Campaigners Call for Jared Leto’s 2027 UK Tour to Be Cancelled

Women’s safety campaigners are calling for Jared Leto’s planned 2027 UK tour with Thirty Seconds to Mars to be cancelled following serious sexual misconduct allegations against the actor and musician.

The calls come after the BBC documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret, which featured allegations from 10 women about alleged encounters with Leto between 2002 and 2016.

Four women alleged that Leto engaged in criminal sexual conduct when they were teenagers, including claims of sexual assault, statutory rape and grooming.

Leto has strongly denied the allegations.

“I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false,” he said.

Despite the controversy, Thirty Seconds to Mars is still scheduled to perform across the UK in 2027, including shows at London’s O2 and Manchester’s Co-op Live.

Women’s Aid and the End Violence Against Women Coalition have urged concert organisers to reconsider the planned shows.

A Women’s Aid spokesperson told BBC Newsbeat that it was “troubling to hear that UK concerts are still planned to go ahead that will put an alleged abuser in the spotlight”.

“In light of the very serious allegations of criminal sexual conduct, we would urge organisers to put safety over profit and avoid platforming figures like this,” the spokesperson said.

Janaya Walker, interim director of the End Violence Against Women Coalition, said the continued sale of tickets was “really worrying”.

She said the situation could be particularly distressing for victims and survivors of violence against women and girls.

“They’ll be seeing these reports and then seeing that things are moving forward seemingly without any consequence,” Walker said.

“I think that will cause a huge amount of alarm and frustration and anger.”

The controversy comes amid renewed scrutiny of Leto’s career.

Earlier this week, reports emerged that the actor had lost a major film role following the allegations featured in the BBC documentary.

The documentary’s director, Alice McShane, also questioned why earlier accusations appeared to have had little impact on Leto’s career.

In June 2025, nine women accused Leto of sexual misconduct in an investigation published by Air Mail. His representatives “expressly denied” the claims at the time, describing them as “demonstrably false”.

McShane said her team had already been working on the BBC documentary when the Air Mail investigation was published. She said they were surprised that the report appeared to have had limited consequences for Leto.

Since then, Leto has continued to appear in major productions, including Tron: Ares and Masters of the Universe.

McShane suggested that changing public attitudes toward allegations against famous men could be one reason for the limited impact.

“It just feels like the outrage about stories like this has slightly cooled,” she said, pointing to the growth of the online “manosphere”.

She also argued that Leto’s carefully cultivated public image may have helped protect him from scrutiny.

“He’s cultivated this persona of this kind of weird, enigmatic, mysterious guy,” McShane said, adding that she believed “pretty privilege” may also have played a role.

For now, Leto’s 2027 UK concerts remain scheduled. The calls from women’s safety organisations put pressure on promoters and venues to decide whether the shows should go ahead as planned.

The allegations remain allegations, and Leto has denied them in full. No finding of criminal wrongdoing has been established by the claims described in the documentary.