The Nicki Minaj vaccine row shows why we shouldn’t expect celebrities to be spokespeople for social issues

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Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty suggesting she should be ashamed of herself for spewing such nonsense. No one could ever tell me 2021 has been uneventful.

Those of us who had time to waste at 4pm on a Tuesday afternoon were able to sit back, log on to Twitter and be briefly entertained by the bizarre exchange of tweets between Minaj and random British public figures (I have played the voice note she addressed to Boris Johnson about 500 times).

But for some, this was no laughing matter. Instead, they argued Minaj’s claims about her cousin’s friend and the vaccine were harmful.

Some tweets even labelled Minaj herself as “dangerous. ” Piers Morgan accused her of “peddling lies which cost lives”. It is quite amusing – and worrying – to me.