celeb news Bolsonaro figures at M's gig dancing to Hung Up w 1.6m crowd despite calling ha satan

May 9

Several prominent Bolsonaristas were among the 1.6 million people who packed one of Brazil's most famous beaches to see the 65-year-old artist perform.

Reports in the Brazilian press said

Jair Bolsonaro's lawyer and former communications secretary Fabio Wajngarten; Rio's Bolsonarista governor, Cláudio Castro; and a Bolsonarista senator called Jorge Seif all turned out to see the final show of Madonna's Celebration tour.

Wajngarten was filmed punching the air as the pop superstar sang her 2005 hit Hung Up, although his self-conscious dance moves did not impress Brazilian choreophiles

Castro was photographed at the show alongside Wajngarten, a pro-Bolsonaro politician called Renato Araújo, and the makeup artist of Jair Bolsonaro's wife, Michelle. Also present was Seif, who was subsequently forced to publicly apologize for his sinful Saturday night

"I've let my voters down," Seif told the senate on Tuesday, asking for forgiveness for attending an event he thought inappropriate for "defenders of the family and Judaeo-Christian values".

"When we let people down and we come to understand that we got it wrong we need to do something that the Holy Bible teaches, which is ask for forgiveness," Seif said.

At another point in the concert Madonna appeared alongside the Brazilian drag queen and singer Pabllo Vittar to perform Music – another outrage to supporters of Bolsonaro, who was notorious for his hostility to the LGBTQ+ community and his self-declared homophobia. To rub salt in Bolsonarista wounds, Madonna and Vittar did so while waving Brazil's yellow and green flag – the main symbol of Bolsonaro's far-right religious nationalist movement.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/madonna-concert-bolsonaro-far-right