Critics are bashing Katie Couric for asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom if he is too “good-looking” during a sit-down interview on her podcast.
“Do you have a ‘Zoolander’ problem?” Couric asked the Dem during an episode of her podcast “Next Question,” referring to the 2001 Ben Stiller movie about male models.
The pair laughed and Newsom, who’s considered a likely presidential candidate, pursed his lips in an apparent attempt to imitate Stiller’s “Blue Steel” modeling face.
“Are you just ridiculously good-looking, as Vogue said? No, seriously, what do you do about that?” Couric asked.
Newsom took the question in earnest, answering that he didn’t want to get a stylist like other politicians to “become someone they’re not.”
“You don’t do anything about it because if you’re gonna do something about it, then you’re bulls–ting people. You know what, I am who I am, and it’s fine,” Newsom said.
“You don’t have to like me, or maybe you like a slick person, I don’t know. Whatever, it’s okay.”
