22 Stars Who Have Been Banned From Foreign Countries

Elton John - Egypt

Elton John and Egypt just don't see eye-to-eye. He told Parade magazine back in 2010 that "I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East - you're as good as dead." It didn't take long for the head of Egypt's Musician Union to respond. Mounir al-Wasimi said he couldn't allow “a homosexual who wants to ban religions, claimed that the prophet Issa (Jesus) was gay and calls for Middle Eastern countries to allow gays to have sexual freedom” to perform there. Harsh.