It’s the accent that just won’t quit.
Never mind that she grew up as plain old Hillary Hayward-Thomas in an upscale neighborhood of Boston, it was a case of ‘feliz navidad’ at Casa Baldwin.
Video obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com shows self-styled Spaniard Hilaria Baldwin treating her holiday guests to ‘traditional’ Spanish tortilla dished up with a hefty side order of accented Spanglish.
Dressed in a plaid onesie, Hilaria, 40, is seen standing in the kitchen boasting about the authenticity of the recipe in her faux Spanish tones.
Speaking in a heavily accented baby voice she says: ‘I learned this from when I was a kid, don’t look it up online because you’ll learn something different.’
The secret to her tortilla is, she says, potatoes ‘not cut too tiny.’
Turning to her friend who is cooking alongside her, she then appears to forget the English word ‘onions’ as, referring to actor husband Alec, she reveals: ‘My husband hates…cebollas.’
Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows self-styled Spaniard Hilaria Baldwin treating her holiday guests to ‘traditional’ Spanish tortilla, served with a hefty side order of accented Spanglish
Hilaria, 40, took to Instagram to wish her followers a ‘feliz navidad’ and shared a family photo on Christmas Day
Given that she appears to have entirely forgotten she isn’t actually Spanish, the occasional word slip is perhaps unsurprising.
Her friend comes to the rescue helpfully reminding her, ‘onions’. English is such a tricky language.
It’s not the first time Hilaria has stumbled over her native tongue.
In 2015 she appeared in a now infamous six-minute segment on the Today Show in which she made ‘authentic’ gazpacho listing the ingredients and at one point appearing to forget the English word ‘cucumber‘.
‘We have very few ingredients,’ she told Telemundo TV host Evi Siskos with whom she appeared that day.
‘We have tomatoes, we have, um, how do you say in English? Cucumber!’
At one point she appears to forget the English word ‘onions,’ and refers to them by their Spanish name ‘cebollas’, instead
Hilaria and Alec Baldwin, 66, married in 2012. The actor confidently informed talk show host David Letterman that his wife was Spanish during an interview the following year
Hilaria and Baldwin have given Spanish names to all their seven children – Carmen Gabriela, 10, Rafael Thomas, 8, Leonardo Angel Charles, 7, Romeo Alejandro David, 6, Eduardo Pao Lucas, 3, Maria Lucia Victoria, 3, and Ilaria Catalina Irena, 20 months
Now she’s at it again as she lisps her way through a recipe drawn from her ‘Spanish’ childhood.
‘I grind cebollas and ajo [garlic] together,’ she rambles on in her babyish Iberian jumble.
Mealtimes it seems, just like everything in Casa Baldwin, are ‘Spanish flavored.’
It’s how the couple described their June 2012 New York wedding in which they exchanged vows and rings engraved with the words, ‘Somos un buen equipo,’ which means, ‘We’re a great team,’ in Spanish.
The following year Baldwin, 66, confidently informed talk show host David Letterman that his wife was Spanish.
He was seemingly oblivious to the fact that Hilaria was born and bred in Massachusetts and merely vacationed on the resort island of Majorca, some 130 miles from the Spanish mainland and where her retired parents now live as ex-pats.
In a now infamous video clip from 2015, Hilaria (left) appeared on a cooking segment for the Today Show where she seemingly forgot the English word for ‘cucumber’
Her parents bought the five-bed, five-bath house in June 1987 when their daughter was just three years old and didn’t move out till she had turned 28
A 2014 Elle article referred to her as ‘half-Spanish’ and elsewhere she has been written of as ‘bi-cultural’ which is true if she’s counting both her real and her appropriated culture.
Doubling down on her origin myth, Hilaria and Baldwin have given Spanish names to all their seven children – Carmen Gabriela, 10, Rafael Thomas, 8, Leonardo Angel Charles, 7, Romeo Alejandro David, 6, Eduardo Pao Lucas, 3, Maria Lucia Victoria, 3, and Ilaria Catalina Irena, 20 months.
They are known collectively as the ‘Baldwinitas.’
Four years ago, DailyMail.com exposed the truth of the yoga teacher’s Boston background as, despite her agency’s website listing her birthplace as Majorca she spent most of her childhood in a $4million 100-year-old house in Boston’s Beacon Hill area.
Records show that her parents, attorney David Thomas and Harvard Medical School professor Kathryn Hayward, bought a five-bedroom, five-bath house on Pinckney Street in June 1987 when Hilaria was just three and didn’t move out until she had turned 28.
Neighbors there remembered her as a ‘very entitled young lady.’
Hilaria, her husband Alec, and their children attended the premiere of Spellbound in New York City last month
DailyMail.com previously revealed that Hilaria had proudly displayed her given name Hillary Hayward-Thomas on her MySpace page alongside sultry selfies back in the day
What they had no recollection of was any Spanish accent.
Hilaria’s brother, Jeremy, went to Majorca on a school exchange trip which, according to one neighbor, was when the family started to fall in love with the place.
But Jeremy’s attempt to live in Spain foundered as he ‘didn’t fit in, so came back’.
Hilaria’s Walter Mitty heritage became public when she posted a picture of herself in black lingerie holding her son Eduardo which comic Amy Schumer then sent up.
Hilaria posted a video of herself responding to Schumer’s dig but apparently forgot that she was supposed to have a Spanish accent and spoke with a non-specific American one.
Leni Briscoe, a former classmate from the elite Cambridge School of Weston – where annual tuition costs $60,850 for day students and $75,200 for boarders – tweeted: ‘You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade-long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.’
Hilaria Baldwin, a self-proclaimed Spanish heritage enthusiast, recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons when she “forgot” the English word for “onions” while attempting to make a “traditional” Spanish dish for the holidays.
In a now-deleted Instagram video, Baldwin can be seen confidently cooking in her kitchen, claiming to be preparing a classic Spanish recipe passed down from her family. However, when it came time to add onions to the dish, she hesitated and struggled to find the right word in English, ultimately settling on “onions” in a thick Spanish accent.
Critics were quick to call out the authenticity of Baldwin’s claim to Spanish heritage, pointing out that her inability to recall a basic English word raised questions about the sincerity of her cultural appropriation. Many also criticized her for perpetuating harmful stereotypes and misrepresenting Spanish cuisine for personal gain.
Baldwin has since issued a statement addressing the incident, claiming that she misspoke in the heat of the moment and that her love for Spanish culture is genuine. However, the internet remains skeptical of her intentions, with many calling for her to be held accountable for her actions.
This latest blunder is just one in a series of controversies surrounding Baldwin’s Spanish identity, further fueling the ongoing debate about cultural appropriation and the importance of respecting and honoring diverse heritages.
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