Lea Michele awkwardly seated by Ziwe Fumudoh at US Open after viral ‘rude’ interview
nypost.comfunny, girl.Actress and singer Lea Michele was ironically seated behind talk show host Ziwe Fumudoh at the 2023 US Open men’s finals at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York City on Sunday.Fumodoh, 31, seemed to be in bright spirits, wearing an equally bright yellow tweed jacket while seated next to her friend, supermodel Emily Ratajkowski.
The “Funny Girl” Broadway star, meanwhile, was seated next to her husband, Zandy Reich.The awkward positioning of the foursome in the VIP suite during the Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev face-off raised some eyebrows.
Less than nine months ago, Fumudoh interviewed Michele’s former “Glee” costar Amber Riley about allegations of racism on the hit television show’s set.
Fumodoh asked Riley, “Now, speaking of getting down in the muck, you said that one of your famous coworkers wasn’t racist. Did you mean that she was?”While Riley did her best to deflect Fumudoh’s questions, the host was quite adamant. “Would you say that your famous coworker (Michele) doesn’t see race and is, in fact, rude to all of her coworkers?” she asked in 2022.“I think that she would probably say she doesn’t see race,” Riley said. “But everyone does.”In 2020, actress Samantha Ware, who once appeared on “Glee,” separately accused Michele of being a mean girl on set and implied that she might have “racist tendencies.”“I knew from Day One when I attempted to introduce myself.
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