The beauty embroiled in an ugly Twitter spat

Former child star and troubled actress, Amanda Bynes, has a penchant for calling people ugly — and many of them happen to be black. Allison Samuels on the lasting impact of Bynes’s Twitter abuse

THE NAME ‘Amanda Bynes’ didn’t mean much to me until a few months ago. I hadn’t seen a television show or movie with her in it. Nor did her name come up during my weekly hairdresser appointments, where celebrities of note are discussed with relish and in detail.

But Bynes became a part of my beauty-shop chatter recently, because of her frequent, mean-spirited tweets, calling other famous people unattractive.