PETA thinks Aretha Franklin should R-E-S-P-E-C-T animals and ditch her fur coats.
The Queen of Soul was crowned this year’s worst-dressed celebrity by the rabid animal rights folks. Her crime: wearing “yet another vulgar fur” at the Grammy Awards.
“You looked as if you were going to perform ‘I Am the Walrus’ by the Beatles,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said yesterday of Franklin’s appearance. “You might be a queen, but you don’t know jack about compassion.”
The other offenders are Marilyn Manson, who wears cow-skin pants 24/7; “Desperate Housewives” vixen Eva Longoria, who, the PETA people think looks like “the streetwalker of Wisteria Lane” in her “trashy furs”; Hollywood hellcat Lindsay Lohan, skin-and-bones model Kate Moss and singer Kylie Minogue.
PETA called Minogue “cold-blooded” for toting a python purse. As for Lohan, the group remarked: “ ‘I Know Who Killed Me’ isn’t just the title of Lindsay Lohan’s latest bomb, it’s the cry of the animals snuffed out so this ‘Mean Girl’ can pose in their pelts.” Ew.
Christina Ricci, Martha Stewart and Alicia Keys have said they’ve given up wearing fur since being singled out by PETA in previous years.
The group said it took trashtastic Britney Spears out of the running because they didn’t want to kick her while she’s down.
Check out a complete list of naughty fur-sporting celebs at PETA’s Web site www.FurIsDead.com.
