Mean Girls cuts joke from digital release after Lindsay Lohan was left ‘hurt and disappointed’

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A joke from the brand new Mean Girls film has been minimize after an actor from the forged of the unique movie took offence to it.

Lindsay Lohan was “very hurt and disappointed” by one particular joke made within the new movie, and the reference seems to have been minimize from its digital release.

Tina Fey’s remake sees The Last Thing He Told Me’s Angourie Rice take over for Lohan as new pupil Cady Heron.

At one level, rapper Megan Thee Stallion – who contributed to the film’s soundtrack – seems through a social media montage, the place she feedback on Cady’s Christmas-themed expertise present outfit.

“Hot girls, we are going back red. Y2K fire crotch is back,” the rapper says, in an obvious nod to music supervisor Brandon Davis calling Lohan a “fire crotch” in a 2006 paparazzi video.

A consultant for the 37-year-old Freaky Friday star advised The Independent that “Lindsay was very hurt and disappointed by the reference in the film” on the time.

However, an up to date model of the film seen by Variety through Amazon Prime Video, cuts on to Megan Thee Stallion laughing after she says, “We are going back red.”

The time period “fire crotch” was related to Lohan after billionaire inheritor Davis made crude feedback about her physique within the paparazzi video that additionally featured Paris Hilton and was shared with TMZ.

Lohan’s father, Michael Lohan, was reportedly “p***ed” on the filmmakers of the brand new remake for making a “disgusting” joke on the expense of his daughter.

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The actor makes a short look herself within the new movie because the moderator for Cady’s Mathletes competitors. Speaking to People in a latest interview, Rice stated Lohan’s cameo “meant so much to me”.

Her cameo within the film drew huge applause on the movie’s New York premiere. She was reportedly paid $500,000 for half a day’s taking pictures for the film and flew again from Dubai to participate.

Fans got a primary look into Lohan’s new movie, Irish Wish, in its first trailer this month. The film will probably be launched on Netflix on 15 March 2024.

It sees the 37-year-old actor star as Maddie Kelly who flies to Ireland to be a bridesmaid for a good friend who’s marrying the person who Kelly is in love with. As she makes a want on the evening of the marriage, she realises the true love of her life may very well be another person solely.