Page 46 - October 2018 converted

Shilpa SheTTy

faceS raciSm aT Sydney airporT

ctor-entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty Kundra travelling together. I was flying business and had 2 bags (my allowance) and she insisted and decided my half

on Sunday alleged that she faced an empty duffel bag was oversized (to check-in), so she sent us to check it in at the other counter dealing with
Aunpleasant experience for being “brown” ‘oversized luggage’.
at the Sydney airport over her cabin luggage. Upset “There a polite lady (yes this one was) said, ‘This is not an oversized bag, please check this in manually if you
by an official who was curt, she says people’s tone can at another counter’ (all this happening while the counter is going to shut in five minutes).

must not change with preference to colour.Shilpa, “As the manual check-in wasn’t going through for five minutes (we tried), I went upto Mel and requested her to
who dealt with racism in 2007 when she was a put the bag through as her colleague said it wasn’t an oversized bag. She refused again… Just being adamant
contestant on the fifth season of the British reality especially when I told her this is causing a lot of inconvenience.
show “Celebrity Big Brother” — which she went

on to win — faced the latest experience while
boarding a plane for Melbourne from Sydney. The
43-year-old took to Instagram to share the ordeal
with a Qantas Airways lady staff member over a

cabin luggage, which was deemed as ‘oversized’
at the check-in counter.
A furious Shilpa wrote: “At the check-in counter,
met a grumpy Mel (that’s her name) who decided

it was ‘okay’ to speak curtly to ‘us’ (brown people!)

46 |DALLAS | OCTOBER 2018 | VOL 157 www.thebmagazine.com