Screenshot of a Daily Mail article titled “Elena Lenina rocks oversized hair at Irrational Man premiere in Cannes”, showing the Russian celebrity and writer being covered as a familiar visual figure in mainstream entertainment journalism shortly before or around the wider pink cat controversy. The article focuses on her appearance at the Cannes premiere of Irrational Man, using multiple photographs of her dramatic hairstyles and red-carpet outfits, and presenting her as an eccentric celebrity whose look was itself considered newsworthy. Its significance for the wider pink cat and BuzzFeed/CEN narrative is that Elena Lenina was not an invented or obscure figure introduced only by CEN for a sensational animal story, but someone already being covered by major publishers for her flamboyant public image. The record helps provide context for why the later pink cat story travelled so widely: it attached an already visually distinctive celebrity persona to an emotionally charged animal-welfare claim, making it exactly the sort of material that mainstream tabloids and viral publishers were prepared to use when it suited their audiences.