CANADA — Canadian rocker Bryan Adams apologized Tuesday after a backlash and accusations of anti-Chinese racism over his online rant about the pandemic forcing the cancellation of his London shows this week. Adams had said in earlier expletive-laced Twitter and Instagram posts that his gigs at the Royal Albert Hall were nixed thanks to "bat eating, wet market animal selling, virus making greedy bastards." While animal rights groups praised his call to stop eating meat, others interpreted the expletive-laced comments as anti-Chinese. "This is so irresponsible and so racist," Amy Go of the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice told AFP. In it he also said he missed his band or "other family" while in self-isolation with his wife and children.

Source: Philippine Star May 13, 2020 04:40 UTC