It’s pathological how hypocrite Alec Baldwin — the ultimate ‘leave me alone’ star — shamelessly puts his private life on public display
nypost.comThe Baldwins,” now airing on TLC, is sold as a fluffy peek into the chaos that ensues when a Hollywood star and his much younger wife have seven “Baldwinitos” under the age of 11. (The devoted family man keeps saying on the show he has seven kids when, in fact, he has eight including daughter Ireland, 29, with first wife Kim Basinger.
But who’s counting!)But it’s also cheap and exploitative: a terribly bad idea obviously cooked up to engender sympathy toward Alec as he faced a criminal trial for involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the mother of a young boy,on the set of his movie “Rust.”One minute the actor is taking his adorable kids for haircuts and explaining their unique little personalities.
The next, he and his fake-Spanish wife, Hilaria, are in confessional-style interviews talking about the toll this ordeal has taken on poor Alec’s health as he battles PTSD and survivor’s guilt.In the third episode, Alec and Hilaria are shown returning from the dismissed trial and home to their brood, who stayed behind in the family’s sprawling Hamptons estate.“Halyna didn’t get to go home.
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