I'm not a big fan of the celebrity "role model" idea as I tend to agree that if someone goes vegan just because some sleb is, it probably won't last.
However if more well-known people were vegan it would help to sort of "normalise" it because with any luck they would mention it in interviews and so on and it would make people realise that there are quite a few of us around and that it can't be as difficult as all that.
If the person is some sort of hate figure it might backfire, but I don't really know whether that's true of the person under discussion (just call me Ms Out-of-touch-with-popular-culture). OTOH maybe it's true that there's no such thing as bad publicity when you're just trying to get the idea into people's field of vision.
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