Over the weekend Kanye West sold out two nights in a row for his comeback concert at Sofi stadium in LA [click here if you missed that].
From Sky News
Pepsi and Diageo have withdrawn their sponsorship of Wireless Festival, which Kanye West is due to headline, after Sir Keir Starmer joined criticism of the event.
West has previously been condemned over his antisemitic remarks.
The 48-year-old US rapper - who has not performed in the UK since he headlined Glastonbury in 2015 - is set to top the bill for all three nights of the festival in London's Finsbury Park in July.
Festival organisers - and the government - are now coming under increasing pressure over the booking.
A Pepsi spokesperson said: "Pepsi has decided to withdraw its sponsorship of Wireless Festival."
Diageo, owner of Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan, said on Sunday evening it had also withdrawn.
A spokesperson said: "We have informed the organisers of our concerns and as it stands, Diageo will not sponsor the 2026 Wireless festival."
PayPal, which is a payment partner for the festival, will not appear in any future promotional materials, Sky News understands.
Festival organisers have been contacted for a response.
10 comments:
He's like a tar baby. Nobody wants to touch him.
Now that's what you call black listed. Sponsors dont care he's selling out. LOLO
I love this for him.
The man just performed in front of 80K people.
80k a-holes.
He's exhausting. I really can't stand him.
Y'all must know they have paid seat fillers so the 80k number might not be really real.
You can talk about any other ethnic group but the ones from that state in the me. I don't like Kanye, but that's lame af.
He should have left those Jewish people alone. You can dog anyone but them. Asians, Poles, Brits, Black people from anywhere… you. name it and you can find a tv show, series, podcast, comedian making jokes on everyone but them.
I’d love to see a series about Hasidic or Orthodox Jewish people doing stupid or criminal stuff, but you’ll never see it. Our people are all over the media looking like fools, but never them. Never.
I ain’t here for Kanye but I really ain’t here for them.
Nobody was paid to be there, people actually still genuinely like this man and his music. My yt coworker's son, his girlfriend and all their friends went to see Ye at So-fi, and they were so hype. Black people need to stand on business and let others support him, that's whose approval he cares about anyway
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