MTV Australia is under fire for an offensive tweet about Eva Longoria and America Ferrera during the Golden Globes on Sunday night.
“Where are the English subtitles? We have no idea what @AmericaFerrera and @EvaLongoria are saying,” MTV tweeted. It has since been deleted.
People were outraged about the offensive tweet and quickly took to Twitter to post their response. MTV Australia has since apologized for the statement, saying “We get it was a bad call. We’ll leave the humour to Ricky Gervais.”
Longoria and Ferrera presented the award for Best Actor in a TV Series. The two actresses made a joke about being confused with other Hispanic actresses, mainly taking a dig at the Golden Globes when its Twitter account confused Ferrera with Gina Rodriguez during the nomination announcements.
“Hi, I’m Eva Longoria, not Eva Mendes,” said Longoria.
“And hi, I’m America Ferrera, not Gina Rodriguez,” said Ferrera.
See the tweets below.
https://twitter.com/ellaceron/status/686374074977775616
Our Tweet was in reference to @EvaLongoria & @AmericaFerrera’s #GoldenGlobes joke. We sincerely apologise for causing offence.
— MTV AUSTRALIA (@MTVAUSTRALIA) January 11, 2016
We get it was a bad call. We’ll leave the humour to @rickygervais
— MTV AUSTRALIA (@MTVAUSTRALIA) January 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/slamup/status/686440830802890752
https://twitter.com/_aliencry/status/686415902787514368
https://twitter.com/overzealysss/status/686395376836997120
https://twitter.com/overzealysss/status/686388067423416320
https://twitter.com/Judnikki/status/395673214279376896
https://twitter.com/gunbiebers/status/369427715507499010
I just accused MTV Australia of being racist, yes I went there. Don't piss off an already annoyed international fan
— dany. (@daenerysdixon) October 11, 2012
@jordaneckes i wish i could watch it.It won't let me cause im from Australia, @MTV you are racist
— Abbie (@abbie_169) October 26, 2011
https://twitter.com/its_brenna/status/92815644306841600