A Download festival goer gate-crashed a BBC Breakfast live report, forcing the presenters to make an emergency return to the studio. Co-hosts Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt were forced to cut an interview short from the ongoing Download Festival in Leicestershire after a visitor walked into the broadcast.
Download Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a special four-night festival, rather than the usual three nights. Due to this, extra traffic has been occurring in the area, and reports state there is widespread gridlock in the area around Donnington reports Leicestershire Live.
Warnings over the delays have been issued by East Midlands Airport, Download Festival, and Leicestershire Police, and on Thursday, June 8, three-hour delays were reported. Earlier on BBC Breakfast on Friday, June 9, reporter Hannah Miller was reporting live from the scene of the campsite.
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Hannah said that people had been partying "really really late into the night, only just going to bed some of them. There are a few early risers also coming round.”
At this point, a man holding a can into the shot, and stated: " “I love my prescription speed provided by the NHS.” Hannah quickly tried to head him off and block him from the shot, but it was too late and the BBC crew had to push him from the camera's view.
As he was being pushed away, Hannah added: “There’s a lot of people who want to have a lot of fun.” The newsreader profusely apologised to viewers on the breakfast programme as she swiftly wrapped up the interview and threw the show back to Naga and Charlie in the studio.
People have also been taking to Twitter to complain about the parking at the festival. One user wrote: “Why issue car park passes, announce they’ve sold out, issue more, then OFFER THE CHANCE TO PAY WHEN YOU ARRIVE ANYWAY?! Absolutely chaotic this year compared to the past…”
Another commented: “We are all still queueing too. We have weekend arena only tickets and not even in the car park yet.
"We’re already missing bands... You should have started letting people on to campsites Tuesday to give campers two full days to travel in and pitch up.”
A third stated: “You’ve oversold parking. Should have been pre-purchase only, no exceptions.
"There wouldn’t have been any capacity issues then as you’d know how many vehicles would be on site. But common sense is too much it seems.”
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