Vanilla Ice among passengers quarantined after Dubai flight

by Judy Kurtz - 09/05/18 3:06 PM ET

Count Vanilla Ice among the passengers virtually frozen in place, quarantined on a plane in New York after roughly 100 travelers fell ill.

The Emirates flight was met by health officials when it landed Wednesday morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport on a trip from Dubai.

{mosads}The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement that the passengers and crew “complained of illness including cough and some with fever.”

The 50-year-old “Ice Ice Baby” rapper and DIY Network host, whose real name is Robert Van Winkle, tweeted to his more than 300,000 followers that he was on the flight, but wasn’t among the ill-stricken passengers.

So I just landed from Dubai and now there is like tons of ambulances and fire trucks and police all over the place pic.twitter.com/i9QLh6WyJW

— Vanilla Ice (@vanillaice) September 5, 2018

This is crazy. Apparently there is over 100 people sick on the bottom floor, so happy I’m up top, it’s a double-decker plane 380

— Vanilla Ice (@vanillaice) September 5, 2018

Some Twitter users had a bit of fun with the entertainer’s presence on the quarantined plane:

You should go out and calm the situation by saying: “yo, you got a problem? I’ll solve it. Check out the mix while the DJ revolves it.”

— Ryan Kisiel (@RyanKisiel) September 5, 2018