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\n27 July 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\nA wax figure of Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor will be removed and recreated after her family objected.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nControversial Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor waxwork removed<\/p>\nThe singer tragically passed away on July 26, 2023 at age 56 and to mark the one-year anniversary of her death this week, Dublin’s National Wax Museum unveiled a wax figure of Sin\u00e9ad.<\/p>\nHowever, Sin\u00e9ad’s brother John slammed the piece of art, telling RTE’s ‘Liveline’: “When I saw it online I was shocked. I thought it looked something between a mannequin and something out of the Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n“I thought Sin\u00e9ad would have been very fond of looking well, and she certainly did, and if it was supposed to be a representation of her in her early 20s when she did ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, it just looked nothing like her. I thought it was hideous.<\/p>\n“A friend of mine said to me last night that he\u2019d seen better in Shaws [department store], in the window.<\/p>\n\n“There\u2019s also enough visual stuff out there, in terms of videos and photos, that show what she did look like.<\/p>\n\n“I lost my sister and to me that\u2019s important. Since she\u2019s not here to defend herself or to speak for herself I just took it upon myself to contact you about it.”<\/p>\n\nPaddy Dunning, the wax museum director, issued an apology and said it was not up to the standard of sculptor, PJ Heraghty’s usual work.<\/p>\n\nHe said: “When I had a look at the statue, I walked in to launch it, and when I saw it, I didn\u2019t get that feeling that I normally get from PJ\u2019s fantastic work.<\/p>\n\n\u201cMy heart sunk a bit. We went ahead with the launch and I didn\u2019t sleep last night.<\/p>\n\n“The wax museum runs itself without publicity. We have a launch and that\u2019s it. I had to take the decision to cancel the statue and we\u2019ll go again and we\u2019ll remodel and we have to do better on this occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"27 July 2024 A wax figure of Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor will be removed and recreated after her family objected. Controversial Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor waxwork removed The singer tragically passed away on July 26, 2023 at age 56 and to mark the one-year anniversary of her death this week, Dublin’s National Wax Museum unveiled a wax figure of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2802],"class_list":{"0":"post-114453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-sinead-o"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
A wax figure of Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor will be removed and recreated after her family objected.<\/p>\n
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Controversial Sin\u00e9ad O’Connor waxwork removed<\/p>\n
The singer tragically passed away on July 26, 2023 at age 56 and to mark the one-year anniversary of her death this week, Dublin’s National Wax Museum unveiled a wax figure of Sin\u00e9ad.<\/p>\n
However, Sin\u00e9ad’s brother John slammed the piece of art, telling RTE’s ‘Liveline’: “When I saw it online I was shocked. I thought it looked something between a mannequin and something out of the Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n
“I thought Sin\u00e9ad would have been very fond of looking well, and she certainly did, and if it was supposed to be a representation of her in her early 20s when she did ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, it just looked nothing like her. I thought it was hideous.<\/p>\n
“A friend of mine said to me last night that he\u2019d seen better in Shaws [department store], in the window.<\/p>\n
\n“There\u2019s also enough visual stuff out there, in terms of videos and photos, that show what she did look like.<\/p>\n
\n“I lost my sister and to me that\u2019s important. Since she\u2019s not here to defend herself or to speak for herself I just took it upon myself to contact you about it.”<\/p>\n
\nPaddy Dunning, the wax museum director, issued an apology and said it was not up to the standard of sculptor, PJ Heraghty’s usual work.<\/p>\n
\nHe said: “When I had a look at the statue, I walked in to launch it, and when I saw it, I didn\u2019t get that feeling that I normally get from PJ\u2019s fantastic work.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMy heart sunk a bit. We went ahead with the launch and I didn\u2019t sleep last night.<\/p>\n
\n“The wax museum runs itself without publicity. We have a launch and that\u2019s it. I had to take the decision to cancel the statue and we\u2019ll go again and we\u2019ll remodel and we have to do better on this occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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