Shannon Sharpe Cancels His ‘Nightcap NSFW’ Tour Amid Lawsuit


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As Shannon Sharpe continues enduring the fallout behind his sexual assault filed in opposition to him in April, evidently his newest deliberate enterprise may be the following casualty on that record. A number of weeks earlier than Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson had been scheduled to begin an eight-city “Nightcap NSFW” Tour of their in style YouTube program, the NFL Corridor of Famer introduced that the tour had been postponed till 2026.

Sharpe made the announcement throughout a latest episode of Nightcap. The tour was scheduled to begin in Baltimore on June 13 and was slated to finish in Detroit on August 16. No particulars had been launched concerning dates in 2026.

“We’ve determined to postpone the Nightcap tour,” Sharpe said through the Could 23 episode. “We stay up for seeing you guys in the summertime of 2026. It’s going to be even greater, even higher. However Ocho and I’ve come to the conclusion that that is the most effective factor as of proper now, was to postpone the tour. We stay up for seeing every one in every of you in 2026.”

The tour was scheduled to hit Baltimore (June 13), Philadelphia (June 14), Charlotte (July 12), Los Angeles (July 19), Miami (July 25), New York (July 26), Chicago (August 15) and Detriot (August 16) with a value vary of $35 and $140.

The information comes because the 56-year-old former soccer player-turned-podcaster/sports activities analyst is embroiled in a $50 million lawsuit alleging that he sexually assaulted a girl he was in a relationship with. The girl, later recognized as Gabriella Zuniga, accused him of bodily abusing her and made threats in opposition to her life through the time they had been seeing one another. Zuniga was 19 when the 2 met at a health club.

Sharpe has vigorously denied the allegations, though admitting that there was a $10 million settlement supplied to Zuniga earlier than she filed this lawsuit with Texas legal professional Tony Buzbee. Buzbee can be entangled in a lawsuit with JAY-Z after a shopper of his accused the billionaire rapper of raping an underaged teenager, together with Sean “Diddy’ Combs in an alleged 2000 sexual assault.

The previous Denver Broncos participant determined to step apart from his ESPN duties after the accusations had been levied in opposition to him. He said he would return in time for the upcoming NFL season.

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