'Ted Lasso' star Brett Goldstein reacts to Lizzo appearing to call him a 'big girl' in an awkward Emmys moment

• Brett Goldstein explained a moment in which Lizzo appeared to call him a "big girl" at the Emmys.
• Lizzo said onstage that the joke was read off the teleprompter and wasn't hers.

Brett Goldstein reacted to Lizzo appearing to call him a "big girl" when announcing his win at the 2022 Emmy Awards for his performance in "Ted Lasso."

Speaking with members of the press following his win on Monday night, Goldstein clarified what had happened.

"Lizzo, just before, I think on her teleprompter it said, 'And the winner, who is also a big girl,' and then she said, 'I didn't say that,'" Goldstein said in the press room. "And then it was me, so I said, 'I'm a big girl,' which I realize is not going to play out of context."

While announcing Goldstein's win, Lizzo read off the teleprompter with visible confusion, briefly breaking from the script to clarify that the comment wasn't hers.

"And the Emmy, who is in her own way a really big girl — I didn't write that, they did — goes to Brett Goldstein!" Lizzo said while announcing the award.

"I am a very big girl," Goldstein said onstage, riffing on the moment.

It's unclear if the joke, which was seemingly referring to the Emmy statuette and not Goldstein as a "big girl," was meant to be a reference to Lizzo's series "Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls," which won the award for outstanding competition series. On Twitter, however, some expressed confusion and frustration with the joke, saying that it wasn't funny and even calling it tone-deaf.

In the press room, Goldstein said that "if Lizzo wants to call me a big girl, she can call me whatever she wants."