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Earlier this week, we excerpted an interview Elle Macpherson did with the Times Online, in which she was asked about eating the horns of endangered rhinos. Her reply? “A little bit like crushed bone and fungus in a capsule. Does the job though. Put it this way, works for me.” Yeah. She’s awful. A lot of sites covered the story too, and the reaction was pretty much universal: Elle is a bitch. Not only that, but she’s the kind of bitch who will eat part of an endangered animal just to look younger. Ugh. So, Elle might have been feeling the heat, because she decided to issue an apology. Scratch that – she had a non-apology (apology-ish) issued on her behalf by her publicist:
Supermodel Elle Macpherson said today that she regrets ”banter” in which she appeared to admit using a banned product made from rhino horn.
Her comments, made in an interview, upset wildlife charities for her apparent use of the Chinese medicine made from an endangered species. But today the model-turned-businesswoman said she had not ”knowingly consumed” anything made from threatened animals.
The claim originally appeared in an interview with The Sunday Times at the weekend during an interview conducted via Twitter.
She was asked what powdered rhino horn tasted like, and responded: ”A little bit like crushed bone and fungus in a capsule. Does the job though.”
However, a statement issued on her behalf today said: ”Following comments made in a newspaper article, Elle Macpherson would like to clarify that, whilst she has great respect for Chinese medicine, she is also fundamentally opposed to any activity which is detrimental to the protection of endangered species. Ms Macpherson has never knowingly consumed or encouraged the use or consumption of any products which contain material derived from endangered species and regrets any distress or offence that her banter with an interviewer might have caused when repeated out of context.”
[From Telegraph]
Ah, that tricky wording, “knowingly consumed” endangered animals. So I guess it’s alright then? Because Elle didn’t know that she was taking crushed rhino horn even though when asked what it was like to eat crushed rhino horn, she described it without confusion or regret. She also “regrets any distress or offence that her banter with an interviewer might have caused when repeated out of context.” “Banter” – right. “out of context” – sure. Doesn’t sound like Elle is sorry about anything. No, that’s not true – she’s sorry that we’re so upset about her need to punch kittens so that she look younger. I expect her non-denial statement on that issue shortly.
Here’s Elle on the cover of the new Tatler. Orange much?
Header: Elle on July 8, 2010, also June 3, 2010. Credit: WENN. Also, Tatler cover courtesy of The Fashion Spot.
Written by Kaiser
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Get over it everyone. This is such non-news.
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Oh yes, that explanation from her publicist sounds like it came right from her mouth. Doncha know all models, or even every day people for that matter, talk like that? Can you say: damage control???
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Half-ass-non-apology not accepted. Donate most of your worth to the protection/preservation of and education about endangered species, then we’ll talk.
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Stop digging Elle. The hole’s big enough already.
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Bitch.
And hstl1, this is very much news. Not because it’s her (honestly, I don’t give a damn about this woman), but because she’s contributing to the extinction of an endangered animal because of her own vanity. That is absolutely news and this woman needs to be incarcerated immediately.
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choke on it, bitch.
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Yeah, and her comments are news on the same level as Michael Vick’s dogfighting ring? It was a comment! And until they serve her with a search warrant and confiscate enough rhino tusks to warrant some type of trafficking charge, it is still a non-event.
I am sure everyone on this board is smart enough not to follow in her footsteps.
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Your arms look like hell, Elle.
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Come on people…she was obviously joking. Maybe it’s not everyone’s type of humour, but its still a joke.
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Alot of attractive women and formerly attractive women aren’t that funny because guys laugh at every lame joke they have. I could see this being a lame attempt on her part to be funny, seemed like the rest of the interview she was trying to be funny.
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Why didn’t she say she was joking? I thought it might have been a joke since in other parts of the interview she talked about riding a bike with a baby on the handle bars, and talked about paparazzi pics of her cellulite, which were obvious jokes. But, then she didn’t come out and say eating rhino was a dumb joke, instead, she said she didn’t “knowingly” consume rhino, which leads me to believe that there’s some truth to it? So, she eats something but she doesn’t believe it to be rhino? Hmmmm . . .
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Here’s the truth she DID eat the rhino horn-but she didn’t know they were endangered! (hell i didn’t realize they were till someone mentioned it in the first post!-there are a lot of animals on that list!)
*sigh* i hate celebutards-yes adults can be them too.
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This is very news-worthy to me because now I can knowingly boycott anything she has to do with, no matter the business. Had Kaiser not reported on this, I wouldn’t have known, and would’ve been supporting an endangered, or threatened, rhino killer. As a conservationist, this type of this is very important to me. Again, thank you, Kaiser.
Apology not accepted, Elle. We’re done.
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What a snatch…
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I forgive her.
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hst/1
Do you realize that endangered species are disappearing by about about 120 species a day?
Plants, animals, fish, insects…
How can you be so arrogant to suggest this is non-news?
We live in a world where everything is in a delicate balance and you say this is non news?
Disgusted.
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Pretty on the outside just can’t cover up ugly on the inside.
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I’m sort of inclined to think she was joking with her original comment. But, the publicists statement does make me pause and think twice. It’s still possible she was joking. But, if that’s the case, the publicist should have just said that.
I was a strict vegetarian for five years, until I started to develop nutritional problems. I now eat fish and occasionally chicken. But, I still avoid animal products whenever I can. I don’t own any leather or fur and I would NEVER consume an endangered animal for beauty reasons! That is disgustingly shallow. If this alleged Rhino powder consumption actually happened, she needs to do better than this apology.
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She’s vile.
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this is the kind of selfish disgusting behavior that is the root of most of the modern problems we all face. i find these people disgusting and horrifying. if she wants to look younger, maybe she should get her tanned hyde out of the sun.
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pffft her “apology” is more like a denial. She’s denying she encouraged it? She said it “does the job” >> sounds like encouragement to me. Straight up denial!
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you guys are hilarious=OMG, an animal is endangered! like they are playthings/objects.
Species DO go extinct. Humans probably will at some point. It IS part of the natural life cycle, you know~
and new species will exist in the future…
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She used to lie about her age, too. Years ago she was always listed as being born in 1964, now I see her listed as being born in 1963.
I have a freaky memory for birthdays. It’s quite useless except for ferreting out celebs who lie about their ages, then come clean. Julianna Margulies, for one, used to claim to be born in 1971, now she fesses up to being born in 1967.
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I personally tweetedto her that I hope somone cuts off her nose and eats it while watching her die a slow painful death, and I mean it. To all the ignorant fools who think that extinction is no big deal, read a book, open your eyes, look at what WE are doing to the planet. If we can’t respect our planet, we have no right to be here. The only consolation is that humans will proably be extinct before life on Earth is. We have no one to blame but ourselves!
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In other words, ‘never knowingly’ means that someone else gave her the tablets without her knowledge.
What crap!
Elle’s skills as a media whore are becoming rusty.
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I didn’t realise how much she uses her hair to hide her wrinkles.
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I hope PETA is all over her boney ass – what a horrible, disgusting woman.
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stupid worthless c_ntrag!
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“never knowingly” trustingly taking the tablets without asking what they are? so if somebody gave her an arsenic pill would she just “never knowingly” take it? and to whoever said it’s no big deal, IT IS a BIG deal to me, because if: I buy her products = she purchase the rhino pills from the money I give her = I support her actions..so yeah it is a big deal to me, I would never support such atrocity!
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‘Never knowingly’ yet she knows what it tastes like….is she Jeremy London’s twin sister?
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lrm, these particular animals are going extinct because of what we humans are doing. More than 100 rhinos have been killed for their horns in South Africa in the past year.
The poachers leave them to bleed to death. A baby rhino was killed about a month ago just because it came looking for its mum (who had already been killed by the poachers) so the poachers shot the baby too.
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I love that her publicist starts off the release with “Supermodel Elle McPherson…” Just kinda made me laugh.
I have to say, I don’t think the rhino horn worked. Her skin looks quite wrinkled…this is why I avoid tanning. The skin on her arms is wrinkled.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s still attractive, of course.
I’m glad that she’s able to get this particular ‘treatment’ for her looks and her desire to grip onto her youth. I mean, at least the rhino died for something important, right? (For those who don’t know, that was sarcasm)
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