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Justin Bieber is making headlines – again – after reportedly snubbing a contest-winning teen fan with Down syndrome.
Gossip website RadarOnline says Bieber reportedly neglected Jared Bedard during a recent meet and greet in Boston Friday night.
The site says Jared, 16, raised nearly $7,000 for a cancer charity close to the Canadian pop star’s heart and won the chance to meet his idol. But it didn’t go quite as planned.
“I didn’t know what to expect, but I wasn’t expecting that,” Jared’s mother, Karen Bedard, told RadarOnline.
“Personally, a meet and greet, I was expecting to really meet him, like maybe 20 people, tops. But they were doing photos in groups of five, all screaming girls, in and out. It was just crazy.
“Jared told me that Justin said ‘What’s up, man’ to him, but that was it,” she said. “I was just thinking Justin would talk to him a minute alone. Not like an hour or something, just even a minute. Maybe shaking his hand and saying, ‘Congratulations, buddy!’ I tried to say, ‘This is Jared. He won, he raised money to fight childhood cancer,’ but it was too loud and Justin didn’t hear me.
“I know there were a lot of people there who had paid for the meet and greet, but it was a huge thing for Jared,” she said.
“It was a huge undertaking for him to raise the money to meet him. I just don’t know anymore.”
She said it may have simply been poor communications from Bieber’s publicity team.
“I think his publicists probably just told him to just show up and pose for a few pictures and be done,” she said. “He probably didn’t know.”
Justin Bieber has reportedly brushed off a teenage fan who had raised money for a children’s cancer charity.
From www.windsorstar.com
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http://justinbieber.blogm4u.com/2013/07/24/bieber-snubs-charity-fundraiser/