{"id":14190,"date":"2026-05-13T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14190\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:26:13","slug":"loreal-paris-responds-as-fans-question-brand-for-ignoring-aishwarya-rai-at-cannes-year-after-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/14190\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Or\u00e9al Paris responds as fans question brand for &#8216;ignoring&#8217; Aishwarya Rai at Cannes: &#8216;Year after year&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">For decades, cosmetic giant <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/lifestyle\/fashion\/aishwarya-rai-owns-the-ramp-for-loreal-in-paris-wearing-manish-malhotra-sherwani-studded-with-massive-diamond-necklace-101759199234683.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"L\u2019Oreal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">L\u2019Oreal <\/a>Paris has been almost synonymous with the Cannes Film Festival. The brand has been a sponsor of the prestigious film festival, bringing some of the world&#8217;s top stars to the red carpet for years. Among the biggest L\u2019Oreal ambassadors at Cannes over the past 20 years has been Bollywood star <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/aishwarya-rai\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Aishwarya Rai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aishwarya Rai<\/a>, a regular on the Cannes red carpet. So it was strange when L\u2019Oreal unveiled its ambassadors at Cannes\u2019 Le Martinez Hotel with giant banner posters this week, and Aishwarya was absent.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2026\/05\/13\/400x225\/Aishwarya_cannes_1778646950169_1778646950285.webp\" alt=\"Aishwarya Rai has been a regular at Cannes for over 20 years.\" title=\"Aishwarya Rai has been a regular at Cannes for over 20 years.\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Aishwarya Rai has been a regular at Cannes for over 20 years.Aishwarya missing from L\u2019Oreal promotions at Cannes<\/p>\n<p>The six posters included other major L\u2019Oreal ambassadors, including another Indian star, <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/alia-bhatt\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"Alia Bhatt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alia Bhatt<\/a>, but Aishwarya was conspicuously absent. L\u2019Oreal Paris shared the visual on their Instagram account, writing, \u201cConsider this L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris\u2019s official check-in, Le Martinez is officially home for the Festival.\u201d However, the comments were filled with Aishwarya Rai fans questioning her absence from the promotions. \u201cWhere&#8217;s the mother of Cannes #AishwaryaRaiBachchan,\u201d asked one. Another added, \u201cIt&#8217;s too much! This time, L&#8217;Oreal is going overboard. The poster doesn&#8217;t feature a legend like Aishwarya, who made the L&#8217;Oreal brand popular across the entire Asian continent, but instead highlights some actresses who are just two days old!\u201d One even went as far as to say, \u201cI&#8217;m sorry but Aishwarya Rai will forever be much bigger than Alia Bhatt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For decades, cosmetic giant L\u2019Oreal Paris has been almost synonymous with the Cannes Film Festival. The brand has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10128,10127,10703,7669,10702,30,2911],"class_list":{"0":"post-14190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-aishwarya-rai","9":"tag-alia-bhatt","10":"tag-bollywood-star","11":"tag-cannes-film-festival","12":"tag-loreal-paris","13":"tag-paris","14":"tag-red-carpet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}