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The 2021 Brit Awards took place at the O2 Arena in London on Tuesday, with performances by the likes of Elton John, Coldplay, Dua Lipa and The Weeknd.
Doubling as a
Covid research experiment for the UK government, the ceremony also acted as the first major indoor music event to welcome back a live audience, a previous statement from the Brits explained.
While Dua Lipa walked away with the coveted Album of the Year, Taylor Swift
made history by becoming the first female act to receive the Global Icon award.
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Dua Lipa urged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to give National Health Service staff a pay rise as she landed a double victory at Tuesday s BRIT Awards.
Dua was the big winner at the ceremony, taking home awards for Album of the Year and British Female Solo Artist, and while accepting her first gong, she honoured healthcare workers for their efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic. She also announced she would be sharing her award with nurse Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, the emeritus professor of nursing at the University of West London. She has spent her stellar nursing career fighting racial injustice, Dua said. She has also spent so much time and is a strong, strong advocate for protecting frontline workers.
Taylor Swift and Maisie Williams ensured all eyes were on them as they posed together on the red carpet at the BRIT Awards on Tuesday.
The newly blonde Game of Thrones actress, 24, presented the singer, 31, with the coveted Global Icon award, becoming the first woman to ever win the trophy.
While accepting her award, Taylor admitted to being a huge fan of the fantasy series where Maisie starred as Arya Stark.
A-list: Taylor Swift and Maisie Williams ensured all eyes were on them as they posed together on the red carpet at the BRIT Awards on Tuesday
She said: Anyone who knows me knows Game of Thrones is my life. The fact that Maisie was here to present this. I want to grab you, I can t, we re social distancing but thank you so much for coming here to do this.
BRIT Awards loses 860,000 viewers since last year as viewers claim the event should be more about music than politics amid Dua Lipa s call for Boris to increase NHS wages
2.93million viewers tuned in on average to watch the awards show- 860,000 down from last year s ceremony
Ratings have fallen by more than a million since 2018, where 4.24million tuned in
One poignant moment during the BRITs was when Dua Lipa demanded Boris Johnson to give NHS staff a bigger pay rise
While some applauded her using her platform, others felt it was a shame the ceremony as a whole had become too political
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The ceremony was broadcasted live on ITV,
Highlights
It is typically the most wild night in the showbiz calendar - laden with boozy bashes and raucous displays.
Yet the 2021 BRIT Awards - like all big scale events to come - were certainly different this year, although that did not stop the stars having a wild time, with Little Mix s Jade thirwall leading the way in sensational style alongside Taylor Swift, Haim, Lewis Capaldi and Maya Jama, who documented the frolics on social media.