» ‘Disgusted’ Emily Ratajkowski blasts Blue Origin space stars

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Emily Ratajkowski has joined a chorus of famous faces who are voicing their displeasure with Blue Origin’s much-ballyhooed star-studded space flight.

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On Monday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company launched his fiancee Lauren Sanchez and an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King into the upper atmosphere for a 10-minute flight, and four minutes of zero-G conditions.

Although the rest of the squad pushed Perry to sing Roar as they looked at Earth below from the edge of space, the 13-time Grammy winner crooned What a Wonderful World instead.

“It’s not about me. It’s not about singing my songs,” Perry told reporters following the flight. “It’s about a collective energy in there. It’s about us.” At a press conference later, she added, “We weren’t just taking up space. We were making space for the future.”

King’s pal Oprah Winfrey said the trip was “bigger than just going to space.”

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“This is overcoming a wall of fear, a barrier — I think it’s going to be cathartic in many ways for her,” she said.

But Ratajkowski panned the group, asking her 2.7 million TikTok followers to “think about how many resources went into putting these women into space.”

“That space mission this morning? That’s end time s***. Like, this is beyond parody,” she said in a selfie-style video that has been viewed more than two million times. “That you care about Mother Earth and it’s about Mother Earth, and you’re going up in a spaceship that is built and paid for by a company that’s singlehandedly destroying the planet?”

Ratajkowski said she was “literally, disgusted” by the celeb-stuffed capsule, which also included former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, bioastronautics research scientist Amanda Nguyen, and film producer Kerianne Flynn.

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In the comments section of her clip, Ratajkowski’s followers also hit out at the travellers on the suborbital ride.

“It’s the opposite of empowering, it’s so embarrassing,” one person wrote, with another adding, “I wish more influential & famous people would speak on this … preposterous PR stunt.”

Olivia Wilde also chided the flyers, sharing a meme to her Instagram Stories in which someone posted a photo of Perry exiting the New Shepard spacecraft and kissing the ground. “Getting off a commercial flight in 2025,” they captioned the snaps.

“Billion dollars bought some good memes, I guess,” Wilde wrote.

Olivia Munn also questioned the wall-to-wall coverage of the voyage when she co-hosted Today with Jenna and Friends earlier this month.

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“I know this probably isn’t the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now,” she said, according to Page Six.

However, King brushed off critics, telling PEOPLE at a press conference that “anybody that’s criticizing it doesn’t really understand what is happening here.”

“We can all speak to the response we’re getting from young women, from young girls, about what this represents,” she said.

Sanchez also fired back at detractors, telling the outlet, “I would love to have them come to Blue Origin and see the thousands of employees that don’t just work here but they put their heart and soul into this vehicle. They love their work and they love the mission and it’s a big deal for them … when we hear comments like that, I just say, ‘Trust me. Come with me. I’ll show you what this is about, and it’s, it’s really eye-opening.’” 

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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