Sigourney Weaver live performance disrupted as confetti-shooting eco-protesters storm the stage

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shared by the group shows.The Alien star was sitting in a chair onstage when the pair inched their way toward center stage and into the spotlight and fired off a confetti cannon.“We’ll have to stop the show, ladies and gentlemen, sorry,” a voice offstage calls out.The audience then let out a fury of boos as a stagehand came out and told Weaver to exit the stage before walking over to the disruptive protesters.“Get off!” someone can be heard yelling from the crowd.The stagehand appears to convince the pair to remove themselves, and audience members briefly cheer as they are escorted off stage.Just Stop Oil eco-idiots storm stage as film star Sigourney Weaver performs pic.twitter.com/1gVxMgxX1KThe protesters — Hayley Walsh, a mother of three, and Richard Weir, a mechanical engineer — disrupted the show because they were “demanding the UK government phase out fossil fuel burning by 2030,” a statement released by Just Stop Oil revealed.“The pair could be seen holding a sign which read ‘Over 1.5 Degrees is a Global Shipwreck’, referring to the recent announcement that 2024 was the first full year over the 1.5-degree safe limit for global temperature rise.

World Leaders stated they would aim to keep the world below 1.5 degrees of warming at the Paris Agreement in 2015,” the activist group shared.Walsh, 42, said she decided to participate in the protest because “1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck we can’t ignore.”“I am scared for my children, I can’t sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources.