'I'm mortified': Hollywood celebs issue grovelling apologies to Princess Kate for cruel jokes

Hollywood celebrities have issued grovelling apologies for mocking the Princess of Wales and her absence from public life. Princess Catherine announced last week that she was diagnosed with cancer, and this was the reason for her being out of the public eye since Christmas. Actress Blake Lively has posted on social media expressing her regret, saying, I made a silly post around the Photoshop fails frenzy, and oh man, that post has mortified me today. I'm sorry. Sending love and well wishes to all, always. American talk show host Stephen Colbert has expressed his regret as well about making cruel jokes towards Princess Kate. Colbert jumped on the trend of mocking the rumoured disappearance of Princess Catherine, something which other celebrities like Kim Kardashian also did. On Monday evening, he appeared on his show to address the backlash. He said, I don't know if you've noticed, but 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. 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 of the reporting about it. A lot of my jokes have upset people in the past, and I'm sure some of my jokes will upset people in the future. But there is a standard that I try to hold myself to, and that is, I do not make light of somebody else's tragedy. Now I don't know whether her prognosis is a tragic one. She is the future queen of England, and I assume she's going to be getting the best possible medical care. But regardless of what it is, I know, and I'm sure many of you, far too many of us know, that any cancer diagnosis of any kind is harrowing, both for the patient and for their family. For GB News, I'm Joe Wilmot.