Former BBC DJ Tim Westwood is ready to carry out a festive gig subsequent week regardless of going through claims he had intercourse with a 14-year-old woman.
Westwood, 65, will seem at a celebration for The Beat 99.9 FM in Lagos, Nigeria, the place he will probably be joined by British rapper Tion Wayne.
The ex-Radio 1 DJ is mired in allegations of abusing ten girls throughout his prolific profession within the music trade, The Solar experiences.
It’s understood none of those girls have reported their claims to police, whereas Westwood strongly maintains his innocence.
DJ Tim Westwood, who left the BBC in 2013 after practically 20 years, additionally stepped down from his present on Capital Xtra in April after the preliminary claims got here to mild
The occasion takes place at Balmoral conference Centre in Lagos’s Victoria Island on Tuesday, with tickets being touted at £20 per head.
One man tweeted: ‘The promoters who booked Tim Westwood to DJ in Nigeria this weekend, you haven’t any disgrace.
‘All of the allegations in opposition to him particularly to do with younger Black women and you continue to paid him cash to return to Nigeria??’
One other particular person added: ‘Not the primary time both. He was on my flight again from Lagos to London in July 2022…’
In July, the BBC stated it had obtained six complaints in opposition to Westwood, together with one which was referred to police, regardless of director-general Tim Davie beforehand saying he had seen ‘no proof of complaints’.
Mr Davie launched an inner audit, reporting to the BBC board’s senior impartial director, Sir Nicholas Serota.
The impartial investigation, introduced in August, is meant to be accomplished in six months and the BBC has stated it’s keen to work with Westwood’s different employers
A press release from a consultant of Westwood in April stated: ‘Tim Westwood strongly denies all allegations of inappropriate behaviour.
‘In a profession that has spanned 40 years, there have by no means been any complaints made in opposition to him formally or unofficially.
‘Tim Westwood strongly rejects all allegations of wrongdoing.’
The DJ, who’s the son of Invoice Westwood, the previous Anglican bishop of Peterborough – who died in 1999 – started his profession on native radio earlier than becoming a member of Capital Radio in London.
He was later given his personal present by BBC Radio 1.
He left Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra in 2013 after practically 20 years and returned to Capital Xtra to host an everyday present on Saturday nights, the place he was known as ‘The Massive Dawg’.
He stepped down from his Capital Xtra present in April, when the claims got here to mild.
