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Diversity will perform for free at Manchester bombing victim tribute after initially demanding £10,000

FORMER BGT winners Diversity are to perform for free in memory of the youngest Manchester bombing victim after an earlier £10,000 demand.

Saffie Roussos, eight, was among the 22 killed in the Ariana Grande concert atrocity last year.

 The dance group have agreed to perform for free
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The dance group have agreed to perform for freeCredit: Getty Images - Getty
 It's been reported that the group initially demanded £10,000 to perform at the gig
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It's been reported that the group initially demanded £10,000 to perform at the gigCredit: Getty Images - Getty
 Saffie was only 8-years-old when she was tragically robbed of her life
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Saffie was only 8-years-old when she was tragically robbed of her lifeCredit: Splash News

But a booking agent demanded the huge fee for her dance idols to perform at the event in her honour.

The cost stunned organisers but the group insisted they had no knowledge of the fee being charged.

Frontman Ashley Banjo, 29, yesterday told her family he would “do all I can to make it happen”.

Organisers called it “fantastic”, telling the dance troupe: “Saffie loved you guys and would copy all your moves.”

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