People: Justin Bieber asked to leave Mexico’s Tulum ruin site
A Mexican official said Friday that Canadian pop star Justin Bieber and his entourage were asked to leave the Mayan archaeological site of Tulum after he apparently tried to climb onto or among the ruins. Bieber was visiting the seaside ruins on Thursday when the incident occurred.
The official, from the National Institute of Anthropology and History, could not specify which of the site’s structures Bieber allegedly had climbed. Visitors can climb some pre-Hispanic pyramids in Mexico, but officials rope off or place “no entry” signs on some ruins that are considered vulnerable or unstable.
Bieber apparently has been on vacation in the Tulum area, on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, for several days.
Despite the singer’s reputation for getting out of line, the representative of a native Maya ecotourism camp that Bieber visited near Tulum several days before described him as “completely respectful.” Nathalie Leqo, the spokeswoman for AllTournative, a cooperative effort with Maya communities at a camp called the Jungla Maya Park, said Bieber “expressed a lot of interest in the work we do to preserve the environment.”
“He was completely respectful, and he participated in the welcoming ceremony performed by a local shaman,” Leqo said.
Lucci extends sympathy for bad streak
Actress Susan Lucci hopes Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis’ losing streak in NFL playoff games doesn’t last as long as her epic drought in the Emmys.
After losing to Houston in 2012, Lewis said he was starting to feel like Lucci, who was nominated 19 times before winning her first Daytime Emmy Award for Best Actress in her role as Erica Kane on “All My Children.” Three seasons later, Lewis and his Bengals host Pittsburgh on Saturday as the coach looks to avoid an NFL-record seventh straight postseason defeat.
“I hope he doesn’t go 12 more years before he wins a playoff game,” Lucci said in an interview with the Associated Press, and she wasn’t joking. “I certainly hope the best for him. I’m sure he has a similar feeling to what I had – how do you do your work better and grow?”