Gigi Hadid removes post defending Varun Dhawan, Reddit claims it was PR cleanup: ‘If this thing were to blow up…’

American mannequin Gigi Hadid was one of many friends on the NMACC gala held in Mumbai this weekend. During an occasion, Varun Dhawan referred to as Gigi Hadid on stage, swirled her round and planted a kiss on her cheek. But after being slammed for doing the identical, Varun had referred to as it a ‘planned’ gimmick and Gigi defended him saying that she received to fulfil her ‘Bollywood goals’. However, she deleted that individual Instagram Stories hours earlier than it might routinely disappear from her Instagram. Also learn: Gigi Hadid provides Varun Dhawan a shoutout, places rumours to relaxation as ‘uncomfortable’ video goes viral

This has not gone down nicely with some, who shared their views about it on Reddit. Most have them have referred to as it a ‘PR cleanup’ to avoid wasting Varun’s picture and the stakes concerned on the star-studded launch of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre. One of the various identified on Reddit, “Her other Instagram Stories (including the one calling Karn Johar a legend) are still up. She has deleted JUST this one.”

Soon after, many claimed it was a PR cleanup within the first place. A Reddit consumer wrote, “She’ll unfollow Varun too after this event’s hype dies down completely. Give and take a week or two for this to happen. She didn’t want her India experience to get bad PR so defended Varun for his kiss stunt and dropped a story. Once the agenda is over, she’ll unfollow and go on her way.” Another wrote on Monday, “You’re proper as a result of Varun shared on Twitter at round 11am IST and Gigi posted solely after that the ‘Making my Bollywood dreams come true’ IG story (Instagram Stories). Story ought to ideally, nonetheless be there. I knew it was a PR clear up. I imply, why would she comply with VD (Varun Dhawan) and never SRK (Shah Rukh Khan). She’s actually posted solely Ash (Aishwarya Rai) and SRK on her fundamental submit. There’s tea, however their (Ambani) PR will sanitise it.

One extra Reddit consumer wrote, “This could have turned into a massive PR disaster, primarily for the Ambanis and in turn India. (Varun would have been the fall guy nonetheless, but this PR clean up is less about him). Whatever money (HUGE), time, effort of this event and the hoopla, would all be gone to waste in a second, if this thing were to blow up. You literally had editors of every global publication/celebs and IG royalty with followers in millions, invited here and this is all they would land up writing/posting about. The press would make it a circus.”

Many additionally claimed Gigi approaching stage for a second might have been pre-planned however not your entire episode of Varun kissing her. A Reddit consumer wrote, “Why do I feel like this is a PR clean up is because 1) Bollywood dreams sounds like a very indian thing to say and it just seemed like a script given script followed sort of thing. 2) who comes and says me picking up a girl, 360 degree rotation and she wanting to run away from me was all preplanned? if its pre-planned her body language should be at least 10 percent like she is into it right? May be the plan was Gigi coming on stage (like Priyanka Chopra and Alia Bhatt) but not the acrobatics and kiss she was subjected to… its also a relief that there wasn’t any wardrobe malfunction.”

One extra added, “Varun Dhawan lifting up Gigi Hadid, twirling her and kissing her cheek WITHOUT HER CONSENT is essentially the most embarrassing and pathetic factor. What’s worse is – his PR workforce and him (who can’t spell fundamental phrases) making an attempt to make it appear to be it was pre-planned. I knew your entire Gigi story was simply injury management/cowl up on his or PR request which clearly backfired on her deleting it!”