A keen Taylor Swift fan in Trowbridge has given away her ticket for one of the US singer’s Wembley concerts to support those who had tickets for the superstar’s cancelled shows in Vienna.
Last Wednesday, August 7 all three of Swift’s performances at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium were cancelled following the prevention of an allegedly planned terrorist attack.
Fans of the superstar, known as Swifties, have been coming together to support those who had tickets for the sell-out shows in Austria’s capital – with many offering up their own.
Cristina Jones, 29, the creator of the viral Swifties for Southport JustGiving page, says she has given her Wembley ticket away for free to a fan who was unable to go to the concert in Vienna.
Ms Jones, who lives in McDonogh Court, Trowbridge, said: “I thought it was just nice to give it away to someone who couldn’t go simply because Vienna was cancelled for the right reason,” she said.
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“It was nice to be able to see that someone who hasn’t been able to go to The Eras Tour is now able to go.”
She said she set up an online giveaway process to offer her ticket to one lucky fan, with Ms Jones saying their reaction was “really sweet”.
“She was really excited, until I sent the ticket I don’t think she realised it was going to be real,” she said.
“I think if somebody says they’re going to give you a free ticket to a show that was extremely difficult to get tickets to generally, I don’t think people are going to believe it’s going to happen.”
Miss Jones launched the Swifties for Southport fundraising page following the attack on Monday, July 29 at a Swift-themed dance class.
So far, their JustGiving fundraising appeal has raised more than £383,800, plus £72,798.20 in Gift Aid, for the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool to ease the financial burden on the families involved.
Three children died after the knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in Southport on Merseyside. Five other children and two adults were also stabbed.
The BBC reported the Lover hitmaker reached out to the families of victims, Bebe King, six, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.
Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, 17, from Banks, is charged with three counts of murder, 10 of attempted murder, and one count of possessing a bladed article and is remanded in youth custody following the stabbing.
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