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Drew Barrymore’s bizarre EgyptAir profile reveals the truth about the celebrity media circus

It’s no surprise that the actor’s interview was completely real. At junkets, the questions often swing between sycophancy and snark
‘I think everyone missed the real joke about Drew Barrymore and her EgyptAir interview.’ Photograph: Getty Images

Honestly, I think everyone missed the real joke about . This may sound odd, given how much hooting there has been ever since a passenger, Adam Baron, from the airline’s inflight magazine, which included such gems, attributed to Barrymore, as, “I focus on nurturing [my children’s] minds as well as their small bodies”, and “I feel overwhelmed when someone tells me that I have managed to lose that extra weight.” The latter was in response to an observation from the journalist about how Barrymore, post-birth, “gainedcould this be a real exchange, people said. But anyone who’s ever done a celebrity interview knew the punchline had yet to drop.

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