Howard Stern isn’t backing down from controversial remarks he made on his Sirius Satellite show this week, branding Precious star Gabourey Sidibe “the most enormous fat Black chick I’ve ever seen” and arguing that the 26-year-old Harlem native will never get another role due to her status a plus-sized diva. Well, those are fightin’ words for the actress’ mother, NYC subway performer Alice Tan Riley, who took the shock jock to task on Inside Edition Thursday.
“Get a life. [Stern] can see, you can see, I can see Gabby is a big girl. She’s a big woman, so what’s wrong with that? She’s not like everyone else in the world. … I don’t see him giving jobs out to anybody, so why should we care what he says? He might not hire her, but someone else will.”
Things are already looking up for Sidibe; she’s been cast as a regular on the new Showtime series The C Word.