The People’s Choice Awards on Wednesday featured an on-stage incident that echoed Kanye West’s VMA antics seven years ago, with Ellen DeGeneres, Johnny Depp, and the popular film Furious 7 among the top winners.
A young man in a red biker jacket walked onto the platform and seemed to offer his name and plug a project as Sheryl Underwood waved him off with an “uh uh” tone as the team from The Talk collected the Favorite Daytime TV Host Team award. Sharon Osborne, a co-host of The Talk, kicked the intruder in the groin as he was forced away, while Sheryl yelled, “Security, security!”
After that, the women laughed it off. Kanye West’s 2009 VMAs prank, in which he grabbed Taylor Swift’s microphone and complained that Beyonce should have won, brought back memories.
The rest of the live show, which begins off Hollywood’s annual awards season and culminates with the Oscars on February 28, went down without a hitch. Ellen DeGeneres, the talk show host, earned a humanitarian award for her work with children in need, the environment, animal rights, and health issues.
Ellen then struck a humble note, joking that she began out intending “to make people laugh, and to get very, very rich.” “Would I refer to myself as the Dalai Lama of the day? No. However, I’m sure someone has,” she stated. The award for Favorite Male Dramatic Actor went to Johnny Depp, who described his illustrious career as “a weird journey for an actor.”
