Amber Davies ejects audience member for filming Legally Blonde
Amber Davies, star of Legally Blonde The Musical, called out an audience member for filming during a performance at Dublin's Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. The ex-Love Island winner posted a video on Instagram Stories during the interval of the Saturday night show, stating that a woman in the front row had been filming the entirety of act one, distracting the cast. Davies said she asked staff to remove the woman for act two. Production company Royo declined to comment. Davies, who won Love Island in 2017 and has since performed in musicals including Pretty Woman and 9 to 5, reminded viewers not to film at the theatre, noting that several audience members had been filming in Ireland that week. She ended the 54-second video by saying she would go and do act two. The incident follows a similar one last month when Rosamund Pike criticized an audience member for texting during a play at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End.
Key facts
- Amber Davies is starring as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde The Musical.
- She posted a video on Instagram Stories during the interval of Saturday night's show at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin.
- Davies said a woman in the front row filmed the entirety of act one, distracting the cast.
- She asked staff to remove the woman for act two.
- Production company Royo told BBC Newsbeat it did not wish to comment further.
- Davies won the third series of ITV's Love Island in 2017.
- She has performed in musicals including Pretty Woman and 9 to 5.
- Last month, Rosamund Pike criticized an audience member for texting during a show at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End.
Entities
Artists
- Amber Davies
- Rosamund Pike
Institutions
- Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
- Royo
- BBC Newsbeat
- ITV
- Wyndham's Theatre
Locations
- Dublin
- Ireland
- London
- United Kingdom
- Denbigh
- Wales