Butterflies may have been harmed in the taping of Thursday?s ?RuPaul?s Drag Race? finale, and PETA is not happy about it.
The animal rights advocacy group has released a statement condemning the ?misguided stunt.?
PETA called on the VH1 reality competition to institute a new policy banning the use of live animals in lip sync performances.
?When performers use live animals as props, nobody wins. Asia O?Hara has apologized for this misguided stunt, and PETA hopes the sad spectacle will sway the show to adopt a policy that bans all live animals and stops lip syncs from being literally killer.?
O?Hara, one of the final four competing, shocked the judges when an attempted stunt involving live butterflies went awry.
Instead of releasing a plume of butterflies into the air as planned, when O?Hara went to release them all of them appeared to be dead.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, O?Hara explained that the butterflies weren?t actually dead.
?They need to warm up to a certain temperature in order to fly away. I don?t think the contraptions were warm enough to wake the butterflies up. But, as they warmed up in the stage lights during the break, they started to fly away!?
She also said she?d donate 100 hours of volunteer time to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as a make-good.
29-06-2018 - Vidéo