Melanie C cancels Poland concert over ‘issues brought to my attention’



LGBTQ+ rights corporations reward ex-Spice Girl for pulling retired of New Year’s Eve look connected state broadcaster

Melanie C stated she had been made alert of troubles ‘that bash not al with the groups I help’. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/Melanie C said she had been made alert of problems ‘that bash not al with the groups I assist’. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/Josh HallidayTue 27 Dec 2022 05.Fifty 8 ESTLast modified connected Tue 27 Dec 2022 07.03 EST

The erstwhile Spice Girl Melanie C says she has cancelled a show successful Poland connected New Year’s Eve aft being made alert astir problems “that don't al with the communities I assist”.

She did nary longer tricky nevertheless turned into praised with the assistance of allies of the LGBTQ+ network.

The singer, whose existent sanction is Melanie Chisholm, was reportedly owed to execute successful a televised performance for the Polish federation broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP).

She tweeted connected Monday nighttime time: “In mild of a fewer issues that person been introduced to my interest, that don't al with the groups I guide, I’m acrophobic I volition nary longer beryllium susceptible of execute successful Poland arsenic deliberate connected New Year’s Eve.

“I anticipation to beryllium returned determination precise quickly. Hope you’re each having a terrific Christmas and satisfactory desires for 2023. Melanie xxx.”

Replying to her declaration, Twitter customers described her arsenic a “hero” and an “ally”.

Although homosexuality has been felony successful Poland due to the fact that 1932, identical-intercourse matrimony and civilian unions aren't acknowledged, adoption for equal-sex couples is illegal, and country is needed truthful arsenic to legally alternate sex fame.

Poland ranks backside among EU planetary locations successful a league table for LGBTQ+ rights compiled done the European vicinity of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.

Chisholm is referred to arsenic a robust state of the LGBTQ+ network. She received superstar state of the 12 months astatine the British LGBT awards past 12 months.

In a assertion mentioned with the assistance of Polish media, TVP claimed Chisholm had resed from the amusement “below the accent of connected enactment feedback”.

It stated: “Melanie C is 1 of the galore stars of this yr’s ‘New Year’s Eve Dreams with Dwójka’, who commonplace the invitation and sed a colony with Telewizja Polska and volition person a bully clip the marque caller yr with us, and contiguous – underneath the strain of on-line remarks – she abruptly resed from the wide performance.

“The corp changed into amazed to perceive astir the artist’s alternate of plans. TVP reminds that New Year’s Eve is simply a unrecorded show for each radical who desires to invited the caller twelvemonth with due a laugh.”

Samuel Pereira, a writer connected the kingdom broadcaster, published a video of Chisholm appearing successful Russia successful 2018 and tweeted: “Melanie C successful a rustic that doesn't ‘contradict her views’ – Russia.”