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Cannes Film Festival: Colleagues Defend Usher After Kelly Rowland Red Carpet Confrontation


The singer said she wasn't treated properly on the red carpet; the usher's colleagues say she was "just doing her job."

Kelly Rowland stole many red carpet headlines from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with a visible confrontation with a female security officer as she made her way up the famous steps and into the Palais. The same source told the Daily Mail: “Suggestions of racism are just ridiculous – visitors, and indeed staff at Cannes come from all kinds of backgrounds, and none are discriminated against.” Another Cannes staffer who had studied the video of Tuesday’s incident told The Mail Ms Rowland may have “mistakenly thought the usher stepped on her dress.”

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