'Beyonce was stupid and rude', says Egypt pyramid expert
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BEYONCE'S tour of the pyramids in Egypt was cut short after she arrived late and did not apologise, according to a top heritage boss who allegedly had to wait for the superstar.
Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass revealed he would not permit the Halo hitmaker to tour the ancient site because of her "rude" behaviour.
He told British newspaper The Independent, "Most people I take on tours are very nice and we become friends. But this lady... She said she would come at 3pm, but she came late. I said, 'You have to say I'm sorry I'm late'. But she didn't open her mouth."
Dr Hawass, Egypt's former minister of state for antiquities affairs, also became enraged after his photographer was reportedly instructed to stop taking pictures of the singer.
He said: "I brought a photographer and she also had a photographer and a guard. When my photographer started to shoot, he said, 'No, Stop! I am the one who says yes or no, not you'. I said, 'In that case, since you almost hit my photographer and you are not polite, out! I am not giving you the privilege of having you on my tour'. I said Beyonce was stupid and I left."
This isn't the first time Dr Hawass has criticised Beyonce - the archaeologist called her "stupid" shortly after her trip to the country in 2009.
He said, "She's a stupid person and she doesn't understand a thing and she doesn't want to understand... She's coming here to take pictures and that's it."
I'm not sure why it's being brought back up in the media. This reminds me of the part before Broken-Hearted Girl in the I Am … Tour DVD where she is saying it's hard to go about and have to look happy because if she doesn't have a smile [doesn't live up to people's expectations of her] they automatically think she is rude.
There's a thing that I don't I understand, she came in 2009 he said she was stupid and he hated her, when she came back a couple years later, he accepted to show her around. And why she came back to him? Why he accepted it? So many questions