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Students hijacked the BBC's hashtag promoting its new show to troll singer Jason Derulo after his failure to perform at Keele University.

The American, who was the first guest presenter on BBC One's new series Sounds Like Friday Night, pulled out of an appearance at the university's Students' Union in January 2016.

Keele's Student's Union say they paid a number of agencies to book the performance and following the RnB star's no-show they are yet to receive a refund.

And during the show, students organised the Twitter takeover to highlight the issue.

Tom Snape, the Union development and democracy officer at Keele, was pleased with the takeover's success.

He said: "It was more successful than any of us thought it would be. The message that we are a charity and that money could have been spent on a lot of positive things for young people is one that resonated clearly.

"We saw the opportunity to bring significant attention to the issue, during a big name event. We wanted to bring some attention to the issue and hopefully get some communication open.

"We had booked Jason Derulo through a series of agents. After the incident we took legal advice but the agent we dealt with was small so if we attempted to recover the funds, the agency would liquidate and we'd lose our legal fees."