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An irate cinema boss reportedly had to intervene twice to calm down unruly women at a 50 Shades Freed screening - BEFORE the film had even started.

The manager reportedly had to take matters in to his own hands due to predominantly female audiences bringing their own booze and indulging in rowdy behaviour.

Radio City’s Leanne Campbell told breakfast show listeners this morning that when she went to see the film with friends recently - at an unspecified local cinema - the house lights were brought up twice before the film even began.

The audience was then lectured to by a distraught cinema boss who said he was at the end of his tether with some of the behaviour by women attending the film and he was not going to put up with it any longer.

He then accused one woman of bringing her own booze into the screening, which he said had been spotted on CCTV.

(Image: James Maloney)

Leanne said the manager’s face was “beetroot” and he was “storming up and down the aisle.”

Fifty Shades Freed - the third and final instalment of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie franchise - has garnered almost universally negative reviews since it was released in time for Valentine’s Day.

Leanne herself was not impressed, tweeting to her 39,000 followers on Twitter: “I could have written something racier on the back of an arl opened envelope.”

Later Leanne said in a tweet that "nobody was rowdy" and everyone near her had soft drink and popcorn, rather than booze.