Who invaded The Voice final? | It wasn't Simon Brodkin, whatever viewers thought... © C4

Who invaded The Voice final?

It wasn't Simon Brodkin, whatever viewers thought...

Serial prankster Simon Brodkin was not the intruder who gatecrashed the live final of The Voice last night.

Many viewers took to Twitter to accuse the comedian of storming the stage as Jamie Miller was booted off  the competition.

But at the time, Brodkin – who was the subject of the recent Channel 4 documentary Britain's Greatest Prankster – was on stage in Exeter as part of his tour in the guise of his Lee Nelson alter-ego, so invading the London studio would have been impossible.

Security quickly tackled the intruder, who came out of the audience waving a piece of paper, bundling him away from the cameras. Also on stage was Mo Adeniran, the ultimate winner.

The blurred appearance led many to suspect Brodkin, who has previously pranked Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor – as well as Kanye West at Glastonbury, Donald Trump and, most famously, Fifa’s Sepp Blatter.

A statement from ITV said: ‘During the results this evening there was a brief interruption on stage which was dealt with immediately by security. The show continued as planned.’

The stage-crasher was later identified as wannabe rapper Dr AC, and that his sign read: 'Journalists of the big media or middle-age and ancient priests; Stop murdering independent thinking. Oppression of ideas is not freedom. Thug-life is not art. War is not peace. I demand change in the way big media control information based on four ideas. Positive thinking. Movement, creativity. And fairness.'

Later he tweeted: 'Judges must have enjoyed to see a Man of Ideas dragged by brutes brutally out of stage! Sad' and claims he was treated 'worse than a criminal'.

It wasn't the only controversy of the night, as moments earlier judge Tom Jones had dropped the f-bomb.

Published: 3 Apr 2017

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