Whoopi Goldberg Sends a Strong Message to Critics After Kate Middleton’s Photoshop Fail
L: Kate Middleton, R: Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg may be the only person in the world who doesn't care about Kate Middleton's Photoshopping controversy.
During the Monday, March 11 episode of The View, the co-anchor went to bat for the "missing" princess, pointing out that there are "very few people" in the world "who don’t manipulate their own photos," calling the royal family photo in question, which features missing jumper sleeves, missing hair, incomplete zippers, and more, simply "retouched."
When Sara Haines argued that the princess' edits were a far cry from "filtering" the photo, which is "a little more benign" than the changes made to the photograph of Middleton and her three children, Goldberg doubled down, saying, “She’s doing the same thing!”
Just because she's "the future queen" doesn't mean she can't be "an amateur photographer," she added. “That’s what they do!”
KATE MIDDLETON APOLOGIZES FOR EDITED PHOTO: After news agencies pulled Princess Kate's Mother's Day photo after finding it was altered fueling more speculation about her health, #TheView co-hosts weigh in on her latest comments. https://t.co/cVclFZQU98 pic.twitter.com/ol7BiZRFb2
— The View (@TheView) March 11, 2024
Ana Navarro agreed that "if manipulating pictures was a crime, the Kardashians, my best friend and I would be in jail for the rest of our lives," but there's also a big difference between smoothing out your skintone and seemingly cobbling together several photos into one, as has been accused in this instance.
Goldberg couldn't understand why people were upset by the situation, especially seeing as an apology and admission credited to the princess was later published, but Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out how the edited photo—which was removed from major news organizations like the AP, as a result—“feeds fuel to this fire of conspiracies” that surround the royal's health and whereabouts ever since she disappeared from the public eye in January as the result of a reported abdominal surgery, pointing out that a brief, selfie-style video would douse the flames.
Goldberg wasn't pleased with the suggestion, though, shouting, “She doesn’t need to do it!"
“People can do anything they want to do with pictures; this should not be a shock,” she emphasized.
Unfortunately, when the internet is already convinced that something is seriously wrong, the shock is unavoidable.
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