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EVERY YEAR AHEAD of the Oscars, Vanity Fair does a special Hollywood issue featuring a raft of celebs.
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This year’s cover is quite delightful – Oprah and Reese Witherspoon are joined by Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Harrison Ford, and Robert De Niro, amongst others.
The cover has caused a bit of a stir online overnight as most people, Reese Witherspoon included, thought that Vanity Fair had photoshopped a third leg onto her image.
However, Vanity Fair has since clarified that it was, in fact, just the lining of her dress.
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In a tweet, Witherspoon responded to the blunder, brushing it off in a light-hearted manner.
“Well… I guess everybody knows now… I have three legs. I hope you can still accept me for who I am. And I will never apologise for snuggling Oprah… If you get the opportunity, I highly recommend it,” Witherspoon wrote.
While Witherspoon may not have actually suffered a photoshop error, Oprah appears to have had a third hand added to her in the photo.
https://twitter.com/sbstryker/status/956622921480396800
Like Witherspoon, Oprah is just rolling with the mix-up.
“I accept your third leg. As I know you accept my third hand,” she wrote in a tweet.
Responding to Witherspoon’s tweet, Vanity Fair said: “While we would have loved this exclusive on Reese Witherspoon’s three legs, unfortunately, it’s just the lining of her dress.”
Following on from this, the magazine said: “As for Oprah, how can we expect her to juggle it all with just two hands? (We are correcting this error online.)”
James Franco
Vanity Fair issued a statement to the Hollywood Reporter yesterday confirming that James Franco was due to appear on the cover but was removed following the string of sexual harassment allegations against him.
Franco sat for a photoshoot and interview and was due to be featured in the magazine’s Annie Leibovitz-shot portfolio, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“We made a decision not to include James Franco on the Hollywood cover once we learned of the misconduct allegations against him,” a Vanity Fair spokesperson said.
With reporting by Hayley Halpin
Written by Valerie Loftus and posted on DailyEdge.ie
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I had a third leg this morning it definitely wasn’t photoshopped
I can’t see Oprahs third hand? I can’t believe I looked at that picture for as long as I did!!
@Mark Fitzmaurice: it’s about Reese’s waist see the fingers
@Vincent: that’s her second hand
@Dave O Keeffe: it’s the Picture talking to Tom Hanks. Not the group
@Mark Fitzmaurice: you’re not the only one I couldn’t find it either!!
@Vincent: still not seeing it
@Dave O Keeffe: Yep, its there, you can see the fingers between her arm and waist.
@Johnny Bellew: oprahs third hand is in a different image altogether. It’s not published here
Everything is fake
What’s remarkable about this image is that when you compare it to previous years the men seem terrified to touch the women, it’s almost like an 18th century english painting with stiff composure.
The women look casually arranged while the men appear to be anything but, they’re all trying to appear casual but not quite managing it, previous Vanity Fair Oscars covers show men and women relaxed in one anothers company, some draped over one another. Clearly something dramatic has happened to change this.
@Jed I. Knight: we are going retro Victorian.
@David Dickson: Whatever about Victorian, we’re definitely going retro.
@Jed I. Knight: and the reason why the men should be touching the women is…?
Vomit inducing.
Where’s Saioirse???
@Marion: she is serving dinners on an aer lingus plane !!
Why is it being called a blunder in the headline? It clearly isn’t. At first glance it looks like her dress. As it remains when you study it in detail and you look at the lighting: unless the intention was to give her a concave leg, it’s clearly not supposed to be a leg. Some people with too much time on their hands trawling for errors thought they were clever and failed. That’s the story.
That’s nothing. Tom Hank’s arm goes behind the red curtain comes out the other end and is draped over the chair.
I have three legs…..
So, some idiots on the internet thought there was some photoshoshop mistake, turns out there wasn’t.
And that deserves not only an entire article but a headline that includes “major Vanity Fair photoshop blunder”?
Slow news day indeed.
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