{"id":777050,"date":"2026-09-20T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:40:12","slug":"sylvester-stallone-says-he-found-out-about-hollywood-ambassador-appointment-on-tv-after-rejecting-trumps-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/777050\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Stallone says he found out about Hollywood ambassador appointment on TV after rejecting Trump\u2019s offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sylvester Stallone has claimed he was caught off guard after Donald Trump named him as one of three \u201cspecial ambassadors\u201d to Hollywood <\/a>last year.<\/p>\n

Trump announced on Truth Social that the Rocky star, 80, along with vocal Republican actors Jon Voight and Mel Gibson<\/a>, would \u201cserve as my eyes and ears\u201d to bring back business lost to \u201cforeign countries.\u201d<\/a> It was never made clear<\/a> what the job entailed.<\/p>\n

Asked if he had any reservations about the appointment in a new interview with The Times of London<\/a>, Stallone responded: \u201cYes. Yes, because Hollywood, I guess it\u2019s like feudal states. They have their little kingdoms. You don\u2019t go in and tell six studios how to do things. And Mel Gibson and Jon Voight, we\u2019re kind of do-our-own-thing people. No, it won\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he explained his concerns to the president, Stallone continued: \u201cYes, and I said thank you and ciao, because it\u2019s impossible. Hollywood works and it will evolve. It\u2019s corporate and corporate people won\u2019t want to hear me tell them about finance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked then why he accepted the appointment, Stallone replied that he hadn\u2019t. \u201cWell, it just happened. I was watching TV one night and they go, \u2018So Stallone and Mel Gibson and Jon Voight will be\u2009\u2026\u2019 And I went, \u2018What?\u2019 I said, \u2018Excuse me? Really?\u2019 Because if they had asked me in the beginning, I would have said, this is not possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"SylvesterSylvester Stallone has claimed he turned down Donald Trump\u2019s offer of becoming a \u2018special ambassador to Hollywood\u2019 (Getty)<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to The Independent\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Stallone has spoken out in support of Trump in the past. At a Mar-a-Lago black-tie gala<\/a> held to celebrate Trump\u2019s election victory in 2024, Stallone introduced the president-elect as a \u201creally mythical character.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off, so I\u2019m in awe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He went on to call Trump \u201cthe second George Washington.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\"InIn December last year, Trump awarded Stallone with a Kennedy Center Honor (Getty)<\/p>\n

Voight, meanwhile, has called Trump the \u201cgreatest president since Abraham Lincoln.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oscar winner also supported Trump\u2019s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, saying that it was a \u201cbattle of righteousness versus Satan.\u201d<\/p>\n

During an event at Mar-a-Lago in 2024, Gibson called the Biden administration \u201cfour years of thinly veiled Marxism.\u201d He added that the new Trump administration would lead to \u201ca four-year grace period.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see how much this administration can claw back from the Philistines,\u201d Gibson said.<\/p>\n

In December last year, Trump awarded Stallone with a Kennedy Center Honor<\/a> alongside singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band Kiss, and actor Michael Crawford.<\/p>\n

Trump introduced Stallone as \u201ca friend of mine, a wonderful person, a really spectacular person, one of the true great movie stars there are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-777050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}