Pete Davidson has backed out of plans to travel to space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket later this month.
The aerospace company confirmed the news on Thursday night by tweeting: “Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29.”
“Pete Davidson is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission. We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days.”
Blue Origin’s 20th flight of New Shepard has shifted to Tuesday, March 29. Pete Davidson is no longer able to join the NS-20 crew on this mission. We will announce the sixth crew member in the coming days.
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) March 18, 2022
The comedian was slated to travel to space as part of the New Shepard programme on March 23.
The 28-year-old was supposed to board the Blue Origin rocket alongside investor Marty Allen, SpaceKids Global founder Sharon Hagle, her husband and Tricor International CEO Mark Hagle, entrepreneur Jim Kitchen and Commercial Space Technologies President George Nield.
Pete secured a seat on the space flight after he visited Jeff Bezos’ mansion in January with his girlfriend Kim Kardashian, where they reportedly discussed the space trip.
The SNL star and the billionaire businessman, who founded Amazon in 1994, have had many “preliminary” talks about going off into outer space together.
The news comes amid the ongoing drama surrounding Pete and Kim Kardashian’s ex Kanye West.
Earlier this week, the rapper was temporarily suspended from Instagram following a series of public attacks against Kim, Pete, and comedian Trevor Noah.
After violating the site’s policies, the rapper was banned from posting, commenting, or sending direct messages on the social media platform for 24 hours.
Kanye hit out at Trevor via the platform on Wednesday, after the comedian spoke about his recent drama with Kim on The Daily Show.
Trevor said: “What [Kim is] going through is terrifying to watch, and it shines a spotlight on what so many women go through when they choose to leave.”
He compared Kanye’s situation with Kim to his own experience witnessing abuse as a child, and said people thought his mother was “overreacting” before his stepfather shot her in the head.
“As a society, we have to ask ourselves questions. Do we wish to stand by and watch a car crash when we thought we saw it coming?” the 38-year-old asked.
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In response, Kanye posted a racial slur aimed towards Trevor, which has since been deleted for violating Instagram’s policies on hate speech and bullying.
Prior to his attack on Trevor, Kanye targeted Kim’s beau Pete once again in a series of social media posts.
In his latest tirade, the 44-year-old posted a screenshot of a 2019 Breitbart article headlined ‘Pete Davidson Enrages Audience with Jokes About Having Sex with a Baby.’
He captioned the post: “Yet another reason why SKETE gotta stay away from my children”
“Oh and nobody noticed that he ain’t show up to SNL Because Mr. I can help you with meds had a mental breakdown after we ran him off the internet.”
“SKETE you not built for this I already blacked the Super Bowl out on you Apologize to your family for being in your family,” Kanye added.
In another post, Kanye shared a screenshot of a fan’s comment, which said: “The way Skete used Kim’s marital status too [sic] address Kanye was a sneak diss towards her & she didn’t even catch it.”
The comment was referring to leaked text messages between Kanye and Pete, in which the SNL star bragged about being in bed with Kanye’s “wife”.
Kanye captioned the shocking post: “Im really concerned that SKETE will get my kids mom hooked on drugs He’s in rehab every 2 months.”
The leaked messages between Kanye and Pete were posted online by the comedian’s friend Dave Sirus last weekend.
Following a series of public attacks against him online, Pete texted Kanye: “Can you please take a second and calm down. It’s 8am and it don’t gotta be like this.”
“Kim is literally the best mother I’ve ever met. What she does for those kids is amazing and you are so f***ing lucky that she’s your kids mom.”
“I’ve decided that I’m not gonna let you treat us this way anymore and I’m done being quiet. Grow the f*** up,” he added.
Kanye responded: “Oh you using profanity. Where are you right now?”
Pete replied, “In bed with your wife,” alongside a selfie of him lying in bed.
leaked conversation between kanye and pete davidson pic.twitter.com/Z4Hw6Rdfqy
— music struggles (@musicstruggles1) March 13, 2022
Kanye then wrote: “Happy to see you’re out [of] the hospital and rehab,” to which Pete responded: “Same here. It’s wonders what those places will do when you get help. You should try it.”
The comedian also asked Kanye to meet him after his Sunday Service to talk things out “privately one on one.”
Pete wrote: “This isn’t public dude. I’m not here for the pictures or the press,” before suggesting that publicity was “obviously all you care about.”
“My offer stands,” he wrote in one text, while in another, he told West, “I wish you’d man up for once in your life.”
The SNL star continued: “Let me help you man. I struggle with mental stuff too. It’s not an easy journey. You don’t have to feel this way anymore. There’s no shame in having a little help. You’ll be so happy and at peace.”
“You have no idea how nice I’ve been to you despite your actions towards me… I’ve had your back even though you treat me like s*** because I want everything to be smooth. But if you continue to press me like you have for the past 6 months, I’m gonna stop being nice.”
In a since-deleted video shared on Instagram, Kanye reacted to the text exchange, saying: “The boyfriend texts me, antagonising me, bragging about being in bed with my wife.”
“I’m like, well, who’s watching my children if he’s texting me, bragging about being in bed with my wife?”
Kim officially filed for divorce from Kanye on February 19, 2021, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
The former couple tied the knot back in 2014, and share four kids together – North, 8, Saint, 5, Chicago, 3, and Psalm, 2.
Kim started dating Pete in October last year, and the couple recently went Instagram official.
