CMAT Calls Out Body Shamers Following BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend Set
The singer said online abuse about her weight is overshadowing her success and that comments on her performance were disabled after the festival.
- On Thursday, Irish singer-songwriter Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, known as CMAT, condemned body-shaming abuse she received following her performance at BBC Radio One's Big Weekend last week in Sunderland.
- The musician previously faced similar abuse during her 2024 festival debut, which inspired her viral hit 'Take a Sexy Picture of Me' as a critique of extreme beauty standards.
- CMAT shared a Substack essay by Front Row Feels highlighting a 'glaring disparity' in how social media treated her compared to fellow performers Zara Larsson and Olivia Dean.
- BBC Radio One condemned the 'toxic commentary' and stated it 'fully supports' CMAT, with comments disabled on social media posts featuring her performance to prevent further abuse.
- The 30-year-old continues her Euro-Country tour, which recently won Best Album at the Ivor Novello Awards, with a sold-out headline show in Dublin on Saturday despite the ongoing abuse.
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