That is the Tea! Sophie Turner Interrupts Honeymoon to Defend Soccer Star Alex Morgan
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Sophie Turner has interrupted her honeymoon with Joe Jonas to ship an essential message, a message of help for U.S. soccer star Alex Morgan.
On Tuesday, the ladies’s staff ahead kicked the profitable purpose to beat England 2-1 and assist america attain the ladies’s World Cup remaining, which is on Sunday. She then ran to the sideline and pretended to sip an imaginary cup of tea, sparking on-line memes and a few criticism of alleged poor sportsmanship.
“My celebration was really extra about, ‘That is the tea,’ which is telling a narrative, spreading information,” Morgan, 30, later reporters, as seen in a Reuters video. “Sophie Turner does it very often. She’s certainly one of my favourite actresses. So it wasn’t a success to England in any manner.”
The British Recreation of Thrones star typically posts on social media movies of herself providing hilarious, snarky commentaries whereas sipping wine and saying, “That is the tea.”
“OK, I am on my honeymoon, I am not likely take a look at my telephone a lot, however I really feel like this deserves a point out,” Turner, 23, mentioned in an Instagram Story video on Friday, days after she and Jonas had a second marriage ceremony ceremony in France. “Sadly, the U.Okay. Ladies’s Soccer staff misplaced on the World Cup, and naturally, I am extremely unhappy and extremely pleased with that staff. However I’m so honored that we misplaced to such an unimaginable staff, the U.S. Ladies’s Soccer staff.”
“Alex Morgan, all of the haters which might be saying that this was disrespectful, I am honored that you simply considered me and all these folks which might be hating on you might be most likely sitting at dwelling, Millennials consuming Kombucha,” Turner continued. “And I am actually f–king pleased with you, Alex Morgan, congratulations in your win. And that is the motherf–king tea.”
.@alexmorgan13 mentioned her tea celebration was impressed by Recreation of Thrones star Sophie Turner.
Turner confirmed her help and gave the haters the tea 🍵 🍷 pic.twitter.com/RtVIKrnLFS
— ESPN (@espn) July 5, 2019
Morgan had additionally mentioned after her win and controversial tea-sipping gesture, “I really feel that there’s some form of double normal for females in sports activities to really feel like we’ve got to be humble in our successes and should have a good time however not an excessive amount of and should do one thing however it at all times must be in a restricted vogue,” she mentioned. “You see males celebrating all around the globe in large tournaments, grabbing their sacs or no matter it’s, and once I take a look at sipping a cup of tea, I am a little bit stunned and type of you must snigger about it to see all of the criticism.”