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Chrissy Teigen's Face Is the Best Part of 'Lip Sync Battle'

By Rebecca Pahle | Miscellaneous | April 9, 2015 |

By Rebecca Pahle | Miscellaneous | April 9, 2015 |


“What’s a Chrissy Teigen?,” I asked my friends as we gathered on Easter to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus the way the good Lord intended: By watching The Rock lip sync to “Shake It Off.” “Wait, is she married to John Legend?”

She is, indeed, married to John Legend. But, as I would learn over the next 40 minutes, as I watched the first two episodes of Lip Sync Battle, she is also a magnificent mermaid and/or space alien. Her role in the show is “color commentator,” which means she stands in a booth off to the side and, I can only assume, composes the next great postmodern Russian novel in her head while the camera occasionally cuts to her.

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I don’t know whether she’s laughing or preparing to shed her exoskeleton before launching at LL Cool J’s jugular, but either way, she is enjoying life.

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Chrissy, can we be friends? I feel like we’d have a good time hanging out together.

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I have similar feelings about The Rock, Chrissy!

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She and Legend might be my new Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield. Her reactions to him lip syncing rap songs are gold. To wit:

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Seeing her husband in hammer pants made her have an existential crisis.

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“This is how humans clap on planet Earth, right?”

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Chrissy Teigen is a genuine delight, and I want her to play Channing Tatum’s long lost sister in that 21 Jump Street/Men in Black crossover. Shine on, you magical diamond.