‘The Idol’ finale takes a dig at Kanye West for ‘following Adolf Hitler’

“The Idol” lastly got here to an finish – however not earlier than throwing some shade at Kanye West.

HBO’s controversial sequence, which stars Lily-Rose Depp as a pop star named Jocelyn, referenced West’s reported appreciation for Adolf Hitler throughout Sunday’s finale.

Within the ultimate episode, Depp’s character placed on a showcase for her administration crew in an try and persuade them that she was prepared to return on tour.

“You already know, f–king Kanye was filling arenas till he determined to begin following Adolf Hitler,” her agent mentioned, seemingly referencing Jocelyn’s relationship with Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s slimy character, Tedros.

Within the sequence, Tedros preys on Depp’s troubled pop idol character and the pair interact in extraordinarily graphic intercourse scenes.

Regardless of backlash from each followers and TV critics, The Weeknd has continued to defend the present, even telling Selection lat month that the heavy criticism was “very a lot anticipated.”

“We’re taking part in with genres with this present, we’re doing precisely what we wished to do,” he defined.

As for West, he was sued by an ex-employee final November over a number of situations by which he allegedly praised Hitler and Nazism in numerous enterprise conferences.

The Yeezy founder, 46, entered a settlement settlement with the worker and denied the claims made within the settlement. It later got here to gentle that West allegedly wished to call his 2018 album “Hitler” after the disgraced world chief – however modified his thoughts for unknown causes, CNN reported.

West additionally allegedly professed his love for the German dictator in the identical TMZ interview that he infamously argued that slavery was “a selection.”

“He mentioned one thing like, ‘I like Hitler, I like Nazis.’ One thing to that impact,” Van Lathan recalled on his “Larger Studying” podcast final October.

Lathan recalled a Jewish employees member on the tabloid allegedly difficult the “Stronger” rapper over his anti-Semitic feedback. West reportedly left with unchanged views.

“Once I noticed [the new tweets], I used to be like, ‘Oh, I knew that this was ultimately coming.’ As a matter of reality, I had anticipated it coming, like, approach sooner than this,” the podcaster mentioned, referencing West’s slew of anti-Semitic posts which bought him banned from the platform final Fall.

Celebrities have been fast to denounce the musician’s habits, whereas corporations like Adidas, Hole, Balenciaga, JPMorgan Chase and Vogue severed their working ties with him.

The multi-Grammy award winner, who has bipolar dysfunction, later doubled down on his remarks when requested if he was sorry about making anti-Semitic feedback.

West’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and her relations even spoke out in opposition to him in a uncommon transfer on the time. The rapper’s ex sister-in-law Khloé Kardashian wrote on Instagram that she helps her “Jewish mates and the Jewish individuals.”