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As the results of Britain’s historic vote on whether to leave the European Union began to trickle in this evening, tense poll watchers on social media were treated to a rather bizarre yet remarkably delightful surprise: It turns out that adored child star turned tabloid enfant terrible Lindsay Lohan is really, really passionate about Brexit:
#besmart pay attention and work hard to buy @chanel #remain where's Sunderland? https://t.co/EyG3WpKPdC
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 23, 2016
@Independent why? prove the UK will not trigger anger by allowing (sunderland) to lower the UK pound - THIS IMPACT WILL CONTROL ALL MARGINS
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 23, 2016
#Remain small shops should pay more attention
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 23, 2016
#REMAIN Sorry, but #KETTERING where are you&why is this woman @BBCNews speaking on people rather than TELLING us what happens if UK LEAVES?
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
i love the #shetlands @BBCNews thank goodness we have pure hearted people our side #besmart #ShetlandsVSSunderland #BringItOn
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
@Telegraph what would #MARGARETTHATCHER THINK OF #Brexit ?
— Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) June 24, 2016
As one Twitter user helpfully reminded us, this is not the first time that the star of such classics as Mean Girls, The Parent Trap, and Herbie: Fully Loaded has taken to social media to weigh in on a major international news story, seemingly at random:
Those surprised @ Lindsay Lohan weighing in on #Brexit &the #EUref , you should it's not the weirdest thing she did. pic.twitter.com/cFs7v3kB9t
— Ahmad Al-shathry (@Abunass3r) June 24, 2016
As Ahmad Al-shathry notes, Vox previously covered Lohan’s decision to take to Instagram to mourn the passing of Saudi King Abdullah:
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In (somewhat mangled) Arabic, no less.
As Max Fisher wrote in that post, "It turns out that Lindsay Lohan was quite close with a well-connected member of a wealthy Saudi family: Mohammed al-Turki."
Al-Turki is a young, handsome, well-known film producer, so it wasn’t actually as random as it seemed that the young starlet was posting about the death of the ruler of Saudi Arabia on Instagram.
And on further investigation, Lohan’s intense interest in the Brexit vote isn’t perhaps as random as it seems, either. That’s because, as reported in People magazine, Lindsay now lives in London with her rich Russian boyfriend Egor Tarabasov and, according to an unnamed source quoted in the People article, "has no interest in returning to L.A."
Since Lohan has apparently decided to make Britain her home, it makes sense that she would be interested in the outcome of one of the most historic votes in Britain’s history.
But it’s still pretty funny.