As a woman plagued by rhinoplasty rumors, Halle Berry should really be more sensitive about noses. At yesterday’s taping of the Tonight Show, Berry made an off-color joke while she was showing Leno and the audience distorted pictures of her face taken with her Apple PhotoBooth program. In one where her nose is enlarged she apparently said, “Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!” When the show aired, the comment had been replaced by a laugh track. And never fear, Berry’s Jewish employee came up with the joke.
Berry, 41, who sounded like she was near tears, told Page Six last night: “I so didn’t mean to offend anybody - and after the show I realized it could be seen as offensive, so I asked Jay to take it out, and he did.”
The gorgeous actress, who is 4½ months pregnant with her first child, by boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, said, “What happened was I was backstage before the show and I have three girls who are Jewish who work for me. We were going through pictures to see which ones looked silly, and one of my Jewish friends said [of the big-nose picture], ‘That could be your Jewish cousin!’ And I guess it was fresh in my mind, and it just came out of my mouth. But I didn’t mean to offend anybody. I didn’t. I didn’t mean any harm.”
The joke might have worked better if Berry had just said, “And here’s where I look like myself, 20 years ago!”
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ha! okay. leave the 41 year old pregnant diabetic alone. at least until the baby’s out of the oven.