A woke Hollywood starlet is once again catching criticism for a tone-deaf decision. Alyssa Milano was spotted at the Super Bowl Sunday and shared a picture of herself and her son sitting in the stands for the big game on her Instagram. The Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium Sunday in overtime by a score of 25-22. While it isn’t unusual to spot stars, even faded ones like Milano, at big events like the Super Bowl, it’s her recent history that is causing social media consternation.
Last month, the “Charmed” actress gained unwanted attention and criticism for a crowd-sourcing effort she created last year to help fund a trip to Cooperstown, New York, for her son’s baseball team. She posted the link to her social media with a request for donations. She wrote: “My son’s baseball team is raising money for their Cooperstown trip. Any amount would be so greatly appreciated. You can read more about the team and make a donation here.”
Once again, not an unusual request, that is, unless your net worth is in the millions, as is Milano and her husbands. Her request was widely criticized on social media, with some calling it “gross” and “next level tone deaf.” Milano attempted to defend herself by posting: ”Every parent raises money for their child’s sports teams and many of them do so through GoFundMe. I am no different. As much as I’d love to pay for the entire team and their families for travel, transportation, hotel, food and beverage, uniforms, trading pins and all the things teams do for this kind of trip — I can not afford to do so. Maybe someday.”
The criticism had since died down until the actress posted to her Instagram a picture of her son and herself taking in the Super Bowl in the stadium. The 51-year-old actress posted the picture with the caption, “My buddy. #mothersonlove #mothersonbond #superbowl.”
It would have been a nice moment and a sweet sentiment between mother and son had she not just been digitally panhandling for the baseball trip, claiming she couldn’t afford to pay for it. Predictably, social media had its way with the activist star. Tickets for the big game reportedly started at $2,000 per seat but likely were much more expensive for anything more than nosebleeds.
The retribution on social media was swift, and not the Swift that was sitting in the luxury box watching her boyfriend. Outkick founder Clay Travis noted: “My good friend [Alyssa Milano] could afford Super Bowl tickets which cost an average of $10k each, but needed (much poorer) people on Twitter to pay for her son’s team’s Cooperstown, NY little league trip. Tony Danza would never.” Travis was referring to the 80s sitcom ‘Who’s the Boss,” starring Danza and Milano.
Other responses weren’t as tongue-in-cheek as Clay Travis’. One person wrote: “So you have money to take your kid to the Super Bowl but want other people to donate to your son’s baseball team?” while another exclaimed, “Let’s be real for a second. How can a celebrity start a gofundme for her son and say that she couldn’t afford it but then pull up to the super bowl? Please explain? I’m sure I’m not the only one that would love to hear YOUR answer, let alone hers?”
As of now Milano has been silent, but surely she will cook up an excuse for her appearance. While it certainly is her right to attend the Super Bowl, one has to see how the optics are bad. It is difficult to ask regular folks who are struggling under the Biden economy to cough up money for a baseball trip and then post pictures from the Super Bowl. Not a good look for the leftist actress, but hard to feel any sympathy, either.
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