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Emma Saunders
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Charli XCX and Sabrina Carpenter some performed astatine the Brits implicit the weekend
The Brit Awards ceremonial past play prompted 825 complaints to media watchdog Ofcom, with the bulk involving Sabrina Carpenter's pre-watershed opening show and Charli XCX's outfit.
US prima Carpenter opened the awards amusement astatine The O2 successful London connected Saturday evening with a mash-up of her hits Espresso, Bed Chem with Rule Britannia!, portion wearing a reddish sparkly military-style mini-dress with matching stockings and suspenders.
She was besides seen having a adjacent brushwood with a dancer dressed arsenic a worker wearing a bearskin chapeau during the show, broadcast unrecorded connected ITV.
Essex prima Charli XCX, who won 5 awards, wore a see-through achromatic formal and addressed the contention implicit her outfit during 1 of her speeches connected the night: "I heard that ITV were complaining astir my nipples. I consciousness similar we're successful the epoch of 'free the nipple' though, right?"
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Sabrina Carpenter performed a medley including a fewer bars of Rule Britannia!
An Ofcom spokesperson said: "We are assessing the complaints against our rules, but are yet to determine whether oregon not to investigate."
The watershed is 9pm. It marks the clip erstwhile TV programmes which mightiness beryllium unsuitable for children tin beryllium broadcast from. The Brits began astatine 20:15 GMT and ended astatine 22:40.
Charli XCX won medium of the twelvemonth for her summertime deed Brat. She besides picked up champion creation act, opus of the twelvemonth for her way Guess, featuring Billie Eilish (who was the archetypal non-Brit to look connected a champion song-winner), positive songwriter of the year.
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Charli XCX's medium Brat topped the UK charts successful October 2024, aft it was re-released arsenic a remix album
Carpenter was honoured with the precocious resurrected planetary occurrence award.
The prize was primitively created successful 2013 to recognise British acts who had sold millions of records and performance tickets abroad. The erstwhile recipients were One Direction (2013-14), Sam Smith (2015), Adele (2016-17) and Ed Sheeran (2018-19).
Six years agone it was abandoned altogether, but it whitethorn person been brought backmost to lure Carpenter to perform.
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