Adele Flips the Bird at Brit Awards
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Adele’s trophy shelf is already groaning under the weight of the six Grammys she won earlier this month, but now she’s got more hardware to add to it. The singer picked up two honors at the Brit Awards, the British equivalent of the Grammys, which were held Tuesday in London. Her album “21″ was named Best British Album, while she was named Best British Female Artist at the ceremony.
According to the BBC, Adele told the audience, “Nothing makes me prouder than coming home with six Grammys and then coming to the Brits and winning album of the year. I’m so proud to be British and to be flying our flag.” Someone then approached her at the podium and cut her off in mid-speech. She accepted the diss with a smile, but threw her middle finger up. According to Idolator.com, she said afterwards, “It was for the suits, not for my fans. Sorry if I offended you.”
British TV network ITV later issued a statement about the incident, saying “The Brits is a live event. Unfortunately the programme was over-running and we had to move on. We would like to apologise to Adele for the interruption.”
A spokesman for the show added, “We regret this happened and we send our deepest apologies to Adele that her big moment was cut short. We don’t want this to undermine her incredible achievement in winning our night’s biggest award. It tops off what’s been an incredible year for her.”
Adele’s bird flip comes on the heels of hip-hop star M.I.A. throwing up her middle finger during the Super Bowl halftime show. The NFL didn’t exactly consider that an “interruption.” Spokesman Brian McCarthy called M.I.A.’s act an “obscene gesture” that “was completely inappropriate, [and] very disappointing.”
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That was pretty low class.
Posted by: Louise | February 22, 2012, 10:37 am 10:37 am
I thought that the middle finger meant nothing in Britain…that the backhanded “peace” or “victory” sign was the UK equivalent of giving someone the bird.
Posted by: MyTake | February 22, 2012, 10:45 am 10:45 am
maybe it’s time to stop giving so much to people who don’t appreciate where their money comes from. ignorant, low class move.
Posted by: independentthinker | February 22, 2012, 11:30 am 11:30 am
these singers have a God given gift
for talent and voice towards singing, do you think all singers are smart.
in that sense do you this woman is smart you be the judge. was witney huston smart, event though she had fame and fortune.
Posted by: ron | February 22, 2012, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
Louise – did you mean it was low class of Adele are ITV? Adele is almost single-handedly responsible for turning around the British music industry. She is, arguably, one of the UK’s most dynamic exports in recent years and ITV couldn’t give her the opportunity to say thank you. It was real bad planning on the network’s part. What the network was saying is: “We know you’re great, Adele, but we don’t really want to hear any more of you…”
By the way, the article was badly researched. ITV is the British equivalent of CBS, ABC or NBC, NOT the FCC.
And Independent Thinker – what do you mean we should stop giving so much to people who don’t appreciate where their money comes from? Adele was trying to say thank you and the network shut her up. She did what she did out of frustration.
Posted by: James | February 22, 2012, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm
With TV, the time element is paramount. She could have smiled graciously, said thank you and walked off. She is not all that and this next year will show just how good she is.
Posted by: LW | February 22, 2012, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
“ITV (the British equivalent of the FCC)…”
ITV is a broadcasting company… And the “someone” who approached her was James Corden, the host of the Brit Awards.
Posted by: Lisa | February 22, 2012, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
She should be reminded who Christopher Cross is. He won loads of Grammys one year for “Sailing” and also sang the theme song of “Arthur”. After that, he has pretty much disappeared from the mainstream. I’m not saying that he flipped the bird to anyone, but Adele is starting to act very entitled. She’s not going to be the newest thing next month.
Posted by: OutThere | February 22, 2012, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
US headline: “Adele flips the Bird”
UK headline: “Adele cut off!”
The “Bird” doesn’t mean much in the UK, everyone is on here side there. That was her big moment!
Posted by: L Hughes | February 23, 2012, 12:11 am 12:11 am
Alright tired of Adele. Anybody else?
Posted by: AW47 | February 23, 2012, 11:59 am 11:59 am