Twiggy was catapulted into the spotlight at 16 years old in 1966. Now, at 76 years old, the longtime model, actress, and activist is looking back on her career.
Although Twiggy experienced many highs in Hollywood, not all of her memories are positive. During a 1967 interview with Woody Allen in a segment called Twiggy in New York, a then-31-year-old Allen sat down with a then-17-year-old Twiggy.
In an attempt to seemingly disarm Twiggy, whose real name is Lesly Hornby, Allen, now 90, asked the teenager who her favorite philosopher was. “I haven’t got one. Who’s yours?” she responded at the time.
Allen brushed off her retort and replied, “I like them all,” to which Twiggy fired back, “Who? I don't know their names. What are their names?”
“I put him in his place,” Twiggy recalled to The Telegraph in a piece published on Monday, February 16. “I'd done so many interviews by then, and was used to people asking, ‘How did you get your name? What do you eat?’ The usual questions.”
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“So I sat there waiting for him to ask me something like, ‘What do you think of America?’ Normal questions. When his opening line was, ‘Who's your favorite philosopher?’ I can remember the feeling so well; I was so embarrassed, because we were in front of a live audience, and I didn't know any philosophers," she continued. "When I said, ‘Who's yours?’ I was actually pleading with him to help me, which he declined to do.”
Speaking to The Guardian in 2025 about the same interview with Allen, Twiggy explained, “He was trying to make me look stupid. My heart sank. I remember looking at him, pleading with my eyes for him to stop. If I was the age he was there, in my 30s, I would never have behaved like that towards someone who was only 17.”
Allen is a filmmaker, writer, and actor best known for projects like Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Midnight in Paris. He is also widely regarded as disgraced in Hollywood after marrying Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his former partner Mia Farrow, and amid longstanding sexual abuse allegations that have overshadowed his career.
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