Miranda Sings won’t be singing in Utah this weekend, as previously scheduled.
After allegations of inappropriate conduct with underage fans and other bad behavior, Colleen Ballinger — the 36-year-old comedian and YouTube star who performs as her tone-deaf alter ego Miranda Sings — has seen the remaining 11 stops on her current concert tour canceled.
One of those shows, canceled within the last week, was a performance set for Saturday at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus. The show was listed on Kingsbury’s website as recently as a week ago, but a check on Monday evening found the listing had vanished from the website.
As of Tuesday morning, Ballinger’s website still listed Saturday’s Salt Lake City show as happening — but the link to the Kingsbury site says otherwise.
The same was true Monday for the 10 other stops on the remainder of Ballinger’s tour: Boise; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Minneapolis; Ann Arbor, Michigan; St. Louis; Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha; Wichita; Oklahoma City, and Durham, North Carolina.
Representatives for Kingsbury Hall did not reply to a request for comment Tuesday.
In a separate development, NBC News reported that Trisha Paytas, who co-hosted a recently launched podcast with Ballinger, called “Oversharing,” announced Saturday that the show would stop production.
“When I say I’ve never wanted a chapter in my life to be over faster than this, even though it was a really small chapter, I mean it,” Paytas said in a YouTube video announcing the podcast’s end.
Ballinger, according to NBC News and other media outlets, has been accused of grooming young fans and having exploitative relationships with them. Since those accusations were made, old videos of Ballinger’s act have resurfaced — including one from five years ago in which Ballinger dances to Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” in what appears to be blackface, CBS News reported.
