Ben Stiller and Sean Penn are among 25 Americans who are permanently banned from entering Russia.
17.08.2022 - 11:39 / ok.co.uk
Courtney Act has said she still loves watching RuPaul's Drag Race despite claiming there is "hypocrisy" on the show and lifting the lid on her feud with the show's creator RuPaul.The 40 year old – whose real name is Shane Jenek – has written her first memoir, Caught In The Act, saying in the book she "didn't feel a human connection" with 61 year old RuPaul when filming the show. Courtney was a runner-up on the US version of the reality show alongside Adore Delano, being beaten to the crown by Bianca Del Rio.
In her book, Courtney writes about the filming of the series finale: "I was sitting there on stage during a commercial break and Kylie's Get Out of My Way starts playing. I was grooving along, and then I glancer over and saw Ru bopping away too.
Our eyes met and I mouthed across the stage, 'I love this song.' "She smiled at me and mouthed back, 'So do I,' but then she stopped abruptly like she caught herself doing something she regretted and looked away.That's when I realised...that was the one and only human moment I've ever shared with RuPaul." Since Courtney's time on the show, RuPaul has unfollowed her on social media after a disagreement over whether transgender women should be allowed to compete on the show. But despite her disagreement with the show's creator, Courtney says she still loves watching the show – which has run for another nine seasons since she appeared on it in the US alone.
Speaking exclusively to OK!, Courtney says: "[RuPaul] is an icon, I grew up loving RuPaul, he doesn’t have to be friends with me. "I was on his television show and I have got this amazing career that definitely jumped off from that, but I think there is some hypocrisy.
Ben Stiller and Sean Penn are among 25 Americans who are permanently banned from entering Russia.
Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry’s website (September 5), the personal sanctions are said to be in response to US sanctions against Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.A translated statement reads: “In response to the ever-expanding personal sanctions on Russian citizens by Joe Biden’s administration, a permanent ban to enter the Russian Federation has been imposed on another group of US Congress members, high-ranking officials, members of the business and expert community and cultural figures.”Both Stiller and Penn have shown support for Ukraine amid the country’s ongoing war with Russia. In June, Stiller, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and also visited occupied settlements in Kyiv.A post shared by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency (@refugees)In a video on Instagram, Stiller said: “I’m meeting people who’ve been impacted by the war and hearing how it’s changed their lives.
Ethan Shanfeld Ben Stiller and Sean Penn have been permanently banned from entering Russia, the Kremlin announced Monday. The actors are listed among 23 other United States citizens newly barred from the country, including Senators Kirsten Cinema, Richard Scott, Patrick Toomey Jr. and Mark Kelly, as well as Deputy Ministers of Trade Matthew S. Alexrod, Don Graves, Thea Kandler and Jeremy Pelter, and Minister of Commerce Gina Raimondo. An official statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, translated to English, reads: “In response to the ever-expanding personal sanctions by the Biden Administration against Russian citizens, against another group of persons from among members of the U.S. Congress, high-ranking officials, representatives of the business and expert communities, as well as cultural figures (25 people), a ban on entry into the Russian Federation on a permanent basis. The following is a list of names of American citizens who are included in the Russian ‘stop list,’ based on the principle of reciprocity.”
Sean Penn and Ben Stiller today were among 25 “high-ranking officials, representatives of the business and expert communities, as well as cultural figures” banned from Russia today by that country’s foreign ministry.
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