Ash not responsible for Sonam's Cannes exit  There were rumours that actress and L'Oreal ambassador Aishwarya Rai
may have held back Sonam Kapoor from walking the Cannes red carpet. But
sources close to the former beauty queen say she didn't even know that
Sonam was to visit the French film festival."She (Aishwarya)
did not even know that Sonam was going to be at Cannes because she was
there for just two days (May 13-14) where her days were packed with
back-to-back interactions with the international media, fashion shoots
for various European fashion magazines and other business meetings
besides attending all the events at the festival," a source close to
Aishwarya told IANS. "Anyone can go to the Cannes Film
Festival as a visitor and that is how many in the film fraternity and
normal public go from across the world." Confusion ensued when
L'Oreal issued a list of those ambassadors that were to represent the
brand at the French festival and Sonam's name was missing from it.
This, despite a formal announcement made by the company officials on
Sonam's presence in Cannes at a press conference in Mumbai on May 10. Sonam,
who was earlier set to leave for Cannes on Monday (May 18) and was
excited to rub shoulders with Aishwarya and Hollywood A-listers like
Elizabeth Banks and Eva Longoria, finally did not go for the film
festival when company officials asked her to stay back. According
to media reports released thereafter, Aishwarya was not very upbeat
about the fact that Sonam would share the same stage with her as the
face of L'Oreal and asked company officials to deny her the opportunity
of being there. But clarifying their decision of holding back
Sonam to go for Cannes, a spokesperson from L'Oreal said in a press
release: "We do not want to take part in or encourage any controversy
involving our spokespeople. There were adverse reports in certain
sections of media after some comments by Sonam Kapoor, which were
presented out of context. "Following this, in order to avoid
further escalation, we have advised Sonam not to go to Cannes as was
planned earlier, bearing in mind that there would be more interesting
opportunities for future appearances in Europe for her."Indo-Asian News Service | |
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