Disabled Woman Defends Herself After Musician Asks Her to ‘Dance’

A pregnant disabled fan was forced to defend herself after Example mistakenly told her to ‘get up and dance’ at the O2 Arena in London.

The woman, who is 27 weeks pregnant, shared the awkward moment the musician, Elliot John Gleave, 43, called her out for sitting down.

Example was performing as a support act to JLS and was trying to hype up the crowd during his song Changed The Way You Kiss Me, when his attention turned to the woman. 

After Example saw she didn’t get up when he encouraged her to, he questioned: ‘What are you doing? You look stupid’.

The woman, who is 27 weeks pregnant, then said she had to wave her walking stick in the air for him to see. 

Kxrstyxx captioned the TikTok: ‘Getting called out by Example was not on my 2025 bingo card… Sir, I am 27 weeks pregnant and disabled.’

A pregnant disabled fan was forced to defend herself after Example mistakenly told her to ‘get up and dance’ at a gig

The woman, who is 27 weeks pregnant, shared the awkward moment the musician, Elliot John Gleave, 43, called her out for sitting down

Fans wrote: ‘I was FUMING about this! He was so rude and wouldn’t let it go.’

‘I’m so sorry I heard him say later in the concert ‘even this pregnant woman is standing’, I had no idea he peer pressured you into standing that’s so wrong’;

‘He was like this in Cardiff, he was fuming at everyone sitting down.’ 

The fan said she had a much better experience meeting JLS. 

She told The Sun: ‘JLS themselves were absolutely lovely to myself, mentioned how they loved that I painted my walking aid the colours as well’. 

Daily Mail has contacted Example’s representative for comment. 

The Noughties boy band, which is composed of four members: Oritsé Williams, 38, JB Gill, 38, Aston and Marvin Humes, 40, went their separate ways 12 years ago to embark on solo careers.

Now, the pop sensations have reunited to perform a limited run of shows across the UK this November.

But Aston Merrygold has had to put his famous backflips on hold after an injury left him on crutches. 

Example was trying to hype up the crowd while performing as a support act to JLS at the O2 Arena in London, when his attention turned to the woman

Kxrstyxx captioned the TikTok: ‘Getting called out by Example was not on my 2025 bingo card… Sir, I am 27 weeks pregnant and disabled’

But Aston Merrygold has had to put his famous backflips on hold after an injury left him on crutches (pictured in Nottingham)

The pop sensations have reunited to perform a limited run of shows across the UK this November

The singer, 37, took to TikTok with his wife Sarah-Louise, 36, to tell fans about the injury in a trend where she joked ‘you better be nice’.

Aston, walking up to the camera, said: ‘So, I had a bit of an accident on an injury and basically it requires surgery. So they’ve given me these really cool crutches.’

He went on to show off the huge boot his leg is in a cast while it heals as the injury occurred after a fall in rehearsals, according to the Chronicle Live. 

The band kicked off their comeback tour in Glasgow at the Hydro Arena where he reportedly told fans he’d been advised by his team to postpone, but said there was ‘no way’ he could disappoint fans. 

Aston praised his bandmates who had reportedly been forced to make some big changes to the show in order to accommodate his injury.