ITV have been forced to apologise after James Corden cut short Adele’s acceptance speech at the BRITs.
It’s the final award of the ceremony. George Michael has seemingly been flown from Australia to present it. Adele wins, and begins to give a no doubt emotional acceptance speech – and then James Corden grabs the microphone.
With the ceremony seemingly over-running, the host was ordered to stop the speech and give Blur time to perform. Causing a flood of consternation online, Adele seemed to mouth something and showed the middle finger to event organisers.
Speaking afterwards, a clearly annoyed Adele claimed that the gesture was meant for “the suits, not the fans”.
James Corden was interviewed on ITV2 afterwards, and seemed genuinely upset that he had been pushed into spoiling Adele’s moment. “I was having the best night of my life and then I had to cut Adele off before she’s even had chance to say thank you. She’s the biggest star in the world. I don’t understand what happened but I’m upset about it.”
Continuing, Corden said: “Blur played for 11 minutes and she didn’t get chance to say thank you once.”
ITV then followed this by releasing a statement, part of which reads: “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.”
Finally, a spokesperson for the BRIT Awards had the following to say: “We regret this happened and we send our deepest apologies to Adele that her big moment was cut short this evening due to the live show over-running. 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.”
Watch footage of the incident below.
