Olivia Wilde is giving the people what they want — and in this case it’s avinaigrette salad dressing recipe.
Wilde and ex Jason Sudeikis’s former nanny claimed this week that saladdressing triggered an explosive fight between the former couple. Wilde madeher “special dressing” and was bringing the salad to Harry Styles, it isalleged, whom the director had cast in _Don ‘t Worry Darling. _the _Ted Lasso_star became upset and tried to prevent her from leaving the house to seeStyles, who is now Wilde’s boyfriend.
Since then, social media has been chattering about the “special dressing”involved in this love triangle — and trying to figure out the recipe. OnTuesday night, Wilde herself served up a recipe — to the delight of theinternet. In her Instagram Stories, the actress and director posted a pagefrom Nora Ephron’s 1983 autobiographical novel heartburn, which was __ basedon the When Harry Met Sally ‘s writer’s marriage to and divorce from secondhusband Carl Bernstein, which included the recipe for a “very strongvinaigrette.”
“Mix 2 tablespoons Gray Poupon with 2 tablespoons good red wine vinegar,”Ephron wrote. “Then, whisking constantly with a fork, slowly add 6 tablespoonsolive oil, until the vinaigrette is thick and creamy; this makes a very strongvinaigrette that’s perfect for salad greens like arugula and watercress andendive.”
(Screenshot: Olivia Wilde via Instagram)
On Monday, a former nanny employed by Wilde and Sudeikis to look after Otis,8, and Daisy, 6, claimed in an interview with the Daily Mail __ that thepair had a huge blowout fight on Nov. 15, 2020 after he saw her making hersalad dressing for the pop superstar who had been cast in her movie.
According to the nanny, as Wilde left the house with the salad, “Jason wentoutside and lay under her car so she wouldn’t leave. She got in her car toback up, he lay under her car so she wouldn’t leave . She went back into thehouse and he went in, it was back and forth. He said he was doing it onpurpose to make her late going to see Harry.”
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The nanny, whose name was not revealed, said, “Jason told me: ‘She made thissalad and she made her special dressing and she’s leaving with her salad tohave dinner with [Harry].”
Wilde and Sudeikis, who have had a contentious split, issued a rare jointstatement slamming the nanny’s untruths.
“As parents, it is incredibly upsetting to learn that a former nanny of ourtwo young children would choose to make such false and scurrilous accusationsabout us publicly,” they said. “Her now 18-month-long campaign of harassingus, as well as loved ones, close friends and colleagues, has reached itsunfortunate apex,” they continued. “We will continue to focus on raising andprotecting our children with the sincere hope that she will now choose toleave our family alone.”
Despite their statement, the internet has been obsessed with finding thesalad dressingrecipe. People havescoured past interviews Wilde has done in which she talked food and madememes.
One can’t help but think Wilde saw the viral social media comment from BizzyEmerson, later shared by Comments by Celebs, which said, “If I was OliviaWilde, I would post the salad dressing recipe to my Instagram story and thenturn off my phone,” because that’s pretty much what she did.
Wilde and Sudeikis started dating in 2011, became engaged and then it wasreported that they split in November 2020 — around the time of the saladdressing fight. However, Wilde has maintained that it’s a “complete horses***”that she “left Jason for Harry… [My] relationship [with Jason] was over longbefore I dissolved with Harry… We officially the relationship towards thebeginning of the pandemic. We were raising two kids during lockdown, so we co-parented through that time. Once it became clear that cohabitating was nolonger beneficial for the children, it became the responsible thing to _nah,_because we could be better parents as friends who live in different houses.”