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Cyndi Lauper announces farewell tour

<p>Cyndi Lauper is saying goodbye to fans after announcing that her upcoming US tour will also be her last. </p> <p>The music legend, who turns 71 later this month, will go on a <span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">23-date tour of the US and Canada in October. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">The announcement of her tour titled </span><em>Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: The Farewell Tour,</em> sent fans into a frenzy on social media, as they begged her to extend her last tour to more countries. </p> <p>“Farewell tour? Nooo,” wrote one fan on Instagram. </p> <p>“I’m so happy and so incredibly sad. I know you have worked your booty off since the very early 80s and you are due for a darn good rest but I just cannot imagine not seeing you all the time,” another added. </p> <p>“I hate farewells and I am so thankful I grew up when your music was always on the radio!” a third wrote. </p> <p>Fans hoped that the singer would hold a similar farewell tour to fellow pop diva Cher, who went on a 326-date farewell tour from 2002 to 2005. </p> <p>Cher has since performed two more world tours and two separate Las Vegas residences, making it a total of 430 concerts since her announcement. </p> <p>Lauper has not yet spoken publicly about what exactly this “farewell” means in terms of whether she is retiring from touring or the music industry altogether. </p> <p>The singer last visited Australia in March 2023, when she was a support act for Rod Stewart. </p> <p>In the 1980s she had 10 top 20 hits, including scoring a number one spot for her solo debut single <em>Girls Just Wanna Have Fun</em>.</p> <p><em>Image: SplashNews.com/ Shutterstock Editorial</em></p> <p> </p>

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Cyndi Lauper’s son arrested and charged

<p dir="ltr">Cyndi Lauper’s son, Declyn “Dex” Thornton Lauper, has been arrested after he was allegedly found sitting in a stolen car.</p> <p dir="ltr">New York City Police claim to have found the 24-year-old sitting in a stolen 2014 Mercedes C350 in the early hours of Thursday morning, as reported by <em><a href="https://people.com/crime/cyndi-lauper-son-declyn-arrested-allegedly-sitting-stolen-car/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a></em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">According to police, officers noticed the car due to it being illegally double-parked in upper Manhattan, and after a quick check realised it had been reported as stolen two years ago, with <em><a href="https://www.tmz.com/2022/07/16/cyndi-lauper-son-declyn-arrest-stolen-car/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TMZ</a></em> reporting that the plates were registered to a different vehicle.</p> <p dir="ltr">Dex told officers he had parked the car there to attend a memorial for a 14-year-old rapper who was stabbed at a subway station in July, per the <em><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/17/declyn-lauper-was-at-memorial-for-ethan-reyes-when-arrested/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a></em>. </p> <p dir="ltr">After his arrest, Dex was charged with felony unauthorised use of a vehicle and eventually released with a notice to appear in court.</p> <p dir="ltr">Representatives for Lauper and Dex haven’t responded to requests for comment, according to People.</p> <p dir="ltr">Dex, the only child of the <em>Girls Just Wanna Have Fun</em> singer and her actor husband David Thornton, is a musician with a significant following on social media, where he even shared what appeared to be footage of his alleged arrest.</p> <p dir="ltr">Lauper has previously spoken about the impact her fame has had on Dex growing up, telling the Guardian that “people look at him and he feels the pressure of being my son”.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Someone came up to me in the street and kept talking and talking,” she recalled in the 2008 interview.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Declyn said afterwards, ‘Who are you?’ And I said, ‘I’m a mommy’. And he said, ‘No, you’re not - you’re Cyndi Lauper!’”</p> <p dir="ltr">Dex and Lauper’s husband appeared with her on her reality series, <em>Cyndi Lauper: Still So Unusual</em>, which ran for one season in 2013.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-fecfc34a-7fff-6a84-5ea0-b88e96fd6f9c"></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: @cyndilauper (Instagram)</em></p>

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