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Hollywood actor Will Smith gifts electric motorbike to Hamdan

Sheikh Hamdan took to his Instagram account and wrote, ‘Thank you @willsmith for the bike! I named it Scotty…’

- Syed Shayaan Bakht, Staff Reporter

Hollywood superstar Will Smith has gifted a high-tech electric motorbike to Crown Prince of Dubai Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Sheikh Hamdan took to his Instagram account and wrote, “Thank you @willsmith for the bike! I named it Scotty…”

Gulf Today learned that the chic bike is made by SUPER73, a brand that has pioneered a new approach to help redefine the electric motorbike industry.

Will Smith keeps coming to Dubai to spend some relaxing moments. In March 2019, he shared a video from the highest observatio­n deck of the Burj Khalifa.

At the same time, the 52-year-old actor made his wife Jada Pinkett Smith get rid of her fear of heights. He made her do skydiving in Dubai.

Smith wrote on Instagram, “Jada’s afraid of heights, she doesn’t like flying, and she never ever would think that jumping out of a plane would be fun... but she agreed to do it. That’s love and this is my Bucket List. @willsmiths­bucketlist…”

In 2014, Sheikh Hamdan took Fast and Furious series actor Tyrese Gibson and Smith on a full-day adventure. A photo posted on Indoor Skydiving instagram page shows Sheikh Hamdan, Smith and Gibson at Inflight Dubai arena, the largest vertical state-of-the-art indoor skydiving facility.

Celebritie­s and sportspers­ons keep meeting the Dubai royal on their visit to Dubai.

Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo, Russian mixed martial artist Khabib Nurmagomed­ov and Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic are often seen working out with Hamdan at Nad Al Sheba Sports Complex whenever they visit Dubai. The sport-enthusiast Crown Prince of Dubai has over 11.1 million followers in his Instagram account.

On the other hand, Will Smith made headlines recently when he made the statement that he would run for the office of the President of the United States in future.

Speaking to filmmaker Jon Favreau for a podcast, the actor spoke about many things including his dream of running for POTUS in the future.

“I think for now I’ll let that office get cleaned up a little bit and then I’ll consider that at some point down the line,” he was quoted by The Hollywood Reporter, as saying on Pod Save America.

The 52-year-old actor explained that even if he does not join politics, he wants to be able to do something meaningful for society.

“I absolutely have an opinion, I’m optimistic, I’m hopeful, I believe in understand­ing between people and I believe in the possibilit­y of harmony. I will certainly do my part, whether it remains artistic or, at some point, venture into the political arena,” he said.

Smith, during the conversati­on, also spoke about racism, and how he has encountere­d systematic racism, even more after becoming a part of Hollywood.

“I grew up with the impression that racists and racism were stupid, and they were easy to get around. I just had to be smarter now while they were very dangerous,” he said.

“But at the core of it, I noticed a difference between ignorance and evil. Now they’re twins, for sure, but ignorance can be educated and evil is a much more difficult problem. I’ve always been encouraged that the process of education and understand­ing could alleviate some of the more dangerous and difficult aspects of racism that have unfortunat­ely been embedded in the very fibre of our country,” he added.

In October, Smith and his family spent some quality time with Indian spiritual leader and author Sadhguru.

Photograph­s released by the Isha Foundation founder on social media show the two appearing to have a heart to heart conversati­on. The images hint at various moods of Will Smith, sometimes pensive while listening to Sadhguru and at other times in a jolly mood.

Sharing the photograph­s of their meeting on his verified Twitter account, Sadhguru wrote: “Will, it was a pleasure to spend some time with you and your wonderful family. May your Sangha be strong and Dharma be your guide. -Sg #Willsmith.”

Smith was last seen in “Bad Boys For Life”, the third part of the buddy cop film series , “Bad Boys”, which was released before the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Sheikh Hamdan poses with the SUPER73 electric motorbike in Dubai.
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