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Dancing with the Stars & Ryan

10 years ago

Two men were arrested Monday after police said they stormed the “Dancing With the Stars” stage during a live production and attempted to confront disgraced Olympian Ryan Lochte.

The incident was not captured on camera at CBS Television City in the 7800 block of Beverly Boulevard. It occurred while judge Carrie Ann Inaba critiqued Lochte and his dance partner, Cheryl.

Two men came onstage but were tackled by security guards, ABC News reported. The show abruptly moved to a commercial break, and afterward host Tom Bergeron said the ballroom dance show was disrupted by “a little incident.”

Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department said the two men, Sam Sododeh, 48, and Barzeen Soroudi, 40, had tickets to be in the audience of the popular ABC show. Both appeared to have planned the confrontation, he said.

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User

10 years ago

One of the protesting idiots was interviewed and answering questions about how long they'd planned this stunt. I thought that will be very helpful when he's arrested ;-)

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arcy_gw
10 years ago
This is such a NON ISSUE I would be inclined to think these men stormed the set as a way to make the news..and they got what they wanted. Ryan was just a convenient excuse. Who cares what adolescent stunt he pulled, really?
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Original Author
10 years ago
Well they are all over the news this morning along with 5 others wearing anti-Ryan Lochte t-shirts, who were also made to leave the audience. I'm glad nobody got hurt & the security guards took them down.
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maddielee
10 years ago
Lots of cell phone video of the event on the early news shows this morning. I don't know why they stormed the set, I wonder what they would have done if security hadn't stopped them?
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Original Author
10 years ago
They're upset that Ryan lied about his "being held at gunpoint" story from Rio. They showed other views of what happened but I'm not sure their real intent. When security grabbed the one guy they bumped into Tom & Ryan. They weren't armed but it appeared they wanted to protest in front of the cameras. Crazy.
User
10 years ago
I was surprised to see it this morning. I really didn't expect something like live protests. I'm sure many are still upset, but jeez, rushing the stage?
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lily316
10 years ago
I was watching and wondered what happened. They could have had knives and made the whole scene horrible. I heard screaming and thought the worst till they came back.
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User
10 years ago
They got their 15 minutes of fame. And probably have to go to court now too, which will give them another 15 minutes of fame. I hope it was worth it for them. I think what they did was extremely childish.
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Vertise
10 years ago
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I don't even remember what RL did, nor do I care.
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