Lara Spencer Issues Apology for Laughing About Boys Taking Ballet on GOOD MORNING AMERICA

By: Linnae Medeiros Aug. 23, 2019

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Good Morning America host Lara Spencer is at the center of a controversy revolving around her laughing at Prince George (aged 6), the future King of England, for taking ballet classes.

"Prince William said Prince George absolutely loves ballet. I have news for you Prince William - we'll see how long that lasts..." the host said in a segment in which Spencer reports the "buzziest stories of the day" in Pop News. She goes on to laugh at the thought of the prince taking ballet classes.

After receiving a high amount of backlash for her comment, Spencer went to her Instagram to issue an apology. Check it out below!

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My sincere apologies for an insensitive comment I made in pop news yesterday. From ballet to anything one wants to explore in life, I say GO FOR IT. I fully believe we should all be free to pursue our passions. Go climb your mountain-and love every minute of it.

A post shared by Lara Spencer (@lara.spencer) on Aug 23, 2019 at 9:07am PDT

Tony Award winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell took to Instagram to call out the program for their insensitive remarks, saying "Really? Some of us take ballet. Some of us win TONY AWARDS cus we took ballet. Miss thing, it's 2019... Get a life."

Other Broadway notables took to Twitter to share their thoughts, including Erich Bergen (Waitress), Keala Settle (Waitress/The Greatest Showman), Julia Murney(Wicked), Andrew Lippa, and more. To see even more Broadway favorites firing back at Spencer, check out our full rundown here!

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