{"id":287,"date":"2026-04-30T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/emily-blunt-sparks-backlash-for-awful-career-advice\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:12:23","slug":"emily-blunt-sparks-backlash-for-awful-career-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/emily-blunt-sparks-backlash-for-awful-career-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Blunt sparks backlash for &#8216;awful career advice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/126703023.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Emily Blunt is being slammed on social media for telling fans to quit their jobs and settle for making \u201cno money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d actress made the remarks in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X4dUrjdgERU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube interview with Betches<\/a>, where she was asked if she has advice for \u201cwomen who are hating their jobs right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuit\u2026 no,\u201d she said under her breath. <\/p>\n<p>Blunt then laughed and added, \u201cJust find something that you deeply want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Emily Blunt (seen above at the \u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d premiere in London) sparked backlash for telling fans to quit their jobs and settle for making \u201cno money.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for The Walt Disney Company Limited<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>In a Betches interview, the actress (pictured above) said, \u201cEven if you\u2019re earning no money, as long as you love it, you\u2019ll be happy. <span class=\"credit\">Tristan Fewings\/Getty Images for The Walt Disney Company Limited<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cEven if you\u2019re earning no money, as long as you love it, you\u2019ll be happy,\u201d the 43-year-old added. <\/p>\n<p>Fans called out Blunt\u2019s \u201cawful career advice on social media,\u201d noting that it\u2019s easy for the actress, who is worth an estimated $80 million, to tell people to take a job that pays less.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat can only be said by an (over)privileged person,\u201d one fan wrote in the YouTube comments.<\/p>\n<p>The same fan called Blunt \u201centitled.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Fans called out Blunt (pictured above at SiriusXM Studios in NYC) for her \u201cawful career advice.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for SiriusXM<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Blunt (seen above in \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d) was called \u201cprivileged\u201d and \u201centitled\u201d by fans. <span class=\"credit\">Walt Disney Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On X,<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vickster51\/status\/2049516612420550955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> someone tweeted<\/a>, \u201cEmily Blunt really should know better than being this tone deaf. Can rich celebrities earning millions please stop preaching to the rest of us about how unimportant money is. It\u2019s insulting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brightstarprint\/status\/2049451270730129915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> fan said<\/a>, \u201cGenuinely terrible advice in the current job market but I would love to be this delusional and out of touch with reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A different X user confessed that the Oscar nominee\u2019s \u201cdistasteful\u201d advice \u201cmade me think less of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somebody else slammed Blunt\u2019s \u201cprivileged take\u201d and noted that \u201cnot everyone has the luxury to go for the job they want and abandon the job they have now even if it sucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>One fan said Blunt\u2019s \u201cdistasteful\u201d advice \u201cmake me think less of her\u201d (Blunt is pictured above at \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d premiere in NYC). <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for 20th Century Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Another fan said Blunt (seen above at a \u201cDevil Wears Prada 2\u201d photocall) is \u201cout of touch with reality.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">ZUMAPRESS.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blunt has been on the press tour for <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/11\/12\/style\/the-first-trailer-for-the-devil-wears-prada-2-is-here-featuring-anne-hathaway-and-meryl-streep\/\">\u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d<\/a> alongside Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci.<\/p>\n<p>In the sequel, her character, Emily Charlton, has gone from being Miranda Priestly\u2019s (Streep) assistant to a senior executive at Dior.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/movies\/devil-wears-prada-2-cast-interview-exclusive-rcna342614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent interview with \u201cToday,\u201d<\/a> Blunt said she adores playing her \u201cunhinged\u201d character.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Blunt (seen above with husband John Krasinski) has been on the press tour for \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for 20th Century Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Blunt (seen above in the sequel) stars in the film alongside Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep. <span class=\"credit\">Walt Disney Studios<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure that she\u2019s softened with time,\u201d she shared. \u201cThere will be some sort of undoing that has to happen for all of them. But I adore playing her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blunt continued, \u201cI think that she\u2019s a complete lunatic, clearly. But I find her sort of delicious and fun. I think it\u2019s like now, she\u2019s sort of even more insane because she has power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/24\/entertainment\/how-to-watch-the-devil-wears-prada-ahead-of-the-devil-wears-prada-2\/\">The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a>\u201d is in theaters on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/30\/celebrity-news\/emily-blunt-sparks-backlash-for-awful-career-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Blunt is being slammed on social media for telling fans to quit their jobs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/126703023.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}