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CELEBRATING ITS 40 TH YEAR BILLIE EILISH , MABEL AND STORMZY TRIUMPH ON MUSIC’S BIG NIGHT THE BRIT AWARDS

wards produced a night our, fun –and some ing the red carpet at s International Female minee Lizzo, who wore rapper-inspired dress cott for Moschino. two-time Brit Award Goulding dazzled in a k dress by Koché. e Eilish –wearing ry from head to toe to –received rapturous use after performing eme song for the next film No Time to Die. US singer-songwriter, ned 18 in December, ame emotional when her award for emale Solo Artist from rl Melanie Chisholm. dience, she said: “I’ve cently and when I was d I saw you guys all t genuinely made me want to cry right now.” T h is year’s Brit A w of co lour, g la m s a d ness. Domina t Lon d on ’s O 2 was So lo Artist no m a c h oco late-w r by Jerem y S Meanw h i l e , w inner Ellie patchwork B illi e B urbe r n ails –ap pla u the th B o n d fi The who tur n later bec a a ccepting In te rn atio n al F former S p ice Gi Addressin g the au fe lt very h ate d re c on the stage an smiling at me, it w ant to cry, and I Singer Mabel, who opened the show with her 2019 hit Don’t Call Me Up, was accompanied to the event by her singer-songwriter mother Neneh Cherry. Accepting the gong for British Female Solo Artist, Mabel said: “I had the honour today of walking the red carpet with my amazin and it’s exactly 30 years today since she too two of these, and performed on this stage very special night.” today of n g mum, ok h ome e , so it’s a

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WIN-WIN SITUATION Other winners included Scottish singe Capaldi, who won Best New Artist and Son Year for Someone You Loved, and Oxford ro Foals, who were named Best Group. Storm Male Solo Artist for the second tim Psychodrama by rapper Dave won Album of Host Jack Whitehall paid tribute to C Flack, who had been a regular attende awards, saying: “Over the weekend we le awful news that a member of the Brits fam friend Caroline Flack, tragically passed aw was a kind and vibrant person with an inf sense of fun. She will be sorely missed. I’m speak for everyone here when I say our tho are with her friends and family.” Caroline’s former boyfriend Harry e r Lewis n g of the o c k b an d m zy won m e , an d the Year. C aroline e e at the e arnt the m ily, our w ay. S h e fectious m sure I o ug h ts V

‘I had the honour of walking the red carpet with my mum, and it’s exactly 30 years since she took home two of these’ Mabel

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