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  "textContent": "The clip showed the influencer dancing in a seemingly chipper mood on Anzac Day (Picture: Instagram/@4ll3gr4a)\n\nA British influencer has apologised after her video was accused of trivialising Australia’s Anzac Day.\n\nAllegra Phipps posted a since-deleted, light-hearted video of herself to her 51,000 followers dancing and enjoying drinks at 7am.\n\nTo anyone outside Australia, it might have seemed like the usual content when scrolling on Instagram, but it has riled up those who mark Anzac Day.\n\nAnzac Day on April 25, a public holiday, sees people across Australia and New Zealand commemorate all soldiers killed in wars and conflict, most notably the First and Second World Wars.\n\nSimilar to the Remembrance in the UK, the solemn day is filled with services, marches and wreath-laying ceremonies.\n\nAllegra Phipps said she deleted the TikTok clip as soon as she realised it had offended people (Picture: Instagram/4ll3gr4a)\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News** alerts the moment it happens.\n\nAllegra posted her video on Anzac Day during her 12-week trip to the country.\n\nBut it caused an uproar among some Aussies, and led her to issue an apology after being accused of being out of touch.\n\nShe said she didn’t grasp the full weight of the day, the Daily Mail reports.\n\nThe video was taken down as soon as she realised the upset it had caused, she said.\n\nAllegra said: ‘I was trying to express an appreciation for the sense of unity that the day can bring.\n\n‘I did not mean to celebrate the day in a way that overlooks its true significance or the sacrifices it represents.\n\n‘Once I understood the significance of Anzac Day and how my post came across, I knew the right thing was to take it down.\n\n‘I’m sorry for any offence or hurt I caused.’\n\nSocial media commentators wondered whether Allegra had confused the day with another national holiday.\n\nOne person wrote: ‘Surely, they’re mixing it up with Australia Day? That’s all I can fathom.’\n\n##  What is Anzac Day?\n\nAnzac Day marks the start of the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, which was the first major battle fought by the Australian and New Zealand troops during the First World War.\n\nIt has been marked every year on April 25 to remember all victims of war from the two countries.\n\nThe word Anzac stands for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.\n\nAround 416,000 Australians served in the First World War, while around 220,000 New Zealand, Maori and Pacific Island soldiers had been either conscripted or enlisted during the war, according to the Commonwealth Graves Commission.\n\nIn the Second World War, a million Australians enlisted to serve, with around 10% of Australia’s entire population serving in the army at some point during the war. Around 120,000 people from much smaller New Zealand served in the war.\n\nThere are almost as many views on the modern Anzac Day as there are Australians.\n\nIt has been debated whether the country should let go of the Anzac Day tradition, and whether it is a day of glorification of violence or a time to reflect on collective trauma.\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,** check our news page.\n\nComment now Comments \nAdd Metro as a Preferred Source on Google\nAdd as preferred source\n",
  "title": "British influencer leaves Australia after ‘insensitive’ Anzac Day TikTok video"
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