The Football Association has canceled a new online cooking series with M&S featuring Yung Filly and England players after the British YouTuber and rapper faced charges related to rape allegations, as reported by Sky News.
The campaign, titled “The Greater Game,” was launched just yesterday by the FA in collaboration with England team sponsor M&S Food to promote healthy eating and positively influence children aged 12 to 16. England players Bukayo Saka, Ezri Konsa, and Jarrod Bowen were set to appear in the videos as part of the “Freestyle Cooking” series on the FA’s YouTube channel. In a marketing announcement made yesterday, the FA stated that Yung Filly was chosen for the series to inspire young people across the country to try cooking healthy alternatives.
However, the governing body for English football acted quickly after news broke overnight in Australia that Yung Filly, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, had been arrested and taken into custody in Brisbane on Tuesday, then extradited to Perth on Wednesday.
Yung Filly has been touring Australia, where he is accused of assaulting a woman in her 20s in his hotel room in Perth after performing at a venue in Hillarys, a northern coastal suburb of Western Australia’s capital. The 29-year-old appeared in Perth Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, facing four counts of sexual penetration without consent, three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, and one count of obstructing a person’s normal breathing or circulation by applying pressure to their neck.
The case was adjourned, and he was granted conditional bail, which includes a prohibition on contacting his alleged victim or posting about the case on social media to his millions of followers, according to ABC.
“This investigation is ongoing, and detectives encourage anyone with information related to this matter or similar incidents to contact Crime Stoppers,” stated Western Australia Police.
