Travis Bryant Defends Former Breakthrough Co-Star Chrissy Metz from Body Shaming Twitter Troll

Last Sunday night was the Academy Awards and as the biggest night in Hollywood, it isn’t without a good ole’ online fued. Chrissy Teigen and John Legend made headlines for stepping in to defend Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho after he was trolled over his historic Oscar win, however they weren’t the only ones to engage a Twitter troll. SiriusXM host Andrew Wilkow took to Twitter to comment “un-healthy” likely in reference to the article also posted in the same tweet about Chrissy Metz’ Oscars red carpet look. Wilkow followed his thread with a Daily Mail article of Lizzo. Andrew Wilkow Tweet:

Nobody has the guts to say it, but there is a line between "body diversity" and flat out un-healthy. Stop pretending there isn't a line. #oscars. #oscarsredcarpet https://t.co/r2hmYNWNML

— Andrew Wilkow (@WilkowMajority) February 10, 2020

This Is Us star Chrissy Metz performed the Oscar nominated ‘I’m Standing With You’ fromtheFoxSearchlightfilmBreakthrough, inwhichMetzandBryantalsostarred. The 22-year-old American Soul actor defended his former co-star, firing back at Wilkow’s body shaming comments with the popular 2017 Mocking Spongebob meme. Travis Bryant’s Tweet:

n0boDy hAs tHe GuTs t0 sAy iT, bUt thEre iS a liNe bEtWeen "b0dy dIvErsiTy" & flat 0ut un-heALthY https://t.co/l5WWdLDOUm pic.twitter.com/whcOebtJ0t

— travis bryant (@Travis_Bryant) February 11, 2020

Bryant exclusively revealed to Where Is The Buzz, “As the older sibling being a bystander to bullying has never been an option for me. My brother got picked on a lot as a kid and I always was the one that’d get in fights to defend him” the Sofia the First star continued “so when I see cyberbullies online thinking they can hide behind a keyboard that bothers me and I feel compelled to say something”

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