Tag: Celebrities

  • Taylor Swift’s team issues clarification after topping list of celebs with highest carbon emissions

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift’s team has responded after a new study showed the singer topping a list of celebrities whose private jets have produced the highest amount of carbon dioxide so far in 2022.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, on Friday, UK-based sustainability marketing firm Yard shared a report revealing that the pop superstar’s jet flew 170 times between January 1 and July 19, totalling almost 16 days in the air.

    The aircraft’s total flight emissions were 8,293.54 tonnes of carbon, which is 1,184.8 times more than the average person’s total annual emissions, the study stated.

    “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 Swift told The Hollywood Reporter.

    For the study, Yard used data from the Twitter account @CelebJets, which tracks private jet travels from celebrities. The data was compiled from the beginning of 2022 and included the number of flights taken by each star, average flight times, miles and total CO2 emissions.

    Other musicians on the top 10 list included Jay-Z, Blake Shelton and Travis Scott, among others.

    Earlier this month, Drake took some heat after @CelebJets reported that he flew on a private jet for only 14 minutes from Hamilton, Ontario, to Toronto. The rapper cleared up the controversy by commenting on the Instagram page of @RealTorontoNewz, which picked up the story.

    “This is just them moving planes to whatever airport they are being stored at for anyone who was interested in the logistics,” Drake wrote in the comments section, adding, “Nobody takes that flight.”

    As per The Hollywood Reporter, recently, Kylie Jenner was also criticized on social media for her own private flight from Camarillo, California, to Van Nuys in California.

    WASHINGTON: American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift’s team has responded after a new study showed the singer topping a list of celebrities whose private jets have produced the highest amount of carbon dioxide so far in 2022.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, on Friday, UK-based sustainability marketing firm Yard shared a report revealing that the pop superstar’s jet flew 170 times between January 1 and July 19, totalling almost 16 days in the air.

    The aircraft’s total flight emissions were 8,293.54 tonnes of carbon, which is 1,184.8 times more than the average person’s total annual emissions, the study stated.

    “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 Swift told The Hollywood Reporter.

    For the study, Yard used data from the Twitter account @CelebJets, which tracks private jet travels from celebrities. The data was compiled from the beginning of 2022 and included the number of flights taken by each star, average flight times, miles and total CO2 emissions.

    Other musicians on the top 10 list included Jay-Z, Blake Shelton and Travis Scott, among others.

    Earlier this month, Drake took some heat after @CelebJets reported that he flew on a private jet for only 14 minutes from Hamilton, Ontario, to Toronto. The rapper cleared up the controversy by commenting on the Instagram page of @RealTorontoNewz, which picked up the story.

    “This is just them moving planes to whatever airport they are being stored at for anyone who was interested in the logistics,” Drake wrote in the comments section, adding, “Nobody takes that flight.”

    As per The Hollywood Reporter, recently, Kylie Jenner was also criticized on social media for her own private flight from Camarillo, California, to Van Nuys in California.

  • Bengal polls: No tickets for octogenarians, TMC to rope in apolitical faces to take on BJP

    By Express News Service
    KOLKATA: The ruling TMC has decided not to field candidates who are over 80 in the upcoming Assembly elections.

    “We have decided not to give tickets to octogenarian candidates considering their health ground,” said Subrata Mukherjee, a minister in Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet.

    Presently, the ruling party has three MLAs who are above 80.

    The TMC sources said the list of candidates, who will take on BJP, will offer surprises by inducting new, young apolitical, and celebrity faces.

    “In some pockets, we will field faces popular in those areas. For example, we might field a doctor or retired police officers known for their clean image. Besides, popular faces in serials and Bengali silver screen will be given tickets,” said a TMC leader.

    The TMC recently inducted youngsters, retired police officers, doctors, and actors. “It is because the party wants to blunt the BJP’s allegation of corruption by our elected representatives. The actor-MLAs who have lost popularity among the masses will also be ignored,” said the leader.

    Sources in the TMC said the decision of hunting for clean faces was necessitated by the unimpressive result of the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. “We received the jolt only because of the alleged corruption by our party satraps and the BJP encashed on it. This time, we will not give them a room to attack us on the same issue,” said another TMC leader.

    Elaborating on why the party is hunting for faces with clean images, the leader said the BJP is sharpening the attack on corruption, mainly on cyclone Amphan relief issues. “They are not citing Narada sting operations where our leaders were seen accepting money. It is because one of them joined the BJP. We are going to field such faces which will give BJP no option to attack corruption issue at constituency level,” he added.