Rita Ora criticized for paying restaurant for ignoring blocking rules

Rita Ora criticized for paying restaurant for ignoring blocking rules

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  • Rita Ora reportedly paid for a restaurant to break the coronavirus blocking rules, and people are crazy.
  • In November, the singer hosted a dinner with 15-20 people at a London restaurant, BBC News reported.
  • Ora’s team gave the business £ 5,000 (about $ 6,848) to circumvent the rules that prohibit large parties.
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People on Twitter are calling Rita Ora after her team allegedly paid for a restaurant in London to break the coronavirus guidelines for the singer’s birthday party in November.

On Thursday, BBC News reported that the singer’s team had offered Notting Hill’s Casa Cruz restaurant £ 5,000 (or about $ 6,848) to ignore the blocking rules that banned internal events with people from different families.

Now, according to reports, he had also flown back from a performance in Egypt a week earlier, and was expected to be quarantined due to travel guidelines, the report said.

The restaurant’s general manager later told the police that between 15 and 20 people were present at Ora’s 30th birthday dinner on November 28.

And, according to the BBC News report, the singer’s team even asked that the footage from the TV circuit be turned off during the party.

CCTV hard drives were cleaned two days after the party, according to BBC News.

Now he apologized for the party several days later, calling it a “decision made on the spur of the moment with the mistaken view that we were going to get out of the blockade and that would be OK”.

“I deeply regret breaking the rules and, in turn, I understand that it puts people at risk,” she wrote on Instagram. “This was a serious and inexcusable error of judgment. Given the restrictions, I realize how irresponsible these actions were and I take full responsibility.”

Despite her apology, people on social media still called the singer after BBC News published the latest details about the incident.

Ora representatives did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment.

This is not the first time the singer has caused protests on social media.

In August 2020, people accused the singer of “black fishing” after a semi-viral tweet drew attention to her white ancestry.

“Finding out that Rita is not black at all and that her parents are white Albanians is very mind-boggling. The girls ARE fishing,” said the tweet, which has accumulated almost 100,000 likes and more than 20,000 retweets.

“As if the girl were not black, this is scaring me,” continued the Twitter user, adding that white women “really do become black so easily.”

Ora’s family is from Kosovo, a self-declared independent country on the Balkan Peninsula, whose population consists mainly of Albanians and Serbs.

In 2016, Wendy Williams said to Ora: “I thought you were half black and half white or something.”

Now he replied, “Everyone does that. I think so. But no, I’m an Albanian.”

Despite her white European heritage, Ora applied gel and styled her baby hair and repeatedly tried braids, pigtails and afros – all widely considered cultural appropriation when made by a non-black person.

When Twitter users began to realize that she was white, Ora was accused of intentionally deceiving people into believing she was black, a phenomenon known online as blackfishing.

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