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‘Crazy leftists' unleash on Sydney Sweeney for ‘ridiculous' reason amid controversy

‘Crazy leftists' unleash on Sydney Sweeney for ‘ridiculous' reason amid controversy

Sky News AU30-07-2025
Sky News host Freya Leach discusses a new ad campaign for American Eagle which features actress Sydney Sweeney and has caused outrage on social media.
'These are not millennials, these are Gen Z, these are the sub-30, and the thing is, what is so shocking is these videos have millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes online,' she said.
'People are genuinely buying this stuff, which is so ridiculous.
'The crazy leftists are panicking, and so now they're having to come up with anything to stop this.'
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