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Say what you will about Chelsea, but the talk show excels at getting celebrities to open up about little, weird parts of their life. The no-rules talk show taught us about Gwyneth Paltrow’s lube choices and consistently lends itself to surprisingly deep conversations during its dinner segments. It also may be the starting ground for a feud between one comedian and a certain presidential daughter.
Sarah Silverman, whose Netflix stand up special just premiered, sat down with Chelsea Handler and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards for Friday’s episode of the weekly talk show. The episode won’t be released until June 2 at noon PT / 3 p.m. ET, but thanks to the magic of promotional YouTube clips, we now know that Ivanka Trump used to follow Sarah Silverman on Twitter. According to the comedian, once she saw that the First Daughter followed her, she used the follow as an opportunity to directly contact Trump about her role in the White House. Here’s what Silverman said about the DM:
I actually saw that she following me on Twitter, and I direct messaged her, and I was like ‘This is your chance. You are writing your life story here.’
However, it looks as though Trump no longer follows Silverman. At the time of publication, Trump followed 885 accounts, none of which were Silverman. But the presidential daughter does follow three other Sarahs: Sarah Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Sarah Brown. The presidential daughter also follows Maroon 5 and Justin Bieber, which is not information that you need to know but is nonetheless fascinating.
The video was posted sometime on YouTube on June 1, but it wasn’t picked up by mainstream news outlets until Deadline wrote about it 11:20 a.m. ET. It’s impossible to know who Trump followed before the video was publicized, but if she really did follow Silverman, she stopped following the comedian by the morning of June 2. In its second season, Chelsea has been more politically focused, which hasn’t entirely worked. However, the comedian’s interview with Silverman and Richards seems like a good political-adjacent direction for the series.
