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Bristol Palin Enjoys How Kathy Griffin’s Fat Joke Fell Flat
Bristol Palin sounds like she thinks Kathy Griffin should be on the Z-List. During the VH1 Divas' Salute the Troops special, Griffin cracked that Palin was the only contestant in the history of Dancing with the Stars to gain weight. "She gained like 30 pounds a week. I swear to God, it was fantastic -- she's like the white Precious," Griffin said, provoking jeers from the Marine Corps Air Station crowd. Get more of today's news "The audience's reaction to this 'comedian' spoke volumes, and the decent people I know would probably have booed her, too," Palin said in a statement to Fox News. "I hope ...
Bristol Palin sounds like she thinks Kathy Griffin should be on the Z-List.
During the VH1 Divas' Salute the Troops special, Griffin cracked that Palin was the only contestant in the history of Dancing with the Stars to gain weight. "She gained like 30 pounds a week. I swear to God, it was fantastic -- she's like the white Precious," Griffin said, provoking jeers from the Marine Corps Air Station crowd.
"The audience's reaction to this 'comedian' spoke volumes, and the decent people I know would probably have booed her, too," Palin said in a statement to Fox News. "I hope people didn't have to pay money to hear her negativity and criticisms."
Bristol Palin to Cho: My mother didn't force me to do Dancing
Griffin, like many comedians, has used the Palin family and Sarah Palin, in particular, for material — even pretending to have a relationship with Bristol's ex-fiancé, Levi Johnston.
"You can boo louder than that!" Griffin of My Life on the D-Listfame yelled in response to the audience of soldiers. "I love it!"
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