Country superstar Carrie Underwood apologized after Sunday night’s Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas, after making an off-the-cuff sexual joke towards Matthew McConaughey, who had just presented her with the coveted ‘Entertainer of the Year’ award.
McConaughey told this gem of a story before presenting the award to a shocked Underwood:
The Texas-born actor presented Underwood with the big award, but before his official duties he entertained the audience with a story on how he and his brother once took a road trip thru Texas to see Dwight Yoakam perform. While there the brothers tried to “pick up” a few ladies by telling them that they made a livin’ exclusively custom-making George Strait’s boots.
“We’re like, ‘Oh yeah. Say, as I a matter of fact, out in the parking lot, in the trunk of our white Corvette, we have the next year’s new edition white ostrich quill George Strait signed series that he’s gonna wear on tour next year.’ And they got pretty excited about that and said, ‘Well, can we see? Can we see? Can we see?’” McConaughey told the audience. “And we obliged … Point of the story is, we got lucky that night. Thank you, George.”
Underwood, accepted the award, and caught up in the moment said, “I don’t know what to say. I got nothin’ … I want to see those boots, Matthew.”
The audience was a bit shocked, including McConaughey’s girlfriend Camila Alves, upon hearing the joke. Underwood was very quick to apologize and embarrassed about the incident backstage.
“I’m so embarrassed, I totally embarrassed myself. I just blanked,” Underwood told Tarts backstage, burying her head in her hands. “You want to say something eloquent in a moment like that and I embarrassed myself. I’m sorry Matthew, I’m sorry to my family. I’m totally embarrassed.”
Oh, I say no harm, no foul! Carrie was just playing along and being funny with Matthew’s story. No real need for Alves, the audience, or anybody to get upset about an innocent lil’ joke.
There is so much pressure on celebrities to be politically correct today that we are sucking the life out of their personalities and freedom of speech.
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