Evan Spiegel was asked about wife Miranda Kerr's EMF beliefs and it got so awkward

Uhh, did it suddenly get warm in here, or is it just me?

In a mostly uneventful interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, interviewer Josh Constine stepped on an awkward landmine when he asked Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel to comment on wife Miranda Kerr's beliefs about the toxicity of cellphone and WiFi radiation.

The Snapchat founder had a prickly response.

"Why don’t we make a deal," Spiegel said. "I won’t make fun of your wife on stage, and you won’t make fun of mine."

Constine was referring to a revelation from an interview Kerr gave to NewBeauty in May. The supermodel detailed the amount of WiFi and cellular radiation blocking devices she had in her home, saying, "it's a lot." That portion of the interview, along with a section on her devotion to alkaline water, went viral when journalist Taylor Lorenz tweeted it out in September (the tweet has since been deleted). Read more...

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