At the 87th Academy Awards last Sunday, the Italian-American singer, whose birth name is Stefani Germanotta, performed a stunning homage to the classic Julie Andrews film "The Sound of Music" - and a Fox News anchorwoman was so impressed by it, she ended up using dedicating Lady Gaga a racial slur.
Gaga's one of the people most committed to the fight against bullying across the world, as the singer is heavily about her fans, even having launched a website for them a few years back - and so there's no surprise to see that the Lady Gaga racial slur didn't go unnoticed.
Yahoo! News reports that Kristi Capel, a Fox News co-anchor from the show "Fox 8 News in the Morning" in the Cleveland channel, spoke last Monday about the "Sound of Music" rendition, sounding impressed about the whole thing - until she made the unfortunate decision of making an outdated Lady Gaga racial slur.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Lady Gaga racial slur happened as Capel spoke of the performance, amazed at how the singer's voice sounded, as she left her usual vocal range to explore something much deeper that even impressed the original film's star, Julie Andrews.
"It's hard to really hear her voice with all that jigaboo music that she does, or whatever you want to call it. She has a gorgeous voice - I never knew!" she said on the air as she spoke of the "Sound of Music" medley performance, having then the misfortune of saying the Lady Gaga racial slur.
"Jigaboo" is a racial slur most often associated with black people, particularly those who have a darker skin tone. At the time, Capel was speaking to her co-anchor Wayne Dawson ... who is African American himself.
The Daily Mail reports that Kristi Capel later apologized for the use of a Lady Gaga racial slur, stating that it was an accident and she didn't know the word was insulting to any group of people, and saying that she regretted using hurtful language.
