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Hannah Waddingham is standing up for herself.
While posing outdoors the Olivier Awards on Sunday, April 14, a photographer explained to the 49-yr-outdated actress to “show leg,” to which she gave an indignant rebuttal.
“Oh my god, you’d in no way say that to a person,” she reported in a video uploaded to by a admirer account to X (previously acknowledged as Twitter) that exact working day. “Don’t be a dick if not I’ll shift off. Never say ‘show me leg.’ No.”
Waddingham then walked absent, continuing to inaudibly exchange heated words with the similar photographer.
very long story brief: hannah was remaining her lovely self and the 📸 produced some comment about her leg we couldn’t really make out and… nicely, the movie speaks for by itself. This female is a purpose design. Always, usually contact pricks out on their bullshit. https://t.co/TUPwdqEYo2 pic.twitter.com/ybhxCo5FJ6
— bruna but with a posh accent (@odeiotedlasso) April 14, 2024
In the comment area of the video, admirers overwhelmingly sided with Waddingham.
“She’s ideal they would under no circumstances say present me some leg to a man. Superior for her for calling him out,” one wrote. Another commented, “What a queen – just when I imagined I couldn’t love her extra!”
Waddingham wore a lilac a single-shoulder robe to the award ceremony. It was personalized manufactured by Marchesa and showcased small crystal adornments all over.

Hannah Waddingham Gareth Cattermole/Getty Visuals
The “Ted Lasso” star hosted this year’s Olivier Awards, which took place at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She went by way of a full of four outfit adjustments more than the course of the evening. In addition to the lilac robe, Waddingham also wore a variety-fitting navy blue sequin robe featuring skinny spaghetti straps and a sweetheart neckline.
Afterwards on in the night, she transformed into a strapless silver robe that cinched in at the midsection and was covered with reflective crystals.
Waddington’s fourth and closing outfit consisted of a equipped black jumpsuit and matching black heels, which she wore to the afterparty at the Natural Background Museum.
In an Oct 2023 interview with Glamour, Waddington discovered that she has normally called out photographers who make her sense not comfortable.
“When it comes to working with sexism, specifically in my field, I was on the obtaining conclude of it primarily when I was modeling back in my twenties, with some of the nonsense that misogynistic male photographers would throw at me to place me in my position,” she instructed the publication. “I termed them out straight away – and they would then consider to combat their corner, but I never let it go.”