Do you ever think about how many people in Alec Baldwin’s life must have known that he was being conned by a woman pretending to be Spanish? It’s something that I keep coming back to – when Alec first met Hilaria, she was probably doing that fake accent, and her “Spanish backstory” fell apart like a cheap suit. How many people in Alec’s life were like “hey, maybe this one is, how you say, loca?” We’ll probably never know how many people saw through Hilaria’s whole deal, but it will be interesting to watch how many people figure it out as they’re watching Alec and Hilaria’s new TLC show, The Baldwins (sidenote: I’m sure Hilaria wanted to call it Los Baldwinitos). This is their reality show and they’re putting their eleventy billion kids on camera too. Hilaria and Alec cover this week’s People Magazine to preview the show.
Alec wishes he didn’t have this many kids: “I always joke with her and say, ‘You know where I should be right now, don’t you? We should be on Geffen’s yacht, drinking a cappuccino and reading a book, and having dinner with Spielberg or whatever,’ ” he says. Hilaria interjects: “Instead we’re changing diapers!” Which is just the way they like it. “This is my reality,” Alec says, reflecting on their family dynamic. “I wouldn’t change anything,”
Hilaria on why they’ve done this show: “Telling your story is one thing, and showing your story is something else,” says Hilaria. “It felt authentic, it felt human. It felt very empowering.” On the show they get candid about hot topics, including whether they had a prenup. “I said I would,” Hilaria recounts. “And then you’re like, ‘Okay, we don’t have to.’ ”
Why Alec did the show: “We did the show because it’s in place of doing a movie or a play. Now I think to myself, ‘Am I going to be away from my kids five nights out of the week until 11 o’clock at night?’ For me, work-related things really aren’t that critical anymore. I thought, ‘I get to spend time with my family.’ ”
Alec on Hilaria: “I don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have her. I don’t know what would’ve happened to me. I had been married, got divorced. I dated another woman for off and on for quite a while. I’m like, ‘I don’t want to have a girlfriend. I don’t,'” Alec recalls of 2011, when he and Hilaria first entered each other’s lives. “And so when I met [Hilaria], I was really like, ‘Oh, God. I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to do this,'” Alec remembers. “But I mean, I fell madly in love with her. And I told my friends, and they were like, ‘Oh, Jesus Christ. It’s like a miracle.'”
Alec took it slow during their courtship: As Hilaria remembers it, Alec took his time to make the first move, making her wait six weeks before they kissed. “He shook my hand, which was fine,” she recalls matter-of-factly. “No hug, nothing.” “Well, no, I had been dating someone,” Alec explains. “Listen, I’m older, I’m from a different civilization,” he continues. “And in my mind, when I was younger, if you sleep with someone, you have a bond with them. And I bonded with people that I did not want to bond with, but I did that. And then with her, the same thing. I’m thinking, ‘Oh, I don’t want another girlfriend.’ I just didn’t want to make her like … She’s a beautiful woman, I’m sure she’s had people all over her,” jokes Alec.
Do you want the kids’ names and ages currently? Carmen, 11, Rafael, 9, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 6, Eduardo and Marilu, 4, and Ilaria, 2. A mess. You’ve got to love how People Magazine’s premise for this story is “they’ve overcome so much, like concerns about the age difference!” Like Hilaria didn’t fabricate her entire backstory in which she was “from Spain” and spoke for years with a Mexican accent. The only true thing here is that Alec is tired and he’s not getting much work anymore, and that’s why he agreed to the reality show. It will be such a mess.
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Instagram, cover courtesy of People.
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- Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin are seen watching Coco Gauff Vs Laura Siegemund on Arthur Ashe Stadium Featuring: Alec Baldwin, Hilaria Baldwin Where: Flushing Meadows, New York, United States When: 28 Aug 2023 Credit: Robert Bell/INSTARimages
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- Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin are seen watching Coco Gauff Vs Laura Siegemund on Arthur Ashe Stadium Featuring: Alec Baldwin, Hilaria Baldwin Where: Flushing Meadows, New York, United States When: 28 Aug 2023 Credit: Robert Bell/INSTARimages
LOS BALDWINITOS! LOL! “Mi Familia Loca” would have also been an acceptable substitute.
This whole thing is just muy triste to me. Alec got hoodwinked by a crazy lady from Boston with a Spanish fetish who can’t say cucumber and now he’s spending his golden years chasing after a horde of little muchachos y muchachas.
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Genuinely wondering who is the audience for this show? If I want to watch kids run around I can just visit my sister.
I cant believe how bad I feel for Baldwin. He got hoodwinked by this fraudster and she pumped out a bunch of kids. The Rust situation is just awful. The cinemographer did not need to lose her life. RIP Queen. BUT BUT the armorer on this shoot is the final authority of all weapons on the shoot and she handed Alec a live loaded gun. Plus she had taken the gun out to play with during a break and did not ensure the gun’s live bullets were switched out with blanks. As an actor I would be riddled with guilt and thats not fair.
Nope! Not gonna watch this shit show.
Have they considered just living below their means so they don’t have to force this on everyone lol hope their kids do ok during this mess.
I haven’t checked if it finally sold but I figured finances were tight when he put the Hamptons house on the market. Remember he loved living out there and don’t think he was selling because they bought another one, it also went thru multiple price drops.
Interesting amount of “joking “ on Alec’s part, isn’t there?
I’m still so fascinated by the whole Spanish situation. Is she speaking with a Spanish accent in the show? I haven’t watched the trailer so idk. When they got married did he still think she was from Spain and not Boston? I’m fascinated but not enough to watch.
So I just had to know whether she was still putting on the fake Spanish accent in the trailer and she’s not! Interesting — maybe being outed as a fake forced her hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xVv5g89xgE
Now, if they said they’d show her going to a therapist to talk about why she cosplays a Spanish person, I would watch that.
Big mistake. Reality show. The other shows like kate,plus 8 were not good for the children to say the least. I doubt this issue will fly off the shelves
He spent a lot on lawyer fees and work has dried up right when he has to put eleventy billion kids thru private school and extra curriculars and pay for the nannys who will do the majority of the childcare. That is a very very expensive lifestyle to maintain. They need to fill those coffers. I do wonder how they will do the reality circuit. To really make money you have to remove the divide from the viewers and allow yourself to get messy. How do they do that without puncturing Hilary’s myth that she doesn’t know the English word for cucumber. She’s delusional but it will be hard to maintain when you have an episode order to fill and you try to cultivate enough viewers to approve future seasons. You add the trauma of what happened to Alec, the massive amount of kids, the desperation for money, work drying up for Alec, everyone knowing Hilary is a scam queen who does know the English word for cucumber and it seems like a tower of shaky plates balanced on someone’s head as they wear rollerblades.
I’m English and live in Spain and there are times I can only remember the Spanish words for things like tools (herramientos) or cucumbers (pepinos) or roads (carreteras). Give the woman a break!
She is American through and through and visited Spain once or twice on vacation, she never lived there. No comparison.
But Hilaria is an American living in America. Your situation is quite different because you are immersed in Spanish and speaking it all day long (I presume). Also, I bet you don’t speak English with a Spanish accent!
I’m French and live in England and actually speak 4 other languages fluently, having lived in both North & South America, Africa and Europe.
At 73, I don’t recall forgetting a word in my mother tongue. In any case I don’t think we should give Hilary a break: She’s a fraud. She also stole the spotlight away from the Hispanic community, from women who genuinely deserved it, from a community who needed it and still does.
@Susie 100% Agree. This is a financially motivated decision, Alec is Breaking Bad:) And I too have full faith in Hilary from Boston in knowing what’s up and how to carve this cash cow. Looking forward to the coverage and comments here!
So disappointed to read Buffy Sainte-Marie has been lying about being a Native Indian born on a reservation in Canada. The lengthy 2023 article gives reasons behind the pretendian claims to boost her career. Very distasteful in all aspects including silencing her brother by threatening to write to his wife and boss to accuse him of CSA if he continued to tell the truth about her not being adopted and not being a Native Indian. 2023 CBS did an investigation and her son and niece agreed to have DNA tests which revealed they were cousins and have no Indigenous ancestry. Said niece is the daughter of the brother who Buffy denied was her real brother. If Buffy was adopted as she claims then DNA would have shown the cousins are not biologically related.
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie
https://www.lakotatimes.com/articles/fake-indian-celebrity-exposed/
Apologies it was Buffy’ sister who took a DNA test which revealed she was biologically related to Buffy ‘s grandson. If Lainey was just BuffY’s adopted sister there would be no DNA match with Buffy’s grandson. Both Buffy and Hilary were born in Massachusetts which sounds like a great place but obviously not exotic enough for these people. I am saddened and disappointed in Buffy because she’s a talented musician. She could be an admirer of Indigenous people and their culture, an ally and a supporter but instead she choose to live a lie for 60 years.
Oh god, this reeks of Jon & Kate + 8. Those poor children.
I’m not usually squigged out by feet but I feel uncomfortable looking at her toes in that cover photo.
What a mess.
Ick. Ick. Ick. Lort. I am old enough to remember when TLC actually had educational/learning content instead of constantly exploiting children content. Why can’t we have nice things anymore? After the debacles of Kate plus Eight and the Duggar cult, some executive should have had enough common sense to veto this circus. Ick. Ick. Ick.
Trashy circus shows (I’m looking at you Jim Bob) get more clicks, attention and revenue so they’re not giving up on crap reality anytime soon.
What a train wreck this is going to be. But reality TV execs love train wrecks, no matter the human cost. I wonder if she’ll drop the accent?
She’s nuts but he clearly is ok with it and even likes it if he’s sticking around and doing this show (as opposed to peacing out like Kelsey Grammer did when Camille went on RHOBH)
You mean the Kelsey Grammer who had an affair with a much younger flight attendant, got her pregnant with twins, and only agreed to Camille being on RHOBH (and said he would make appearances with her) to hide that?
This is so gross. It feels at least in part like capitalizing off his having shot and killed Halyna Hutchins, because an article I read from another publication talked about how they did the filming during his trial.
I def wanted to know their current names and ages, but as I recall, the two four year olds are not twins. They were born six months apart, one through a surrogate. The 7 children who will soon have an elderly father is loco enough, but that detail is beyond insane. These people.
Maybe they should have named the show “familia de estafadores mentirosos”.
I’m French and live in England and actually speak 4 other languages fluently, having lived in both North & South America, Africa and Europe.
At 73, I don’t recall forgetting a word in my mother tongue. In any case I don’t think we should give Hilary a break: She’s a fraud. She also stole the spotlight away from the Hispanic community, from women who genuinely deserved it, from a community who needed it and still does.
You sound absolutely amazing! I want to be you when I grow up (I’m in my 50s). I admit that when I lived in Asian countries, I sometimes used horrible English grammar trying to express myself very simply. But that cucumber video was filmed in the U.S., surrounded by native English speakers, and she was using a fake accent. That’s where it’s suspicious. Heck, I forget words in English all the time because I’m losing my mind, but I never accidentally speak in a foreign accent.
Next Hilaria will be asked to be on Dancing with the Stars
Children are curious about everything their parents do and say. Did not the 2 oldest ever call her out about the fake accent?
Have you ever seen the video where she’s explaining to her children why her skin is “darker” than theirs? She has no shame and her kids probably do think they’re Spanish.
What did she say? “it’s because of my weekly spray tan?”
I have been bilingual since I was three and never forget the English or French word for something and don’t put on a ridiculous accent in either place.
Hilary from Boston is always hustling. I’d say you’ve got to respect it, but I mean. Come on, it’s Hilary from Boston doing it.
Hilaria has gotten some really subtle, good-looking work on her face. I’d like to meet her plastic surgeon.