Amanda Hirsch #
Introduction #
Amanda Hirsch is an American podcaster and influencer who hosts the celebrity podcast “Not Skinny But Not Fat” and co-hosts Hulu’s “Get Real” — and who spent the first week of September 2026 at the center of her own backlash after she promoted betting on the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. On Friday, September 4, 2026 — the same day a judge declared a mistrial in Clancy’s triple-murder case — Hirsch published a sponsored post for the betting platform Polymarket that referenced the verdict, writing, “On Polymarket it was predicted the verdict would be Not Guilty. Are you surprised? #Polymarketpartner.” The post, flagged as partner content, drew immediate criticism from her own fans and listeners, and Hirsch deleted it before issuing a lengthy Instagram apology on Sunday, September 6, in which she called the post “grossly inappropriate” and said she felt “sick” that she hadn’t seen it in the moment.
Background Information #
Hirsch, 37, is the host of “Not Skinny But Not Fat,” a pop-culture and celebrity podcast, and hosts “Get Real” for Hulu; she is also a mother of two sons. She had been following the Clancy trial publicly for weeks: in a TikTok video posted the month before the controversy, she told followers the case had affected her as a mother and argued that moms need more support and appreciation.
The trial she referenced was one of the year’s most closely watched. Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, was charged with strangling her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023, before jumping from a window in an apparent suicide attempt that left her paralyzed; her defense argued she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors said she knew right from wrong. On September 4, 2026, after the 12-person jury deadlocked 11 to 1, the judge declared a mistrial. The case gripped social media, with Clancy’s supporters lining up outside the courthouse and even President Donald Trump weighing in, telling reporters the case was “a shame” and “a horrible tragedy.”
Polymarket, the platform Hirsch tagged, is a betting site where users wager real money on real-life outcomes — elections, awards, sports, and, as the backlash made painfully clear, criminal trials.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation #
The post that triggered the backlash went up on Friday, September 4, 2026, shortly after the mistrial was declared. It was sponsored content — Hirsch’s caption carried the hashtag #Polymarketpartner — and read: “On Polymarket it was predicted the verdict would be Not Guilty. Are you surprised?” The timing struck critics as grotesque: a paid advertisement asking followers whether they were surprised by a betting market’s prediction in the case of a mother accused of strangling her three children, published within hours of the mistrial.
The reaction was fast and came largely from her own audience. Hirsch “quickly faced fallout from her fans and listeners,” HuffPost reported, and she deleted the post. Critics also migrated to her older content: on the TikTok video she had posted the previous month about how the trial affected her as a mom, users left mocking comments — “But in the meantime bet big kids!” one wrote sarcastically — tying her monetized trial coverage to her earlier displays of sympathy. Page Six noted that the offending ad “has since been deleted,” and that the episode was reported widely across entertainment media over the weekend.
Public Reaction and Consequences #
Two days after the post, on Sunday, September 6, Hirsch published an apology on Instagram — with comments turned off. “Posting about the Lindsay Clancy trial in the same breath as a brand partnership was completely insensitive, wrong, and out of character for me — I should have known better, and I feel sick that I didn’t see that in the moment,” she wrote. She said that as a mom, the case had “really affected” her: “I’ve been following it so closely, talking about it constantly, and feeling heartbroken over every part of it. I became so consumed by the trial that I completely lost perspective and didn’t stop to think about how grossly inappropriate it was to discuss something this tragic in that context.”
“I made a terrible judgment call and I feel so f—ing awful about that. I know deleting it doesn’t erase it,” she continued. “Believe me, I’m horrified by the choice I made, and please know this lapse in judgment does not represent who I am as a person. I am so deeply sorry.” The apology itself became part of the story: Page Six, HuffPost, Us Weekly, and The Independent all covered the groveling statement, and none reported that Polymarket had responded.
Current Status #
As of Sunday, September 6, 2026, the sponsored post remained deleted, the apology stood on her Instagram with comments disabled, and no professional consequence beyond the backlash — no sponsor statement, platform action, or employment change — had been reported. The underlying case, meanwhile, moved on without a verdict: Clancy remains in state custody while prosecutors decide whether to retry her, and a status hearing in the case was set for September 29, 2026.
Impact on Their Career/Life #
The immediate cost was reputational. Hirsch’s brand is built on parasocial closeness with a largely female audience, and the criticism came from that audience itself — fans who had watched her profess heartbreak over the trial now saw her monetizing its outcome for a betting company, a whiplash one commenter distilled as “But in the meantime bet big kids!” Her apology leaned on exactly that identity, invoking her motherhood and insisting the lapse “does not represent who I am as a person,” a plea whose acceptance remained an open question as the story continued to spread across entertainment outlets. Whether sponsors or her podcast network draw their own conclusions — and whether Polymarket, which The Independent said it contacted for comment, keeps influencer partnerships around trial markets — remained to be seen.