And after years of welcoming strangers to our shores, our expectations of celebrities are simple: we want them to love Australia, think the animals are cute, and one day hope to move here. In the worst slight since Frank Sinatra attacked our women journalists in , the American actor's implied critique of Australia's guardianship of the Great Barrier Reef was one of the big moments at this week's Our Ocean Conference in Washington DC.
DiCaprio had barely finished delivering his undiplomatic first person narrative about his far north Queensland sojourns than the World Heritage meeting in Doha chimed in: firstly, giving Australia another year to avoid the Great Barrier Reef being put on a list of world heritage protected sites considered ''in danger'' and, secondly, delivering an international dressing down for a recent approval of dredging and dumping in the natural wonder's waters.
Australia has often shouldered the burden of being on the nose internationally but DiCaprio's words bestow a kind of instantaneous shame that lingers, thanks to social media and the internet. Once, of course, Australians would have taken little notice of the opinion of a celebrity, let alone an actor, foreign or local, on anything.
The convention of decades of promoting films, books, plays, concerts and shows demanded artists and celebrities utter the nicest things, trouser their takings and go home. Call it cultural cringe, commonsense or just good business, but celebrity gushing started when the old sailing and steam ships arrived in Fremantle bearing cargoes of superannuated performers and continued when the Boeing made Mascot the first point of arrival.
The first series of The Norman Gunston Show in skewered the airport convention when the comedian gatecrashed newly arrived celebrities' news conferences to ask: 1.
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Dramatic new testimony from third According to tabloids, Garrn broke it off after Leo was spotted leaving a Miami nightclub with 20 women. Hollywood was abuzz when DiCaprio was seen with the singer at numerous Hollywood parties in The Sports Illustrated model dated the actor for a few months before breaking up at the beginning of DiCaprio reportedly dated the Irish TV presenter after meeting an after-party. Whitmore addressed the dating rumours to Hello!
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