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Entertainment November 30, 2016
Photo by Erik Pendzich/REX/ShutterstockShe has three million followers on Instagram, but you won’t see Sarah Jessica Parker on Twitter anytime soon.
The fashion guru likened the social networking site to “a boneyard, a feast of vitriol” while speaking with InStyle. “I don’t have the constitution for Twitter,” she admitted, referring to the hateful language found on the site. “I just don’t want to participate in it.”
The “Sex and the City” icon has not deleted her account, which currently stands at 735k followers, though she has not posted on it since sharing a retweet back in November 2014. She much prefers Instagram, for which she has a personal account as well as a business account boasting 568k followers for luxury shoe line SJP Collection.
She believes people on the photo sharing site “tend to be more civilized,” musing, “They can disagree and have objections, but I don’t find it as mean-spirited a community.” And she is not the only one who feels this way, as Ricky Gervais once compared the site to “graffiti on a toilet wall.”
Twitter is like graffiti on a toilet wall in a school where the teachers come round and correct the grammar.
— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 24, 2012
But while Ricky has yet to quit the popular app, other celebrities, such as Lena Dunham, Iggy Azalea, Emma Stone, and Leslie Jones have either opted out of tweeting themselves or have deleted their accounts altogether.
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Lena’s account, which boasts 5.18M followers, is still running, though the actress no longer manages it herself. She made the change following a rash of hateful messages and death threats, explaining to Kara Swisher for the re/code podcast, “I didn’t want to cut off my relationship to it completely, but it really, truly wasn’t a safe space for me.”
My management will tweet/run my accounts from today onwards with updates etc unless any message is signed -IA. Love you all. Peace out!
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) February 19, 2015
Iggy went the same route, tweeting in February 2015, “My management will tweet/run my accounts from today onwards with updates etc unless any message is signed -IA. Love you all. Peace out!” And if anyone had been wondering why she left the site, Iggy drove the point home, posting, “The Internet is the ugliest reflection of man kind there is.”
Back in July Leslie famously left Twitter after receiving a barrage of hateful, racist messages seemingly spurred on by her role in Paul Feig’s “Ghostbusters” reboot. The abuse resulted in one of Twitter’s first big steps toward fighting online trolls, as it banned Milo Yiannopoulos, who had spearheaded the attack. The “Saturday Night Live” star then quickly returned to the app that same month, joking, “Who else is gonna live tweet Game of Thrones!!”
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Emma deleted her account under more curious circumstances back in 2013, after supposedly tweeting the anagram “Andrew and Shailene sitting in a tree,” referring to then-boyfriend Andrew Garfield and his “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” love interest Shailene Woodley.
I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today…wrong
— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
However, she put fans’ worries of a feud to rest as she insisted that her account had been hacked. It was deleted shortly thereafter. Jennifer Lawrence, Keira Knightley, Sandra Bullock, Scarlett Johansson, and Kristen Stewart are among some of the other celebrities who refrain from using the social networking app.
Meanwhile, SJP also spoke in her cover story about her new character on HBO’s “Divorce,” for which she is an executive producer. She revealed that she was drawn to “interesting and unknown” character Frances, who struggles on the series to separate from husband Robert, played by Thomas Haden Church.
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It’s no wonder that’s foreign territory for Sarah, who has been happily married to Matthew Broderick since 1997. Their marriage came up on Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday, as Matthew and family friend Kyra Sedgwick admitted that they had dated in high school.
Matthew had been hesitant to confirm it at first, though Kyra, who tied the knot with Kevin Bacon in 1988, assured him it wasn’t an issue as they have both been “married so long.”
