Simply days after Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Oscars, his speak present’s govt producer (and his spouse) Molly McNearney is setting the report straight about how some viewers thought he stated Rihanna’s title unsuitable throughout the present.
“We had two variations of the monologue,” Kimmel’s spouse Molly McNearney advised Variety. “One if Rihanna was in her seat, one if she was not in her seat. One if Rihanna had her child on her lap, which she needed to do. And one if her child was not on her lap. A variety of our jokes had been type of on the mercy of individuals being of their seats.”
Because it seems, he was really saying Rihanna’s name the proper way, which is to rhyme it with “anna” like “banana.”
“Jimmy is obsessive about saying folks’s names accurately,” McNearney stated. “There’s a man on the present whose job is to search out the pronunciations. We at all times discover video of the individual saying their very own title on digicam. And that’s the means you pronounce Rihanna. There’s an entire interview together with her about it.”
“Jimmy stated, ‘I wish to name her the best way the title that she calls herself.’ And that’s how she says it in Barbados,” she added. “It felt humorous to folks. Now America is aware of methods to pronounce her title, though they received’t. They’ll simply assume Jimmy f*cked up however no, he didn’t!”
Despite the fact that the proper pronunciation of Rihanna’s name has been public report for over a decade now, folks proceed to say “Ree-awn-uh”… however not Kimmel.
