FILE: Selena Gomez cancels upcoming Australian concert tour to 'spend time on myself.'

Record ID: 860899

  • Title: FILE: Selena Gomez cancels upcoming Australian concert tour to 'spend time on myself.'
  • Date: 20th December 2013
  • Summary: ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SELENA GOMEZ REHEARSING STAGE ACT
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  • Topics: Entertainment,General,People
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  • Story Text: Pop singer Selena Gomez on Thursday (December 19) canceled her upcoming Australian concert tour, saying she needs to take the time to put herself before work. The 21-year-old former Disney star was to perform five concerts in Australia, beginning on February 1, 2014, in Perth and concluding on February 8 in Melbourne.
    "My fans are so important to me and I would never want to disappoint them," the "Come & Get It" singer said in a statement. "But it has become clear to me and those close to me that after many years of putting my work first, I need to spend some time on myself in order to be the best person I can be."
    Texas-born Gomez, who has also branched into serious film roles, is set to tour Asia in January.
    The singer had walked off stage earlier this month at a concert in Los Angeles after a sound malfunction and scrapped two concerts in Russia in September after falling foul of new visa rules, which critics say can be used to keep out Western artists who promote gay rights.
    Gomez is best known as Justin Bieber's ex-girlfriend and the star of Disney's "The Wizards of Waverly Place," which ended its four season run last year. Gomez made headlines earlier this year when she broke out of her squeaky clean Disney Channel image to co-star in the independent film "Spring Breakers" for controversial filmmaker Harmony Korine.
    The busy star also won an MTV Video Music Award for best pop video for "Come & Get It" in August and topped the Billboard 200 album chart for the first time back in July with her fourth studio album, "Stars Dance."
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