Singer Brooks says he cancelled ‘Tonight’ gig because it didn’t feel right after Ferguson
Posted Nov 26, 2014 10:44 am.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Singer Garth Brooks has cancelled a Thanksgiving appearance on NBC’s “Tonight” show because he said it “seemed distasteful” given the reaction to the decision not to prosecute Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown this summer.
NBC on Wednesday confirmed the postponement, saying Brooks was being replaced on the show by Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Colicchio.
Brooks wrote on his Facebook page that he landed in New York on the night the grand jury’s decision was announced “to the news of the civil unrest that was going on in our nation. To spend the day promoting our stuff like nothing was wrong seemed distasteful to me.”
He offered to reschedule. There was no immediate comment from his spokesperson about what other appearances were cancelled.
