Rebel Wilson doubles down amid backlash

Rebel Wilson doubles down amid backlash

Rebel Wilson has shrugged off heavy criticism of her current journey to Dubai by sharing much more footage of her luxurious getaway.

The Australian actress sparked backlash amongst her followers over the weekend after posting a gushing album of her look on the launch of the brand new Atlantis The Royal resort, the place Beyonce was reportedly paid round $34 million to carry out a non-public set.

On Tuesday, Wilson shared two extra footage from her lavish journey, that includes herself in glamorous apparel and posing on a balcony alongside her associate, Ramona Agruma.

She captioned it merely with two love hearts, and tagged the lavish lodge.

The defiant publish comes after Wilson outraged followers over her promotion of the high-profile occasion in Dubai.

The actress and her dressmaker fiance have been among the many choose few celebrities invited to the opening of the lodge, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Kendall Jenner, Liam Payne, Ellen Pompeo and Aussie stars together with Sonia Kruger, Jules Robinson and Natalie Bassingthwaite.

“Atlantis The Royal is BEYond! What a weekend with BEY!” Wilson gushed alongside a clip of highlights from her weekend.

However, many followers have been fast to level out the hypocrisy that she was selling Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, the place homosexuality stays against the law punishable by dying.

“Aren’t you a member of LGBTQ+ community? The hypocrisy of it all,” wrote one.

“Human rights? LGBT? Unfollowing now,” stated one other.

“Uhm, they kill our kind over there. Why are you promoting this?” one other outraged fan wrote.

Others have been much more scathing.

“A nice free trip, to a place that you can’t be gay in. I had friends who were homosexual in Dubai, they had to get a two-bedroom apartment just in case the authorities knocked on their door,” one particular person wrote.

“Oh, the privilege. What about other LGBT people?” wrote one other follower.

An identical backlash erupted in November for these concerned within the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the place homosexuality can also be nonetheless unlawful and punishable by imprisonment.

Last yr, Wilson got here out as a member of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood throughout Pride Month and revealed she was in a relationship with Agruma.

“I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince … but maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess #loveislove,” the Pitch Perfect star wrote on Instagram together with a photograph of herself and Agruma.

The couple’s public “outing” got here amid controversial circumstances, with Wilson revealing she was in her first same-sex relationship after the Sydney Morning Herald privately contacted her asking her to contribute to a narrative they deliberate to put in writing about her new romance.