By Chris Brooke for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:11 GMT, 21 February 2019 | Updated: 00:24 GMT, 22 February 2019
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Olympic gold medallist Samantha Quek claims she was 'asked to leave' an opera in Vienna
The ring tone of a phone has been known to send performers on stage into a rage.
But Olympic gold medallist Samantha Quek claims she was ‘asked to leave’ an opera simply for coughing twice.
The 30-year-old tweeted about the incident during a visit to Vienna this week.
She is believed to have attended Monday’s performance at the Vienna State Opera and described being sent to a ‘detention room’ to watch the show on a TV screen instead.
Her light-hearted social media post has prompted a debate about stuffy opera rules.
Soprano Laura Wright commented: ‘And that’s why more people don’t listen to opera! #coughawaybabe.’
Miss Quek, who became famous through her 2016 appearance on the ITV show I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!, has 110,000 followers on Twitter and her comments have prompted an investigation by the historic opera theatre’s management team.
It is not known how much of it Miss Quek, a member of the winning British hockey team at Rio in 2016, missed by being sent outside. However, a spokesman for the Vienna State Opera said they had been unable to confirm any details of the reported incident after speaking to staff
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