Was this the Awards show that you all watched ?
Mrs H got this week's OK Magazine and this is how they reported the Brit Awards.
THE BEST OF BRITISH
But it's a bleeding unlucky night for LeonaShe might have ended the night empty-handed, but Leona Lewis stole the show at the BRIT awards with a goosebump-giving rendition of her hit 'Bleeding Love'. While the clean-living X Factor songbird outshone every other act, it was clear that some of her fellow guests had a bit too much to drink on the night - step forward Amy Winehouse and the Arctic Monkeys. But it was the oldies who put their younger rivals to shame in the chaos stakes as comedian Vic Reeves and Kylie Minogue's performance needed a 'bit of work' and a fuming Sharon Osbourne barged him to one side screeching "Shut up ! You're p**sed, p**s off you b*****d". Feisty Sharon also threatened to lick Jonathan Rhys Meyers all over and introduced Chris Moyles as her future son-in-law - much to the bemusement of daughter Kelly !
Mika, Mark Ronson, Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Nash, Kylie and Adele - wearing the same dress in public for the third time in a week - all picked up gongs, as well as Take That. When accepting their gong, Jason Orange said "I'm still trying to dance at 37 years old with arthritic knees and a slipped disc. We appear before you bruised and battered but dead chuffed". But the best performance of the night clearly went to Leona Lewis. "With or without an award she was the star of the show" said one audience member.
Now, we put the show on Sky+ to watch the next day, and by then, I'd been on here and found out about it and decided not to bother. Therefore I can't comment on the accuracy of the above piece but does this bear much (or indeed any) resemblance to the ceremony that you all saw and ripped to pieces in highly amusing fashion ?
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Hmmm
Sounds like a post-rationalised rewrite of the events of the night to try and second guess the reactions of the intersecting OK!/ITV audience. It's hard to make an objective comparison between this and what I saw because even though I watched nearly every second of the show (along with the rest of the Word bloggers) I honestly couldn't tell you much about any of the speeches bar the Arctic Monkeys' first one and my recollections of the performances are almost as sketchy; if I recall correctly Leona showed all the charisma of a cheese and onion roll wrapped in a length of taffeta and was surrounded by some "hunks" courtesy of central casting. And as for her outshining every other performance, that is wishful thinking to an almost comical degree!
But don't take my word for it...
Caterwauling - defined?
Nothing personel against Ms Lewis but her singing is an "act". It has no actual emotive content and sqeezes every thing through the same rabid moggy. The Brits are a piece of music Blackpool, like a car crash you can not take your eyes off but in Roger Rabit world where it doesn't matter. Ms Lewis takes her self seriously and in all probability thatis why she did not win any thing. Perhaps the cat should have got a gong?