‘The world isn’t like that anymore’: Celebrity Apprentice star Shaynna Blaze blasts Lord Alan Sugar for his ‘derogatory’ comment about her physical appearance
Celebrity Apprentice contestant Shaynna Blaze has hit back at Lord Alan Sugar after the British businessman said last week she had a ‘face like a slapped a**e’.
The phrase ‘face like a slapped a**e’ is British slang for when a person has a stern or unhappy expression and doesn’t necessarily suggest they are unattractive, but Shaynna took the remark as a criticism of her physical appearance.
Reacting to the insult on Nova FM’s Fitzy and Wippa on Monday, the Block judge, 58, rejected the excuse that it was just UK slang that got lost in translation.
Not having it: Celebrity Apprentice contestant Shaynna Blaze (pictured) has hit back at Lord Alan Sugar after the British businessman said last week she had a ‘face like a slapped a**e’
‘Yeah I think you can give an excuse if that’s a British term, [but] if you’re coming to another country you need to read the room of the country,’ Shaynna said.
‘I’m grateful to come here today to talk about this,’ she added.
‘He’s apologised but we need to talk about this in public about what actually happened. You can’t talk about people and their physical appearance in a derogatory way to get a cheap laugh. We’ve gone past that. The world isn’t like that anymore.’
Harsh words: The phrase ‘face like a slapped a**e’ is British slang for when a person has a stern or unhappy expression and doesn’t necessarily suggest they are unattractive, but Shaynna took the remark as a criticism of her physical appearance. Pictured: Lord Sugar
The interior design expert also criticised radio hosts Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli for allowing Lord Sugar, 74, to make the remark unchallenged on their show last week.
‘[By] not calling [him] out publicly or straight away, you’re enabling that and meaning they feel they can get away with it,’ she said.
Wippa, who is also starring on Celebrity Apprentice, then apologised to Shaynna.
Laying down the law: Reacting to the insult on Nova FM’s Fitzy and Wippa on Monday, the Block judge, 58, rejected the excuse that it was just UK slang that got lost in translation
‘It happened on our show and I almost led him [Lord Sugar] into it because I made the comment that Shaynna looked upset in the boardroom, so I felt a responsibility too,’ he said.
Lord Sugar made the ‘slapped a**e’ comment on Fitzy and Wippa last Monday after Wippa and co-host Sarah McGilvray noted how she rarely smiled on Celebrity Apprentice.
‘Oh, bloody hell. She’s got a face like a slapped a**e, doesn’t she most of the time?’ he said. ‘[She’s] Like a rabbit in the headlights.’
Stern: ‘You can’t talk about people and their physical appearance in a derogatory way to get a cheap laugh. We’ve gone past that. The world isn’t like that anymore,’ she said. Shaynna is pictured with co-stars Josh Gibson (left) and Camilla Franks (right)