{"id":217546,"date":"2025-12-30T05:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217546\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:37:09","slug":"chappell-roan-deletes-brigitte-bardot-tribute-after-learning-what-she-stood-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217546\/","title":{"rendered":"Chappell Roan Deletes Brigitte Bardot Tribute After Learning ‘What She Stood For’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term “milkshake duck” rose in the 2010s when Ben Ward, a cartoonist behind @pixelatedboat, came up with a scenario about how a lovely phenomenon (“a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes”) that turns out sour upon further research (“we regret to inform you the duck is racist”). And someone who felt that experience firsthand is Chappell Roan, after she paid tribute to Brigitte Bardot.<\/p>\n

Bardot\u2014a noted silver screen sex symbol\u2014died on Dec. 28<\/a> at the age of 91. Two days later, Roan, 27, shared a Vogue France post about Bardot on her Instagram Story. “She was my inspiration for ‘Red Wine Supernova,'” wrote Roan, referring to the single included on her debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. The song opens up with the lyrics, “She was a Playboy, Brigitte Bardot \/ She showed me things I didn’t know.”<\/p>\n

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Brigitte Bardot lors d’une pr\u00e9sentation d’une collection de chapeaux, 1966, Paris, France. Photo by Keystone-France on Getty Images<\/p>\n

What Roan didn’t know was that Bardot had a storied history of political speech that Out Magazine described as “hatred towards marginalized people”\u2014including the LGBTQ+ community. Roan, whose fanbase is predominantly queer, seemingly informed her of what Bardot once said, because Chappel quickly deleted her tribute.<\/p>\n

“Holy s\u2014t, I did not know all that insane s\u2014t Ms. Bardot stood for,” wrote Roan in a new story posted to her Instagram. “[Obviously] I do not condone this. Very disappointing to learn.”<\/p>\n

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Bardot was born in 1934 and grew up in an affluent but strict family<\/a>. The Nazis occupied Paris when Bardot “was growing up in a luxurious seven-bedroom apartment and dreaming of becoming a ballerina,” according to NBC<\/a> News.<\/p>\n

At age 15, she appeared on the cover of Elle magazine, kicking off a career that would lead her in front of a camera.<\/a> She became a worldwide sensation after dying her hair blonde to star in 1956’s And God Created Woman.<\/p>\n

She became box-office gold and earned acclaim for her roles in the movies<\/a>The Truth and Viva Maria!, though she always considered herself a “lousy actress.” She also released pop songs in the ’60s and 70’s, most notably a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “You Are The Sunshine of My Life.”<\/p>\n

Bardot quit acting<\/a> at age 39. She focused on her activism and was a vocal supporter of animal rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In her later years, Bardot drifted towards far-right politics<\/a>. She was fined repeatedly for inciting racial hatred against Muslim immigrants. In her 2003 book, A Cry in the Silence, she referred to gay people as “cheap f—ts or circus freaks,” and suggested that modern gay people should be closeted like the LGBTQ+ community in the 50s and 60s.<\/p>\n

In 2018, she criticized the #MeToo movement, saying that many of those speaking up about sexual harassment were “being hypocritical” and that “actresses try to play the tease with producers to get a role.”<\/p>\n

Chappel Roan, who is gay, released “Red Wine Supernova” in 2023. “I needed a campy gay girl song that captured the magic of having feelings for another girl,”\u00a0she said at the time, per Flood<\/a>. “I\u00a0packed\u00a0the song with fun, raunchy lyrics that make it feel like a night out flirting with the girl across the bar!”<\/p>\n

Related: Nancy Sinatra Pays Tribute to Late Brigitte Bardot: ‘I Idolized Her’<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Parade<\/a> on Dec 29, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The term “milkshake duck” rose in the 2010s when Ben Ward, a cartoonist behind @pixelatedboat, came up with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[111674,321,21593,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-217546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-brigitte-bardot","tag-celebrities","tag-chappell-roan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}