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Published 15:07 24 Apr 2020 GMT
Comedian and writer Ricky Gervais has slammed celebrities for using their platforms to preach to the public amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, fed his ponies while urging fans to stop going outside:
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He proceeded to reference Gal Gadot's Imagine video, which sparked outrage online from people who would have preferred its celebrity participants to donate to coronavirus relief efforts instead of simply singing.
Admitting that the Imagine video was likely well-intentioned on BBC's Five Live, Ricky mused: "That Imagine video, it's not that bad, they're probably very nice people."
"It was an awful rendition, but they might have been doing it for good reasons, to help these normal nobodies.But they're going 'My film's coming up and I'm not on telly - I need to be in the public eye', not all of them but some of them.
You can see in their eye - 'I could cry at the beauty of my personality, I'm just so beautiful for doing this' and everyone sees that - we get it."
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Gervais then slammed singer Sam Smith, who also caused a storm when they posted photographs of themselves crying earlier in the pandemic. Photographs that they dubbed their "stages of quarantine meltdown".
Rick scoffed: "For a start, you won't hear me complain - not when there's nurses doing 14 hours shifts - and frontline workers carrying on and risking their health.
"I'm fine. Don't worry about me... I go for walks on Hampstead Heath, and we've got a garden.
"There are people in high rise blocks with three kids - I can't complain, this is why millionaires in their mansions with their gym and going for a swim can't lecture people."
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The 58-year-old star concluded: "People are sick of being lectured, multi-millionaires telling them to clean out their coffee jar and put it in the right bin - they know those celebs are taking private jets to their private islands. They are sick of it."
