STAR REPORT
Simu Liu asks fans to stop ‘bullying’ bubble tea brand
Simu Liu is hustling to turn down the heat on a bubble tea company after criticism of its televised sales pitch to the Marvel superhero boiled over online.
The “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” star called out the Quebec-based brand Bobba for “cultural appropriation.”
Bobba owners Sebastien Fiset and Jess Frenette pitched a “transformed” bottled bubble tea that, with its “three simple ingredients” — including the brand’s signature “Popping Bobba” — was “not a ethnical [sic] product anymore.”
— Los Angeles Times