{"id":272301,"date":"2016-11-28T07:10:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T07:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=272301"},"modified":"2016-11-28T07:10:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T07:10:09","slug":"police-called-after-pranksters-trollstation-invade-the-x-factor-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=272301","title":{"rendered":"Police called after ‘pranksters’ Trollstation invade The X Factor stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police were called to the set of The X Factor last night after “pranksters” invaded the stage.<\/p>\n

Honey G had finished her performance and was getting feedback from the judges when a man ran up behind her and tried to touch her.<\/p>\n

The group Trollstation say they were behind the stunt.<\/p>\n

“There was a stage invasion by four men, with one further person in support,” a spokesman for the show said not long after the incident.<\/p>\n

“All five had been in the audience.<\/p>\n

“They were spoken to by police and security and have now been removed from the studio.”<\/p>\n

As Louis Walsh was speaking to Honey G, a man wearing a baseball cap came onto the stage, grabbed her by the shoulders and tried to take her microphone.<\/p>\n

She had just performed her version of MC Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This.<\/p>\n

On Trollstation’s YouTube channel the group says it specialises in “bizarre and often surreal pranks performed on unwitting members of the public”.<\/p>\n

“Our content is intentionally provocative and controversial with the aim to get reactions from the general public in the name of comedic satire.<\/p>\n

“Trollstation is a collective of social misfits playing mad mind games on the public.”<\/p>\n

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Four members of Trollstation YouTube were jailed earlier this year in connection with fake robberies and kidnappings.<\/p>\n

A fifth member was imprisoned in March following a bomb hoax.<\/p>\n

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Simon Cowell told Honey G: “I thought that was part of the act for a moment. That’s what you create, people go crazy for you.”<\/p>\n

Presenter Dermot O’Leary said: “Obviously we had a stage invasion, three punks thought they could come on and take on Honey G, but could they?”<\/p>\n

She replied: “I don’t think so.”<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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