CMAT has called out online trolls after the BBC turned off the comments of a post from her Big Weekend performance over the weekend. The rising Irish singer performed on the first day of the three-day festival in Luton, which featured a headline set from Chase and Status, Raye and Coldplay. A number of online trolls made comments about the 28-year-old’s appearance under a video of the performance, leading to the BBC disabling comments on the video.
Taking to Twitter , now known as X, on Wednesday night, CMAT, AKA Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, condemned those who made unwanted remarks about her. ‘Yesterday the BBC had to turn comments off a video of me performing at big weekend because so many people were calling me fat in the comments. ‘Today a different video of me at the BRIT awards is going viral on south American tiktok and now people are calling me fat in Spanish,’ she wrote.
CMAT added in another post: ‘I didn’t realise it was ILLEGAL to have a HUGE *** !!!! I am GUILTY as CHARGED it is time to lock me up and throw away THE KEY!!!!! ‘By the way, I am an award-winning songwriter that has released two albums which were received to “universal acclaim”.’ This is the second time she has received backlash in recent months after her black dress which showed off the top of her bum caused a stir at The Brit Awards. CMAT previously told Emma Barnett on BBC Woman’s Hour: ‘I was trying to make a point that I think my derrière causes a ruckus because it is lar.
