Roseanne Barr Appeared in Video Carrying Lengthy, Platinum Dreadlocks?

On June 11, 2024, comic Roseanne Barr posted a video on her official Instagram account asserting new present dates. Within the video, Barr, who was selling her upcoming standup comedy performances on the Cap Metropolis Comedy Membership in Austin, Texas, was sporting a conspicuous new hairdo that includes lengthy, platinum dreadlocks entwined with braids. Barr, 71, gave the following replace to her followers:

“Hello, all you Biden voters. I’ll be at Cap Metropolis Comedy Membership in Austin, Texas, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 17, 18 and 19. Come on down if you happen to can take it. Get your tickets on my web site at roseannebarr.com, or at capcitycomedy.com. Be there or be sq..”

The video, pinned to the highest of her web page, featured the comedian sporting the youthful coiffure beneath a white-and-gold “Make America Nice Once more” cap in help of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The clip is certainly genuine; Barr posted it on her verified Instagram account, and it had garnered greater than 27,000 likes as of this writing.

Barr’s dreadlocks sparked a flurry of feedback from shocked followers, together with one who wrote, “Love these dreads!! 👏👏You may match proper in!” and one other who exclaimed, “Rosie, do you’ve got dreads?!? I adore it you go together with your dangerous self lady!”

Roseanne actually was sporting dreadlocks within the video. They weren’t, nevertheless, a everlasting coiffure. On June 18, a brand new photograph on Instagram confirmed the comic onstage at her Austin standup present the evening earlier than. In that photograph, she was wearing a nightgown whereas sporting rollers in her quick, cropped hairdo, with not a dreadlock in sight.

Snopes reached out to Barr’s group to ask if the hairdo she wore within the video was a hairpiece or extensions. Through electronic mail, a spokesperson confirmed that Barr was sporting a wig within the clip, and that the comic likes to put on completely different wigs and headwear whereas recording her present, “The Roseanne Barr Podcast.” 

This wasn’t the primary time a coiffure worn by Barr has induced folks to ponder. In March 2024, she shocked followers when she debuted a cropped new pixie haircut on her Instagram account, merely captioning the selfie, “Lower.”

The Instagram video exhibiting Barr with lengthy, platinum dreadlocks and braids is actual and we price it as “True.” Nonetheless, it was later revealed to have been a wig and didn’t characterize a everlasting change to Barr’s actual coiffure, which stays a brief haircut.

Snopes has beforehand reported on Barr, together with fact-checking the satirical declare that her self-titled sitcom “Roseanne” was returning to television, and that point at a GOP fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago when she urged students to “drop out of college.”

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