{"id":309229,"date":"2026-02-21T04:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309229\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T04:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T04:48:08","slug":"katseye-announce-manon-taking-hiatus-from-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/309229\/","title":{"rendered":"KATSEYE Announce Manon Taking Hiatus From Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b3fd59aa0b7ebf5862eb3d54490db11b5b-katseye.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"68th GRAMMY Awards - Show\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmlvkswyu000i0id10bc4ylk2@published\" data-word-count=\"91\">Work-life balance? Gnarly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/culturati-50-2025-katseye-interview-questionnaire.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KATSEYE<\/a> announced <a href=\"https:\/\/weverse.io\/katseye\/notice\/33860\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on social media<\/a> Friday that Manon Bannerman would be taking a temporary hiatus from the group. \u201cAfter open and thoughtful conversations together, we are sharing that Manon will be taking a temporary hiatus from group activities to focus on her health and wellbeing,\u201d the statement read. \u201cWe fully support this decision. KATSEYE remains committed to showing up for one another and for the fans who mean everything to us.\u201d The group also assured Eyekons that they\u2019re still showing up for any scheduled activities in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmlvl1m0j001g3b7a3x685sk4@published\" data-word-count=\"131\">Bannerman has spoken previously about her health and how people perceive her work ethic. \u201cI get sick all the time,\u201d she said in the spring fashion issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/katseye-group-interview-internet-girl-cut-cover-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>. \u201cAmerica has a very different culture when it comes to work-life balance. You guys are all about grind and hustle.\u201d In Bannerman\u2019s home country of Switzerland, she says \u201cif you\u2019re sick, you take a day off. No one\u2019s going to expect you to work.\u201d She also said there was a racial dynamic to critiques of her performance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/dream-academy-hybe-geffen-girl-group.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pop Star Academy<\/a>, the Netflix reality show that birthed KATSEYE. \u201cBeing called lazy, especially as a Black girl, is not fair,\u201d she said. \u201cNow I feel like I always need to put in extra work to prove something, even though I really don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EZefVJJ67m\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/EZefVJJ67m<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tc4OfmXycE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tc4OfmXycE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KATSEYE (@katseyeworld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katseyeworld\/status\/2024994324564639909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Work-life balance? Gnarly. 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