Colleen Ballinger’s tour dates cancelled following grooming allegations
nme.comwho is best known for her alter ego Miranda Sings, had been performing a string of live dates across the US in May and June.
Her tour was scheduled to resume in Boise, Idaho this Thursday (July 13).However, as The Independent has highlighted, despite the fact that many tour dates are still listed on Ballinger’s website, each link clicks through to websites stating that the shows have been cancelled.According to her website, her show was “open to all ages and rated PG13 due to some adult references and expletives that appear briefly on a screen”.Last month Ballinger was accused in an Huffington Post UK investigation of sending sexually explicit messages to young fans, which she denied at the end of the month via song in a video posted to her Colleen Vlogs YouTube account.She said in her video: “Some people are saying things about me that just aren’t true.
Even though my team has strongly advised me not to say what I’m going to say, I realised they never said I couldn’t sing about what I want to say.”Ballinger added: “I used to message my fans – but not in a creepy way, like a lot of you are trying to suggest.
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