Movie, sport and music celebs who are vaccine sceptics

Anti-vaxxers aren’t all fringe dwellers who love activated almonds. Many celebrities are voicing doubts about immunisations too.

A penchant for activated almonds and questioning science and technology is often a good indicator of anti-vaxxers.

Take leading Aussie advocates such as chef Pete Evans, who denounced sunscreen as dangerous, and actor Isabel Lucas, who believes 5G telecommunications is a government conspiracy.

But not all vaccine sceptics are as easy to spot — with a growing number of popular stars across entertainment and sport becoming vocal opponents.

Last week Olivia Newton John’s US-based daughter Chloe Lattanzi said she doesn’t agree with vaccines, arguing natural medicine saved her mother’s life.

“What do you do when you don’t fit in a box!? When you are a vegan, cannabis growing, lgbtq supporting Buddhist that doesn’t agree with vaccines? Anyone relate?” she shared on social media.

“Sorry but not being in favour of lockdowns, masks and vaccines does NOT make me a member of the radical right or a “radical” of any kind.

“Natural medicine saved my mom’s life. So natural medicine is the party I belong to. Not republican!!! Not democrat!”

Here are some celebrities you may be surprised to know are anti-vaccine.

Letitia Wright

Black Panther star Letitia Wright has deleted her social media profiles after sharing a YouTube video which questioned the legitimacy of the coronavirus vaccine.

The clip said governments were not being transparent about the ingredients of COVID-19 vaccines but provided no evidence for these claims.

Letitia Wright. Picture: Valerie Macon / AFP

The video — which Wright posted with a prayer hands emoji — was met with intense backlash, to which the actor responded: “If you don’t conform to popular opinions but ask questions and think for yourself … you get cancelled.”

“My intention was not to hurt anyone, my ONLY intention of posting the video was it raised my concerns with what the vaccine contains and what we are putting in our bodies … Nothing else.”

Novak Djokovic

Tennis world No. 1 Novak Djokovic shocked fans when he revealed he does not support people having to get vaccinated for coronavirus to be able to travel internationally.

“Personally I am opposed to vaccination and I wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine in order to be able to travel,” the champion said in a Facebook live chat with fellow Serbian athletes in April.

Novak Djokovic. Picture: Glyn Kirk / AFP

“But if it becomes compulsory, I will have to make a decision whether to do it or not. This is my current feeling, and I don’t know if it will change, but it really influences my profession.”

But Djokovic clarified his stance in August adding: “My issue here with vaccines is if someone is forcing me to put something in my body. That I don’t want. For me that’s unacceptable.”

Elle Macpherson

The Aussie supermodel was last month seen promoting a US anti-vaccination campaign led by her boyfriend Andrew Wakefield.

Mr Wakefield was banned from practising medicine after releasing research which falsely claimed that the MMR vaccine caused autism.

Elle Macpherson.

Macpherson, known fondly as “The Body”, took to the stage in North Carolina to broadcast an anti-vaccination video and called the current pandemic “divine time” and “sacred timing”.

“(Wakefield) made this film during COVID, and it’s interesting because it’s such beautiful, sacred timing when you watch the film, because it’s so pertinent and so relevant … And for it to come in this divine time where vaccination and mandatory vaccination is on everybody’s lips.”

Charlie Sheen

The Two And A Half Men star was locked in a legal battle with ex-wife Denise Richards because he opposed their two daughters getting vaccinated for preventable disease.

Charlie Sheen. Picture: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for EJAF

The court ruled in Richards’s favour, prompting a furious Sheen to pay a $380 pediatrician’s bill for the children’s treatment in 5 cent pieces.

“When I vaccinated Sam, he (Sheen) accused me of poisoning her,” Richards told media in 2008.

Toni Braxton

In 2014, the singer wrote in her memoir Unbreak My Heart that she believed the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine contributed to her son’s autism.

Toni Braxton. Picture: Allen Berezovsky/WireImage

“Maybe it’s just a coincidence that after my son’s first MMR vaccine, I began to notice changes in him,” she wrote.

Jessica Biel

The Hollywood star says she is not “anti-vaccination” but supports families having a choice in getting their children vaccinated.

Jessica Biel with husband Justin Timberlake. Picture: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Google

Last year Biel joined anti-vaccination advocate Robert F Kennedy Jnr in lobbying against a vaccine bill which limited medical exemptions from vaccinations without approval from a state public health officer.

“I believe in giving doctors and the families they treat the ability to decide what’s best for their patients and the ability to provide that treatment,” Biel wrote on social media.