Sting’s Wife Trudie Styler Flies Stylist Across U.S.
May 14, 2009 · Print This Article
Trudie Styler, film producer and wife of the musician Sting, spends much of her life criticizing the oil industry and campaigning on behalf of environmental and human rights causes. But, that didn’t stop the “green celebrity” from flying a hair stylist across America last week to do her hair and make-up for a White House dinner.
From IMDB:
But she has risked criticism after admitting she and an entourage of eight jetted to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday by private plane.
The team included her hair stylist Antonio Prieto, who is based in Manhattan.
A rep for Styler tells New York Post gossip column PageSix, “The stylist was added to a previous scheduled flight to DC and flew back commercially.”
And Styler adds: “Yes, I do take planes. My life is to travel and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.”
Styler, co-founder of the Rainforest Foundation, has been called an eco-hypocrite in the past for numerous offenses including ordering her personal chef to travel over 100 miles to make a bowl of pasta. Styler and Sting seem to have adopted the “Do as I say, not as I do” approach to environmental activism.
From an interview with The Daily Mail in 2008:
“Miss Styler tried to shift a little of the blame on to her musician husband, who is 56. ‘When it comes to the carbon footprint, Sting puts his hand up immediately and says ‘I’m a musician and I have a huge carbon-footprint’, she said. She then asked: ‘Are we being hypocritical?’ before seeming to answer the question herself. ‘He has a 750-person crew to bring around the world and it is a difficult challenge. I would like to think that we both work pretty hard for the rights of indigenous people and for the rights of conservation of the Amazon rainforest, but we do need to get around. It’s a difficult one.’”
Styler and Sting have done some admirable work, especially for rainforest conservation – but if they’re so concerned about the environment, they could make some simple changes in their own lives. Yes, they’ll always have a bigger carbon footprint than most other people, but the public would take the green movement a lot more seriously if ‘green celebrities’ practiced what they preached. Flying a hairstylist across the country when there are hundreds in Washington D.C. is not even remotely green.
Link [IMDB] + [The Daily Mail]
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That’s the problem with celebrities, they’re just not dependable. While I agree that people do need to get around, the fact they have money doesn’t mean they should keep several houses in different parts of the world and indulge in extravagances like the ones described in the text above. I don’t buy this couple’s green credentials for a second. The only green they love is money.