NOEL Gallagher was booed at the Brit Awards – despite winning a prestigious award.
The Oasis rocker was first given a hero’s welcome when he took to the stage at the Co-op Live Arena in Manchester to accept the Songwriter Award.
During his short acceptance speech Noel thanked his Oasis bandmates, including his brother Liam Gallagher.
“They brought those songs to life, without them I’d just be a singer-songwriter and no one gives a s**t about singer-songwriters,” Noel began.
He also said a big thank you to their millions of fans.
“More importantly, I’d like to thank you, the people who’ve kept those songs alive for the last 35 years. Without you, you’ve given us the most extraordinary life, and thank you very much for that. Have a great night,” Noel concluded.
But before he left, Noel shouted, “Up the f***** Blues!” referring to his beloved Manchester City football team.
While that part of Noel’s speech was bleeped out, the loud boos from the crowd could be heard audibly, presumably from rival Manchester United fans in the arena.
The sound used to bleep Noel was a static noise heard throughout the broadcast.
The Brits broadcast was aired on a slight delay allowing show producers to bleep any swearing or controversial statements.
Show host, Jack Whitehall suffered the static noise multiple times – the first when he was walking around the crowd.
Running into a table of politicians including Lisa Nandy, Jack got into trouble and caused the first static noise of the evening.
After commenting on the table, he declared: “So many politicians! I thought I saw Peter Mandelson on the list. Oh no sorry, that was another list, my bad.”
When the response resulted in only a titter of laughter, Jack quickly moved on to introduce the next act.
It was decided it was not suitable for broadcast.
But it was far from the only problem the production team suffered across the evening as the stars caused chaos while on stage.
Shortly after, I’m A Celeb winner Angry Ginge took to the stage alongside darts champ Luke Littler to present an award.
Salford native Ginge – real name Morgan Burtwistle – told the audience that he was glad that “people are realising that London is a s**thole”, which was also muzzed from the air, referring to the Brits being hosted outside of the nation’s capital for the first time.
After that, any insulting or risky language or jokes were taken out of the broadcast, including the speech by drummer Max Bessin of band Geese, who’d won the award for International Group.
“Free Palestine, F*** ICE,” he said.
Shaun Ryder and Bez also got in trouble when talking to Jack about their famously-hedonistic and drug-fuelled youth, some of which was also cut from broadcast.
