Patti LuPone Refuses to Apologize to Madonna on Hot Ones

Patti LuPone isn’t one to bite her tongue, but she will withhold her apologies.

When confronted by her friend and former roommate Aubrey Plaza on Tuesday’s episode of “Hot Ones Versus,” the Broadway legend and “Agatha All Along” star refused to apologize to Madonna for calling her a “movie killer” and a “terrible actress.”

The moment came in round 3 of the hot wing eating competition series, in which the two actresses asked each other increasingly personal questions while devouring increasingly hot wings. Plaza, recalling a seven-year-old clip of LuPone on “Watch What Happens Live” in which she criticized Madonna’s acting skills, demanded that she “look into the camera and apologize to the pop icon or eat a death wing.”

LuPone didn’t bat an eyelid as she stared straight into the camera and took two big bites out of her Round 3 wing, removing the rest of the wing from view.

“I f–kin’ knew it!” Plaza bellowed. “You’re sick. I’m in love with you. I love you.”

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“I saw her, I’ve seen her on stage and I’ve seen her in a movie, and I was like, ‘Uh, okay.’ You know? There’s just things that some people can’t do, and you just have to admit that you can’t do it, that’s all,” LuPone reflected, to Plaza’s growing excitement and enthusiasm. “Don’t even try. They can’t do everything.”

“Marry me,” Plaza begged, but LuPone had more to say.

“Like Kim F–king Kardashian! Can we go there? Or should I have a wing?” LuPone joked before moving on to the next round.

LuPone and Madonna’s public feud came to the fore in her 2017 appearance on Bravo’s Andy Cohen-hosted late-night show, but it likely had been brewing before that. LuPone won praise and a Tony Award for originating the role of Argentine political leader Eva Perón in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita” in 1979. Madonna would go on to reprise the role in the film adaptation nearly 20 years later.

“She’s dead behind the eyes,” LuPone said of Madonna’s performance on “Watch What Happens Lives.” “She couldn’t act out of a paper bag. She shouldn’t be in movies or on stage.”

Watch the full episode of “Hot Ones Versus” in the video above.