Two men were taken into custody on Monday after police said they went up the “Dancing With the Stars” podium when it was live and tried to confront Ryan Lochte.
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“Two individuals stormed the dance floor tonight and were immediately subdued and escorted out of the building”, a spokesperson for BBC Worldwide Productions, which produces “Dancing with the Stars”, told City News Service.
“Hey, back off!” Inaba shouted, as security guards appeared to rush past her. Inaba asked the men to stop as the show stayed on a split screen of her and a replay of Lochte’s performance. Despite the rough start, Lochte claims he remains positive and proud of himself for taking a risk in competing in a show like “Dancing With the Stars”.
“So many feelings are going through my head right now”, Lochte told Bergeron on-air. They were removed following the incident. Then, when we realized it wasn’t, that hurt.
Of course, the big news of the day is still the protest that happened against Ryan Lochte on last night’s “Dancing with the Stars” performance show, and the aftermath that resulted in multiple people being thrown out.
The two men who came on stage were identified as Barzeen Soroudi and Sam Sotoodeh, and they were indeed trying to make everyone remember a certain pee-stained gas station and how Lochte is risky to America, according to Hollywood Life.
Security tackled the two protesters, and members of the audience who also began shouting anti-Lochte chants were escorted from the audience.
He also spoke out about how the incident has influenced the way he feels about the ABC reality TV show.
The two protesters were being held pending charges of suspicion of trespassing. Lochte and three of his swim teammates vandalized a Rio gas station and had a gun pulled on them to get money for the damages.
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Recently, the International Olympic Committee, United States Olympic Committee and USA Swimming suspended Lochte for 10 months, leaving him unable to compete in next year’s world championship in Hungary.
