Little Mix s Leigh-Anne confronts fiancé Andre Gray over horrible old tweets By Ellen Smith (via Instagram/BBC) Little Mix s Leigh-Anne Pinnock sat down with her fiancé Andre Gray to discuss old Tweets of his that resurfaced.
The scenes featured in Leigh-Anne s BBC documentary,
Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop and Power, which sees the popstar explore racism across the music industry and confront her own experiences as the only black member of Little Mix.
In one clip, Leigh-Anne discusses old Tweets written by her fiancé, Andre Gray, which she labelled as horrible. Although it was a difficult conversation to have, the couple sat down on camera to discuss it in some really powerful scenes.
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Leigh-Anne Pinnock has been praised by fans after speaking to her fiancé Andre Gray over old derogatory tweets he posted. The Little Mix singer opened up her feelings to the Watford striker over old comments he made about black woman in her new documentary, Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power, which aired on BBC One on Thursday night. Leigh-Anne says she was made to feel “a bit sick” over resurfaced tweets posted by Andre in 2012, one of which read: “Black girls with red lip stick is like burnt toast with jam on it #leaaaaveityeahhhhh.” Sitting Andre down to speak to him in the documentary, Leigh-Anne said: “I will never know what it feels like to be a dark-skinned woman but seeing those tweets really made me feel a bit sick.
‘I felt so overlooked and it was down to my colour’: Leigh-Anne Pinnock opens about her experiences of music industry racism in BBC documentary
PICTURED: Leigh-Anne Pinnock is a member of British girl band Little Mix (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)
LEIGH-ANNE Pinnock has been praised by fans for opening up about her experiences of racism for a new documentary.
Race, Pop and Power explores how Leigh-Anne dealt with the reality of being the only black member of her band, Little Mix.
The 28-year-old singer said: “The lack of diversity is disgraceful. So, I think however I can be an ally, then this what I want to do. We all know racism is a massive, horrible issue in this country and I really wanted to delve deeper into it.
Little Mix star Leigh-Anne Pinnock has won praise after she confronted her fiancé over his colourist tweets.
The singer sat down with her footballer fiancé Andre Gray to discuss tweets he posted in 2012 on her new BBC documentary
Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop and Power.
In the documentary, Leigh-Anne Pinnock confronted colourism, which sees darker-skinned people of colour face greater discrimination and prejudice than their lighter-skinned counterparts.
The Little Mix singer took Gray to task about resurfaced tweets he posted in 2012 in which he said Black women wearing red lipstick looked like “burnt toast with jam on it”.
Discussing the shocking tweets, Pinnock said she felt “sick” when she first saw them.