Comment: People normally look to celebrities for cues on how to live your best life, not shelter in place. So what happens when these icons of aspiration try to engage with an audience that is suffering? | thatnatreilly
to her camera, along with big names including Mark Ruffalo and Natalie Portman. Let's just say hearing lyrics about there “being no heaven” wasn't exactly what the doctor ordered.
Even the group effort put in by the likes of David Beckham and model Ashley Graham, holding up signs saying who they stay home for, was poorly received, with many followers commenting that lower income and frontline workers simply do not have that luxury. “Celebrities have big platforms. They can use them for good – providing health information and fundraising [like Paltrow], or for what they are good at: being entertaining,” she says, adding that in a time of unprecedented fear and suffering, a little bit of humility and self-awareness go a long way. So now is probably not the time for Elle Macpherson to promote her “wellness” powders, for example, even if, as she claims, they boost immunity.
And for those who never pretended to be like us, there is still a way forward. Take Rihanna, who used her platform to promote her Britishcover, in which she appears with writing on her face. But this was after she donated $US5 million in aid to countries affected by coronavirus through her Clara Lionel Foundation.
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