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Chris Brown Loses Fourth Sponsor
Written by Tank // July 17, 2013 // Chris Brown, Drama, Events, Hip Hop News, Hollywood Sausage, Hotspots, Latest News, The 9ine
(CelebNMusic247-News) Chris Brown Loses Fourth Sponsor
Just when things appeared to be looking better for Chris Brown, the bad news is starting to pour in for the singer again.
More sponsors have decided to to pull out of the Pop/R&B singer’s upcoming summer concert! As of today four sponsors have turned their backs on Breezy after yesterdays announcement that Brown’s probation got revoked by the judge who is over the Rihanna assault case due to his connection to an alleged hit and run incident, which happened back in May.
Although he publicly apologized for assaulting ex-girlfriend Rihanna, Chris is steadily losing sponsorship for the summer festival in Canada which he is scheduled to perform at
Here’s the drop thank to CTV News reports:
Centre for Arts and Technology-Halifax announced Monday that it has officially withdrawn its sponsorship of the event scheduled for Aug. 31.
The Centre said in a Facebook post:
“As an education institution, we can’t ignore the sentiments expressed on campus that participating in this year’s event goes against our collective values.”
On Monday, Molson Canadian and Halifax-based spa Touch of Radiance also announced they would be withdrawing their sponsorship from the event. On Saturday, Rogers Communications did the same.
Molson Canadian said in a statement:
“We decided to no longer pursue partnership with this year’s event. The feedback we’ve received from the fans has echoed out decision not to participate.”
In addition to a fourth sponsor pulling out of the event, an online petition was started to remove Chris Brown which is steadily growing – so far there are 10,000 signatures.
The petition, posted by Halifax resident Nichole Snow:
“Chris Brown is as well known for his violent beating of his former girlfriend Rihanna. As a city, I believe it reflects poorly on us to not only host such an artist, but to make him the headliner of this show.”
One of the festival organizers Stephen Tobin says they’re confident that the show will happen as scheduled and people will buy tickets, despite Brown losing sponsors and the petition against him.
He says:
“It’s not my position to defend or endorse any of Chris Brown’s past behaviour. In this case, what we are promoting is the fact that Chris Brown is a multi-platinum award winning artist of international calibre.”
Do you think they should pull Chris Brown from the festival or should he still be able to perform?
#ChrisBrowncanperform #ChrisBrownneedtheboot
