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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=\"1010_mj_chris_brown_EX\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/10/10/1010-mj-chris-brown-ex.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://www.tmz.com/person/chris-brown/\"&gt;Chris Brown&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;says his criminal record played NO ROLE in why he couldn't perform at the massive Michael Jackson tribute in Wales this weekend -- claiming widespread reports that he was \"banned\" are simply false. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TMZ spoke with Brown's rep, who tells us Chris WAS invited to perform in the show, \"however, his previously booked domestic F.A.M.E. tour concert dates \ndidn&amp;#8217;t allow him to accept the honor and therefore he never planned to \ngo to the UK. He was not banned.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rep points out that Brown spent the weekend performing in Tampa, Charlotte and Virginia Beach -- dates that had been scheduled BEFORE he was asked to join the MJ show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- relatedlinks --&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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