Lewis Hamilton’s desperate plea for sympathy is the pits and it reeks of hypocrisy
LEWIS HAMILTON’s fans were sent into panic mode this week when the Formula 1 megastar posted a deep Instagram story to his 13million followers where he spoke of “giving up on everything”.
In an era where fears about mental health sparked by social media have become commonplace, it sounded like this could be a very real cry for help.
But in just a few minutes, it would become clear this was, in fact, the latest attempt by a wannabe woke celebrity seeking public sympathy despite committing all manner of environmental sins.
“Why bother when the world is such a mess and people don’t seem to care,” he opined. “I’m going to take a moment away to gather my thoughts.”
If only Lewis had listened to his close friend Rihanna who once famously sang: Shut Up And Drive.
Instead he managed to become the most hypocritical luvvie of them all.
The champion of F1 – a fossil fuel-focussed sport – who owns his own mega carbon-emitting private jet to transport him around the world and lives in Monaco so he doesn’t pay UK tax to help reduce our emissions actually has the barefaced cheek to preach to us about what we need to do to help protect the environment.
Lewis’s sanctimonious solution – perfectly designed for his extravagant life choices – is for us all to “go vegan” which, he claims, is the “only way to truly save our planet today”.
Alright then . . . So that has nothing to do with the fact he has absolutely no intention of giving up on a pursuit involving gas-guzzling cars and so many private jet flights that his personal carbon footprint has become bigger than his gigantic ego.
To be fair, Lewis has faced stunning competition for hypocritical madness from Extinction Rebellion’s champagne-swilling luvvie celebrities this week.
The runners-up include British Airways’ highly paid first-class ambassador Olivia Colman, who camped out with the XR Marxists even though the organisation wants to limit ordinary Brits to take just one emergency flight (in economy) every six years.
Then there’s virtue-signalling actoooorrr Benedict Cumberbatch, who spent hours on the streets with the anti-capitalist protestors, all while pocketing big bucks to advertise MG cars in India, a country where more than a million people a year die from air pollution.
And I’ve never known a celebrity to take more transatlantic first class flights than the Spice Girls’ Mel B – at one point she travelled between London and Los Angeles twice every seven days.
This week this rag-tag bunch of out-of-touch stars had an idea for a new propaganda strategy they thought couldn’t be beaten. After difficult-to-read headlines pointed out such hypocrisy, they decided to hold their hands up en masse and admit that our criticism has been spot on.
In one of the most extraordinary PR own goals I’ve ever seen, the truly bizarre letter saw the celebs admit: “Dear journalists who have called us hypocrites, you’re right.
“We live high carbon lives and the industries that we are part of have huge carbon footprints.”
There was no pledge to try and change the behaviour they’re attempting to force on us. This mob of luvvies want to have their elderflower cake (in first class or on a private jet, of course) and eat it too.
So I repeat what I said to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke recently: Simply saying you are a hypocrite doesn’t make it acceptable to be one.
Preachy celebs MUST understand they can ONLY be role models if they start changing their behaviour.
How hard would it be for Benedict to say he would no longer travel first class to the US to attend yet another navel-gazing awards bash – and accept yet another prize? Or better still, why not pledge to make all his films in the UK for the next year?
WE CAN'T ACCEPT CELEB GUILT TRIPS NO MORE
Why won’t Olivia wash her hands of cheques from airline companies in the future, given she thinks they’re responsible for the extinction of mankind?
And shouldn’t Mel decide that living in two countries simply won’t cut it if you’re a true environmentalist?
Will any of those things happen? There’s more chance of Lewis leaving his tax haven or mothballing his private jet!
These celebrities, you see, think it’s us who should have to change. Not them.
Their work is simply turning up – becoming the face of a trendy cause is enough.
But we can accept these type of celebrity guilt trips no more.
XR are proposing changes that would devastate our economy, risk millions of jobs and actually cause mass starvation. They would stop us going on holiday and force us all to become vegan.
They would send the UK to the back of the economic queue. And what’s worse, it wouldn’t make a blind bit of difference to the real climate change situation we are facing, given the UK is already doing more to reduce our tiny carbon emissions (less than two per cent internationally) than virtually any other developed country.
So here’s a thought: Get back to driving, acting and singing – and leave the preaching to those who practice.
Posh & Checks
VICTORIA BECKHAM has been giving husband David makeovers for years – and now finally she is giving herself one.
The former Spice Girl has banished her trademark black clothes to the back of her endless wardrobe in favour of bright colours.
But this red and white check outfit is her most eye-catching yet and it definitely works for her.
Special nod to her leopard-print boots, too.
Scary Spice MEL B would be proud.
CONOR’S SO FAN-TASTIC
I LOVE a good karaoke session, but I don’t think I’d be able to sing a note if Alanis Morissette or another of my music idols gatecrashed my attempt at covering them.
But two Conor Maynard fans found themselves in that exact situation when I set up an epic surprise duet for them, which you can see on my Facebook page.
My lucky duo, Kirsty Jade and Sirena, thought they were taking part in a sing-off at Sun HQ in London to win tickets for one of his tour dates in a contest I launched last month.
Once they got to the chorus of his song Ooh Girl, Conor himself jumped out from his hiding place backstage and joined in – revealing they had both won the tickets.
Conor, who has just released track Waste Your Time, told the stunned pair: “I’m so sorry. So now we’re a band.”
Just call me Cilla Black.
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