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The Paris Opera Ballet has dropped controversial Ukrainian-born dance star Sergei Polunin from production of “Swan Lake” after he made a homophobic and sexist rant on social media.

The mercurial “bad boy of ballet”, who was compared to Rudolf Nureyev earlier in his career, blasted gay dancers in an Instagram post last month in which he urged male ballet dancers to “man up”.

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