Eva Longoria Called Out By ‘Y&R’ Star Eric Braeden For ‘Derogatory’ Remarks About Soap Acting

Veteran soap opera histrion Eric Braeden is enraged by Eva Longoria‘s caller “derogatory” remarks astir soap operas and he’s letting everyone know. The 81-year-old actor, who has starred arsenic Victor Newman connected The Young and the Restless since 1980, slammed Eva, who acted connected the amusement betwixt 2001 and 2003, successful a tweet spree connected Sunday, March 19, aft she made immoderate seemingly unsettling remarks astir the amusement connected a caller quality connected Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? “EVA LONGORIA: you conscionable made derogatory remarks astir daytime actors!” Eric seemingly yelled crossed the screen. “You simply weren’t bully capable to past the pressures of this medium!”

Would tally rings astir you!! And they did then!! From Robert di Nero to whoever they each are, galore of them started successful the mean you denigrate! It shows a implicit deficiency of class!!

— Eric Braeden (@EBraeden) March 19, 2023

“You were precise fortunate to get connected that ‘housewife’ show!,” helium continued, referring to the deed ABC series, Desperate Housewives, connected which Eva, 48, starred from 2004 until 2012. “You did 1 amusement successful 8-12 days, with mediocre but salacious dialogue!” He added, “Our actresses would tally rings astir you!! And they did then!! From Robert [De Niro] to whoever they each are, galore of them started successful the mean you denigrate! It shows a implicit deficiency of class!!”

Eric’s disapproval of the actress came aft her March 19 quality of  Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? , during which she revealed she pretended she wasn’t a soap histrion successful bid to get amended jobs. “When I got Young and the Restless, it didn’t wage capable for maine to unrecorded disconnected being an actor,” she claimed. “So I continued being a headhunter and Young and the Restless. And I would fell the information I was connected Young and the Restless to my clients, due to the fact that they didn’t want, like, a dumb histrion handing their accounts.”

Eric Braeden chewed retired Eva Longoria successful caller tweets regarding her comments astir moving connected ‘The Young and the Restless’ (Photo: CBS/Shutterstock)

“And 1 clip 1 of my clients was like, ‘You look similar a miss I’ve seen connected a soap opera.’ And I go, ‘No, I don’t cognize who that is,'” she continued. “I was similar the other of a publicist’s dream. I was like, ‘Don’t archer anybody I’m connected that show’ due to the fact that I was inactive making much wealth connected my time job.”

Eric further expressed his sentiment successful the remark conception of his tweets. In reply to 1 idiosyncratic who said they felt that determination was thing incorrect with Eva’s statements connected the show, helium wrote, “Come connected now, the full tenor of that conception was 1 of embarrassment astir her stint in Y&R and HOUSEWIVES! What did you not get astir that?” He pushed backmost with a akin connection erstwhile idiosyncratic projected that Eva wasn’t talking astir the soap astatine all. “Stop that nonsense, I saw and heard what she talked about!!! And it was derogatory!!!” helium tweeted back.

Eva Longoria poses for a ‘Young and the Restless’ promo photograph successful 2002 (Photo: CBS)

He past utilized the effect of 1 idiosyncratic who sided with him to further knock Eva’s remarks. “She conscionable wasn’t precise good, elemental arsenic that!!! helium typed back to a idiosyncratic who wrote, “I conjecture she forgot, oregon ne'er genuinely knew however hard daytime performers work”.

However, Eric wasn’t determination to wholly shame Eva. In reply to a Twitter idiosyncratic who slighted her for acting successful shampoo commercials, helium replied, “I don‘t knock her for that! Never would, but I volition marque remarks erstwhile she puts down daytime acting!! As I said, my pistillate colleagues would enactment rings astir her!!!” He past went arsenic acold arsenic complimenting her connected her upcoming CNN show, Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico. “Well, I privation her good successful her caller endeavor! I emotion that she is arrogant of her inheritance and volition bash her practice arrogant connected this caller CNN bid astir the culinary contented of MEXICO!” helium tweeted.

As of this writing, Eva has not publically addressed Eric’s disappointment successful her interrogation with Chris Wallace.

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