Hilaria Baldwin ‘forgets’ the English word ‘onions’ while making ‘traditional’ Spanish dish for holidays
It’s the accent that just won’t stop.
It doesn’t matter that she grew up as regular Hillary Hayward-Thomas in a posh neighborhood of Boston, it was a case of “feliz navidad” at Casa Baldwin.
A video, exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com, shows self-styled Spaniard Hilaria Baldwin treating her holiday guests to ‘traditional’ Spanish tortilla, served with a generous helping of accented Spanglish.
Dressed in a plaid onesie, Hilaria, 40, is seen in the kitchen bragging about the authenticity of the recipe in her faux Spanish shades.
In a baby voice with a heavy accent she says: ‘I learned this as a child, don’t look it up online, because then you will learn something else.’
The secret to her tortilla, she says, is to cut potatoes “not too small.”
She turns to her friend cooking next to her and then seems to forget the English word “onions” as, referring to actor-husband Alec, she reveals, “My husband hates…cebollas.”
Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows self-styled Spaniard Hilaria Baldwin treating her holiday guests to ‘traditional’ Spanish tortilla, served with a generous side of accented Spanglish
Hilaria, 40, took to Instagram to wish her followers a ‘feliz navidad’ and shared a family photo on Christmas Day
Considering that she seems to have completely forgotten that she’s not actually Spanish, the occasional word hiding is perhaps not surprising.
Her friend helpfully comes to the rescue and reminds her “onions.” English is such a difficult language.
It is not the first time that Hilaria has stumbled over her native language.
In 2015, she appeared in a now infamous six-minute segment on the Today Show, in which she made “authentic” gazpacho, listing the ingredients and at one point appearing to forget the English word “cucumber.”
“We have very few ingredients,” she told Telemundo TV host Evi Siskos with whom she appeared that day.
‘We have tomatoes, we have, um, how do you say that in English? Cucumber!’
At one point she seems to forget the English word “onions” and instead refers to the Spanish name “cebollas.”
Hilaria and Alec Baldwin, 66, married in 2012. The actor confidently revealed to talk show host David Letterman that his wife was Spanish during an interview the following year
Hilaria and Baldwin have given Spanish names to all seven of their children: Carmen Gabriela, 10, Rafael Thomas, 8, Leonardo Angel Charles, 7, Romeo Alejandro David, 6, Eduardo Pao Lucas, 3, Maria Lucia Victoria, 3, and Ilaria Catalina Irene, 20 months
Now she’s at it again, lisping her way through a recipe from her ‘Spanish’ childhood.
‘I grind cebollas and ajo [garlic] together,” she walks on in her babyish Iberian mess.
It seems that the meals, like everything at Casa Baldwin, are ‘Spanish in taste’.
That’s how the couple described their New York wedding in June 2012, during which they exchanged vows and wore rings engraved with the words “Somos un buen equipo,” which means “We are a great team” in Spanish.
The following year, Baldwin, 66, confidently informed talk show host David Letterman that his wife was Hispanic.
He was apparently oblivious to the fact that Hilaria was born and raised in Massachusetts and was only on holiday on the holiday island of Mallorca, some 210 kilometers from the Spanish mainland and where her retired parents now live as ex-pats .
In a now infamous 2015 music video, Hilaria (left) appeared in a cooking segment for the Today Show, where she seemingly forgot the English word for “cucumber.”
Her parents bought the five-bed, five-bath home in June 1987, when their daughter was just three years old, and didn’t move until she was 28.
A 2014 Elle article called her “half-Hispanic,” and elsewhere she was described as “bicultural,” which is true if she counts both her real and her appropriated culture.
Expanding on her origin myth, Hilaria and Baldwin have given all seven of their children Spanish names – Carmen Gabriela, 10, Rafael Thomas, 8, Leonardo Angel Charles, 7, Romeo Alejandro David, 6, Eduardo Pao Lucas, 3, Maria Lucia Victoria, 3, and Ilaria Catalina Irena, 20 months.
They are collectively known as the ‘Baldwinitas’.
Four years ago, DailyMail.com revealed the truth about the Boston yoga teacher’s background as, despite her agency’s website listing her birthplace as Mallorca, she spent most of her childhood in a 100-year-old $4 house million in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood.
Records show that her parents, lawyer David Thomas and Harvard Medical School professor Kathryn Hayward, bought a five-bedroom, five-bathroom house on Pinckney Street in June 1987 when Hilaria was just three, and did not move until they were 28 had become.
Neighbors there remembered her as a “very entitled young lady.”
Hilaria, her husband Alec and their children attended the premiere of Spellbound in New York City last month
DailyMail.com previously revealed that Hilaria had proudly displayed her first name Hillary Hayward-Thomas on her MySpace page alongside sultry selfies from back in the day
What they couldn’t remember was a Spanish accent.
Hilaria’s brother, Jeremy, went to Mallorca on a school exchange trip. According to a neighbor, the family began to fall in love with the place.
But Jeremy’s attempt to live in Spain failed because he “didn’t fit in, so came back.”
Hilaria’s Walter Mitty legacy became public when she posted a photo of herself in black lingerie holding her son Eduardo, which comic Amy Schumer then sent.
Hilaria posted a video of herself responding to Schumer’s comment, but apparently forgot that she had a Spanish accent and spoke with a non-specific American accent.
Leni Briscoe, a former classmate at the elite Cambridge School of Weston – where annual tuition costs $60,850 for day students and $75,200 for boarding students – tweeted: ‘You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s dedication in her decade-long relationship pretending to be a Spaniard. ‘