Shocking moment celeb is arrested for wafting a fart at Michael Jackson at the Brit Awards – but has lucky escape
A CELEBRITY was once arrested for wafting a fart at Michael Jackson at the Brit Awards.
The late King of Pop was performing his Earth Song at the ceremony in 1996 when all hell broke loose.
Singer Jarvis Cocker invaded the stage, bent over and wafted a fart in Michael’s face.
It wasn’t long before security intervened and pulled him from public view.
Jarvis, now 60, ended up being arrested by police for his antics but later released without charge.
The incident was brought up in the series finale of Sky’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
Supergrass’ Danny Goffey reminded everyone about Jarvis’ brief detainment for “wafting his a*** at Michael Jackson” who was pretending to be a messiah.
As the panel erupted into laughter, comedian Jamali Maddix said: “It’s a weird thing to waft a fart at Michael Jackson because at that point, his nose wasn’t for smelling.”
Danny, 49, continued his story by revealing writer and TV star Bob Mortimer accompanied Jarvis to the police station.
Being a former lawyer, he ended up representing his pal – all while drunk himself.
Jarvis addressed his stage invasion soon after in an interview with Chris Evans for now-axed entertainment show TFI Friday.
He said: “I was just sat there and watching it and feeling a bit ill, ’cause he’s there doing his Jesus act.
“And I could kind of see – It seemed to me there was a lot of other people who kind of found it distasteful as well, and I just thought: ‘The stage is there, I’m here and you can actually just do something about it and say this is a load of rubbish if you wanted.'”
The series finale of Never Mind the Buzzcocks airs tonight at 9pm.