Amber Davies blasts West End audience member for 'distracting everyone on stage'

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Amber Davies has called out a woman who was filming her West End show (Pictures: Getty/Amber Davies, Instagram)
Amber Davies has slammed a 'selfish' audience member who was filming her West End performance.
Since winning the third season of Love Island in 2017, Amber has carved out a career in musical theatre.
In the past few years, she's appeared in 9 to 5: The Musical, Bring It On: The Musical, Back to the Future: The Musical and Pretty Woman.
The 28-year-old is also currently playing Jordan Baker in the West End production of The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum.
However, during a recent performance, Amber called out a woman who had broken a major rule of theatre etiquette and was using her phone during the show.
During the interval at last night's show, the actress posted a video on social media slamming what she saw.
The actress is currently starring in The Great Gatsby (Picture: Gareth Cattermole/ Getty Images)
However her most recent show was 'ruined' when a woman started using her phone (Picture: Dave Benett/ Getty Images)
'This is a PSA. The closer you are to the stage when you're watching a show the more obvious it is when you're filming,' she said.
'This is the entire stalls. If you're filming in the stalls we can see you! From someone who's on stage, I just wanna tell you a little bit about what we see. So, we see like a dark canvas and outlines of people's heads.
'If you're filming, the reflection from the lights bounce straight back off your iPhone onto us on stage. So, it is the one thing we can see.'
She then singled out the woman who had 'ruined' part of the show for both those on stage and fellow audience members.
'So, to the woman filming New Money tonight – you distracted absolutely everybody on that stage.
'And not only that, it takes us out of the Gatsby world because you're filming and you've basically ruined that moment for everybody else who was watching the show tonight.
Amber has carved out a career as a West End star since winning Love Island in 2017 (Picture: ITV/ Rex/ Shutterstock)
'Please don't be selfish. Stop filming shows. If someone is filming during a show know that this is the consequences that it has to the people on stage and tell them to stop because honestly it's annoying.'
She added: 'Also, I single-handedly will count how many seats back you are and tell our stage manager where you're sitting and what colour hair you've got, and trust me, in the interval they will come and ask you to delete the footage, so you've basically done it for nothing. Okay, I'm gonna enjoy act two now.'
The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzerald's beloved 1925 novel, is running on the West End until September 7.
The rest of the main cast includes Jamie Muscato as Jay Gatsby, Frances Mayli McCann as Daisy Buchanan and Corbin Bleu as Nick Carraway.
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