Just Stop Oil targets Strictly Come Dancing - 'We'll storm the stage!'
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Eco-protest group Just Stop Oil are planning to invade the stage on Strictly Come Dancing, causing chaos in front of millions of viewers.
Demonstrators are looking at ways to interrupt the BBC’s biggest competition show, which pulls in six million viewers each night.
Tickets are being “looked into” as the protestors decide what their next big disruptive stunt could be.
Just Stop Oil is reportedly looking to storm the stage with confetti and signs, in a bid to gain “maximum attention”.
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BBC bosses are now reviewing security after a tip-off about the stunt.
“Primetime BBC television with millions watching would be incredible,” a Just Stop Oil activist told the Metro.
The group neither confirmed nor denied the plans but said: “We all love Strictly, but the truth is that Rishi Sunak and his very destructive dancing partners have spilled oil on the dancefloor and are ruining it for everyone.
“We’re waltzing into climate breakdown and risking the loss of everything we know and love. There will be no time for dancing when we’re fighting for food.”
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The inspiration for the student came from a Swedish eco-group, who stormed the stage during the final of Let’s Dance.
Protesters from Restore Wetlands ran onto the stage throwing yellow powder and holding up a sign.
One Just Stop Oil source said: “What happened with Restore Wetlands was genius. That’s absolutely something we’re looking at. Strictly Come Dancing has a studio audience so that presents an opportunity to get inside on the night. Everyone was talking about that for a long time after.”
Earlier this month, Just Stop Oil eco-zealots interrupted a production of Les Miserables as audience members heckled the quartet for disrupting the performance.
Just Stop Oil have halted theatre productions and sporting events PA / JUST STOP OILEco-warriors rushed onto the stage as actors sang the iconic Les Miserables hit Do You Hear the People Sing?
Four activists then locked themselves to the stage of the French-revolution-themed show.
One activist raised a Just Stop Oil banner at the same moment as an actor started waving the red flag on stage.
Local officers arrived quickly at the scene and arrested five people inside a theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Last week, Just Stop Oil blocked a coach taking the first group of migrants back to Bibby Stockholm barge.
As many as 23 supporters of Just Stop Oil blocked the road, which is the only one with access to the boat on the Isle of Portland.
The group unfurled a banner reading “No Prison Ships” as they stood in front of the coach, stopping asylum seekers heading back to the barge two months after it was evacuated following the discovery of Legionella.
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