Eva Longoria’s Friends React Amid Eric Braeden Drama: Details

Taking a stand! Eva Longoria‘s associates defended her after soap star Eric Braeden claimed she made “derogatory remarks” about daytime TV actors.

Days of Our Lives alum Eric Winter and his spouse, Roselyn Sánchez, chimed in on the drama throughout the Monday, March 27, episode of their “He Said, Ella Dijo” podcast. Winter, 46, referred to Braeden, 81, as a “grumpy actor” who has “been round ceaselessly within the cleaning soap world” whereas discussing his recent social media “rant” about Longoria, 48.

“I don’t even wish to give him the courtesy of studying all the pieces he says,” he continued, as Sánchez, 49, known as the state of affairs “actually terrible.”

The Rookie actor argued: “Nothing Eva stated was inappropriate. This man is totally out of line, for my part, as a result of he doesn’t know what Eva’s financial stance was at the moment in her profession. I assure you he was making a ton extra money than she was. … This man is looking for a manner in his older age to get back in the spotlight for whatever reason and to make it a degree to defend daytime [television], which she was not attacking.”

Sánchez — who appeared on Devious Maids, a Lifetime sequence produced by Longoria, from 2013 to 2016 — known as for Braeden to take accountability. “Eric Braeden, you need to apologize since you have been out of line and what you stated was fully uncalled for,” she stated.

Earlier this month, Longoria reflected on her experience taking part in Isabella Braña on The Younger and the Stressed from 2001 to 2003. She claimed on the March 19 episode of Who’s Speaking to Chris Wallace? that the function “didn’t pay sufficient for me to stay off being an actor,” so she continued her day job as a headhunter on the time.

“I might cover the actual fact I used to be on Younger and the Stressed to my shoppers, as a result of they didn’t need, like, a dumb actress dealing with their accounts,” she defined. “And one time one in every of my shoppers was like, ‘You seem like a woman I’ve seen on a cleaning soap opera.’ And I am going, ‘No, I don’t know who that’s.’ I used to be, like, the other of a publicist’s dream. I used to be like, ‘Don’t inform anyone I’m on that present,’ as a result of I used to be nonetheless making extra money on my day job.”

Braeden — who has portrayed Victor Newman on the CBS cleaning soap since 1980 — was fast to share his ideas on Longoria’s feedback after the interview aired. “EVA LONGORIA: you simply made derogatory remarks about daytime actors!” he tweeted on March 19. “You merely weren’t ok to outlive the pressures of this medium! You have been very fortunate to get on that ‘housewife’ present! You probably did one present in 8-12 days, with mediocre however salacious dialogue!”

The Daytime Emmy winner continued: “Our actresses would run rings round you!! And so they did then!! From Robert [De Niro] to whoever all of them are, a lot of them began within the medium you denigrate! It exhibits a whole lack of sophistication!!”

When one fan argued that Longoria ought to apologize, Braeden famous he didn’t suppose it was mandatory. “I merely reacted to listening to this whereas watching CNN and CHRIS WALLACE, who I respect!” he tweeted. “However when the cleaning soap medium is being denigrated by anybody, I’ll go after them! That is the toughest medium for an actor, PERIOD!!! Be effing pleased with it!!!”

In one other reply, he said that the Telenovela alum ought to “be proud” of even the less successful moments she’s had in Hollywood. “There’s this sense of what we do, entertaining MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD ON A DAILY BASIS, as in some way lower than!” he wrote.

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The Younger and the Stressed celebrated its 50th anniversary this month with the return of some fan-favorite stars, from Michael Damian to Barbara Crampton. Final 12 months, the sequence scored three main victories on the 2022 Daytime Emmy Awards together with Excellent Authentic Music and Excellent Casting.