{"id":32322,"date":"2018-09-11T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=32322"},"modified":"2018-09-11T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:32:08","slug":"pregnant-carrie-underwood-cancels-u-k-performances-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=32322","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Carrie Underwood Cancels U.K. Performances &#8216;Due to Illness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans looking forward to seeing <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/carrie-underwood\/\">Carrie Underwood<\/a> in the United Kingdom this weekend will have to wait a little longer, as the vocalist has canceled two planned looks &ldquo;due to illness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Underwood&rsquo;s label announced via Facebook that the 35 -year-old would not be performing at Long Road Festival, where she was scheduled to headline Saturday ,  nor at Radio 2 Live at Hyde Park Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Carrie Underwood has been forced to cancel several upcoming promotional activities in the UK, &rdquo; her register label posted on Facebook. &ldquo;She looks forward to resuming advertisement for her brand-new album, Cry Pretty, soon.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/country\/carrie-underwood-soul-searching-year-post-accident-redbook-cover\/\">Carrie Underwood on Her&#8217; Soul-Searching Year&rsquo; Post-Accident:&#8217; I Had a Few More Downs Than Ups&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The expectant singer-songwriter, who <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/parents\/carrie-underwood-pregnant-mike-fisher-expecting-second-child\/\">announced her second maternity<\/a> in August, was set to appear on stage Sunday alongside <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/kylie-minogue\/\">Kylie Minogue<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/rita-ora\/\">Rita Ora<\/a> and <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/lenny-kravitz\/\">Lenny Kravitz<\/a>. As for Saturday&rsquo;s Long Road Festival, fellow country vocalist <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/country\/aaron-watson-new-album-release-hurricane-harvey-texas\/\">Aaron Watson<\/a> will now headline, replacing Underwood.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re just as gutted as she and her devotees are, and our main concern is her speedy recuperation, &rdquo; Long Road Festival <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/TheLongRoadFest\/status\/1037420530683527170\">posted on their social media areas<\/a>. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t wait to come together as a Country Family to stir The Long Road a festival to remember.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve just heard that Carrie is unable to play this weekend due to illness, and our main concern is her speedy recuperation. We know you&rsquo;ll have questions, and we promise to come back to you as soon as we are going to be able. <a href=\"\/\/t.co\/4GS3NfnlDY\">pic.twitter.com\/ 4GS3NfnlDY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The Long Road (@ TheLongRoadFest) <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/TheLongRoadFest\/status\/1037420530683527170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\">https :\/\/ platform.twitter.com\/ widgets.js<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The BBC, which was set to host the &ldquo;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Before-He-Cheats\/dp\/B00137OHD0\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;creativeASIN=B00137OHD0&#038;tag=people0d0-20&#038;ascsubtag=4c43cb5a0d8e6f8f5f1cc6e4ccd1575f\">Before He Cheats<\/a>&rdquo; singer, updated their locate and shown that they &ldquo;wish well and looking ahead to welcoming her to Radio 2 in the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A rep for Underwood did not immediately return PEOPLE&rsquo;s request for provide comments on the specific characteristics of the illness.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the canceled performances, the country singer exposed a fourth anthem from her upcoming album, &ldquo;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Up-With-You\/dp\/B07GNTZ6C7\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;creativeASIN=B07GNTZ6C7&#038;tag=people0d0-20&#038;ascsubtag=4c43cb5a0d8e6f8f5f1cc6e4ccd1575f\">End Up With You<\/a>, &rdquo; sharing a presumably pre-recorded video promoting her brand-new album <a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cry-Pretty-Carrie-Underwood\/dp\/B07CW76MX1?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;creativeASIN=B07CW76MX1&#038;tag=people0d0-20&#038;ascsubtag=4c43cb5a0d8e6f8f5f1cc6e4ccd1575f\">Cry Pretty<\/a>, which is set to freeing Sept. 14. <\/p>\n<p>Another brand-new sung from the <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CryPretty?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> #CryPretty<\/a> album is available today! Get a download of <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EndUpWithYou?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> #EndUpWithYou<\/a> instantly when you digitally pre-order the album. Merely 7 more days! <a href=\"\/\/t.co\/rK47qtKIgv\">https :\/\/ t.co\/ rK47qtKIgv<\/a> -TeamCU <a href=\"\/\/t.co\/svwdCyZv7n\">pic.twitter.com\/ svwdCyZv7n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Carrie Underwood (@ carrieunderwood) <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/carrieunderwood\/status\/1038079582908411904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\">https :\/\/ platform.twitter.com\/ widgets.js<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/country\/carrie-underwood-baby-bump-keith-urban-concert-the-fighter-duet\/\">Carrie Underwood Gives Fan a Peek at Her Baby Bump During Surprise Duet with Keith Urban<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next time, the vocalist will embark on her all-woman <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/music\/runaway-june-hopes-to-babysit-for-carrie-underwood-on-the-cry-pretty-tour\/\">Cry Pretty Tour 360<\/a> alongside duo <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/country\/maddie-marlow-engaged-jonah-font\/\">Maddie&#038; Tae<\/a> and trio <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/tag\/runaway-june\/\">Runaway June<\/a>, which kicks off in May 2019. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED VIDEO: Why We&rsquo;re Obsessed with Carrie Underwood<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the vocalist <a href=\"\/\/people.com\/country\/carrie-underwood-lack-of-female-representation-country-radio\/\">spoke about the lack of representation for women in country music<\/a> and will be taking things into her own hands on tour by surrounding herself with female musicians alongside her.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I feel like shutting that doorway on&#8217; girls don&rsquo;t want to hear women&rsquo; because that&rsquo;s B.S, &rdquo; Underwood said in an interview with Women Want to Hear Women podcast. &ldquo;These strong women who are super talented that totally deserves it are not get the same opportunities. But how to change it? I don&rsquo;t know. How do we change it? &rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/carrie-underwood-cancels-performances-illness\/\">people.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans looking forward to seeing Carrie Underwood in the United Kingdom this weekend will have to wait a little longer, as the vocalist has canceled two planned looks &ldquo;due to illness.&rdquo; Underwood&rsquo;s label announced via Facebook that the 35 -year-old would not be performing at Long Road Festival, where she was scheduled to headline Saturday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3756,2675,16977,1105,16608,1171],"class_list":["post-32322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-celebrity","tag-country","tag-lenny-kravitz","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/10__digital29__new_28__991764806-1-e15308024352011536625931.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}