Fans beg Justin Bieber to cancel tour dates in wake of Manchester bombing as fear grips pop’s youth
Social media has been flooded with pleas by Beliebers for the Canadian heartthrob to cancel upcoming British tour dates and follow the lead of Ariana Grande, who called off concerts in London and Europe after Monday’s attack
Fans of Justin Bieber are pleading for his upcoming British tour dates to be cancelled, underscoring the potential repercussions to music acts with a young fan base following the suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, northern England.
Canadian heartthrob Bieber, 23, is due to play an open air concert at London’s Hyde Park in July. But fans flooded social media saying his appearance should be axed for the safety of both fans and the singer himself.
“Cancel Justin’s concert in the UK, please! We want him to be safe, please,” a person using the handle marhrukhh wrote on the Instagram account of Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun.
Deadly concert attack latest in string of terror strikes on British soil in recent years
Braun also manages Grande, also 23, a former Nickelodeon star whose huge female fan base – many of them tweens – were out in force for her concert in Manchester on Monday night when a suicide bombing killed 22 people and injured dozens.
Grande flew to Florida on Tuesday to spend time with her family, reports have said. Since Monday’s attack, she has called off two London concerts and five in Europe, but there is no news on whether the rest of her world tour, which calls through Hong Kong in September, will go ahead.
Leanne Murray, 20, who lives in Ireland, has tickets to see Bieber play in Dublin next month. But she said that after Monday’s bombing she is contemplating selling them.