EXCLUSIVE: While WME dropped C&W star Morgen Wallen back in February after he used racist language in comments to his friends on a private video that made the rounds on the internet, top WME exec Lloyd Braun today addressed agents in the music department after word surfaced that the agency might still be quietly commissioning him.Insiders at the agency said it was more complicated and far less sinister than that.
Deadline was told that some concerts WME originally booked for Wallen before he became embroiled in controversy, which got canceled by the pandemic, were re-booked.
That happened through the agency’s internal system, and that is how word spread internally and prompted staffers to ask for answers.
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