Colbert named Rose Hanbury as the woman at the center of the affair. Hanbury’s attorneys wrote to CBS insisting the allegations were false. Her legal representative told InTouch: “The rumor appears to have entered into the mainstream media recently as a result of another joke made about it on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. We have written on our client’s behalf to CBS and various other reputable media organizations to confirm that the allegation is f
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On Monday, days after Kate appeared on video announcing her cancer diagnosis, Colbert expressed regret for the “jokes” he made about the princess.
“We do a lot of shows, and I tell a lot of jokes, and I tell jokes about a lot of different things — mostly what everybody’s talking about,” he said. “And for the last six weeks to two months, everybody has been talking about the mystery of Kate Middleton’s disappearance from public life.”
“And two weeks ago, we did some jokes about that mystery and all the attendant fru-fra in the reporting about that, and when I made those jokes, that upset some people, even before her diagnosis was revealed, and I can understand that.”
Colbert’s acknowledgment of his hurtful jokes comes at the same time Blake Lively apologized for poking fun at Kate’s photoshopped Mother’s Day photo.
Several co-hosts of The View have also expressed their regret for going down the “rabbit hole” of speculation in regards to Kate Middleton.
