{"id":14545,"date":"2026-01-30T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/hannah-berner-slams-alex-honnold-for-netflix-skyscraper-climb\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:27:07","slug":"hannah-berner-slams-alex-honnold-for-netflix-skyscraper-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/hannah-berner-slams-alex-honnold-for-netflix-skyscraper-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Berner Slams Alex Honnold for Netflix Skyscraper Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Comedian <strong>Hannah Berner<\/strong> is calling out free solo climber <strong>Alex Honnold<\/strong> for his dangerous skyscraper climb.<\/p>\n<p>Days after Honnold, 40, climbed Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, in a livestreamed event for Netflix, Berner, 34, criticized the athlete for putting his family at risk of losing him forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe things men do to not take care of their family, like, spend some quality time with your children,\u201d Berner said during the Tuesday, January 27, episode of her \u201cGiggly Squad\u201d podcast with <em>Summer House<\/em>\u2019s <strong>Paige DeSorbo<\/strong>. \u201cAnd then having his wife watch, like he\u2019s at war or something, was strange.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSorbo, 33, said she thought the stunt should have been \u201cillegal.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Khloe-Kardashian-GettyImages-2237352270-With-Netflix-Inset.png?crop=0px%2C76px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Khloe-Kardashian-GettyImages-2237352270-With-Netflix-Inset\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Khloe-Kardashian-GettyImages-2237352270-With-Netflix-Inset.png?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Khloe Kardashian Was All of Us Watching &#8216;Skyscraper Live&#8217; Free-Climb Special<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKhlo\u00e9 Kardashian said what we all were thinking as she watched Alex Honnold do the seemingly impossible. \u201cI want to die just watching this,\u201d Kardashian, 41, wrote via her Instagram Stories, alongside a screenshot of Netflix\u2019s Skyscraper Live. Honnold, 40, embarked on a free solo climb along the side of the Taipei 101 building in [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere are men that will literally throw a fit if their wife goes on, like, a girl\u2019s weekend,\u201d DeSorbo continued. \u201cAnd this man\u2019s like, \u2018Hey, babe, so I might die tomorrow. You\u2019re good with the kids, though, right?\u2019 Like, what the f***?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex shares daughters June, 3, and Alice, 23 months, with wife <strong>Sanni McCandless Honnold<\/strong>, who was present in Taiwan to watch her husband climb one of the world\u2019s tallest skyscrapers without safety gear on Saturday, January 24.<\/p>\n<p>DeSorbo added, \u201cThe things that men will truly do to not just speak to someone who went to school to become a professional psychiatric helper is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSorbo also expressed concern that a child watching the livestream would get the idea to attempt dangerous climbs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.7%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large credit-added wp-image-4237641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2257505403-alex-honnold.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">I-Hwa Cheng \/ AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI felt like a mom because I was like, OK, now if my child turned on Netflix, clicked this, and then all of the sudden thought he could scale our home, I\u2019d be livid,\u201d the reality star, who does not currently have any children, said. \u201cAnd God forbid the guy fell, and my child is sitting there like, \u2018huh?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Us Weekly<\/em> reached out to reps for Honnold for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Though Honnold did successfully climb to the very top of Taipei 101 on Saturday, host <strong>Elle Duncan<\/strong> recently revealed that Netflix had a plan for if he fell and died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something to be said when five minutes before you go on air, someone slides you a card of what you\u2019re gonna say if a person falls off the building and dies,\u201d Duncan, 42, said on the \u201cAwful Announcing\u201d podcast on Thursday, January 29. \u201cThat was certainly not an experience I had ever had before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netflix also aired the climb on a 10-second delay so that cameras could cut away if something happened.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2229308220-Travis-Kelce-August-2025.jpg?crop=0px%2C27px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"GettyImages-2229308220 Travis Kelce August 2025\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2229308220-Travis-Kelce-August-2025.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Travis Kelce in Talks With Netflix for Major Broadcasting Role<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTravis Kelce is already lining up his next power moves as fans wait with bated breath for an announcement about his NFL future. Kelce, 36, is in talks with Netflix to \u201cserve as their exclusive broadcast sports correspondent,\u201d a source exclusively tells Us Weekly.\u00a0 Terms of a potential deal are \u201cstill being finalized, but discussions [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Duncan continued, \u201cI had a card on my lap that basically was like, \u2018We\u2019ve experienced a fall and we\u2019re going to get off air now and we will update you as soon as we can on Alex\u2019s condition.\u2019 They were going to cut away. We were on a delay. They were going to cut away to something very wide, so obviously we wouldn\u2019t watch him fall. Then I was going to pop on camera, and I was going to make that statement, then we were going to get off air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the climb, Honnold \u2014 who was also the first person to free solo climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park \u2014 opened up to <em>The New York Times<\/em> about how his family affects his career.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDo you censor your ambitions because of the family?\u201d Honnold was asked.<\/p>\n<p>He responded, \u201cI mean, maybe not too much. Certainly no one\u2019s ever goading me on. No one\u2019s encouraging me to do harder things. Everyone\u2019s kind of like, Why don\u2019t you stay at home, play with the kids? So it means that if I\u2019m going to do something, I have to be really psyched about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When reminded that his family would be devastated if he died, Honnold said, \u201cI mean, baby Alice wouldn\u2019t remember. Baby June probably wouldn\u2019t remember. She\u2019ll be 4 in another month. It\u2019d be felt, and obviously it\u2019d be super hard for Sanni, but they\u2019d be well provided for. I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019d be leaving them in the lurch. They wouldn\u2019t even necessarily be traumatized their whole lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Hannah Berner is calling out free solo climber Alex Honnold for his dangerous skyscraper climb. Days after Honnold, 40, climbed Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, in a livestreamed event for Netflix, Berner, 34, criticized the athlete for putting his family at risk of losing him forever. \u201cThe things men do to not take care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hannah-berner-alex-honnold.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}