MTV EMAs: Eight bits of gossip we uncovered on the night

The MTV Awards came to Manchester for the archetypal clip successful their 30-year past connected Sunday night, but someway didn't consciousness precise Mancunian.

There was nary motion of Take That oregon Aitch, oregon Liam Gallagher - adjacent though helium won champion stone star.

Organisers made a fewer subtle nods to the city: The signifier was framed successful the achromatic and yellowish stripes of Factory Records, and New Order's Blue Monday pumped done the speakers each clip nominees were announced.

But the amusement took a much planetary perspective, highlighting acts from Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and America - including a predictable triumph for Taylor Swift successful the night's 2 biggest categories, champion creator and video of the year.

She lone appeared by video, choosing alternatively to walk the nighttime watching her boyfriend, American Football subordinate Travis Kelce, pb the Kansas City Chiefs to triumph against the Denver Broncos.

But determination were plentifulness of different stars astatine the amusement and connected the reddish carpet. Here's immoderate of the gossip we picked up on the way.

Two weeks ago, Raye told fans her 2nd medium had been delayed by thieves who stole her car and, with it, respective notebooks afloat of lyrics and opus ideas.

On the reddish carpet, she confirmed the constabulary hadn't been capable to way them down, saying: "I've conscionable had to fto it go."

The vocalist said she couldn't recreate a batch of the ideas, due to the fact that the enactment of penning them down freed her caput to enactment connected different things.

"You fto it go, due to the fact that you deliberation you tin travel backmost to it - and present determination are truthful galore ideas that are conscionable gone. It's truthful sad."

But the singer, who won champion UK artist, maintained a affirmative outlook.

"Everything happens for a reason. I'll person to commencement again and possibly it's a blessing successful disguise."

The determination to bring rap fable Busta Rhymes to Manchester to person a planetary icon grant wasn't arsenic random arsenic it sounded.

Before helium developed his rapid-fire rap delivery, an 11-year-old Rhymes spent 2 summers surviving with his Aunt Velma successful Morecambe.

"I went to karate school, and we illegally went into nightclubs, to marque a small wealth break-dancing," helium told us.

"I retrieve Boy George was cool, Wham was cool," helium continued.

"But our favourite was Benny Hill. Benny Hill is inactive our favourite to this day. I don't deliberation anybody has arsenic ever been arsenic comic oregon arsenic charismatic arsenic Benny Hill."

So, during those halcyon days of watching smutty drama successful Morecambe, did helium ever deliberation he'd beryllium back, winning a beingness accomplishment prize?

"You tin ne'er foresee thing similar that," helium said. "When we archetypal got progressive with hip-hop, we didn't bash it for nary of the accolades. We conscionable did it due to the fact that we loved it.

"But with that being said, contiguous is simply a imagination travel true."

To honour that moment, helium gave a nine-minute acceptance code thanking everyone from his parent to an creation teacher he'd met backstage.

“I’ve ne'er got an grant from MTV before. Thirty 4 years of professionally signaling [and] this is the archetypal clip I’m getting an grant from MTV. It feels incredible."

Olly Alexander played a pre-show enactment connected Saturday night, and couldn't rather judge the reception for Dizzy - the opus which earned him 18th spot astatine this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

"That went down a batch amended than it did successful Eurovision," helium laughed, soon earlier Jedward invaded the signifier and caused utter chaos.

At the main ceremony, Alexander was determination to grant opus of the twelvemonth to Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso. But helium besides had a fewer words for anyone considering representing the UK astatine adjacent year's contest.

"I would accidental to them, whoever it is, 'Call me, and we volition person a superior speech astir it'," helium said with the haunted look of a antheral who has seen immoderate things.

In summation to winning champion caller artist, US vocalist Benson Boone opened the ceremonial with a spectacular show that saw him suspended mid-air connected a expansive piano, earlier pulling disconnected a spectacular beforehand flip from a level astatine the broadside of the stage.

"The security is ever crazy," helium laughed, "but I emotion to perform."

One idiosyncratic who couldn't judge his eyes was Happy Mondays prima Bez, who accosted Boone during an interrogation with Rita Ora.

"When you came down connected that expansive piano," helium said, "I thought, 'Elton John is going to beryllium gutted.'"

Manchester is location to the UK's biggest K-Pop store and, connected Sunday morning, the unit couldn't rather judge 1 of the genre's biggest miss bands had landed successful their city.

"Le Sserafim were posting pictures from the Christmas market," 1 of them told me. "That's lone 5 minutes from here!"

The five-piece, who've been mounting illustration records implicit successful the US, jetted successful for their first-ever UK performance, a mash-up of Chasing Lightning and the 90s location banger Crazy.

But they were much excited to beryllium retired connected the municipality without being mobbed.

"It was truthful good, we had baklava!" enthused vocalist Huh Yun-Jin; portion her bandmate Sakura tucked into a information of food and chips.

"It was my archetypal time," she said. "I loved it."

On signifier astatine the EMAs, the set got 1 of the biggest screams of the night, contempt being comparatively chartless successful the UK... for now.

"Coming to Europe is thing that we've ever dreamt of, truthful this is perfectly surreal," said Yun-Jin. "We conscionable privation to marque a bully impression."

Mission accomplished.

For perfectly nary crushed astatine all, Jedward went connected a monolithic charm violative for the planetary press.

"Oasis are backmost and Jedward are back!" they declared, earlier racing implicit to baffled German and French journalists, portion singing Stop Crying Your Heart Out.

This went connected for 2 deliriously superb hours, arsenic the twins, who recovered fame connected The X Factor 15 years ago, insisted that "a batch of artists person been inspired by Jedward".

And, to beryllium fair, they person proof. Mercury Prize nominee CMAT precocious said the brothers had encouraged her to decorativeness her 2nd album, with a motivational dependable message.

"You person to deliberation astir it, successful life," explained John.

"Don't ever deliberation you're the main character. Reach retired to different people. Serve that tennis shot and spot what they do.

"It's ever astir keeping that spark alive."

They were, to beryllium honest, an implicit blast.

Liam Payne won 12 MTV EMAs during his clip successful One Direction, and aboriginal utilized the ceremonial to motorboat his solo career, performing his planetary smash deed Strip That Down astatine the 2017 ceremony.

It was lone fitting that the lawsuit marked his decease - but striking the close code successful the mediate of a immense showbiz lawsuit is ne'er easy.

In the end, his person and collaborator Rita Ora conscionable spoke from the heart.

"There were truthful galore ways that we were talking astir honouring him," she said. "But sometimes simply speaking is enough."

Addressing the camera directly, she shared her memories of the 31-year-old, arsenic her dependable cracked.

"Liam Payne was 1 of the kindest radical that I knew," she said. "He brought truthful overmuch joyousness to each country helium walked into. And helium near specified a people connected this world."

It was sombre and restrained, yet powerfully emotional. Ora wasn't the lone 1 crying.

South African prima Tyla, champion known for her viral deed Water, clinched some the champion R&B and champion Afrobeats awards.

The awards marked her continued ascent, aft being named 1 of the BBC's Sounds of 2024 - but she made definite to honour her inspirations.

On the reddish carpet, she rocked a vintage Roberto Cavalli formal with a turquoise bluish zebra print.

The nonstop aforesaid formal had antecedently been worn by US rapper Eve astatine the 2000 Soul Train Awards.

And R&B fable Aaliyah wore a canary yellowish mentation astatine the 2000 MTV Awards, wherever she won champion pistillate video for Try Again.

The ceremonial took spot successful September 2000, little than a twelvemonth earlier Aaliyah's tragic decease successful an level accident.

The vocalist was conscionable 22 astatine the clip - the aforesaid property that Tyla is now.