Topics: Aimee Lou Wood, Celebrity, Instagram, The White Lotus, US News, Film and TV
White Lotus co-stars Aimee Lou Wood and Walton Goggins have finally set the record straight on their alleged feud.
Wood and Goggins star together as a rather mismatched couple in HBO's The White Lotus, with a fourth season confirmed for the future, though fans have been concerned for weeks about the pair's off-screen relationship.
The rumor mill began to swirl when fellow castmate, Jason Isaacs alluded to 'drama' behind the scenes, which only snowballed when eagle-eyed fans spotted 53-year-old Goggins had unfollowed the 31-year-old actress on Instagram.
The situation then appeared to take a sharp turn for the worst when Goggins publicly applauded the SNL sketch that the Sex Education star had dubbed 'cheap' and 'unfunny' for poking fun at her appearance.
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During the episode, the show mocked Wood's teeth in the skit titled, The White POTUS, where the character portraying the British star donned large teeth and asked: "Fluoride? What's that?"
Reacting to a post on social media, Goggins commented: "Hahahahahhahaha Amazzzingggg," although it's not clear whether he was referring to the entire skit as a whole or the dig at his co-star.
According to The Metro, Goggins later deleted his comments, but it didn't put a stop to the rumors.
Last month, the Fallout star shut down an interview with The Times reporter Ed Potton when asked about it, replying: “I’m not gonna have that conversation.
“There is no conversation to be had about that. Sharing politics on social media — it’s in a vacuum," he added.
Now, the pair have set the record straight once and for all in a joint interview with Variety.
"Why is everyone obsessing over Instagram? That is irrelevant. We don’t give a sh***e about Instagram," Wood said.
Walton then added: "If I may add, just to put this to bed? The following or unfollowing. I’m a grown-a** man."
Explaining his thought process behind the supposed snub of his co-star, he said he had wanted to distance from 'everyone'.
"I couldn’t handle it. Judge me or don’t. I don’t give a f**k what you think. This is my process. Rick means everything to me, and Chelsea means everything to me. And so that’s what I needed to do for me to process all of this," he added before concluding the whole ordeal as 'ridiculous.'
"It’s just a part of me, just saying goodbye to this character so that now Aimee and I will be friends for f***ing ever," Goggins said as he re-followed his co-star.
"There is no feud," he reiterated. "I adore, I love this woman madly, and she is so important to me."
As for why he suspiciously shut down his previous interview with The Times, he said he would 'never' speak for both of them and alleged the reporter had compared his and Wood's teeth which left him 'disgusted and flabbergasted'.
Wood added: "How horrible!"
The revelation comes as Wood sniped at SNL for the skit of her at the time, saying: "Yes, take the p**s for sure – that's what the show is about – but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?
"I am not thin-skinned. I actually love being taken the p**s out of when it's clever and in good spirits. But the joke was about fluoride. I have big gap teeth, not bad teeth.
"I don't mind caricature – I understand that's what SNL is. But the rest of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on... Okay end of."
