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Yung Filly live show cancelled after rape charge
A dwell efficiency of The Chunkz and Filly Present podcast has been cancelled after YouTuber Yung Filly was charged over rape allegations in Australia.
The British rapper and on-line persona, actual identify Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, was arrested in Brisbane on Tuesday and extradited to Perth the next day to attend a court docket listening to.
Barrientos, 29, was charged on Thursday and has had his bail software accepted.
His representatives have been contacted for remark.
The primary dwell efficiency of his podcast with web persona Chunkz was attributable to happen on 18 October in east London.
The podcast, which first broadcast final 12 months, sees the pair interview rappers and influencers.
Venue Troxy confirmed the present’s cancellation.
A spokeswoman advised the BBC: “The occasion was faraway from our web site yesterday and all ticket holders have been knowledgeable – their tickets will probably be refunded mechanically.”
The BBC has contacted promoters Cube for remark.
In a press release, Add Productions, which produces the Chunkz and Filly Present podcast, mentioned: “We’re conscious of the intense allegations which have been made towards Yung Filly and the authorized proceedings that are actually underneath manner in Western Australia.
“Within the industrial areas of enterprise the place now we have accountability, now we have paused working with our shopper.”
In the meantime, the Soccer Affiliation (FA) has cancelled a web-based cookery collection with Barrientos.
On Wednesday, it had introduced a web-based cookery collection Barrientos was reported to star in alongside England footballers, together with Bukayo Saka and Ezri Konsa.
The collection was in collaboration with M&S Meals, which the BBC understands doesn’t have a direct relationship with Yung Filly, and took half in a single piece of filming as one of many FA’s companions.
The FA has been approached for remark.
FootAsylum has additionally severed ties with Barrientos, who often appeared of their YouTube collection Does the Shoe Match?
“In gentle of those extraordinarily severe prices, we’re suspending our contract with Yung Filly with fast impact,” a spokesperson mentioned for FootAsylum.
“We’re unable to remark additional till the authorized course of has been concluded.”
The complete prices embrace 4 counts of sexual penetration with out consent, three counts of assault occasioning bodily hurt and one rely of impeding an individual’s regular respiratory or circulation by making use of strain on or to their neck.
It’s alleged he introduced a girl in her 20s again to his lodge room after he had carried out on the nightclub Bar1 in Perth.
The assault is alleged to have taken place on 28 September.
The influencer, with over three million followers on Instagram and almost two million subscribers on YouTube, was in Australia touring his music.
He has introduced BBC Three reveals, appeared within the UK on Soccer Help on ITV and The Nice Movie star Bake Off for Stand Up To Most cancers on Channel 4.
Barrientos additionally gained a MOBO Award for greatest media persona in 2021.
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