{"id":689097,"date":"2026-07-13T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689097\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:41:08","slug":"amber-davies-legally-blonde-musical-star-says-dont-film-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/689097\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Davies: Legally Blonde musical star says &#8216;don&#8217;t film shows&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legally Blonde musical star Amber Davies says she asked for an audience member who filmed a performance from the front row to be kicked out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ex-Love Islander posted a video on her Instagram Stories during the interval of Saturday night&#8217;s show at the Bord G\u00e1is Energy Theatre in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a beautiful audience, but there&#8217;s just one woman in the front row, been filming the entirety of act one, it&#8217;s had us all distracted,&#8221; she said, adding that she&#8217;d asked staff to remove the woman for act two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Production company Royo told BBC Newsbeat it did not wish to comment further on Davies&#8217; message.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies won the third series of ITV&#8217;s Love Island in 2017, and has since gone on to have a career in acting and musical theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She&#8217;s currently playing lead character Elle Woods in the production of Legally Blonde touring the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies was still in costume, her stage microphone still in place, when she recorded her Insta post, which she called &#8220;your daily reminder not to film at the theatre&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the audience member had broken the rules and &#8220;ruined the morale of our wonderful eighth show on a Saturday night from selfish actions&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legally Blonde musical star Amber Davies says she asked for an audience member who filmed a performance from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}