Thursday 30 March 2017

A statue of a celebrity is meant to be a tribute, but sometimes, these likenesses end up … not so flattering. Monuments erected in recent years to the actresses Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe and to the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, among others, leave a little something to be desired. In some cases, fans revolted. And they probably should have in the case of the others, too.
<p>A bronze bust of the soccer star was unveiled in March 2017, when an airport was named after him in his hometown of Madeira, Portugal. And it was an immediate hit — on the Internet, where the word “nightmare” was mentioned <i>a lot</i>. By the end of the day, the statue <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/RonaldoStatue">had its own Twitter account</a>. “I’m fairly new to Twitter, and the world, but… people are mean” was one of its first posts. (Photo: Getty Images) </p>
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