‘I make mistakes all the time’: Elyse Knowles breaks her silence on THAT ‘wallah’ gaffe after she humorously misspelt a popular French term
Elyse Knowles has broken her silence after she unwittingly misspelt a popular French term in an Instagram post.
The 28-year-old pregnant model incorrectly spelled ‘voilà’ as ‘wallah’ in August, and her gaffe went viral months later when it was picked up by Instagram comedian The Fat Jewish.
‘I make mistakes all the time. It’s who I am. I haven’t been deeply affected by it at all because I spell things wrong all the time,’ Elyse told Stellar magazine this week.
‘I make mistakes all the time’: Elyse Knowles (pictured) has broken her silence on THAT ‘wallah’ gaffe after she humorously misspelt a popular French term
‘But there’s a global pandemic and the whole of the Australian media is reporting on one word.’
She continued: ‘I’m still getting notifications every day that people are writing about it. But if it gave someone a laugh, then… whatever. I chuckled over it, too.’
Elyse’s embarrassing spelling mistake can be traced back to August, when the leggy blonde shared a photo of herself sitting on a bed in black underwear and a shirt with the caption: ‘Wallah’.
Whoops! Elyse incorrectly spelled ‘voilà’ as ‘wallah’ in August (above), and her gaffe went viral months later when it was picked up by The Fat Jewish
It appears instead of ‘wallah’, the model meant to use the popular French term, ‘voilà’.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word voilà is ‘used to call attention, to express satisfaction or approval, or to suggest an appearance as if by magic’.
The blunder recently resurfaced after it caught the attention of Twitter this month, with one sharing a screenshot of the post, and captioning it: ‘Thinking about this influencer who can’t spell voila’.
‘I make mistakes all the time. It’s who I am. I haven’t been deeply affected by it at all because I spell things wrong all the time,’ Elyse told Stellar magazine this week
Another Twitter user replied: ‘I have been laughing at this uninterrupted for ten minutes. Thank you’.
Someone else wrote: ‘I’m deceased,’ while yet another chimed in: ‘I am screaming, this is ridiculously funny’.
However, many people related to the mistake, with one saying, ‘This could have been me’ and several admitting they could not spell the word either.
Cover: Elyse Knowles’s full spread can be seen in the January 30th issue of Stellar magazine