Rebel Wilson is going through backlash amongst her followers after sharing a gushing put up highlighting her luxurious weekend in Dubai, that includes an unique Beyonce live performance.
The actress and her clothier fiance, Ramona Agruma, had been among the many choose few celebrities invited to the opening of the opulent new lodge, Atlantis The Royal, the place Beyonce was reportedly paid round $34 million to carry out a personal set.
The couple – who just lately turned first-time mother and father to daughter Royce – celebrated the launch with the likes of Kendall Jenner, Liam Payne, Ellen Pompeo and Aussie stars together with Sonia Kruger, Jules Robinson and Natalie Bassingthwaite.
The lavish new 43-storey resort spans 406,000 sq. metres and options six towers, 795 rooms, 17 eating places and bars and the world’s largest jellyfish aquarium.
“Atlantis The Royal is BEYond! What a weekend with BEY!” Wilson gushed alongside a clip of highlights from her weekend.
However, many followers had been fast to level out the hypocrisy that she was selling Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, the place homosexuality stays a criminal offense punishable by loss of life.
“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 had 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.
A related backlash erupted in November for these concerned within the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the place homosexuality can be nonetheless unlawful and punishable by imprisonment.
Last 12 months, 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.
In November, it was reported that the Australian actress and Agruma had been set to tie the knot.
According to Page Six, they’d revealed it to pals at a Halloween occasion simply weeks earlier.
“They were making out in a corner and telling everyone how excited they are to be engaged,” an insider advised the publication.
Just days later, she introduced the start of her first youngster with an lovely image of the new child on Instagram.
Her daughter was born by surrogate.
“I can’t even describe the love I have for her, she’s a beautiful miracle!” Wilson stated.
“I am forever grateful to everyone who has been involved, (you know who you are), and this has been years in the making … but particularly wanted to thank my gorgeous surrogate who carried her and birthed her with such grace and care.
“Thank you for helping me start my own family, it’s an amazing gift. The best gift!!”