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So it was quite excellent when Shailene Woodley, star of one of TV's biggest TV shows, Big Little Lies (up for 16 awards at the Emmys) told an interviewer that she didn't own a TV.
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Proving one of life's truisms: it is pretty much impossible for people to talk about not watching television without sounding unbearably smug.
"All my friends who watch TV, I always ask them when they have time to. When do people have time to? I'm a reader, so I always read a book," Woodley told the interviewer.
Which, well, we all know those people right.
And also, doesn't Woodley know that we are living in the Golden Age of Television (at least that's what the rest of us tell ourselves when we realise that our only hobby is watching TV. But not, like, TV with ad breaks so it doesn't really count #highbrow).
Clearly this was never going to go down well on Twitter - the happy home of TV nerds shouting out witticisms about the TV show they are watching (ironically or non-ironically).
Reactions to Woodley's admission ranked from mild bemusement to full outrage. Excellent gifs were employed all around.
Let's also just say that the irony of Woodley's comments, made on TV's night of nights, was not lost on people.
Shailene Woodley just shaded people who watch TV all the time at a TV awards show where she's nominated for being in a TV show
— Jordyn Volk (@jordynvolk) September 17, 2017
Shailene Woodley doesn't own a TV, guys. She's a READER. #Emmys #Emmys2017 pic.twitter.com/tEZtlOIQce
— Tom & Lorenzo (@tomandlorenzo) September 17, 2017
Shailene Woodley READS instead of watching TV omg ITS THE END OF THE WORLD RIGHT?! pic.twitter.com/S6ERTGH0ct
— jamari|EMMYS (@BubbIyShai) September 18, 2017
Ugh. Shailene Woodley bashing people who watch TV from the Emmy red carpet. #Emmys #Emmys2017 pic.twitter.com/YpmlDeHrNK
— Kim Waggoner (@kim_waggoner) September 17, 2017
Shailene Woodley smirking into the camera and saying "I'm a reader" while at the big TV awards is good
— Richard Lawson (@rilaws) September 17, 2017
Oh Shailene Woodley reads books instead of watching TV? Well I only read stone tablets by torch light because I am a true intellectual.
— Shelby M. (@shelbyboring) September 17, 2017
So Shailene Woodley doesn't need feminism. And doesn't watch TV. pic.twitter.com/7jwAIfaN8C
— Sarah Watson (@SarahWatson42) September 17, 2017
people really getting onto Shailene Woodley for reading books instead of watch tv. i've officially given up on the human race.
— mads . (@awhitsmaddi) September 18, 2017
#ERedCarpet Shailene Woodley: "I don't watch TV. I'm a reader. I read books."
— Daydream Nation (@daydrmnati0n) September 17, 2017
Me: pic.twitter.com/5tcCz5AYXx
shailene woodley just said she doesn't own a tv and "is a reader, i like to read a book" and my god. pic.twitter.com/51LiQCTkSq
— Julia 💀 Alexander (@loudmouthjulia) September 17, 2017