Keli Holiday of Peking Duk has been banned from the US, leading to an apology from his girlfriend over a post about Donald Trump.
The Australian musician, who is one half of the electro duo, was in the middle of a North American tour, but found himself detained at the US-Canada border on Friday (May 8) when trying to re-enter the States after a show in Toronto.
Holiday – real name Adam Hyde – said he was held at the border despite having “the proper visa documentation”, writing on social media that he had “spent all day detained at the Canadian border and denied entry back into the US”. He has subsequently returned home to Australia.
On Tuesday (May 12), Holiday’s partner, the podcaster and TV host Abbie Chatfield, posted an apology for a post from last summer that was critical of Trump after speculation that Holiday’s ban could be a result of the post.
“A video that I posted a year ago has come back to haunt me, essentially,” Chatfield said. The original post had seen her discuss Luigi Mangione, the man who allegedly shot and killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. Mangione faces trial for the alleged murder later this year.
Chatfield said people had “conflated” Holiday’s ban with her post, but “no clear reason” had been given for the ban. “I also want to make it clear Adam hadn’t even seen this video,” she added. “So any vitriol toward him is unwarranted.”
Canberra duo Peking Duk are preparing to release their debut album ‘Paradise’ on August 14. Announcing the record, they said: “After 16 amazing years, Adam and I have made the difficult decision to end this chapter of our lives…But deep down we know it’s time for us to evolve. So we finally made a move we thought we’d never make. We recorded an album.”
Elsewhere, Mark Hamill recently deleted an AI photo of Trump dead in a grave, alongside a caption, “If Only”. The White House had described Hamill as a “deranged lunatic”. Rod Stewart also urged King Charles this week to “put that little ratbag in his place”, in reference to the President.
Trump, meanwhile, claimed that his dance moves to the “gay national anthem” Village People’s ‘Y.M.C.A.’ had brought the song to the top of the charts “for months”.