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10 Painfully Awkward Times Interviewers Proved They Hadn’t Done Their Homework


Earlier this week, a clip of the time that Martin Short went on the Today Show two years after his beloved wife, Nancy Dolman’s, death, only for interviewer Kathie Lee Gifford to speak about her as though she were alive, resurfaced online.

Martin has been widely praised for the gracious way he handled Kathie’s painful mishap, but this is far from the first time a journalist has been woefully unprepared for a celebrity interview.

So, here are some more times that a celebrity was asked an ignorant question that highlighted the reporter’s lack of research — and the surprisingly chill way that the famous people in question handled it:

Stephanie Soteriou

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