Fan Jumped On Stage During A Harry Styles Concert, And The Singer’s Reaction Left Everyone Stunned

When a musician puts on a show, it suggests a one-way interaction: the artist gives and the audience receives. But for it to be a concert, to take the word’s literal meaning, it needs to create a sense of togetherness. And for some that’s not limited to the band playing together. For Harry Styles, the audience is as important to the show as what happens on stage. It’s a two-way transaction.

Styles is a performer who pays attention to the crowd. There are numerous videos on YouTube showcasing his infamous audience interactions. Whether it’s getting to know fans in the front rows on a first name basis, or instructing fans to return to their seats when caught sneaking out early at the back, it seems no one is excluded at a Styles concert. It’s a seed that was planted in the performer’s One Direction years.

That’s right, even when One Direction were playing massive stadiums across the world Styles would still take a moment to interact with fans. He’s been caught on camera texting a fan’s father mid-concert when a phone was thrown on stage. The fan’s dad checked in with a group of young ladies asking how they were enjoying the evening. Styles replied, “Show’s going well so far. This is Harry texting from your daughter’s phone. That sounds weird. Hope she enjoyed the show. All the love. H xxx.”

As part of One Direction, Styles has been captured affectionately mocking fans for yawning mid-concert, or seemingly needing to pee. The heartthrob has struck up conversations with older ladies in the audience about their first concerts, which happened to be such legends as The Beatles and Beach Boys. He’s even light-heartedly made fun of a gentleman’s height after noticing he stood head and shoulders taller than everyone around him.

It’s a part of the show that Styles has continued into his solo career. And as he’s matured as an artist, so have his crowd interactions. In June 2022, for instance, he instructed the crowd to fall silent as he tried to locate someone he believed to be in attendance at a show in Manchester, U.K. It was a teacher from his school days before he was famous. It seems no one is immune from Mr. Styles’ eagle eyes.

“My first ever school teacher is here tonight,” Styles announced to a cheering crowd. “Her name’s Mrs. Vernon, and I believe she is in the crowd. We’re going to try and find her. If Mrs. Vernon is here. Are you here?” When the singer found her, he dropped to his knees shouting “Mrs. Vernon!” He was all smiles upon locating his former tutor after all these years.

“How are you?” Styles enquired of Mrs. Vernon. “I heard you’re retiring. I’d just like to thank you for everything in those formative years. Thank you so much. It means a lot to me that you’re here tonight.” It’s Styles’ notoriety for crowd involvement that has inspired fans to resort to increasingly imaginative ways to get the star’s attention. Some fans get lucky.

At a concert in Portugal, a fan caught Styles’ attention by shouting, “Can I sing two lines to my girlfriend?” After a few oohs and ahhs from the crowd and a brief line of enquiry from the singer, he handed over the mic. The impromptu interlude involved a few lines from Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love” before the fan dropped onto one knee and proposed to his girlfriend in front of a screaming crowd.

Well, Styles’ show was named Love On Tour, after all. It was to promote the album Harry’s House, a record that the “Watermelon Sugar” singer admits comes from a place of intimacy. As he described to Apple Music’s Zane Lowes in May 2022, “It was very kind of literal and on the nose: I wanted to make an acoustic EP or something and make it all in my house, and make it really intimate.”

Styles continued, “As I started making the album I realized [home] wasn’t about geographical location. It was much more of an internal thing… [and] it felt like it took on this whole new meaning and it was about, like: imagine, it’s a day in my house, what do I go through? A day in my mind, what do I go through? In my house I’m playing fun music, sad music... It’s a day in the life.”

Styles is all about inclusivity when it comes to his fans. Harry’s house, for them, is a safe space where they can be themselves without fear of judgment. And, like the fan proposing to his girlfriend in Lisbon, fans sometimes turn to the “As It Was” hitmaker for help with more personal issues. Just like Mattia, an Italian fan who attended a Styles concert in London, U.K. in June 2022.

Mattia caught Styles’ attention from the stage with a sign he’d made. The message read, “From Ono to Wembley: Help me come out.” The singer grabbed the sign and showed it to the audience. He asked Mattia, “So, you would like the people of Wembley to bring you out?” The crowd erupted into cheers. At Styles’ concerts everyone is family and this room full of strangers had the Italian’s back.

Placing the sign on the stage, Styles switched it for a Pride flag. Then the singer proceeded to tease Mattias and the rest of the crowd. He said, “When this flag goes above my head, you are officially out, okay? I think that’s how it works. When this [flag] goes over my head, you’re officially gay, my boy.”

A drumroll sounded. Styles then began to run back and forth across the stage trailing the Pride flag behind him. He never quite raised it above his head as he did so, though. “No, [you’re] still straight,” he teased Mattias, who was briefly shown on the big screens as the singer continued with his antics. Would he do as the expectant fan had requested?

Eventually Styles raised the Pride flag above his head to rapturous applause and screams from the crowd. He turned to Mattias and announced, “Congratulations… you are a free man!” A liberating moment for the Italian, no doubt. And knowing he was among supporters was surely comforting. It’s not the first time the “Adore You” singer performed such a service for fans, though.

At a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, concert in November 2021, Styles spotted a similar sign to Mattias’ from the stage. This one belonged to McKinley McConnell, and this time her mom was in attendance, albeit in a different part of the crowd. The sign read, “My mom is in section 201. Help me come out.” Styles again stopped the show to find out what the fan wanted to do.

Styles asked the fan, “What would you like to tell your mother?” and reached toward McConnell to hand her the microphone. But she suddenly got nervous. In the footage uploaded to TikTok she could be heard saying, “Okay, there’s a lot of people!” The singer joked, “There is a lot of people. Did you not know? Did you think this through?”

Styles asked McConnell, “Okay, do you want to tell her, or should I tell her?” When the fan asked the singer to do it he said, “I can tell her, yeah, no problem,” and gleefully skipped to the other side of the stage to face where her mom was located. He yelled, “Lisa, she’s gay!” to which the mom was shown on screen dropping to her knees and crying.

Those tears, however, were ones of joy from McConnell’s mom. She placed her hands over her face and proceeded to blow kisses toward her daughter on the venue’s floor in front of the stage. Styles said, “Now I don’t want to ruin the moment, but wouldn’t it be nice if you were a bit closer together?” The distance between them, though, was less than another fan and her mom in San Jose, California, in July 2018.

On that occasion, a fan named Grace made a sign that read, “I traveled 2,846 miles to be here tonight. Thank you for 10 incredible shows,” on one side. On the reverse it said, “I’m gonna come out to my parents because of you!!!” Grace revealed the sign to her followers on Twitter before heading to the Styles concert that night.

With no agenda and no expectations of Styles, Grace said in her tweet, “The double-sided poster for tonight!!! I’m not expecting anything but I hope he at least sees it.” But the singer did see it. Not only that, but he stopped the show and asked Grace if he could read it to the crowd. That was a gesture which Grace later described to Buzzfeed News as “very thoughtful and polite.”

Styles struck up a conversation with Grace in the front rows and, when the singer asked, she informed him that her mother’s name was Tina. Grace explained that her mom was staying at a hotel located a few miles from the venue. Styles instructed the crowd to be as quiet as possible. Then, shouting into the microphone, he announced, “Tina, she’s gay!”

Styles clasped his hand around his ear and, pretending to have heard Grace’s mom’s reply, said, “Tina says she loves ya. Congratulations, I’m very happy for you.” Grace later revealed her bisexuality to her mom via the video from the concert. In a tweet, she wrote that Tina was “overjoyed and says that ‘Yes I do love you and you can be whoever you want to be.’”

Grace thanked Styles in a tweet for providing a space where she felt comfortable to be herself. She wrote, “Thank you so much for creating an environment where I am proud to be who I am. Your continuous support of the LGBTQ+ has helped me come to love myself and feel safe. Thank you for tonight and I can’t wait to show Tina (my mom) this video. Love you always.”

That’s right. Styles does his best to ensure everyone feels included in his world. There are numerous videos on YouTube in which he can be seen waving Pride flags. He’s also been spotted flying flags for Black Lives Matter and the bisexual community, too. A theory even exists that the artwork for his second album Fine Line deliberately reflected the pale blue, powder pink and white stripes of the bi Pride flag.

Then there’s the matter of Styles’ sometimes more gender fluid wardrobe choices. He’s often seen wearing nail polish, for instance, having launched his own line of the product. His stage clothing can be low-key flamboyant, like when he sported a sheer blouse at 2019’s Met Gala. Or when a Vogue photoshoot saw the singer wearing designer skirts and dresses. Some have suggested the star is dropping hints about his own sexuality.

But for Styles, his clothing choices aren’t about challenging accepted gender norms. It’s simply about wearing clothes he likes the look of. He told the Guardian newspaper in 2019, “What women wear. What men wear. For me it’s not a question of that. If I see a nice shirt and get told, ‘But it’s for ladies.’ I think, ‘Okaaaay? Doesn’t make me want to wear it less though.’ I think the moment you feel more comfortable with yourself, it all becomes a lot easier.”

Styles is similarly non-committal when it comes to defining his sexuality. Many see the Pride flag-waving and lyrics such as “The boys and girls are in/I mess around with them/And I’m okay with it” as clues. But, as Styles explained to Rolling Stone magazine in August 2019, “I want to make people feel comfortable being whatever they want to be.”

“Maybe at a show you can have a moment of knowing that you’re not alone,” Styles concluded. “I’m aware that as a white male, I don’t go through the same things as a lot of the people that come to the shows. I can’t claim that I know what it’s like, because I don’t. So I’m not trying to say, ‘I understand what it’s like.’ I’m just trying to make people feel included and seen.” Mattias, Grace, and McKinley certainly were, and were comfortable enough with Styles to announce their sexualities at his concerts.