RuPaul's Drag Race winner slams Olympics 'hypocrites' over backlash to Last Supper at the 2024 opening ceremony

A erstwhile RuPaul’s Drag Race victor has slammed 'hypocrites' starring backlash against a depiction of nan Last Summer astatine nan Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.

Friday's showpiece was branded 'blasphemous' for a banquet scene wherever an character playing Greek deity Dionysus took centre shape connected a array pinch resistance queens, which has been interpreted to lucifer Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper painting.

Some belief groups condemned nan ceremony, including nan Catholic Church successful France who said it included 'scenes of derision and insult of Christianity'.

Now, Hugo Bardin, 33, who won the  French type of Drag Race, performs arsenic resistance queen Paloma and took portion successful nan performance, criticized nan 'absurd and inappropriate' guidance which he attributed to homophobia.

He told Reuters : 'What I find absurd and inappropriate successful this contention is that it's hypocritical... these are paintings that person been reproduced thousands of times

'I deliberation nan Last Supper is nan astir reproduced coating successful art... this image has been utilized and reused successful a belief context, successful a non-religious context.

'What bothers group isn't that we're reproducing this coating - painted by a homosexual by nan measurement – what bothers group is that queer group are reproducing it.' 

Adding that he comes from a Catholic family - he said: 'The Christians astir maine aren't shocked, nan Christians who are shocked are nan Christians who are homophobic, transphobic, drag-phobic, queer-phobic, who don't want america to beryllium associated pinch art, who don't want america to beryllium associated pinch France, pinch religion

'They want to make america invisible truthful it's a convulsive reaction, it's a guidance which is not only reactionary, it's medieval.

'I'm getting messages and I consciousness for illustration it's nan twelvemonth 1400 and I'm going to beryllium tortured.'

This comes after Paris 2024 organizer Anne Descamps  apologized for immoderate offence caused by belief depictions during nan opening ceremony.

In a property convention connected Sunday, Descamps apologised for immoderate offence caused and insisted that nan ceremonial intended to 'celebrate organization tolerance'.

'Clearly location was ne'er an volition to show disrespect to immoderate belief group,' she said. On nan contrary, I deliberation Thomas Jolly did effort to intend to observe organization tolerance. We judge this ambition was achieved, if group person taken immoderate offence, we of people are really sorry.'

The International Olympic Committee later said successful a statement: 'The IOC has taken statement of and welcomes nan explanation fixed by nan Paris 2024 Organising Committee regarding nan Opening Ceremony.

'In nan regular property briefing, nan Organising Committee said that location was ne'er immoderate volition to show disrespect towards immoderate belief group aliases belief.

'They reiterated that their volition pinch nan Opening Ceremony was ever to observe organization and tolerance. The Organising Committee besides said that if anyone was offended by definite scenes, this was wholly unintentional and they were sorry.'

Sunday's apology came aft thousands of societal media users threatened to boycott nan Paris Games because of nan opening ceremony.

Enraged viewers took to X (formely Twitter) wherever '#boycottOlympics' and '#boycottParis2024' were seen trending complete nan people of nan pursuing day.

The quality of a 'naked bluish man' among a segment likened to nan Last Supper angered galore watching, particularly Christians.

One wrote: 'What a disgraceful opening to nan 2024 Olympics #BoycottOlympics.'

Another declared they 'didn't moreover attraction astir nan Olympics' but were now '100 per cent boycotting'.