Jade Thirlwall has blasted “lazy” journalists for continually confusing the singer with her Little Mix bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock and vice versa.The 27-year-old called out writers at MSN after a picture of Pinnock, who is of Bajan and Jamaican ancestry, was used to accompany an online article about Thirlwall, as she discussed how being bullied at school for her Arab heritage had prompted her to stay silent about her race in the early days of the girl group.
She took to her Instagram Story timeline on Friday and shared a screenshot of the piece, which featured a red carpet snap of Pinnock and her new fiance, Andre Gray, alongside the headline, “Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall says she faced ‘horrific’ racism at school”.
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