Leona Lewis Punched at Dreams Book Signing: Video

Police arrested a man over an alleged assault on former X Factor winner Leona Lewis, at a book signing. A Scotland Yard spokesman said police attended an incident at Waterstones book store at Piccadilly, London.

A spokesman for Leona said the singer had been signing autographs for around 90 minutes, when a man came up and punched her to the side of the head. He went on to say that although she was badly shaken, she did not need hospital attention.

A witness said, the man walked up there with the book, she signed it, and as she looked up he just punched her. Lewis had been signing copies of her new autobiography, Dreams, which is due to be released next month.

Another eyewitness added: “She was running out with her hand over her eye, and I just saw a man on the floor.”Suddenly the security all jumped on him, and they were trying to pull him out, and he was just laughing, he thought it was funny.”

A spokesperson confirmed that Lewis had been scheduled to appear on the BBC’s The One Show on Wednesday night, however she had pulled out. To read more on this story and to watch an eye witness video go to news.bbc.co.uk.