{"id":2061304,"date":"2025-10-01T04:28:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2061304"},"modified":"2025-10-01T04:28:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T04:28:18","slug":"odd-looking-tina-turner-statue-trashed-after-hometown-unveiling-like-ronald-mcdonald-in-a-wig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/odd-looking-tina-turner-statue-trashed-after-hometown-unveiling-like-ronald-mcdonald-in-a-wig\/","title":{"rendered":"Odd-looking Tina Turner statue trashed after hometown unveiling \u2014 \u2018like Ronald McDonald in a wig\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Simply the worst!<\/p>\n

A new statue of the late great singer Tina Turner has been branded \u201cso disrespectful\u201d after it was unveiled in the music icon\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n

The 10-foot-high bronze statue, depicting the Queen of Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll with a microphone and in her signature miniskirt and heels, was unveiled on Saturday in the rural town of Brownsville, Tennessee, around an hour\u2019s drive east of Memphis.<\/p>\n

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The statue was revealed during a ceremony at a park in Brownsville, located about an hour drive east of Memphis. AP<\/p>\n

It stands near a museum honoring Turner, who died in May 2023 at age 83 in Zurich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The sculpture aimed to capture the \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It?\u201d belter\u2019s flexibility and her iconic hairstyle, which Atlanta-based sculptor Fred Ajanogha compared to the \u201cmane of a lion.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the grand unveiling was quickly met with derision and anger, as many fans branded it an insult to Turner\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever made that Tina Turner statue can burn in hell\u2026 and the death penalty for the ones who approved it,\u201d one\u00a0furious fan wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy does this Tina Turner statue look like Ronald McDonald with a shaggy wig?\u201d\u00a0asked a second<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Karen<\/span><\/div>\n

Karen Cook said she traveled from Georgia to attend the event with her friend, a cousin of Turner\u2019s, to honor the legendary performer. AP<\/p>\n

Another joked<\/a>\u00a0that the sculpture was more \u201cTemu Turner.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0video of the unveiling on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0also attracted bemusement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat statue should have been kicked down after the unveiling,\u201d one Facebook user wrote. \u201cSo disrespectful!\u201d<\/p>\n

The statue was funded by around 50 donors, including $150,000 from Ford Motor Co., which is building an electric truck factory nearby.<\/p>\n

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The statue shows Turner with her signature wild hairdo and holding a microphone, as if she was singing on stage. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n

\"Turner<\/span><\/div>\n

Turner died May 24, 2023 at age 83 after a long illness in her home in K\u00fcsnacht near Zurich. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s unveiling was part of the annual Tina Turner Heritage Days, celebrating the life of Brownsville\u2019s most famous daughter.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a great artist, I love her music,\u201d said Karen Cook, who traveled from Georgia for the event. \u201cMy mom listened to her a lot. It\u2019s a big deal and a great thing for the community to have Tina Turner in her small town.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simply the worst! A new statue of the late great singer Tina Turner has been branded \u201cso disrespectful\u201d after it was unveiled in the music icon\u2019s hometown. The 10-foot-high bronze statue, depicting the Queen of Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll with a microphone and in her signature miniskirt and heels, was unveiled on Saturday in the rural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2061305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[383222,383277,384467,366315,384466],"class_list":["post-2061304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-bronze-statue","tag-karen-cook","tag-temu-turner","tag-tina-turner","tag-unveiling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Odd-looking-Tina-Turner-statue-trashed-after-hometown-unveiling-\u2014-\u2018like.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061306,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061304\/revisions\/2061306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}