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Apology: Pop star Minami
Minegishi posted this tearful video asking for forgiveness on YouTube
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Japanese pop star has been forced to cut off all her hair and make a tearful
public apology after being caught spending the night with her boyfriend.
Minami Minegishi, 20, made the dramatic gesture
after a tabloid magazine printed pictures of her leaving his house last week. In
an emotional four-minute YouTube video, now viewed almost 5million times, she
asks for forgiveness and displays her shaven head, a traditional act of
contrition in Japan.
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Role model: The 20-year-old
said she was 'thoughtless and immature'
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The
band has a strict policy that members should not be involved in any romantic or
sexual relations and the group's management agency demoted her to 'trainee
level' yesterday [Feb. 1], according to the band's official blog.
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Strict: Members of the
popular girl band AKB48 are strictly banned from dating while they are in the
group
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'I
know this is being over‐optimistic,
but I want to stay as Minegishi Minami
of AKB48 if possible', she said. 'It was allmy fault about this. I am very
sorry’.
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National icons: The girl
group AKB48 are one of the biggest-selling musical acts in Japan with more than
£126million in sales in 2011
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As a senior member of the group, it
is my responsibility to be a role model for younger members.
Made
up of girls in their teens and early twenties, AKB48 are one of the biggest
musical acts in Japan and have sold millions of CDs and DVDs including an
estimated £126million in sales in 2011 alone.
- Daily Mail
1 comment:
Why d name of their group come be like gun name...AK47
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