Janet´s tour leg in Japan has been postponed, with promoters blaming the global financial crisis. Japanese concert promoter Kyodo Yokohama said the singer cancelled five concerts due to take place in February. The 42-year-old Grammy Award winner had planned to perform in several major cities, including Nagoya and Osaka. Jackson, on her first world tour in nearly seven years, cancelled seven performances in the US in 2008 because of a bout of vertigo. The gigs in Japan will be rescheduled later this year, with new dates expected to be announced in March. The star was recently in the UK to support older sister LaToya during her stint in the Celebrity Big Brother house.
According to the official `Under the Veil Party` site, Janet will be attending the party on January 30 in Tampa, Florida. The Party will be hosted by Jermaine Dupri.
Janet was seen making her way through Heathrow International Airport in London after flying in from Los Angeles. The Daily Mail is reporting that Janet is in London to support her sister LaToya who is filming the reality show "Celebrity Big Brother".
JD wrote today on his blog Global14.com a new message to all Janet fans.
TO ALL THE JANET FANS,
AS YOU ALL KNOW JANET IS A VERY PRIVATE PERSON THE ONLY REASON YOU SEE HER AS MUCH AS YOU DO ON MY YOUTUBE VLOG IS BECAUSE OF ME LOL BUT I HEAR YALL AND YOUR QUESTIONS. SO HEAR YOU HAVE IT… NO SHE IS NOT PREGNANT AND YES WE’RE STILL TOGETHER. IT BAFFLES ME HOW YALL LET THESE BLOG AND MAGAZINES CONTROL YOUR LIFES THAT’S WHY I CREATED GLOBAL14.COM SO WHEN EVER HEAR SHIT ABOUT ME YOU CAN COME RIGHT HERE AND GET THE TRUTH.
In a new interview with Euroweb, producer Jimmy Jam, while speaking about the upcoming reunion album with The Time, said that he would like to work with Janet again:
Jam also spoke about another reunion - one with his good friend Janet Jackson. Jackson, who'd worked with the team of Jam & Lewis for over two decades, but for her 2008 "Discipline" disc, Jackson chose not to have the duo contribute, a choice some fans and industry-ites thought unwise. However, Jam shrugged it off.
"We're not perfect," he said of the Jam & Lewis team. "We don't always make the right decisions. We've done records in our time, luckily not many, but we've done some that weren't the best records to do. We went into all the records with good intentions though. You don't go into it saying, 'Ooh, I'm going to make a bad record.' You go in to make a great record. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. We had mad records together for 20 years and she decided to go a different direction and I applaud her for it. I want to see her successful in whatever she does."
Jam said that Jackson certainly doesn't need to do anything; that a new project with them would simply be a want, as is with both the pending and possible discs.
"I think she's anxious to do some work. And [The Time] is back together because we want to be together, not because we need to be together," he said. "If we collaborate with Janet again, and by the way, I never thought that we wouldn't collaborate again. Just because you work with another producer or decide to go the other way, that that closes the door of the possibility. We want to work with her and I think she wants to work with us and if that all happens, then that's what we're going to do."
Janet and her boyfriend JD are guests tonight at the Grand Opening of Palm Jumeirah and its flagship Atlantis the Palm Resort at the Palm Jumeirah Island. Click here for more pics.