Hilaria Baldwin’s latest cooking caper shows her Spanglish grift is here to stay

Hilaria Baldwin has copped relentless mocking after she appeared in a cooking video, where she seemingly forgot a basic English word.

It’s the grift that keeps on giving.

Yes, giving us laughs and reasons to ridicule Hilaria Baldwin impersonating a Spanish person.

Boston-bred Hillary Hayward-Thomas — who at some point in her life swam in the glistening waters off Mallorca and rechristened herself Hilaria — is back with another Spanglish oopsie moment.

In a new video, Baldwin, 40, is speaking in high-pitched, heavily accented English while cooking tortilla, a delicious potato omelette that is a staple in Spain.

The wife of Alec Baldwin suddenly forgets the English word for “onion.”

“He hates cebolla,” she says of her husband, as someone off camera translates.

Hilaria Baldwin struggles to find the English word for 'onion' in a new cooking video.

“Cebolla” – Spanish for onion.

Many X users took to the comment section of the video, with one writing, “Her commitment to this bit is commendable.”

“So bizarre,” another wrote.

“She’s an American, right?” a third questioned.

“Hilaria Baldwin is Latina in spirit. We welcome her to the tribe,” another joked.

This incident hearkened back to the 2015 Today show appearance when she was preparing gazpacho for a cooking segment and in accented English said, “We have tomatoes, we have, um, how do you say in English? Cucumber!”

Then who could forget the infamous 2020 tweet thread exposing her as the walking embodiment of the pungent bulb veggie we in English call an onion: She has layers and layers obscuring her core.

The mother of seven isn’t a zesty chica from Spain’s Balearic Islands but a pretty brunette from tony Beacon Hill.

However, as a striver, she knows that a Spanish origin is far more exotic — and useful in a world that turned against privilege, real or imagined.

There have long been question marks over Hilaria’s origins. Picture: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images

And for a while, it made her different from your usual celeb arm candy. She scored a gig as a correspondent on Extra, wrote a book and even her talent agency listed her as Spanish born.

The grand charade was shamelessly aided and abetted by her husband, who in 2013 explicitly told David Letterman, “My wife is from Spain.”

Though after the real Hillary was exposed in 2020, she explained, “I’m born in Boston. It was literally the first thing I told my husband.”

Which is it, folks?

She simply says her parents now live there and she grew up between two cultures. There’s no timeline, no details. Just vagaries masquerading as an explanation for her bizarre accent that fluctuates between bog standard American and some stilted stab at Penelope Cruz’s sultry Ingles.

Even the New York Times said that she “declined to explain in detail how frequently they travelled [to Spain] or how long they stayed.”

She also blamed any discrepancies on the media, even though she herself wove a grand tale, telling Vanity Fair España in 2012 that her family couldn’t pronounce Baldwin. Which is pretty strange for a bunch of highly educated folks from Boston (her dad is a lawyer, her mother is a doctor who also taught at Harvard Medical School).

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin with their seven children. Picture: Instagram

In 2020, she told the Cat and Nat Unfiltered podcast that she’d love to return to Spain one day. That she “came [here] for school and never ever, ever left.” She left out that she likely came on Amtrak via the Northeast Corridor.

But she and her husband think Americans are morons who lack even the most basic knowledge about the European country. We’d never know this was — as the highly annoying progressive kids say — appropriation. Remember, he even told us so at the Torino Film Festival, that “Americans are very uninformed about reality.”

Alec is propping up her delusion — instead of calling her what she is: a person whose parents love Spain, went on vacation there and decided to make it their home. (Who can blame them, Spain is awesome!)

Perhaps all will be revealed in their upcoming TLC reality show, scheduled to be released sometime in the new year.

This story originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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