Comedian Andrew Lawrence has seen several tour dates axed after a series of racist remarks were posted from his social media account about England's penalty shootout against Italy in the final of Euro 2020.
The controversial stand-up act, 41, was preparing to tour nine venues across the UK from next month but has now had a number of gigs cancelled after the venues refused to let him perform.
Following Sunday's match, various social media posts were shared from his profile after Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho failed to score during the penalty shootout, MirrorOnline reports.
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“All I’m saying is, the white guys scored,” one of the tweets read. Another post said: “Equality, diversity, s*** penalties.”
There was also an additional post shared on Andrew's account, but it has now been deleted. This post read: “I can see that this has offended a lot of people, and I’m sorry that black guys are bad at penalties.”
Representatives for venues where Andrew was due to perform confirmed on social media that they had axed his upcoming shows.
"Following recent tweets from Andrew Lawrence's account we have stopped selling tickets for his show and removed from our website," wrote Worcester Live.
"Worcester Live do not support hate speech in any form and we are currently liaising with Andrew's agent. We will be in touch ASAP with an outcome."
Guildford's G Live venue wrote: "Andrew Lawrence’s performances in the Bellerby Studio at G Live have been taken off sale with immediate effect. We will be in touch with ticket holders in due course."
Scallywags Comedy Club in Gloucestershire also said: "We today, like many others I’m sure, have pulled Andrew Lawrence from a show he was set to do for us. Racism isn’t acceptable in any form.”
A representative for Andrew Lawrence has been approached by The Mirror for comment.
