Showbiz I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . Naturalist Chris Packham has urged Taylor Swift to think of the “future of all of her young fans” as he called on her to stop travelling by private jet.
The pop superstar, who will take to the stage at Wembley Stadium on Friday as she brings her Eras Tour to London, has been travelling by private plane to all the stops on her world tour. On Thursday, Just Stop Oil activists sprayed orange paint over private jets at Stansted airport on the airfield where they believed Swift’s plane landed hours before. Essex Police later said the pop star’s private jet was not at the airport.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain on Friday, TV presenter Packham said: “I’ve asked her to think about the future of all of her young fans. “(She has an) enormous capacity to communicate. A very powerful, intelligent, young woman.
“She should be using that platform to lead and certainly not behaving as a rockstar of yesteryear travelling around the world in private jets. “And I think that she’s got to show that legion of adoring young fans that she cares about their future.” He said: “Maybe one day, I don’t know, Taylor might want children of her own.
I’m sure that she wants a healthy, happy planet for them to live on. “And in order to do that, we’ve got to change the way we use our fossil fuels and she could send a very symbolic gesture to millions of people b.
