JESY Nelson has donned a huge pair of dark sunglasses and posed for a series of candid photographs after heading into the studio. The former Little Mix star, 30, can be seen larking around with her team and sitting in a sound booth and recording a track while wearing her shades. Also sporting camouflage dungarees […]
JESY Nelson has donned a huge pair of dark sunglasses and posed for a series of candid photographs after heading into the studio.
The former Little Mix star, 30, can be seen larking around with her team and sitting in a sound booth and recording a track while wearing her shades.
Also sporting camouflage dungarees and her black hair in two buns on top of her head, Jesy is also pulling her best pout for several of the snaps.
She posted them to her Instagram account with a single green emoji and the word ‘gang’ as the caption.
Fans have been quick to comment, with one asking: “Can we get a new song soon?”
Another wrote: “Oh yesssss excited to hear new music.”
Jesy’s new pictures come after she found herself embroiled in a ‘blackfishing’ row in October.
The term was coined in 2018 to describe a white person who styles themselves to look like they are another ethnicity.
Days after Jesy’s debut single Boyz – featuring Nicki Minaj – dropped, the singer was accused of deliberately darkening her skin in the music video. She denied this.
A series of messages allegedly sent by her Little Mix bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock then emerged, also accusing the singer of ‘blackfishing’.
Apparently revealed by influencer No Hun, one message, believed to have been sent by Leigh-Anne from her Instagram account, she said: “She [Jesy] blocked us. Cut us off. Horrible person.”
In another, she appears to write: “Do a video about her being a blackfish instead.”
The Sun the revealed that Jesy had previously been warned by Leigh-Anne not to make her skin look darker as it is offensive to black people.
Leigh-Anne, who has Barbadian and Jamaican ancestry, was said to have spoken to her while making a BBC documentary on racism.
A source said: “Leigh-Anne had a conversation with Jesy, trying to explain why she was upset and why it could be offensive. She felt she had to address it while making her racism documentary, but it apparently fell on deaf ears.
“For Jesy to now claim that it has never been mentioned to her before is really rude.
“It’s upsetting she hasn’t taken any of this on board.”
Asked previously about claims she is “blackfishing”, Jesy said: “The whole time I was in Little Mix I never got any of that. Then I came out of [the band] and people all of a sudden were saying it.”
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