The Ryan Lochte summer from hell won’t end. A month after the fiasco he created in Rio and days after his 10-month suspension from swimming, anti-Lochte protestors rushed the stage just after the Olympic champion’s first performance on Dancing With the Stars.
Here’s video of whatever just happened to Ryan Lochte on #DWTS pic.twitter.com/x8GAfa7aeT
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) September 13, 2016
Sam Sododeh, 48, and Barzeen Soroudi, 40, allegedly stormed the stage as judge Carrie Ann Inaba was reviewing Lochte’s dance routine with partner Cheryl Burke. NBC News reports that security quickly tackled the duo, and the LAPD arrested the two on “pending charges on suspicion of trespassing.”
Cuffed for rushing the stage at #DWTS during @ryanlochte's dance pic.twitter.com/rjueIKuLsZ
— Jason Nathanson (@ABCNewsJason) September 13, 2016
A handful of women wearing the same anti-Lochte shirts were escorted out of the studio for shouting “liar.
The broadcast didn’t show Sododeh and Soroudi taking the stage—viewers only saw a split screen of a clearly shocked Inaba pleading with the two to “back off”—but U.S. swimmer Eddie Moses shot an Instagram video that captures some of the chaos following the incident.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BKR2npzgxhb/
ABC News also released footage filmed from a different angle.
VIDEO: Anti-Ryan Lochte protester tackled during #DWTS https://t.co/B6XcAFGzYQ pic.twitter.com/LuzYY6cwuM
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) September 13, 2016
As for Lochte, he seemed shaken but mostly unfazed by the protest.
“I’m doing good,” he told host Tom Bergeron when the show returned from commercial break. “So many feelings are going through my head right now. A little hurt.”
“I came out here and wanted to do something I’m completely not comfortable with, and I did, and I came out here with a big smile.”
Posted By: Taylor Berman
