Kate Hopkins sticks up for Dolce & Gabbana
By Nick Bond
Celebrities from Elton John to Victoria Beckham, from Ricky Martin to Martina Navratilova, have voiced their upset at the remarks made by designers Dolce & Gabbana over the weekend.
The pair, once a couple, told an Italian magazine that they oppose gay adoptions, saying “The only family is the traditional one. No chemical offsprings and rented uterus: life has a natural flow, there are things that should not be changed.” They went on to label children born via egg donors or artificial insemination “children of chemistry, synthetic children.”
Amid the chorus of condemnation, one woman has announced she’s proudly Team Dolce & Gabbana: Why, it’s celebrity contrarian Katie Hopkins, of course.
In an online column for Now Magazine titled ‘Leave Dolce & Gabbana alone! They are entitled their opinions,’ Hopkins bemoans the “need for consensus” among those offended by the pair’s comments, which she says “frightens” her.
“Dolce and Gabbana are gay men. They used to be a couple. Now accused of homophobia, exactly who is being intolerant? You or them? Why are you right and they wrong? You want to #boycottDolceGabanna just because a Spice Girl told you to?” Hopkins, who served as a judge at G.A.Y.’s Porn Idol competition over the weekend, writes.
“Surely being tolerant is accepting we all have different opinions and should be able to express them freely. Elton could express the alternative view to D&G without calling for every other fawning celeb to turn up and throw rotten tomatoes at their brand.”
“Dolce and Gabbana have their ideas. You have yours. If we stopped telling everyone what to think, the world would be a great deal more interesting place.”
What do you think? Does Elton’s decision to boycott the brand represent a “frightening need for consensus?”