{"id":706034,"date":"2026-01-19T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/706034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:56:11","slug":"us-anthem-booed-heckled-in-london-leave-greenland-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/706034\/","title":{"rendered":"US anthem booed, heckled in London: &#8220;Leave Greenland alone!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The U.S. national anthem received boos and heckles at an NBA game in London on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The actress Vanessa Williams performed the Star-Spangled Banner before the Memphis Grizzlies played off against the Orlando Magic at the O2 arena. Williams is currently performing in The Devil Wears Prada on London&#8217;s West End.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">In a video on X, which has been viewed around 1.4 million times, Williams can be heard singing the anthem before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-issues-fresh-greenland-warning-11379754\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">someone in the crowd yells &#8220;leave Greenland alone,&#8221;<\/a> drawing a loud cheer from the crowd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">A mixture of boos and cheers could also be heard throughout the performance. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"11379856\" alt=\"\" caption=\"Vanessa Williams singing the US national anthem before the NBA London Game 2026 at the O2 Arena, London on Sunday, January 18.\" captionoverride=\"Vanessa Williams singing the US national anthem before the NBA London Game 2026 on Sunday.\" credit=\"Press Association\/AP\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3376\" height=\"2248\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP26018620400153.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a developing story. More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. national anthem received boos and heckles at an NBA game in London on Sunday. The actress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[5913,748,32,393,4884,366,257,149958,12056,16,15],"class_list":["post-706034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-anthem","tag-britain","tag-donald-trump","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-greenland","tag-london","tag-national-anthem","tag-nba","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115920934299546514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}