This Is What Chrissy Metz Really Called Alison Brie at the Golden Globes

The catfight cliché is (sadly) alive and well. In the midst of an overcooked Golden Globes on Sunday night, the Twittersphere—and even some members of the crowd at the ceremony itself—became morbidly fascinated with a supposed female feud: This Is Us star Chrissy Metz maybe/possibly calling Alison Brie “such a bitch” on a hot mic during a Facebook Live interview (even if the last word Metz was saying wasn’t totally clear).

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This story was widely written about and circulated like the hot gossip it purportedly was—because, again, catfights. The only problem is that Metz wasn’t actually calling GLOW star Brie a bitch, after all, as Metz quickly commented on Sunday night.

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One of the reporters interviewing Metz has now also swooped in to clarify that Metz wasn’t calling Brie a “bitch” but rather a “babe.” Big difference—huge! And when you listen to the above clip, it sure does sound like “babe.”

“While interviewing Chrissy during the HFPA Presents: Globes Red Carpet LIVE preshow and as our conversation came to its natural conclusion, we were told to wrap and toss over to our cohosts on another portion of the carpet, who were on standby with Alison Brie,” AJ Gibson said in a statement to People. “I jokingly asked Chrissy if she knew who Alison was, as a way to transition into the ‘toss,’ and she played along. She then referred to Alison as a ‘babe’ and the fun exchange ended.” Brie also responded via her Instagram Stories, saying, “Nothing but love” for Metz. “Rumors can’t keep us down.”

Sorry to disappoint everyone, but these two successful women don’t actually hate each other after all.

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The Government Shutdown Is Now Endangering the Food We Eat

Not only are government employees with mortgages and bills not being paid under the ongoing nearly three-week-long government shutdown, but now there is a potential public health threat: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has drastically cut back on routine inspections of high-risk foods at manufacturing and processing plants across the country, leaving seafood, fruits, vegetables, and many other foods at high risk of contamination unchecked by federal officials.

“It’s not business as usual, and we are not doing all the things we would do under normal circumstances,” FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., told NBC News. He notes that meat and some poultry products are still being inspected by employees currently going without pay but “there are important things we are not doing.” While food companies may also self-check, the FDA provides an additional level of government regulation and oversight.

The FDA normally does an estimated 160 food domestic inspections every week for things like bugs, rodents, mishandled food, improper preparation, and other hazards—about one-third of plants are considered high risk, according to Gottlieb. At present, due to the shutdown conditions, “FDA inspectors are not looking for salmonella in breakfast cereal, E. coli in romaine lettuce, or listeria in ice cream,” NBC notes. According to a September 2018 report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that “48 million Americans—one in six—are made sick by contaminated foods annually. Those illnesses caused more than 125,000 hospitalizations and about 3,000 deaths.” (This is significantly more than the number of Americans killed by undocumented immigrants, despite what the president has said.)

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