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Calvin Harris hits back at Rita Ora after claims he blocked her performance at Teen Choice awards 2014

Harris tweets ‘I had a damn good reason’ after Ora’s radio interview

Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
Wednesday 13 August 2014 18:34 BST
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Rita Ora revealed that Calvin Harris had blocked her performing at the Teen Choice awards 2014
Rita Ora revealed that Calvin Harris had blocked her performing at the Teen Choice awards 2014

Calvin Harris has hit back at ex-girlfriend Rita Ora, revealing on Twitter that he had “a damn good reason” for blocking her performance at the Teen Choice awards this year.

The DJ felt compelled to tell his side of the story – without much clarity – after Ora told radio DJ Ryan Seacrest that Harris was the reason she pulled her performance last minute from the awards ceremony.

On Wednesday he tweeted: “You’ll only know 1 side of the story RE Teen choice awards because I choose not to talk to the papers about every aspect of my personal life [sic].”

“But just know I had a damn good reason.”

His comments follow Ora’s allegation that Harris blocked her from performing I Will Never Let You Down, which was written when the couple were still together.

“He wrote and produced the song, so he has to approve anything TV wise. He owns the rights to it and he didn’t approve the Teen Choice Awards” she told Seacrest.

“You write a song with somebody and I guess there’s some stuff that comes with it,” she said, stating that she was angry about the outcome more for her fans than for herself, and adding that she had put her own money into the performance, “like I always do”.

The public spat follows Tuesday’s drama surrounding the Teen Choice awards, which saw teenage fans on Twitter almost cause a meltdown with claims that the awards had been “rigged”.

This was the first year that the awards included gongs for ‘Web Stars’ alongside movie and music winners, but impassioned fans of nominees who didn’t win big started the hashtag #TeensDontHaveaChoiceAwards trending because they thought their favoured internet kids had been treated unfairly.

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