J. Lo cancels due to sickness

Jennifer Lopez is canceling a trip to London and her European concert tour because she’s too sick to leave Los Angeles, The Associated Press reports, but her presence will soon be felt on the continent with a new ad deal.

The actress and singer had been scheduled to attend the British charity premiere of her movie “Shall We Dance?” with co-star Richard Gere, but she called off the trip at the last minute.

“I very much wanted to be in London today, but unfortunately I’m not well,” she said yesterday in a statement released in London by Buena Vista International, the movie’s distributor. “At the advice of my doctors I’m unable to travel. Being sick has also caused me to cancel my European album tour.”

“Please accept my sincerest apologies as I have to remain in Los Angeles,” the statement said. Lopez did not specify what was wrong. The screening was to benefit victims of the Asian tsunami.