George Sampson slams This Morning for 'encouraging' divisive theatre behaviour
Britain's Got Talent winner George Sampson has slammed This Morning for "encouraging" the controversial behaviour seen at The Bodyguard show in Manchester.
The dancer took to social media to hit back at the ITV show following their reporting of two women who were dragged out of a theatre by security staff after singing and screaming through the musical.
Police officers rushed to Palace Theatre in Manchester after audience members began singing over the top of performers, despite signs around the auditorium asking the public not to sing.
The show was paused during its first act to evict a group of people who would not stop singing and it then had to be stopped early after police were called 10 minutes before its finale.
George won Britain's Got Talent in 2008 (Ken McKay)
The dancer has hit out at This Morning for 'encouraging' the behaviour (Getty Images)George, 29, took to Twitter to comment: "People just behave how they want, where they want, probably doesn’t help that @thismorning are encouraging this behaviour."
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This Morning presenters Alison Hammond and Vanessa Feltz debated whether audience members should be allowed to sing along at a musical, but were left laughing at the notion.
"Staff are taking this very, very seriously and inflicting these rules. They are regularly walking up and down the aisles before the performance and during the interval with 'no singing' signs' I mean, I can't believe it, I'd be devastated," said Alison Hammond.
Vanessa added: "Isn't the whole point of going to a musical that you know, that you sing along to all the bits you know, and then when you don't know the words, you just make them up?
"I mean, isn't that what everybody does? Very, very loudly while eating an ice cream."
The incident was discussed on This Morning (The Morning/Twitter)
George claims the ITV show 'encourages' the behaviour (The Morning/Twitter)George replied to further comments on social media, explaining his stance on the subject.
"Watching it is the enjoyment, same as the cinema, same as a opera, or a ballet…," he replied to someone who said: "Sit down. Shut up and listen. Don’t attempt to enjoy yourself."
"If a venue or production is going to have rules on enjoyment then they need to make that clear beforehand," commented another Twitter user.
George replied: "They do have rules, to sit and watch. If they want you to sing along or allow other things such as, it will be made clear during the show.
George slammed This Morning in his tweet (georgesampson/Twitter)"An ovation and reaction to a number is completely different to the audience joining in. Just say you don’t know how to behave in theatres m8 [sic]."
The dancer won over the nation's hearts with his hard-working attitude and incredible performance skills when he appeared on the second series of Britain's Got Talent when he was just 14.
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He tried his hand at acting with appearances in Waterloo Road, Emmerdale, The Dumping Ground and Casualty.
George took on the role of Dean in Everybody's Talking About Jamie where he toured the UK and US.
He also met his girlfriend Kazmin Borrer whilst working on the play.
The Mirror has contacted ITV for comment.
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