Dubai Expo 2020 bid celeb support: Mallika, Pamela, Khloe and more

Guess who just tweeted their support for Dubai’s Expo 2020 bid? It’s a long list of international celebrities that have made public their love the emirate and their support to it for winning the coveted expo award later this month.

The most recent celebrities to tweet their support for the UAE’s bid include Bollywood diva Mallika Sherawat (1.13 million Twitter followers), Hollywood stars Pamela Anderson (972,000 followers), Bella Thorne (4.68 million followers) and Zendaya Coleman (3.8 million followers), and one of Kardashian sisters, Khloé (8.5 million followers).

Among other supporters for the Dubai Expo 2020 bid are Grammy Award winners American R&B recording artist Ne-Yo (5.9 million followers) and La Toya Jackson (348,000 followers), British singer-songwriter Jay Sean (1.48 million followers), Miley Cyrus’ mom Tish Cyrus (377,000 followers), and many others.

The World Expo is one of the largest global, non-commercial events in terms of economic and cultural impact, after the Fifa World Cup and the Olympic Games.

For its bid to host the 2020 World Expo in Dubai, the UAE has selected the theme “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”. Brazil, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates had all officially bid to host Expo 2020 by the November 2, 2011, deadline.

Thailand’s Ayutthaya withdrew its bid for Expo 2020 earlier in the year. A decision will be made by the BIE General Assembly through a voting by the 163 member countries for establishing the winner on November 27, 2013.

The most recent World Expo in Shanghai in 2010 was of great significance to China. As a showcase of what a modern city Shanghai had become, it was a considerable achievement on the soft diplomacy front for the Chinese as they gained international exposure and reached further out into the world.

The Expo involved 192 countries and 50 international organisations and was the most expensive in the history of World’s Fairs. By its end, a record 73 million people had visited. It cost 11.96bn yuan ($1.89bn) to run the event, but it made a profit of more than 1bn yuan ($158m).

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