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Adele challenges fans over throwing objects onstage at concerts

British singer Adele poses on the red carpet upon her arrival for the BRIT Awards 2022 in London on Feb. 8, 2022.  (Tribune News Service)
By Evan Rosen New York Daily News

During a recent “Weekends with Adele” concert, Adele addressed the issue of fans throwing objects at artists on stage.

In a clip shared on Instagram on Sunday, the “Hello” singer can be seen armed with a T-shirt cannon, making joking threats to the crowd.

“Have you noticed how people are like forgetting … show etiquette in America, they’re just throwing (stuff) on stage. Have you seen that?” she asked the audience.

She continued, holding up the T-shirt cannon: “Dare you to throw something at me.”

She then proceeded to shoot a T-shirt into the crowd.

“Stop throwing things at people … when you can shoot things,” she joked. “Get my T-shirts online.”

The banter came in the wake of several artists being struck by objects during their performances.

Bebe Rexha was hit in the eye by a cellphone during her New York City concert on June 18, leading her to seek medical treatment.

Ava Max also experienced an incident in which a fan slapped her “so hard that he scratched the inside of my eye,” the singer claimed.

Additionally, a fan threw what appeared to be a bag of ashes on stage at a Pink concert in London, and country singer Kelsea Ballerini had a bracelet thrown at her during her concert in Idaho.

“I’m fine, let’s just do a better job of keeping each other safe at shows,” Ballerini wrote on her Instagram following the incident.