Lewis banned from shop over skin colour

Leona Lewis was reportedly told to leave a London shop because of the colour of her skin.

The 'Happy' singer said that she was looking at photo frames with her Guyana-born father Joe when the store keeper demanded that they leave.

According to the Sunday Mirror, Lewis, 24, said: "This woman told us, 'Get out of my store right now'. I asked her, 'Are you joking?'

"She said, 'No, I want both of you to remove yourselves from my store'. I asked why - and pointing at my dad, she said, 'I don’t like the look of him. I want him to go now'.

"I said, 'What do you mean?' She said, 'I know why you’re coming in here'. She was implying we were trying to steal stuff."

Lewis, who was left shaken earlier this month after being attacked at a London book signing, has declined to name the store but said that the racist incident had left her fuming.