Universal Grinch actor goes viral after ‘hot’ banter with Orlando theme park reporter

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TikTok users’ hearts grew three times their size after watching a Universal Studios Orlando actor, portraying the Grinch, display improvised on camera chemistry with an Orlando theme park reporter.

A senior reporter with Inside the Magic, Alessa Dufresne, posted a TikTok video on Nov. 21 featuring her interaction with the Grinch in the Seuss Landing section of Islands of Adventure. The video went wild on the mobile platform gaining nearly 17 million views in a little over two weeks.

Users were enamored with the Grinch actor commenting on his apparent sexiness and flirtatious energy with Dufresne, the latter of which pointed out to the actor they were wearing the same lashes.

“Oh but yours are fake,” the Grinch responded upon closer examination. “But you’re doing great work with the contour.”

The video has nearly 30,000 comments with many of them focused on the sincerity of the actor’s words and declaring him “hot” underneath all that makeup.

“I finally understand why Martha May had the hots for him,” said TikTok user kerimicheleb.

Jpedersen@orlandosentinel.com.