{"id":27196,"date":"2026-05-02T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/27196\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T15:14:30","slug":"peter-kay-bundled-off-stage-in-birmingham-as-show-cancelled-amid-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/27196\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Kay ‘bundled off stage’ in Birmingham as show cancelled amid evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Images of the Utilita Arena emptying are being shared – police are investigating a ‘suspicious bag’<\/p>\n

Peter Kay(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n

Comedian Peter Kay was reportedly ‘bundled off stage’ in Birmingham as his stand-up show at the Utilita Arena was cancelled after just 45 minutes tonight (Friday).<\/p>\n

The comedian had taken to the stage at the Utilita Arena Birmingham at 8pm, but the show was abruptly cancelled after 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

People in the crowd said there had been ‘no explanation’ and no warning anything was wrong ahead of a member of the production team heading on to the stage at around 8.45pm to say the show wouldn’t be continuing.<\/p>\n

Police have now confirmed they are investigating a ‘suspicious bag’ at the arena.<\/p>\n

Images and videos being posted to social media show crowds walking out and the arena emptying. Others said they had seen police in the arena, which was then evacuated, reports Birmingham Live.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The show, forming part of the Bolton-born funnyman’s national tour which will see all profits donated to 12 leading cancer charities, had started at 8pm.<\/p>\n

Kay is due to play the arena at the same time again tomorrow night (Saturday, May 2). It is currently unclear why the show was pulled tonight.<\/p>\n

BirminghamLive said it has contacted West Midlands Police and organisers for more details.<\/p>\n

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Utilita Arena, Birmingham(Image: Ethan Davis)<\/p>\n

A member of the audience told BirminghamLive that everyone was asked to leave the venue by a member of the production team at around 8.45pm.<\/p>\n

They said the show “wouldn\u2019t be continuing”.<\/p>\n

One fan who was at the show shared on X, formerly Twitter<\/a>: “Just been evacuated out the Utilitia Arena Birmingham and Peter Kay bundled off stage,” adding a mind blown emoji.<\/p>\n

Another posted a video of the arena being evacuated, writing: “Being evacuated from the Peter Kay gig in Birmingham. No information as to why.”<\/p>\n

A third commented: “Peter Kay gig in Birmingham has been cancelled 45mins in. Peter bundled off stage and the venue evacuated. Police on site. Stay safe, Birmingham.”<\/p>\n

And a fourth added: “So not the evening we expected. Evacuated from Birmingham Utilita. Peter Kay brilliant for 45 mins then some p**** has to ruin it. All out safe and quickly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Images of the Utilita Arena emptying are being shared – police are investigating a ‘suspicious bag’ Peter Kay(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[969,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-27196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-peter-kay","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116505638477852720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}