
The "Day of the Dead" is a Mexican celebration that honors deceased relatives. Lesson learned."Īshley Tisdale and musician Christopher French dressed up for a Halloween party in 2016.įor last year's Halloween, Tisdale wore face makeup and an outfit that's reminiscent of a decorated skull for Día de los Muertos. "They do great work supporting so many tremendous athletes and I am sorry for being insensitive. "The Special Olympics were right to call me out on it," he said. White said the Special Olympics, which also criticized "Tropic Thunder" in 2008, was right to criticize him. "I owe everyone in the Special Olympics community an apology for my poor choice of Halloween costume the other night," he said in an Instagram post Tuesday.
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In October 2108, Shaun White dressed up as "Simple Jack," a character played by Ben Stiller in "Tropic Thunder." In the movie, the character iss used to make fun of the movie industry's tendency to turn the lives of people with disabilities into "Oscar bait," although disability advocates found the portrayal shallow.Ī spokesperson for the Special Olympics, as well as fans of White, criticized him for the costume after he posted a photo of it on Instagram. Shaun White in his "Simple Jack" costume. well, it's not clear, but she used blackface in her 2016 costume. And designer Alessandro Dell'Acqua went as. Country singer Jason Aldean once went as Lil Wayne.
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The following year, he darkened his skin again for a Gandhi costume. "American Horror Story" actor Colton Haynes dressed up as Kanye West in 2011.

Hough is far from the only celebrity to wear blackface as part of a Halloween costume. "I realize my costume hurt and offended people and I truly apologize." "It certainly was never my intention to be disrespectful or demeaning to anyone in any way," Hough said shortly after the Halloween party. Taken together, Hough's costume was in really, really bad taste. There's also a history of discrimination against African-Americans in the country's movie, television, and theater industries. There's a history of blackface in the US, wherein white actors don black makeup in order to portray black stereotypes. For her 2013 costume, the "Dancing with the Stars" champion went as "Orange Is the New Black" character Crazy Eyes.
