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A Goop spokesperson confirmed 200 people attended the one-day summit in Vancouver, the company’s first “In Goop Health” event outside the United States. Tickets to the sold-out event were priced at $400.

Media was asked not to film participants as they moved between a yoga class and a makeup tutorial. There were at least a dozen security officers ensuring the event remained a “safe space.”

Photo by Jason Payne / PNG

Bevans’ attempts to offer Hot Dog Water samples to several attendees on the public sidewalk outside the venue were mostly rebuffed.

One woman accused the artist and his friends of using “bullying” tactics on women who were there to do yoga and have fun together.

She also pointed out that attendees were able to listen to speakers on a variety of important topics, including how to use “breath work” to help with ailments, rather than pharmaceuticals.

“There’s much more important things to protest than this,” she said before walking away. She did not respond to a request for her name.

Bevans said he was not at the event to make fun of Goop attendees, but he was uncomfortable with the way the company seemed to be “riding on the coattails” of the female empowerment movement to market its products.

The artist wasn’t surprised Goop chose Vancouver for its first international summit, given the prominence of “healthy lifestyle quackery” in the city, he said.

In November, Goop will return to Canada for a “special event,” featuring a conversation with one of Goop’s most prominent thought leaders. It is unclear who will be speaking. Paltrow was not in attendance at the Vancouver event.

Although Bevans was told the Goop store was closed for lunch when he tried to enter, he continued to offer samples to people walking past.

“Cold and salty,” said Rob Cable, when asked to describe the drink. Cable, who was not attending the Goop summit, tried the hot dog water “for fun.”