Glen Powell‘s new soccer collection Chad Powers kicked off with a significant cameo from the one web celeb who may handle to outshine the High Gun star himself: Haliey Welch, aka the “Hawk Tuah Woman.”
However her shock look sparked a debate on-line after comic Brittney Rae Carrera claimed she was unexpectedly changed by Welch, having solely discovered whereas watching the premiere episode along with her pals.
The scene in query occurs quickly after we’re launched to Powell’s Russ Holliday eight years after he ruined his soccer profession. The disgraced QB meets Welch in a nightclub, the place he, after all, references her iconic phrase, “Spit on that thang!”
Carrera shared a video on her social media that confirmed her and her pals excitedly ready for her look within the nightclub scene. However when Welch appeared as an alternative, Carrera couldn’t include her emotional response: “THEY REPLACED ME WITH HAWK TUAH?!”
DECIDER’s Nicole Gallucci totally investigated whether or not this was an elaborate bit, nevertheless it appears to be like like this crash out – and its decision – had been very actual.
Carrera and Welch have each since spoken out, with Welch clarifying that she was not conscious that the position had already been solid when she was approached for the collection.
“I’m not upset with Hailey Welch in any respect,” Carrera wrote in an announcement made on her Instagram Story. “I hope at some point she is going to educate me find out how to spit on that thang.”
Welch defined that she has since spoken with Carrera and made amends.
“Hey guys, I’ve been tagged in quite a lot of movies of @brittneyraeallday saying I “changed her” in Chad Powers. I’ve been in touch along with her and we’re cool,” she wrote on her Instagram Story.
“I wasn’t conscious the position had been stuffed prior,” Welch defined. “It was so simple as this: I used to be referred to as and requested to be in a television collection with Glen Powell and I stated sure (bc duh it’s Glen Powell) I wasn’t made conscious this was occurring and it was under no circumstances malicious in any respect. I really love her content material and assume she is a humorous and candy woman.”
Contemplating Welch’s Chad Powers character makes it clear she by no means needs to see Russ Holliday once more in, it’s seemingly followers is not going to get one other glimpse of the social media icon once more.
New episodes of Chad Powers air Tuesdays on Hulu.
