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Actress and comedian Margaret Cho blamed President Trump and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for missing retired connected a domiciled successful nan deed HBO Max bid “Heated Rivalry.”
“Last year, I sewage a aviator book for a show that I really loved, but it changeable successful Canada,” Cho told nan “I Never Liked You” podcast past week.
“And I was truthful frightened because I’m truthful vocal astir hating ICE and hating this administration. I was like, I will get detained astatine nan separator and I will beryllium put successful ICE detention if I go.”
Cho confirmed that nan bid was the 2025 sports romance show about 2 master lucky players played by Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams who shape a romanticist enslaved while playing for rival teams.
She added that she has since go a instrumentality of nan show and nan female who played her part.
Cho besides suggested she is looking to perchance look successful its second season.
“I’ve watched it. I’ve hosted immoderate rewatch parties, and I’m for illustration it kills me, for illustration it kills maine because of Trump,” Cho said.
Cho has been among galore celebrities who person attacked Trump successful nan past, calling him “abhorrent” in 2015.
Earlier this year, Cho recalled being asked to look connected Trump’s show “The Apprentice” because Trump was reportedly “a fan” of her comedy, which she recovered “weird.”
“I was asked respective times to beryllium connected it, play aft season, and they kept saying, ‘Well, Donald Trump really loves you. Please travel on,'” Cho said successful March.
“I conscionable had a bad emotion astir it, because I did spell connected 1 of nan challenges because my friend Cyndi Lauper was competing 1 year, and truthful she did thing astatine a diner, truthful I went, and I helped out.”
She continued, “I was astatine nan diner, and truthful I was portion of an episode, but I ne'er really was a contestant, but I was asked respective times because Donald Trump was a fan.”
