Jillian Michaels blasts Olympics’ Last Supper drag show for ‘mocking’ Christianity: ‘Wrong way forward’
Famed health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels blasted the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony for including a drag show version of the Last Supper that she believes mocked Christianity.
The “Biggest Loser” alum, 50, told Page Six in a sit-down interview Wednesday that the LGBTQIA+ community needs “allies” and should not “alienate” other groups.
“It’s taking a lot of time and a lot of work to win people over, because what’s different is scary,” she said. “So how do you best do that? By showing tolerance and treating people the way you want to be treated. So when you kind of go like this to 2 billion people around the planet, you can expect the same in return.”
Michaels, who recently brought her “Keeping It Real” podcast to video with Bill Maher’s Club Random Studios, argued the attitude toward Christianity was the “wrong way forward” in making peaceful progress, especially “when the world is so divided.”
“I would have preferred something that had nothing to do with religion, just inclusion relevant to the Games. That’s where it’s appropriate, and it has nothing to do with drag queens,” she explained, noting that she had no issue with them, just took exception to the religious aspect. “Sure, go for it.”
The Emmy-nominated TV personality also shot down the counter-argument that the depiction was not, in fact, the Last Supper but instead inspired by a 17th century Dutch painting of the festival of Dionysus.
“Bulls–t,” she said.
Michaels believed the “true liberal position” is to “live and let live,” but the controversial segment sent a polar-opposite message.
“You didn’t let live,” she said. “You poked fun and you mocked something that 2 billion people find sacred.”
Instead, the fitness trainer said she wanted to see an opening ceremony that came across like a “coexist bumper sticker.”
“I wanted to see a rabbi. I wanted to see a priest,” she explained. “I wanted to see a drug, but not taking the Last Supper.”
Deeply devout Christian Candace Cameron Bure previously claimed the production “completely blasphemed and mock[ed] the Christian faith” — and then doubled down by calling it “disgusting.”
“It made me so sad, and someone said, ‘You shouldn’t be sad. You should be mad about it.’ I’m like, ‘Trust me, it makes me mad, but I’m more sad because I’m sad for souls,’” the “Full House” alum, 48, explained on social media.
