SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher Defends Kim Kardashian Dolce & Gabbana Italy Show: “It Was Absolute Work…Walking In Heels On Cobblestones”

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Amid the bad optics of appearing on social media with Kim Kardashian at a Dolce & Gabbana show in Puglia, Italy as SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP contract talks went down to the wire, the actors’ president Fran Drescher, along with the guild’s National Executive Director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, blasted “employers” at the SAG-AFTRA Strike presser this AM for stirring up the bad ink against The Nanny actress. “That wasn’t a selfie!” exclaimed Drescher in fielding a question about the incident earlier this week, which Deadline first told you about.

Kardashian posted the photo with Drescher on her Instagram Stories thread. National Executive Director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland stepped in first to defend The Beautician and the Beast star in regards to her Italian fox trot. “I want to say it’s outrageous that they would do that.

What Fran was doing, was Fran was working. Which is what our members do. And for these employers to cynically try to turn our members against Fran, because she was doing a job that she was under contract to do, while by the way, she was zooming into our negotiations after-work hours, working 18 hours or more a day.

It is outrageous, it is wrong, it’s despicable and they should be ashamed of it,” exclaimed Crabtree-Ireland. Drescher piped up “I appreciate that.