It’s hard to be a content creator in the midst of a PR crisis. According to a video by attorney Aaron Parnas, New Zealand has followed Australia’s suit and barred Owens from entering. She had planned to enter the country on an Entertainers Work Visa.

It appears that the political commentator wanted to bring the good word to New Zealand, but the letter of the law had other ideas. Section 15(1)(f) of the Immigration Act bars individuals from getting a visa to enter New Zealand if they’ve been banned from entering another country. The same section explains that New Zealand performs character checks on potential entrants, and may deny them entry.

In other words: New Zealand has a vibe check law. And Australia Candace Owens didn’t pass, so New Zealand also noped out. The Spice Girls said it best: If you wannabe my lover, you gotta get with my friends.

If you’re one of our regulars, you know that controversial blonde OnlyFans model Bonnie Blue got her Australian work visa revoked, too. We’re not sure if Candace Owens had similarly planned to bed a bunch of her fans during her stay (that’s her choice; we don’t judge).

So why did Australia bar Candace Owens from entering?

If you thought it had something to do with the words that come out of her mouth, you’d be correct. The conservative commentator has built a YouTube following of over 3 million subscribers. Previously, she had separated from the Daily Wire amid a clash of creative differences with the owner over anti-Semitic remarks.

Australia’s Immigration Minister Tony Burke told reporters that Owens’ remarks about everything from the Holocaust to Muslims could “incite discord in almost every direction.” Ordinarily, we can appreciate a woman with range. But when a country whose decision-makers are chill with giant spiders, birds attacking citizens during “swooping season,” and the general antics of Neil the Seal says its “national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else,” maybe it’s time for a rebrand.

At this time, tickets to her speaking tour are still for sale in both countries, and there’s no mention on the promoter’s website that she’s been barred from entering either New Zealand or Australia. It’s giving pre-pandemic Millennial scam of the Fyre Festival or Caroline Calloway variety. This particular online grift is too late to be on trend and too early to be vintage. Very cringe, very cheugy.

What Candace Owens has here is a failure to read the room. Some of us remember a viral video of an Australian Member of Parliament passing a motion to declare Donald Trump a revolting slug. Obviously, this was a symbolic gesture. Policymakers around the world have ways of letting us know how they feel just shy of passing a law about it. American politicians file amicus briefs. Australian ones have the parliamentary resolution. And best of all, New Zealand’s members of parliament recently performed a haka as an act of protest. Honestly, since the 2024 Olympics ended, I’d been hankering for a haka.

So, where does Candace Owens go from here? Canceling a tour ain’t cheap. Maybe she’ll start an OnlyFans to recoup the cost. She wouldn’t be the first woman to start an OnlyFans to fund a tour.

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