Just Stop Oil protesters interrupt Proms live performance and reside broadcast of TV comedy present The Last Leg

Just Stop Oil protesters have invaded the stage in the course of the first evening of the Proms – as different activists later interrupted a reside broadcast of Channel 4’s The Last Leg comedy present.

In the Proms incident at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Friday night, the environmental group tweeted that two demonstrators had set off confetti cannons and sounded air horns, and tried to deal with the viewers earlier than being forcibly eliminated.

The pair had been booed by some individuals within the viewers as they had been bundled off stage after unfurling banners.

The BBC, which airs the annual classical music occasion, mentioned “there was no disruption to the concert or the broadcast during the few seconds the protesters were on stage”. It additionally denied air horns and confetti had been used.

Around a few hours later, simply minutes into the airing of The Last Leg discuss present, three activists carrying Just Stop Oil t-shirts ran on to the set and handed hello vis orange vests to the programme’s stars.

Host Adam Hills cheered and mentioned: “This is not part of the show.”

One of the protesters, who known as himself William, even hugged Hills because the TV star then tried to place the intense high on over his jacket earlier than deciding towards it.

The trio had been quickly led off stage by workers.

Just Stop Oil mentioned the Royal Albert Hall demonstrators had been Kate Logan, a 38-year-old mom of two, and Pia Bastide, a 29-year-old neighborhood employee – each from London.

“I refuse to accept that my future is being sold away, one new oil licence at a time, and do nothing,” mentioned Ms Bastide in an announcement.

The protest group desires the federal government to cease licensing all new oil, fuel and coal initiatives and has tried to disrupt quite a few high-profile occasions to focus on its trigger.

In response to the Royal Albert Hall incident, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer tweeted: “Eco zealots shouldn’t disrupt sports events, weddings or the Proms.

“My message is that this: Leave individuals to benefit from the occasions they love, and cease damaging your personal trigger.”

Confetti and jigsaw items had been thrown on a court docket at Wimbledon final week, whereas England cricketer Jonny Bairstow carried off a protester on the Ashes in June.

Orange powder was additionally thrown on a desk on the snooker world championship in April, whereas the Chelsea Flower Show was focused in May.

Two members of the group had been jailed for greater than two and a half years a number of months in the past after climbing the bridge on the Dartford Crossing in October.

New powers to crack down on activists got here into power this month.

They give police new rights to maneuver static protesters, equivalent to those that connect themselves to things or sit within the highway.