Do you think we might find we have a few more in future?
Just come across this on Forever Charlton:
Brad in Dubai: Will His Green Hotel Be Mean?
Pitt 'looking closely' at construction workers' rights in notoriously labor-unfriendly emirate
by Lysandra Ohrstrom | June 17, 2008 |
As the world’s best-known celebrity/activist power couple, Brangelina has forced paparazzi lenses to capture humanitarian crises worldwide, raising public awareness about issues like the plight of Iraqi refugees and AIDS in Africa.
Now that Mr. Pitt is working as a design consultant on an 800-room, “American-themed,” green hotel in Dubai, the 44-year-old actor may put the spotlight on the chronic exploitation of the estimated 700,000 foreign workers powering the construction boom in the most real-estate-crazy of the United Arab Emirates.
In early June, Mr. Pitt announced that he will partner with the architecture firm that won his "Make it Right" organization's design competition in New Orlean’s Lower Ninth Ward, Graft LLC, and Emirati developer Zabeel—whose $5 billion real estate portfolio includes the Tiara Residence and Tiara Hotel on the Palm Jumeirah Islands—on what he called his “first major construction project.”
“Acting is my career, architecture is my passion,” Mr. Pitt said in an earnest press statement reported by Bloomberg on June 2. The Dubai hotel will feature “environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment."
In publicizing the green hotel venture, Mr. Pitt made no mention of the endemic labor abuses beneath the glitter and glitz of the oil-slicked emirate. But according to Nick McGeehan, the founder of the NGO Mafiwasta (which roughly translates as "without connections") who spoke with Mr. Pitt’s representatives last week, the actor-cum-architect is "definitely looking closely at the issue of workers' rights before proceeding."
That puts Mr. Pitt in the minority in the Gulf, especially in Dubai. At the moment “conditions are appalling at every single construction project that goes on there,” said Mr. McGeehan, though he declined to speak specifically about Zabeel’s developments.
Mr. McGeehan is optimistic that Brad Pitt’s involvement “will have a positive outcome.
“He does seem to be interested in the issue of labor rights," he wrote in his e-mail. “At this stage, I don't think any criticism would be at all fair.”
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theyll start coming out the woodwork soon as Aguero signs.....
alway likes that fact jacko of brushstrokes was charlton..
Have not seen him on many programmes or flash adverts in fact not seen a flash advert for ages
so far we know bjorn borg will be delighted....
van nistlerooy will have already been on the phone to his agent.....
who else
Bradley (Eastenders)
Cheryl Baker
Steve Ryder
EX Oasis drummer
There are a few more out there!
Isn't a member of Blue a charlton fan as well.. . . .
I know he is a big Charlton fan. He also has a fit girlfriend.
I'm seeing Glenn Tilbrook and the Fluffers in Glasgow on Thu, so will try and find out what he makes of it all.
Who do we think our new celebrity fans might be now?? I doubt there will be any Americans, as they seem to think all Arabs are terrorists...
Garry Bushell
Alan White (drummer)
Ruth Awbrey(Journalist BBCLondon)
Simon Crosse (BCFC/CAFC 5LIVE).
Does Jim Davidson count as a "celebrity"?
Sounds like the players might need to work a bit harder in future too ;-)
Does that count?
might even let her have a chew on my hot dog....
I hope not I can't stand him.
His father took him to his First ever football match at the Valley and has afew shares in the club.
His "main" team has always been Chelski, with alittle tinkering with Barnet.
Commentaters Martin Tyler is Woking and Alan Parry is on the board at Wycombe.
Love the way the CAFC badge is referred to as "The Happiness Patrol" !
dont worry he gets a mention in this one. Theres a few celebrity fans threads.
http://www.charltonlife.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=16985&Focus=259250#Comment_259250
come on mog thought you were a dr who fan, thats the name of the episode in which she mentions charlton athletic..