Talk about Freaky Friday: Lindsay Lohan has woken up a passionate supporter for Remain.
The 29-year-old actor, best known for her star turns in Mean Girls and other teen films that defined the early 2000s, has been sharing her thoughts on the EU referendum with her millions of followers on social media. Stars: they’re just like us!
A short video Lohan posted on Instagram in dramatic black and white showed her watching the BBC’s news coverage, with results showing Clackmannanshire voting 58% to remain.
The clip – which features the occasional rude word – opens with a close-up of the logo of her Chanel bag and features her fiancé, the Russian billionaire Egor Tarabasov (who was posting his own updates on the excitement).
“#besmart pay attention and work hard to buy @chanelofficial #remain where’s Sunderland? Does Sarah Palin live there? Lol,” she wrote in the caption.
Lohan also shared the clip with her 9.28 million followers on Twitter, prompting one user to dub her the “queen of posting about British politics”. Her retweeting of him is in this case presumed to indicate an endorsement.
After retweeting a Pew Environment story about the US National Park Service’s maintenance backlog, demonstrating her ability to campaign on more than one issue at a time, Lohan added that “small shops should pay more attention”.
#Remain small shops should pay more attention
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 23, 2016
Her fervent belief that Britain remain a part of the EU aside, Lohan expressed some confusion as to the location of Kettering. (A later tweet indicated “this woman” was a reference to Sarah Palin, but failed to shed light on why she referred to her at all.)
#REMAIN Sorry, but #KETTERING where are you&why is this woman @BBCNews speaking on people rather than TELLING us what happens if UK LEAVES?
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
i was referring to #sarahpalin #REMAIN #LoveIsLove
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
Though Lohan was pleased to learned the “pure hearted people” of the Shetlands had voted to remain, she was disappointed by the result in Manchester, where she said she had once lived.
i love the #shetlands @BBCNews thank goodness we have pure hearted people our side #besmart #ShetlandsVSSunderland #BringItOn
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
#bury what's wrong with you manchester??????
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
i lived in manchester!! be conscious! #fauxpaux @MaxGeorge @DannyCipriani87 #bury has left manchester WHY?
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
After her several posts on the looming threat of Brexit caused confusion among her followers, Lohan felt moved to clarify that she had not been hacked, adding somewhat ominously, “unlike OBAMA’s recent setback”. It is not known what Lohan was referring to.
#remain #REMAIN @standardnews #remain #REMAIN @Telegraph unlike OBAMA's recent setback @BBCWorld i have not been hacked
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
She then switched back to Instagram, where she is followed by 4.6 million people, to share another clip of the BBC’s coverage, this time overlaid with a touch of her own: #remain and the peace-sign emoji.
“#remain #IAMIRISH #iloveuk #iloveEu #iloveusa #onelove #freetrade don’t let me down in the UK as a loving member of your beautiful country during #hermajestythequeen ‘s birthday time,” she wrote.
Lohan’s father, Michael Lohan, was born in Galway.
Her bio on Instagram lists her interests as “Cinema. Art. Music. Save Children Suffering”.
On Twitter, Lohan gave more insight into her reasons for supporting Remain.
good luck with the pound.. will take you about 15 years to get it back up #REMAIN instead
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
#OXFORD #EXETER #lambeth Workplace fatalities in the UK have reduced by half since European safety directives were introduced in 1996.
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
A tweet reading “for the love of #themajestyherqueen can we please #REMAIN and READ BEFORE WE SPEAK?” tagging three Twitter accounts belonging to the Daily Mail and also the Financial Times was deleted minutes after it was posted.
She rephrased:
for the love of #hermajestythequeen ..the #leave #youcantsitwithus FELLOWS @SMP WE SHOULD ALL BE SITTING TOGETHER #LOVENOTHATE we can be 1
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
And added:
dropping by the second... one dollar and forty nine cents.. dropping as we breathe..#REMAIN
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
At time of writing Lohan was continuing to post about the referendum on Twitter and on Instagram.
