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Keli Holiday detained at the US border as Abbie Chatfield apologises over Trump post
Keli Holiday was detained at the US border during a tour stop, while Abbie Chatfield apologised over a Trump-related post.
Keli Holiday of Peking Duk has been barred from re-entering the US, after being stopped at the US-Canada border during the middle of a North American tour. The Australian musician, real name Adam Hyde, said he was detained on Friday May 8 after a show in Toronto, despite what he described as having “the proper visa documentation”.
In a post on social media, Holiday said he had “spent all day detained at the Canadian border and denied entry back into the US”. He has since returned to Australia.
By Tuesday May 12, the fallout had widened online. Holiday’s partner, podcaster and TV host Abbie Chatfield, issued an apology over a post from last summer that criticised Donald Trump, after speculation that the border ban was connected to it.
“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 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 stressed that “no clear reason” had been given for the decision. “I also want to make it clear Adam hadn’t even seen this video,” she added. “So any vitriol toward him is unwarranted.”
Meanwhile, Peking Duk are moving toward a major new release of their own. The Canberra duo are set to put out their debut album Paradise on August 14. In announcing it, 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.”
The timing of all this lands amid a bigger swirl of Trump-related pop-culture noise. Mark Hamill recently deleted an AI photo of Trump dead in a grave, captioned, “If Only.” The White House called Hamill a “deranged lunatic.” Rod Stewart also urged King Charles this week to “put that little ratbag in his place,” referring to the president.
Trump himself, meanwhile, claimed that his dance moves to the “gay national anthem” Village People’s Y.M.C.A. had helped keep the song at the top of the charts “for months.”
