The National Wax Museum has announced it is withdrawing a figure of Sinéad O’Connor it launched this week and will look for a “more accurate representation”.
After the waxwork was unveiled on Thursday, many reacted with shock that the figure did not resemble the Dublin singer.
The museum’s team met on Friday morning and decided to pull the waxwork, admitting that it “can do better”.
Speaking on RTÉ radio after the wax museum team announced they would pull the figure, her brother Joseph O’Connor said he was shocked when he first saw it online and said that it did not look like her “at all”.
“It looked nothing like her and I thought it was hideous,” he said.
Mr O’Connor said if people wanted to honour her memory they should put a statue of her in Dublin.
In a statement, the wax museum said that in response to the public’s feedback, “we acknowledge that the current representation did not meet our high standards or the expectations of Sinéad’s…
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