Company behind Telford Fan Zone enters insolvency

But fans have been left angry and out of pocket after many of them had already paid for future events by bank transfer.

WCM Events, which traded as Rogue Events, held the Telford Fan Zone and City of Heroes events at the Telford International Centre in May.

Celebrities who were supposed to be in attendance included Jennifer Morrison and Colin O'Donoghue from Once Upon A Time and the cast of iZombie.

But as the event got closer, many of them dropped out, leaving people with hotel bookings, travel arrangements and tickets to a show where the actors they had paid to see were no longer attending.

Reports of security guards forcing people to delete photos of celebrities that they hadn't paid for, even when the celebrity had happily posed, and struggles to get refunds hit Facebook shortly after the event ended.

The next event ran by the company, held in Blackpool, was a Vampire Diaries themed convention called Insurgence 9 which promised fans the chance to meet Charles Michael Davies, Joseph Morgan, Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Michael Malarkey and Andrew Les.

But with only a few days to go before the event, all six stars pulled out amid complaints by some of them that they had not been paid.

Chase Coleman, of Boardwalk Empire, was also supposed to be at the event.

"Was I really hoping I was gonna be paid? Yes I was," he wrote. "This money was something that was going to be very helpful for the rest of my year. Does it hurt? Yah, it definitely does.

"In the end I knew going in that payment might not happen. Not even the concert money did I receive, because I was not ruthless enough to demand it at the end of the night. I was excited. I had just had a great time with all of you and my adrenaline was flying high.

"I was giving Rogue the benefit of the doubt, and was trusting that because everything felt like it was going so well, that there shouldn't be any issues at the end of the event on Sunday. Obviously that was not the case."

Earlier this month the company entered into insolvency, with director Jennie Glover saying she was "truly sorry" to those disappointed by the show.

She said: "I am truly sorry and heartbroken to have let down the attendees, staff and volunteers, as well as the guests in the way I have done at insurgence 9.

"I came on board in a desperate hope to be able to re-build the events into something great for everyone, and I failed.

"This was due to many factors. I made bad decisions. I was inexperienced. Nothing I can say will take back what has happened or make anything right.

"I can only apologise to people with everything I have. I am so deeply sorry."

WCM Events entered into insolvency on July 3. It said that all creditors would be notified in due course.