Khaby Lame, the world’s hottest TikTok persona, has left the US after being detained by federal brokers.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson stated the Senegalese-Italian influencer – who has 162.2m followers on TikTok – was detained on Friday at Harry Reid Worldwide Airport in Las Vegas after he “overstayed the phrases of his visa”.
The 25-year-old had arrived within the US on 30 April, the ICE spokesperson added, and was allowed to go away the nation with no deportation order by a voluntary departure.
These with a deportation order on their data might be prevented from being allowed again into the US for as much as a decade.
Whereas within the US, Lame – whose authorized title is Seringe Khabane Lame – attended the Met Gala and the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute profit gala in New York Metropolis.
He turned well-known on-line through the COVID-19 pandemic, the place he would react to sophisticated life hack movies with out saying a phrase.
With tens of millions of followers, he signed a multi-year partnership with designer model Hugo Boss in 2022, and was appointed as a UNICEF goodwill ambassador in January this yr.
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He has not publicly commented on his detention, and has continued posting on TikTok since.
Sky Information has approached his representatives for remark.
