Today, I explain how the need to keep the Walton Goggins/Aimee Lou Wood “feud” going has moved past, you know, needing anything to keep the feud going.
This is Disgrace Distract and Bother Me, a feature where I just point out minor things that annoy me in pop culture. Basically, think of it like the lowest level of criticism, then Remember to Forget is the middle, where it’s like, “Okay, this is bad, but not, like, offensively bad” and finally, Things That Turned Out Bad is for, “This is seriously messed up.”
I don’t think it is unreasonable for people to be in interested in what appears to be a conflict between Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood, who played a couple beset by tragedy on Season 3 of The White Lotus. When you enter the public sphere, people are GONNA talk about you, and if you seem to have a public “feud,” it’s GOING to interest people. I don’t think it’s unreasonable.
But here’s the problem, though, when a “feud” becomes a big news story, people will do anything to keep the story going, even if there’s nothing there.
To wit, Walton Goggins just hosted Saturday Night Live, and clearly went out of his way to not say ANYTHING about Wood. He didn’t even do a White Lotus sketch on the show.
And yet, according to the Daily Mail, in a story with the headline Walton Goggins’ SNL monologue hints at cryptic turn in Aimee Lou Wood ‘feud’ after show polarized them:
Now, during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live, Walton has added another chapter to the saga with a blistering jibe at Aimee. In a shocking move just one month after the show left them with polarized opinions, Walton avoided any mention of Aimee in his monologue at all.
Instead, he simply gently poked fun at his newly acquired ‘sex symbol’ status, pointing out the backhanded compliments he got from various media headlines.He then touchingly danced with his mother Janet Long onstage, sharing that she used to take him to honky-tonks during his upbringing in Georgia.
What in the what?!?
Huh?
Because he didn’t make ANY reference to her, that was…a reference to her?! Lordy, that’s pretty pathetic.
Be better, Daily Mail.
