Taylor Swift, Drake and the Kardashians among worst celebrity private jet polluters, research finds

Twilight: New Moon director Chris Weitz has admitted he somewhat regrets his decision not to cast Taylor Swift in the series’ second film.In a new interview on The Twilight Effect, the podcast of Ashley Greene (who starred as Alice Cullen in the film franchise), Weitz revealed that while Swift had wanted to be an extra in 2009’s New Moon, he turned the opportunity down.“Taylor Swift and I had the same agent at the time, and he said, ‘Taylor would like to be in this movie – not because of you, but she’s a Twi-hard,” Weitz said during the episode, as The Independent points out. Though it was made clear Swift only wanted to appear as “someone at the cafeteria, or the diner, or whatever,” Weitz nevertheless thought her presence in the film would be too distracting.“The hardest thing for me was to be like, the moment that Taylor Swift walks onto the screen, for about five minutes, nobody is going to be able to process anything,” he said on the podcast.

Taylor Swift wanted to be a part of . On Ashley Greene's podcast, Chris Weitz, who directed the second film in the franchise, revealed that the pop star asked for a role in the film.hit theaters in 2009, the same year Swift was romantically linked to one of the franchise stars, Taylor Lautner.«Taylor Swift was a huge Twi-hard,» Weitz said. «Taylor Swift and I had the same agent at the time and he said, 'Taylor would like to be in this movie -- not because of you, but she’s a Twi-hard.

Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner and her husband Joe Jonas surprised fans when they mentioned his ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift, in a new video. The British star touched upon her favourite album by the country singer - and fans will no doubt be obsessed!READ: Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner welcome second babyDuring a TikTok live stream on Wednesday, the couple answered questions, one of which included Taylor.WATCH: Taylor Swift gifts tour merchandise to charityTaylor, 32, and Joe, 32, had a short but sweet romance that lasted for a few months in 2008.

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over celebrity CO2 emissions from private jet travel, the Marvel superstar from New York City, where he has been filming The Crowded Room, to visit his girlfriend, , in Budapest, where she is filming the second Dune movie. Fans filmed the booked and busy couple spending time together in Hungary, and the video has since gone viral on Twitter. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Another fan seemingly captured knitting during a long commercial flight.

private jet. Responding to the criticism, the Hotline Bling rapper claimed he wasn't on the plane at the time. "This is just them moving planes to whatever airport they are being stored at for anyone who was interested in the logistics," he wrote in the comments underneath a post about the controversy on the Real Toronto Newz Instagram account.

Taylor Swift's representatives are speaking out on the singer's behalf after she received backlash following a study conducted by the digital marketing firm, Yard, which claimed that flights taken by her private jet have emitted 8,293.54 metric tons of carbon in the last seven months, which is as the study found, «1,184.8 times more than the average person's total annual emissions.»Swift's reps were quick to respond, telling ET that Swift isn't on all those rides, in fact, they say, she isn't even on most of them.«Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals. To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect,» a spokesperson for the «Bad Blood» singer said.The study, which cited its information from the Twitter account, Celebrity Jets, went on to claim that Swift's plane took more than 170 trips, racking up 22,923 minutes in the air since the beginning of the year. The study also alleged that her aircraft had an average flight time of around 80 minutes and traveled around 139.36 miles, with the plane's shortest flight — a trip from Missouri to Nashville — clocking in at just 36 minutes.While it's unclear who has been taking these flights, Swift has been most recently spotted in London and Los Angeles, so she has been doing some traveling.Taylor Swift's Falcon 7X 825 mile (717 NM) flight from ALB to BNA ~ 752 gallons (2,847 liters).

Drake are reportedly among the top offenders when it comes to taking disproportionately-polluting short flights on private jets, according to new analysis. Kim Kardashian’s private plane made four flights of under 20 minutes in the past two months, according to data from celebrity flight-tracker @CelebJets. The private plane belonging to her half-sister, Kylie Jenner, did twice as many, the tracker found.

Musician Taylor Swift has been accused of racking up a serious number of airline miles on her private jet, which soon caught heat from various environmental advocates.

Taylor Swift has topped a list of private jet polluters, with the singer’s personal plane having made 170 trips this year.The chart was put together by UK-based sustainability marketing firm Yard, which compiled a list of the “top 10 celebrity CO2e offenders” based on their private plane usage.Drawing on data from the Twitter account @CelebJets (which in turn gets its data from ADS-B Exchange), Yard’s report found that Swift’s plane has made 170 trips since January, spending the equivalent of 15.9 days in the air.Her flight emissions totalled 8,293.54 tonnes, which, per the report, is “1,184.8 times more than the average person’s yearly emissions”. Her average flight time was 80 minutes, with the shortest flight, a stint from Missouri to Nashville, clocking in at just 36 minutes.Taylor’s team came to defend the singer in a statement, with a representative telling Rolling Stone: “Taylor’s jet is loaned out regularly to other individuals.

Rolling Stone. “To attribute most or all of these trips to her is blatantly incorrect.”The “Celebs with the Worst Private Jet Co2 Emissions” list was put together by British marketing agency Yard, based on data from the CelebrityJets Twitter account.

Taylor Swift is getting backlash from critics about her private jet's carbon footprint. The "Shake it Off" singer was accused of polluting the earth by flying in her private jet 170 times between Jan.

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Kylie Jenner has been taking heat for a recent report on celebrities’ use of private jets and their impact on the environment, which reported that she once took her jet on a 17-minute flight between two destinations she could have traversed by car in just 45 minutes.

her 17-minute private jet rides, but the reality star may not be the “biggest climate change offender,” the Tab reported.Research from sustainability-driven marketing company Yard tallied up A-list private jet usage and Jenner didn’t even make the top 10 in the list of celebrities who have racked up the most CO2 emissions in their PJs so far this year.The findings showed that Taylor Swift’s private jet rides have emitted 8,293.54 metric tons of carbon in 2022, putting her at No. 1 on the list.Even while she is not touring, her average flight time is still 80 minutes, with an average of 139.36 miles per flight, per the report.While Swift was labeled the top “offender” by Yard, Floyd Mayweather was right behind her, with 7,076.8 metric tons of carbon emitted.

Last week, after Kylie Jenner’s 17-minute private flight from Camarillo, California to nearby Van Nuys, prompted a flurry of online outrage, The Guardian published a list of other celebrities whose similar behavior had flown under the radar. The worst offender of the group was Drake, whose July 12 flight from his hometown of Toronto to the city of Hamilton, Ontario — only 38 miles away — had emitted five tons of CO2, an output larger than the average person’s annual carbon footprint.

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