Sydney Sweeney clarifies rumours she never actually worked at Universal Studios

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Sydney Sweeney has clarified reviews about whether or not she worked as a tour information at Universal Studios after it was speculated that she’d never worked at the theme park.

The actress first opened up in regards to the job throughout a Women’s Health interview in November 2023, through which she detailed the start of her profession. In the interview, the Anyone But You actress mentioned watching her dad and mom go bankrupt and detailed the varied jobs she took with the intention to assist her household with the payments, certainly one of them being a tour information at Universal Studios.

“I watched my parents lose a lot. We filed for bankruptcy, and they lost their house back home on the lake. We couldn’t afford life in LA,” Sweeney mentioned within the interview.

In future interviews, Sweeney was requested about her time at Universal however never straight addressed it. For instance, when she was requested about her theme park job on The Kelly Clarkson Show, she mentioned, “I was a huge theme park person, my family and friends would go to Universal all the time.”

Then, on her episode of Hot Ones, she added she “memorised” the studio tour and was in a position to “recite their entire script”. When the host requested her what her favorite tour information reminiscence was, she slipped into telling the story of being a struggling actor and budgeting as an alternative, and didn’t reply the query straight.

“I was there for a bit, and then actually booked Sharp Objects,” Sweeney advised the host.

Many folks went on to touch upon that video, which resurfaced on TikTok, that they have been Universal tour guides themselves and will verify that Sweeney had never actually worked there.

“Tour guide here! She was never a tour guide, we fact checked. But thanks for the shout out Sydney,” one remark learn at the time. Another commenter allegedly confirmed, writing: “Hi, another tour guide here! Can confirm, after a very deep dive, that she was never a guide.”

Another Universal tour information named Taylor Hancock stitched the Hot Ones clip, and made the declare that Sweeney was mendacity. “I have worked for the Universal Studios tour department for many years,” he mentioned. “I don’t know why she’s choosing to kind of fib about this, but Sydney Sweeney has never been a Universal tour guide.”

Adding that Sydney’s declare is “verifiably false,” Hancock claimed it’s tough to get a tour information job as “it’s not just a summer job that any teenager can get,” earlier than alleging it was “an odd thing to lie about”.

However, after weeks of individuals questioning why the Euphoria actress would lie about working at the theme park, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Sweeney was actually telling the reality.

The outlet wrote that the actress was employed by Universal Studios Hollywood on 12 June 2016 and she went on to work each an orientation shift and a coaching shift, solely to exit the job on 18 July 2016.

Because of the quick time span when she worked at the theme park, it isn’t clear if she worked there lengthy sufficient to bodily conduct a tour, and would additionally clarify why not one of the different tour guides knew her.

The Independent has contacted a consultant for Sweeney and Universal Studios for remark.