Keith McNally strikes again! Razor-tongued restaurant owner goes after Lauren Sanchez in savage Instagram post
Celebrity restaurateur Keith McNally has taken aim at Lauren Sanchez in a late-night Instagram post, calling Jeff Bezos’ fiancée “disgusting.”
McNally shared a carousel of recent photos of Sanchez and Bezos, and proceeded to skewer the pair in a post posted late Monday night.
“Does anyone else find Jeff Bezos’ new wife, Lauren Sanchez, ABSOLUTELY disgusting?” He wrote.
‘What an ugly and damned smug looking bunch they make. Is this what having $1 trillion does to people?”
McNally’s apparently unprovoked roast comes a week after Sanchez and Bezos made several public appearances together in Washington, DC at the White House State Dinner for the Prime Minister of Japan and the presentation of the Courage and Civility Award – an annual grant. of $100 million Bezos is handing out .
Keith McNally shared a carousel of photos of Lauren Sanchez and her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, and continued to skewer the couple on Monday night
McNally (pictured) often posts unfiltered comments on his personal Instagram about whatever topic is on his mind
It is not clear why McNally specifically targeted Sanchez and Bezos.
The future Mrs. Bezos has so far been defended by her famous friend Chrissy Teigen, who praised Sanchez’s admirable qualities.
“She is actually incredibly dynamic, talented and kind, and anyone who knows her would say the same,” wrote the entertainment personality and wife of John Legend.
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle also jumped to Sanchez’s defense, writing, “No. I think she is talented, kind, smart and well-liked. Social media is fun, but not this. It’s just mean for no reason. If we all took a deep breath and thought about what it feels like to be mocked and teased, we would do that a lot less.”
The owner of popular New York City hotspots Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern and Morandi has previously picked several feuds with high-profile patrons of his restaurants.
In October 2022, he began a weeks-long feud with then late-night host James Corden, who allegedly yelled at McNally’s Balthazar staff over a yolk omelette his wife had tried to order.
Corden, who has been labeled difficult to work with on multiple occasions, defended himself on air and in a New York Times profile at the time.
He apologized, which softened things somewhat, but only until McNally got his hands on a copy of the London Times, in which Corden denied ever yelling at anyone.
Late Monday night, that subject happened to be Lauren Sanchez, the fiancée of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
The couple got engaged almost a year ago after almost five years together
Sanchez, who is involved in a plethora of causes in her tony circles in Beverly Hills, often opts for a more revealing look and shares a glimpse into her wardrobe with her more than 400,000 Instagram followers – she is pictured here in the outfit that she wore to a state dinner for the Japanese Prime Minister last week
“I don’t want to oversell the pudding, but in Friday’s London Times, Corden flipped out and told a huge lie AGAIN,” McNally began.
‘I never shouted at anyone, shouted at anyone, cussed anyone, swore or used derogatory language… How is that even possible? While the person who posted the story wasn’t even there.’
‘On the second viewing I found his TV ‘confession’ contrived and fake. The actor will say anything to save his bacon.
“In the grand scheme of things, my opinion means nothing, but after Friday’s interview and a second look at his fraudulent confessional, I’ve given up on James Corden. Forever,” he wrote.
Over the years, McNally has proven to be a lightning rod for controversy with Instagram posts that regularly set the discourse on fire.
Since joining the platform, he has periodically been a staunch defender of Woody Allen, who has been plagued for decades by his decision to pursue a relationship with his stepdaughter Soon-Yi Previn, with whom he has been dating until lives together today.
Allen was later accused of sexually assaulting his daughter Dylan Farrow, whom he adopted with his then-partner Mia Farrow in 1991.
He has always denied her allegations and has never been charged, although a prosecutor in Connecticut said there was probable cause for a criminal case.
McNally is the owner of popular New York City hotspots Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern and Morandi
He often posts on Instagram about high-profile visitors to his restaurants, as well as current events
Earlier this year, McNally apologized for something he wrote on Instagram in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 barbaric Hamas attacks on Israel.
“The more disgusting the facts, the greater the responsibility becomes to listen to the other side,” he wrote under a photo of Israel’s reprisal attacks against the terror group.
He later severely retracted his statement and strongly condemned Hamas and their terrorist activities.
“I want to make it clear: those who continue to turn away from or fail to condemn Hamas’s horrific terror do not serve the cause of Palestinian freedom. They condone cold-blooded murder, rape, kidnapping and torture,” he wrote on October 10.
In November, just one month after Israel’s unprovoked invasion, he wrote: “If only those asking for better conditions for the Palestinians had preceded their request by denouncing the brutality of Hamas’s October 7 attack and that taking civilians hostage is an act of cruel and obscene impiety, I would have three times as much sympathy for it.’