July 5, 2023: Colleen Ballinger’s Lawyers Address Blackface Allegations
On July 5, 2023, Twitter user Paige Christie posted a clip from a live Miranda Sings show with the caption, “I’m gonna need someone to explain the black on her face…” In the clip, which was apparently bonus content for the 2018 Miranda Sings book My Diarrhe, Ballinger as Miranda Sings is dancing to “Single Ladies” by Beyonce while wearing dark paint on her face. People reacted online such as Dr. Shola Mas Shogbaminu an academic, activist and author of “This Is Why I Resist: Don’t Define My Black Identity,” who tweeted, “Colleen Ballinger tells the world she’s a racist with her full chest. Imagine doing a Beyoncé song in Blackface and the audience are laughing & being entertained. These White people know what they are doing. Racists be racizisming.”
Law firm Berk Brettler, which represents Ballinger, told Variety that prior to the “Single Ladies” performance, Ballinger performed the song “As Long as You’re Mine” from “Wicked” with Oliver Tompsett, a star from the show, and that she painted her face green like Elphaba who is the main character of the musical.


















