Avril Lavigne confronts topless protester onstage whereas The Weeknd wins huge

Avril Lavigne onstage on the Juno Awards, subsequent to a topless environmental protestor

Avril Lavigne confronted a topless environmental protester onstage on the Juno Awards, the Canadian equal of the Brits.

Because the singer launched a efficiency at first of Monday’s ceremony, a lady ran onto the stage behind her.

A message on her again learn “save the inexperienced belt”, apparently in reference to a controversial housing growth plan by the Ontario authorities.

Lavigne tried to complete her speech earlier than confronting the girl.

“Get the [expletive] off,” she stated and swatted at her breast, reported Canada’s CBC Information. The lady was then escorted off stage by a safety guard.

The pop-rocker alluded to the intruder in her later acceptance speech.

“Now, no person attempt something this time. I am going to [mess a woman] up,” joked Lavigne, whereas gathering the TikTok Juno fan alternative award.

Avril Lavigne needed to cope with a topless environmental protester whereas onstage at Monday’s Juno Awards

The ceremony’s host, Shang-Chi actor Simu Liu praised Lavigne, who’s from Ontario, for “dealing with that topless woman like a champion”.

In November, the Ontario authorities issued new rules to take away 7,400 acres of protected Greenbelt land and open it up for housing, with 50,000 new houses set to be constructed by 2025.

The transfer, which has been criticised by environmental teams, is below investigation by the province’s auditor normal and integrity commissioner.

The Weeknd’s hits embrace I Cannot Really feel My Face, Starboy and Blinding Lights

Elsewhere on the evening, Toronto singer The Weeknd turned the Juno’s second most-honoured artist of all time.

The star gained album of the 12 months for Daybreak FM – an idea report set in purgatory – incomes him his twenty second Juno award, overtaking Celine Dion and Bryan Adams.

Solely country-pop singer Anne Murray has extra, with 24.

The musician, whose actual identify is Abel Tesfaye, didn’t attend the occasion, and his absence reportedly prompted jeers from the gang on the Rogers Place venue in Edmonton, Alberta.

In the meantime, rock band Nickelback, whose lead singer Chad Kroeger was married to Lavigne, had been inducted into the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame on the occasion.

Nickelback performing onstage after being inducted into the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame

“Twenty seven years, blood sweat and tears, began off 300 kilometres southeast of right here in slightly city known as Hanna,” stated Kroeger, referencing the band’s hometown.

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“We had no concept what we had been doing and more often than not nonetheless do not,” he added. “However the whole lot we did wound up main us to this second proper right here. However we did not make it right here with out lots of assist.”

They then closed the present by performing their hits Rockstar, How You Remind Me and Animals.

Learn the total checklist of winners.