{"id":858995,"date":"2026-08-15T12:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/858995\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:06:12","slug":"frankie-valli-92-disputes-retirement-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/858995\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Valli, 92, Disputes Retirement Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frankie Valli has disputed an <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/frankie-valli-retired-brother-bobby-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announcement<\/a> from his brother that he is retiring from live performances, writing in a statement posted to Instagram, \u201cIn spite of what you might have heard, I am not retired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Varela, a representative for the 92-year-old singer, similarly told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/frankie-valli-denies-retired-brother-claim-statement-1236834736\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a> that Valli \u201cis not retired. This is false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The denials followed a statement from Frankie\u2019s brother, Bobby Valli, who claimed the singer was retiring from performing. \u201cHe will now retire. We will always have special memories of Frankie Valli. He has reached a place in his life where his family is there to love, cherish and to be there for him\u2026 We appreciate your love and concern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>In May, Valli <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/05\/frankie-valli-cancels-2026-tour-dates-due-to-health-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">canceled the remainder of his 2026 dates<\/a> in order \u201cto focus on my health.\u201d At the time, Varela told Variety that her client hoped to return to performing in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of years, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/frankie-valli-retired-brother-bobby-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">viral concert videos<\/a> have sparked concern about Valli\u2019s well-being. More recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/08\/10\/celebrity-news\/frankie-valli-92-seen-for-the-first-time-since-abruptly-canceling-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Page Six<\/a> published photos of the New Jersey appearing frail as he was helped out of a car in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankie Valli has disputed an announcement from his brother that he is retiring from live performances, writing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-858995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}