The MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony has been cancelled resulting from safety issues “given the volatility of world events”, organisers have introduced.
The annual occasion had been resulting from happen in Paris on Sunday 5 November, with stars together with Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj among the many high-profile nominees.
In a press release asserting the choice, a spokesperson for Paramount, which owns MTV, stated: “Given the volatility of world events, we have decided not to move forward with the 2023 MTV EMAs out of an abundance of caution for the thousands of employees, crew members, artists, fans, and partners who travel from all corners of the world to bring the show to life.
“The MTV EMAs are an annual celebration of world music. As we watch the devastating occasions in Israel and Gaza proceed to unfold, this doesn’t really feel like a second for a worldwide celebration. With hundreds of lives already misplaced, it’s a second of mourning.”
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Although the event has been called off, voting is continuing and the winning artists will still receive their MTV EMA Awards. Details of how winners will be announced have not yet been confirmed.
Organisers said they look forward to the event returning in November 2024.
Last year’s MTV European Music Awards event – which is separate to the MTV Video Music Awards, held in the US – was dominated by Swift, who took home four of the six gongs she was up for: best artist, best video, best pop and best longform video.
The ceremony takes place in a unique nation yearly, and final 12 months was held in Dusseldorf, Germany, and hosted by movie star energy couple, Oscar-winning author and director Taika Waititi and singer Rita Ora.
The announcement of this 12 months’s cancellation got here on Thursday as European Union inside ministers debated easy methods to handle the impression of the struggle.
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France is on its highest stage of safety alert after a schoolteacher was killed and three different folks had been wounded in a stabbing within the northeastern metropolis of Arras on 13 October.
The nation’s inside minister, Gerald Darmanin, stated the suspected Islamist assault was linked to the battle between Israel and Hamas.
On Wednesday, eight French airports confronted safety alerts and a number of other had been evacuated for checks, the French Civil Aviation Authority stated, whereas the Palace of Versailles closed once more resulting from its third safety scare in 5 days.
Source: information.sky.com”