Paris Olympics 2024 Organizers React to Backlash for Drag Recreation of ‘The Last Supper’ During Opening Ceremony | 2024 Paris Olympics, Nicky Doll, pride | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

Paris Olympics organizers are talking out.

The officers apologized Sunday (July 28) to anybody who was offended by a drag-filled efficiency that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s The Final Supper through the opening ceremony over the weekend.

The portray, which depicts the second when Jesus Christ declared that an apostle would betray him, was recreated that includes LGBTQ+ DJ and producer Barbara Butch, and varied drag artists and dancers, together with Drag Race France host Nicky Doll.

Spiritual conservatives and Republicans from around the globe known as out the phase, together with the French Catholic Church’s convention of bishops, calling it “scenes of derision” that they stated made a mockery of Christianity, by way of the New York Publish.

The Anglican Communion in Egypt expressed its “deep remorse” as properly, saying the ceremony might trigger the IOC to “lose its distinctive sporting id and its humanitarian message.”

The ceremony’s inventive director Thomas Jolly

Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps stated: “Clearly there was by no means an intention to indicate disrespect to any spiritual group. Quite the opposite, I feel (with) Thomas Jolly, we actually did attempt to rejoice neighborhood tolerance. Taking a look at the results of the polls that we shared, we consider that this ambition was achieved. If individuals have taken any offense we’re, after all, actually, actually sorry.”

Nicky Doll additionally wrote in regards to the phase: “I had a dream, and that dream got here to life yesterday. I had the dream that France would symbolize its individuals to the fullest on the world’s largest stage, largest present: The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics. And due to so many wonderful souls like @thoma.jolly @daphneburki @maudlepladec and lots of others, this occurred. It was my absolute honor to carry out in entrance of billions of individuals around the globe, and rejoice our olympians. And bear in mind, to those that had their feathers ruffled seeing queerness on their display screen: WE AIN’T GOING NOWHERE ”

Watch a part of the efficiency…