No Richie on current leg of the tour

I'm prone to believe (and it's speculation still after 184-185 pages of a thread) that Richie is in rehab and his publicist/whoever is tweeting for him (bad spelling and all).

I also tend to believe it's much worse this time around. My $0.02.

Wait...Richie used to be in a circus?!? This is getting more bizarre by the day.

Don't you remember Jon saying that he ran away and joined the circus?

That's what I was thinking too... hence the "Well " . Doesn't seem honest in the slightest, and they're probably just trying to cover this thing up further. Too many entries?? Come on!

Maybe it is a mental health thing? Did the cancelling of solo shows etc tie in with the Bon Jovi album/tour getting ready to gear up?
Would love to see the contract they have with Jon. There is probably a clause in there that says when the boss calls, you drop any non Bon Jovi related work.

I hope we get an answer soon as tix for Australia are supposed to go on sale in May. I would assume the same for Japan etc. Not sure how they would sell in Japan without Richie?

Makes as much sense as anything else. Can't see the circus having Twitter access and it's a bit embarrassing for Jon that Richie left his band to join the circus.

If the size rumours are true, he can be the man with the big "you know what"

we can add that to the list...

Maybe Backseat Driver is about Jon...?

Some of the theories are amusing, but some of them make me worried.

I have tickets for two shows, I'll go to those two either way, but I'm not doing any other shows if Richie's not there.

Going with this, maybe he went on to a porn career?

No, the shows timeline were in safe place. Albeit Jon was working on the album when Richie was on the road but the US tour got scaled way back for low ticket sales. The overall promo stopped for the album once Richie got tied into the band tour, not that it was doing much for sales.