Internet pranksters who stormed the stage at X Factor during Honey G1 ‘s performance have shared a behind the scenes video. The group, named Troll Station2 , proudly posted the video on YouTube, announcing that they “arrested” Honey G live on TV for “impersonating a rapper”. Troll Station member Daniel Jarvis was seen by millions of people as he ran onto the stage in front of the Simon Cowell3 and Co . and laid his hands on Honey G in a worrying security lapse.
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Troll Station member James Slattery shared a behind the scenes video of the prank (Photo: YouTube/james slattery) Image may be NSFW.
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Slattery dresses up as a security guard in the toilets (Photo: YouTube/james slattery)
Ex-con Jarvis was jailed for 20 weeks over a ‘terrifying’ fake art heist which caused a stampede at the National Portrait Gallery4 because it came just weeks after the Tunisia beach massacre and some the pranksters wore tights over their heads. In the seconds before TV cameras caught him being pushed down the aisle among the audience to run on the stage, Jarvis recoded a four-second video revealing his intention. Accompanied by the caption ‘Making my X factor debut today so excited . Live on itv1 from 8pm!!!’, Jarvis puts his finger to his lips, grins and winks.
In this new video5, group member James Slattery, shows that he’s in the toilets, getting changed into a police tactical vest in order to disguise himself as a member of the show’s security team.
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They showed police outside the venue (Photo: YouTube/james slattery)
It then cuts to him sat in the audience, along with a pal, as he says: “We’re about to suss it all out an go viral”. The statement causes his friend to flash a huge grin to the camera. Slow motion footage then shows Jarvis being led away from Honey G by security as Slattery rushes past the judges towards the stage.
He is seen chatting to the contestant as others are dragged from the stage. Posting the video on YouTube, Slattery even bragged about telling the actual security guards that he had “it all under control” as he took to the stage. He wrote: “THE FUNNY THING WAS I WALKED THEIR SECURITY OFF THE STAGE AND TOLD HIM I HAD IT ALL UNDER CONTROl”.
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Daniel Jarvis made this video before X Factor prank (Photo: Facebook) Image may be NSFW.
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The X Factor Live Finals – 26 November 2016 (Photo: Syco / Thames / Dymond)
Jarvis is walked past him by security and another team member then runs up to Slattery to lead him from the stage. Outside, the group then films police vans to lead fans into believing they’d been arrested. Slattery appears on camera to announce he hasn’t been “nicked” before the lads rip open their hoodies to reavel Troll Station T-shirts.
Slattery then turns to the camera and says: “Honey G, I’m de-arresting you on impersonating a singer”, as the rest of the group brag about how Twitter “blew up” because of what they’d done. Troll Station is a UK YouTube channel which creates and hosts videos by pranksters.
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A Troll Station group member on stage with Honey G (Photo: ITV)
On Saturday night’s live quarter final, Jarvis stormed the stage and proceeded to dad dance as the divisive rapper performed a mash up of Can’t Touch This and Super Freak. Troll Station retweeted a LOT of social media posts from fans voicing their surprise at the ambitious stunt before revealing that they were behind the security breach.
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Jarvis – seen wearing a grey coat during the invasion – ended up in jail over the National Gallery prank . He was also once arrested after a prank backfired, leaving him accused of a bomb hoax. The group had pledged to tone down its activities after warnings form the police, however, this stands as the group’s highest profile incident to date. An X Factor6 spokesman said: There was a stage invasion by four men, with one further person in support . All five had been in the audience .
They were spoken to by police and security and have now been removed from the studio.
References
- ^ Honey G (www.mirror.co.uk)
- ^ Troll Station (www.youtube.com)
- ^ Simon Cowell (www.mirror.co.uk)
- ^ National Portrait Gallery (www.mirror.co.uk)
- ^ new video (www.youtube.com)
- ^ X Factor (www.mirror.co.uk)