Calgary radio host accuses Hedley singer of sex misconduct

A radio host in Calgary has come forward with a new sexual misconduct allegation against the frontman of the Canadian pop-rock group Hedley.

Katie Summers, who co-hosts the morning show on 90.3 AMP, says she encountered the band about seven years ago while she was working evenings at the music station.

During a post-interview meetand-greet, Summers, who was 23 at the time, told lead singer Jacob Hoggard she was a fan and that she’d seen the group perform recently.

“He just made this comment to me about performing oral sex on him out in the alley if I was lucky, and it kind of took me off guard,” Summers recalled in an interview Wednesday.

“I didn’t react because I didn’t really know what to say in that moment.”

They then posed for a photo.

“And as the photo op was sort of over and he was getting ready to leave, he sort of just touched my rear end. It was very fast.”

There were four or five other people there at the time, including representatives of the band and its record label, Summers said.

“It’s not like he said it to me in a dark hallway or in secret or anything,” said Summers. “He said it out loud like it was a joke, but it still made me feel uncomfortable.”

A witness who was in the room at the time told Global News that he saw Hoggard grab Summers’ buttocks, but does not remember the specific comment the musician made.

Anonymous sexual misconduct allegations against the Vancouver band began emerging online earlier this month.

The group has since been dropped by its management team, blacklisted by scores of radio stations and abandoned by bands booked as tour openers.