Jess Glynne cancels all shows until mid-July after pulling out of Isle of Wight performance
The cancellation comes just days after she pulled out of the Isle of Wight Festival minutes before she was due to perform, leading to a lifetime ban.
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Your support makes all the difference.Jess Glynne has cancelled all of her scheduled performances until mid-July after "overdoing everything".
In a statement, the “Rather Be” performer said that she had been advised to pull out of her live shows on the advice of her throat surgeon. Earlier this month she controversially cancelled her performance at the Isle of Wight Festival minutes before she was due to appear on-stage. She was subsequently banned from ever performing at the festival again. Later she explained that she had experienced a panic attack.
“I am going to have to cancel my next shows through until July 14th and I hope to be back as soon as possible after that,” she wrote. “I know many of my fans feel I let them down so badly when I pulled out of the Isle of Wight Festival but the reason I knew I just wasn’t going to be able to make that performance has now been made clear to be by my doctor, Dr Zeitels.”
She also used the statement to defend herself against press reports at the time of Isle of Wight that she had been partying with the Spice Girls prior to the cancellation. Glynne had supported the iconic girlband on their recent reunion tour.
“It is true that I went out and celebrated the end of the Spice tour,” Glynne wrote. “That was a massive high for me and I wanted to mark it with the women who’d become friends and mentors to me. But I had also been suffering on and off for weeks with anxiety about my voice.
“It wasn’t right. I wasn’t sounding my best and I felt there was something wrong. Two days ago I came to Boston to see my surgeon who told me my vocal chord has haemorrhaged and that if I wanted to remain as a performer I needed to urgently take a break, rest my voice completely for the next 10 days and try and remain in total silence to give my vocal chords a chance to recover.”
Glynne further explained that she had been “overdoing everything” after performing almost 100 shows within the last six months. She added: “My voice literally got to breaking point. The thing is I am my voice. If my voice goes, I go... All I know is I have to go away, look after my voice and come back stronger, better and be the performer my fans truly deserve.”
TRNSMT director Geoff Ellis said in a statement that the festival hopes to “announce Glynne’s replacement in the next few days.”
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