Hilaria Baldwin is not Spanish. Her name is Hilary. And yet, she’s doubling down on this whole crazy in today’s New York Times.

Why? I don’t get it. It was time to say, “Sorry, I went overboard, I love Spain and its culture but I can see it’s time to cool it.”

Instead she tells the Times’s Katherine Rosman this morning that she’s sticking to her story– despite not being one bit Spanish, that her parents are very white, Caucasian Americans with no Spanish roots other than liking and studying the culture, and visiting there.

So what can we do? Well, we looked up her clips last night in “Hola” magazine, where she’s presented herself as a Spanish American celebrity. So far the magazine hasn’t addressed the disconnect, but they will have to. They’ve thrived on Hilaria talking about raising a bi-lingual family, giving her kids Spanish names, and so on.

What makes no sense about this is how Alec Baldwin, her supposedly astute husband, went along with all it. Why? An Irish-American, he now has five kids with Spanish names speaking in a language among each other and to their mother who he doesn’t understand! Alec is smart, he knows his wife is not Latina. He’s met her parents. He can read their backgrounds online just as we can. So what is he getting out of this? Paella?

I felt bad for Hilaria. I thought the cover of the NY Post was cruel, and seemed like bullying. But with this Times interview, she’s cooked her own gambas.

Kanye West– voluble, omnipresent– hasn’t been seen on social media since November 4th. That was the day after his candidate, Donald Trump, lost the presidential election.

Kanye has basically disappeared from public view. He hasn’t even been included in his wife, Kim Kardashian’s, social media. Her photos are all about her kids, sisters, and mother.

On Christmas Day, Kanye dropped a surprise 12 minute EP for streaming called “Emmanuel.” It’s not by him, but by his Sunday Services choir, some of whom are now suing him for payment.

“Emmanuel” is not selling. Or doing anything. It’s not on the regular iTunes chart, but it did make it to number 12 on the Christian/Gospel chart. Of the five tracks available on YouTube, the most viewed one has 22,000 views. Basically, it’s been ignored.

And Kanye? Where is he? Wyoming? Los Angeles? In some kind of controlled situation? We wait for the inevitable explosion of tweets.

PS I’d love to hear from any of the singers on Sunday Services. Email me at showbiz411@gmail.com.

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin have got it maid: they shoot videos for Instagram of Justin dancing around, holding a glass of white wine, maskless, while their cook makes their meal. These two yahoos can’t even make a meal for themselves. It’s quite a wonderful scene. That poor woman with her back to us has to listen to Bieber’s music while she cuts up their vegetables. She’s invisible to them.

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Hilaria Baldwin is the wife of Alec Baldwin, and mother of their five children. Somewhere along the way she gave the impression that she was from Spain. Apparently, she said so on podcasts and in interviews. She spoke with a sort of European accent. She named her five children with Spanish names like Carmen and Romeo.

Now, the long knives out on social media as it’s revealed by enemies– this is like high school! — that her real name is Hilary Hayward Thomas, comes from Boston, went to high school in Weston, Massachusetts. If she were a criminal or a politician, this might matter. But it really doesn’t. Andy Warhol (real name Warhola, from Pittsburgh) taught all of his staff to change their names, make up fantasy backgrounds. Who cares? The whole story of people who come to New York to be celebrities is re-invention.

The facts: Hilaria’s parents live now in Mallorca, Spain where they run something called International Integrators. Her father, David L. Thomas Jr. was a lawyer at white shoe law firms in Boston for two decades according to his own bio. Thomas graduated from Scarsdale, NY High School in 1967. According to the bio, he graduated from Haverford College in 1971 with a degree in…Spanish Language & Literature! So that’s where this all started. He got his law degree from Georgetown. He got a job at Ropers & Gray in Boston, then Peabody & Brown. From 1994 to 2012 he worked for a real estate company.

Obviously, Mr. Thomas likes Spain and Spanish things. Hey, I’ve been visiting Provence almost annually since 1986. This does not make me French.

Mr. Thomas’s father, David Thomas Sr., was born in Ames, Iowa and died in Arlington, Vermont. He was raised in Nebraska, where he met his wife, and they moved to Syracuse. His obituary explains this whole identity mess:

“David became a GE traveling auditor for GE, traveling extensively within the U.S. and to Argentina on audits. A few years later, he took his family to Argentina to visit places where David had lived and worked, an experience which instilled in his children a curiosity about the wider world and inspired them to become proficient in the Spanish language.”‘

For some reason, these people like Spanish stuff. Ole!

Hilaria’s mother, Kathryn Hayward MD, was an internist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Now Hilaria– she likes to call herself that instead of Hilary– and Alec– who by the way was born Alexander Baldwin– are defending themselves on Instagram and Twitter. I say, why bother? No crimes have been committed, and no money was solicited based on the idea that Hilaria was a Spaniard. I’ve met her several times, and she was just about as nice as she could be. And maybe she makes a great paella. There are worse things!