, not the same in the States
You’re a terrible person.
I can only agree with what she did…she doesn’t have to shake his hand.
Hmmm, she shouldn’t have to shake his hand. That’s her business. I can understand his perspective though, Latins are BIG on courtesy and politeness. Probably a huge snub for him. I work at a school so I’m pretty anti-contact, I’ve had to become that way as a result of being sick many many times!
The journalists wants some attention.
Someone refuses to shake your hand and you have to throw a tantrum on Twitter? Grow up, little boy.
If I didn’t want to shake someone’s hand for whatever reason, I wouldn’t. She could have any reason she wants… why does she have to? That’s ridiculous.
And the journalist definitely just wants some attention.
Agree with both of you. He sounds like an attention seeking journo
My husband has to go to Dallas on a business trip next week and I’ve been super nervous about it! Of course he thinks I’m worrying for no reason, but I think it’s scary! He has to go on a plane and be in Dallas where there was more than one reported case…
Considering America has the highest number of cases of ebola outside of Africa, the journalist should have been afraid the shake her hand.
+ 1000000000000!
Can she please go away and never come back?
Her hand, her choice. Many people no longer practice proper, sufficient hand washing/hygiene. If I were a celeb on tour I would lie and say that I was germaphobic rather than shake thousands of strangers hands.
On the plus side, this is one less article on the Clooney’s endless weddings or Kimye’s endless hideous fashion choices.
Her make up in theses pics make her look like a sad llama.
I just got a horrible flu from someone that I shook their hand and was standing close to, who had come to my house to give me an estimate. After a while, I realized he was sick, but he denied it and said it was allergies. I ended up deathly ill for over seven days with a horrible flu. My friend’s sister got it at the same time and was even sicker longer than me with it and she had gotten her flu shot.
I don’t blame her. He’s the one saying it was because of Eboli and carrying on.. She never said that. He’s from Argentina, so I doubt that was her thought. Maybe she had been sick and was more conscious. Who knows? It was probably more a germaphobic, like I’m becoming during flu season, and no one, even after I said I was well, wanted to be near me, worried I was still contagious. LOL
Anne is losing the mojo. I’m going to make an ageist statement. She’s fast approaching the matronly level and she’s still young and without children.
I wish fervently we would socially phase out handshaking; it’s archaic, and yes, a custom born of times before we knew about germs (see also: bises). It helps keep viruses circulating in a big way and is completely unnecessary when you do the cost/benefit analysis.
THAT SAID in a professional situation, when I know I have to shake hands for my work, I just do it, and don’t touch my face, etc. until after the session. Then I wash up. No biggie. I hate handshaking so much and it skeeves me completely out, but between shaking someone’s hand and causing someone enormous consternation, I’ll go with the former every time, if there’ s no polite way out of it (which IME there sometimes isn’t–the “I’m just getting over a cold” excuse only gets me so far).
Also, K, yes to your “washing-up on coming home” advice! That’s the first thing I do (plus I wash hands before I eat when I’m in pubic), and I’ve cut down my cold and flu suffering by leagues because of it. A proper soaping and rinsing, too, the 15-30 seconds kind. Make it your friend!
Nice choice for the first picture in this post. Hilarious!
Simmah down, nah. Simmah down.
P.s. ebola or not, this dress does her zero favours.
Someone wanted attention ie the journo. Hathaway is definitely known for NOT being racist/xenophobic/homophobic etc.
Unfair.
I kind of blame the media for the way the stories have been represented, I think its causing more panic than anything. There’s nothing to suggest that journalist ever went to Africa or knows anyone from there and even if she did, you’re not going to get ebola from shaking someone’s hand. Plus, if you’re that worried you could always wash your hands or use sanitizer after.
I mean, I get people have germ phobias in general as well, but then just say its that. No need to single out ebola, kind of ridiculous.
Secondly, that sack dress is hideous. Anne’s hair looks really nice though.