Tate McRae is assuring fans her elbows are firmly up after receiving backlash for appearing in an ad highlighting Team USA.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Calgary-born pop singer stars in a spot promoting Milan Cortina Winter Games television coverage on NBC and Peacock, which will air the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday as well as Super Bowl LX on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In the ad posted Wednesday, McRae is on a snowy mountain asking an owl for help getting to Milan for the opening ceremony to meet Team USA. She says she\u2019ll be watching \u201cAmerica\u2019s best\u201d skating for gold and U.S. ski racer Lindsey Vonn\u2019s much-anticipated comeback, before heading back to the States for the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
On social media, Canadian users were quick to share their disappointment with McRae promoting American athletes instead of ones from her home country.<\/p>\n
McRae appeared to address the backlash Wednesday, sharing a childhood photo of herself on Instagram holding a miniature Canadian flag with the caption \u201c\u2026y\u2019all know I\u2019m Canada down.\u201d<\/p>\n
McRae is rumoured to be dating Team USA hockey star Jack Hughes after being photographed on multiple outings with the player.<\/p>\n
Last week, McRae was announced as a leading nominee at this year\u2019s Juno Awards, alongside Justin Bieber.<\/p>\n
The NBC ad also promotes her latest single, \u201cNobody\u2019s Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tate McRae is assuring fans her elbows are firmly up after receiving backlash for appearing in an ad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-456745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}