ANNA Wintour has been introduced with an embarrassing error to her name during an Olympics TV broadcast from Paris.
The Vogue editor-in-chief was interviewed before the Olympic Games Paris 2024 opening ceremony.
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During the televised interview, the network butchered the spelling of the high fashion expert’s name in the chyron.
It was displayed as “Annal Wintour” instead of “Anna Wintour.”
A screengrab of the broadcast was posted on a fashion-dedicated Instagram account with the caption, “I need to have a conversation with y’all at French National Television because y’all can’t do this to my girl Anna! Like babes….”
Fans of Anna, 74, had a field day with the misspelling in the comment section.
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“This means war?” asked one fan while others replied, “indeed it does” and “we ride at dawn.”
Another fan commented, “I bet it was Jackeline Follet team,” referencing Meryl Streep’s Devil Wears Prada character Miranda Priestlys’ rival.
Miranda, editor and chief of the fictional Runway Magazine, was based on the real-life Anna,
“Welcome to the stage Annal Wintour,” joked a third.
“WELL!! My goodness, France! I hope you bought her some flowers or a pair of Loubis first!” quipped a fourth.
One thoughtful person commented, “I think that is a | separating her first and last name.”
“Could honestly be a human error mistake it definitely grabs one’s attention with the French spelling,” added another.
WINTOUR’S RISE
Anna is the current editor-in-chief of Vogue, founded in 1892, and has played a pivotal role in the magazine’s continued success.
Born on November 3, 1949, Dame Anna Wintour is a native of Hampstead, a neighborhood in London, England.
Her father, Charles, was the editor of the London Evening Standard and was considered to have been “one of the greatest and most influential journalists in the second half of the 20th century,” according to The Guardian.
Anna attended the North London Collegiate School before entering the workforce as a teenager.
Her career in fashion began at the age of 15 with a London boutique called BIBA.
In 1970, Anna was hired as an editorial assistant at Harper’s & Queens but quit after a few years to move to New York City.
In New York, Anna worked as a junior fashion editor for Harper’s Bazaar before joining the staff at Viva.
The then-up-and-comer spent time as a fashion editor at Savvy before becoming the fashion editor at New York magazine.
In the early 1980s, Anna joined the staff at Vogue as the magazine’s first-ever creative director.
In 1985, Wintour replaced Beatrix Miller as British Vogue’s editor.
Three years later, Wintour became American Vogue’s editor-in-chief.
Her first cover as editor-in-chief appeared in November 1988, featuring Michaela Bercu in a Christian Lacroix jacket complete with a bejeweled cross.
Wintour was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace in 2017.
Three years later, in 2020, Wintour was named the Global Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast.
PERSONAL LIFE
Anna has dated several high-profile men.
From 1984 through 1999, she was married to psychiatrist David Shaffer.
They share children Charlie and Katherine.
She was remarried in 2004 to multimillionaire Shelby Bryan – the pair separated in 2020.
Anna is rumored to have been dating actor Bill Nighy since 2015, despite being married at the time.
The two have been spotted together numerous times, including what looked like a romantic dinner in Rome in 2021.
The pair have yet to confirm if the rumors are true, but the pair regularly make appearances together as of April 2023.
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