Armie Hammer apologizes to Miss Cayman over hotel video confusion

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Actor Armie Hammer has publicly apologized to the Miss Cayman beauty queen and pageant officials after using the title to refer to a lingerie-clad lover he met while in the Caribbean.

The Call Me By Your Name star was revealed to have a private Instagram account last week, when one video, featuring Armie giving viewers a tour of his hotel suite, leaked online.

In the footage, obtained by the Daily Mail, he pretends to ignore a woman posing in little-to-nothing on all fours on the bed, but uses the accompanying caption to boast about “f—ing Ms. Cayman again” while visiting the islands to spend time with his two kids with his estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, who has been isolating there instead of returning to Los Angeles.

However, his nickname for the unidentified lover left officials behind the local beauty pageant “very disturbed,” making it clear their 2020 Miss Cayman Islands title holder, Mariah Tibbetts, was not the woman in the video, as they distanced the organization from any association with Hammer.

Now the actor has reacted to the statement, admitting the footage does belong to him, but was taken without his permission from his profile.

“I would like to clarify that the person in my video, which was stolen from my private Instagram, is not Miss Cayman,” he told the Cayman Compass.

“I am genuinely sorry for any confusion my foolish attempt at humour may have caused. My deep sympathies to Miss Cayman, who I don’t know, and to the entire organization, as I had no intentions of implying she was actually Miss Cayman.”

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The video drama is the latest scandal Hammer has had to address, after he was accused of sending questionable direct messages to women on social media, describing odd desires of rough sex, rape, and cannibalism, which were leaked online.

The controversy, which the actor branded “bulls—”, prompted Hammer to withdraw from his new Jennifer Lopez film, Shotgun Wedding, so he can spend time with his children.