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Avril Lavigne Tells Topless Protester to ‘Get the F— Off’ Stage During Juno Awards Speech

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Karen Bliss Juno Awards host Simu Liu ended the two-hour broadcast from Edmonton’s Rogers Place on March 13 with these immortal lines: “Sorry for the boobs.” Not something one would expect to hear at a Canadian music awards show and the “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” star didn’t need to apologize; they weren’t his boobs.

Near the start of the show, a topless environmentalist avoided security and managed to get on stage as Avril Lavigne was introducing rapper AP Dhillon, the first Punjabi act to perform on the Junos. “I’m introducing an artist who’s blown up on the global music scene with the new wave of R&B, hip hop and pop records, fused…” she said, as the woman suddenly appeared onstage wearing only pink pants with matching durag and scribbled slogans on her back and arms.

The TV broadcast did not show a close-up of the interloper but those in attendance said she wore pasties and had the words “save the green belt” and “land back” written on her, which is strangely a reference to an issue in Ontario, not Alberta, where the Junos took place.

The Greenbelt is a protected piece of land that the province wants to develop for housing. Lavigne stuck to the script, continuing to talk about the Victoria, BC-based Dhillon, but when the protestor circled Lavigne with her arms extended in the devil salute, looking out at the audience Lavigne turned around and looked right at her. “Get the fuck off.

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