{"id":361832,"date":"2026-03-01T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/361832\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:02:10","slug":"sombr-altercation-at-brit-awards-was-staged-rep-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/361832\/","title":{"rendered":"Sombr Altercation at Brit Awards Was Staged, Rep Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSombr<\/a> was mid-performance at the Brit Awards<\/a> when a random man bumrushed the stage and pushed the singer off the platform, leaving him stunned \u2014 only it was all planned, says his rep.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer-songwriter, who was nominated for international artist and international song, was at the end of his smash single \u201cUndressed\u201d when a man joined him on the podium and shoved him hard. Security guards aggressively removed the man from the stage, and Sombr returned to the microphone to segue into his next song.<\/p>\n

\n\tShortly after the performance came to a close, Sombr\u2019s rep confirmed to Variety that the whole thing was part of the act. Fans were already split online over whether the incident was staged or real. Naysayers noticed that the offender was wearing a shirt that read \u201cSombr is a homewrecker\u201d \u2014 a nod to his latest single \u201cHomewrecker,\u201d which some claimed was a dead giveaway. But others weren\u2019t necessarily convinced it was a stunt, considering how hard he was pushed and how additional security guards came to his rescue.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrits host Jack Whitehall remarked on the incident after Sombr\u2019s performance concluded. \u201cSuch a shame we didn\u2019t have the security ready,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe incident took place just days after Britain\u2019s BAFTA Awards last Sunday, when John Davidson, the Scottish Tourette\u2019s syndrome activist and real-life inspiration for the film \u201cI Swear,\u201d disrupted that ceremony with an outburst of racial slurs that occurred as \u201cSinners\u201d stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were onstage. \u201cI can\u2019t begin to explain how upset and distraught I have been as the impact from Sunday sinks in,\u201d Davidson told Variety earlier this week.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhitehall made a joking reference to that incident \u2014 which was not bleeped from the initial BAFTA broadcast and was audible to viewers \u2014 at the top of the Brits, saying \u201cWe\u2019ve got the best in the business on the bleep button.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSombr is coming off a red-hot year that saw his various singles \u201cUndressed,\u201d \u201cBack to Friends\u201d and \u201c12 to 12\u201d impact the charts. He recently performed at the Grammy Awards, where he was nominated for best new artist alongside Addison Rae, Alex Warren, the Mar\u00edas, Leon Thomas, Lola Young, Katseye and Olivia Dean, who ended up taking home the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sombr was mid-performance at the Brit Awards when a random man bumrushed the stage and pushed the singer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[90622,18,117,19,17,337,30767],"class_list":["post-361832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-brit-awards","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-sombr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116151932993786683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}