Put it on the Britz! The Betsy Cole files ;)

Oh the Brits, a night filled to the brim with merriment and mirth!

Where the famous act shamelessly and fantastically outrageous… Lets be honest we wouldn’t have them any other way!

 

On our table we were surrounded by them you couldn’t wave an arm without whacking it on Peter Kay or Lulu. Shout out to my girl Lulu by the way looking awesomely svelte, suited and booted, in her black sparkly uniform of leginnings and shirt my guess Matthew Williamson, nevertheless back to the night!

 

The ethereal Katherine Jenkins took her place at her table, mentioning details of her autobiography, which she blushed and said “it won’t detail anything outrageous or behind the scenes, but it will mention my dad and my career.” At which Kate Nash, looking trés swish in a pink 50’s number loudly remarked, “Is that meat?” Looking at the pink lamb chop on her plate. 

 

Girls Aloud strutted in, Sarah looking stunning  in her blonde Debby Harry wannabe phase, Nicola looking as sweet as a strawberry shortcake doll, Kimberly wandered over to our table to say hello looking gorgeous with a gold belt cinched at the waist, finally Cheryl stalked over to the table and even though her dirty laundry has recently been picked over by the equally filthy press, she looked beautiful and in good spirits dressed in an flirty yellow number.

 

Just before the show started Take That and my mate Gary Barlow walked in, he greeted me and said “keeping fingers crossed for live performance!” 

The show started with a bang (literally) with Mika and Beth Ditto. Which I thought was one of the best performances of the night and the perfect opener. When Mika came up he went straight to our table and was buzzed, he greeted us then went to his table to be with his family. Mika had a fairytale of a night just as he sat down he was zooming off again to collect his award for breakthrough act. A highly deserved award if I say so myself! Mika triumphantly returned and cracked open a bottle of champagne. At that point a photo journalist whispered to me “are you Mika’s girlfriend?” “Nooooo, I am Lucian’s daughter!” with a look of shock on my face, when I told my mum and step dad, the latter said, “you should of said yes, good publicity”. I looked at him disapprovingly. I don’t think the BF would be too chuffed!

Also Take That obviously had a very good night as well winning best song and best Live Act, their success hold no bounds!

 

Rihanna and The Klaxons ecliptic performance of “Umbrella” was in my opinion quite accomplished, but didn’t showcase the wide variety of talent the Klaxons are famed for. Rihanna is truly gorgeous though tall, thin and a fondness for walking and singing tunes like “Dani California’ and “Valerie”, after her strange ‘space red Indian’ attire on stage, she changed into a silver number with a voluminous skirt, vintage Rihanna.

 

After a while the audience waited with bated breath was she going to show? Is she well enough? She did! Amy Winehouse joined Mark Ronson on stage for the end of his medley and sung Valerie, the hit of 2007! Afterwards Amy Winehouse belted out, with her patented wiggle/wiggle/dip/dip dance number, “Love is a Losing Game” dedicated to her “Blakey Incarcerated.”

Sources have told me that Mr Ronson did eye me up once, but how could he when the lovely Miss Daisy Lowe was so near? She looked a vision in her lamé gold frock (Burberry? or D&G? I couldn’t decide!) .

 

As Kate Nash’s table popped champagne and The Arctic Monkey’s got increasingly more unruly and intoxicated. The wonderful Sir Paul McCartney stepped out on stage and fun was to be had by all. The perfect end to the Brits! But not to my night!

 

Backstage Amy Winehouse, was leaning up against the jukebox. Really you don’t realise how tiny she is, like a twelve year old with humungous hair!

She regaled us with tales of embarrassment, of when just a few hours ago she met Huey from the Fun Lovin’ Criminals and she was so star-struck she dropped a glass, proclaimed she may attend the Universal after-show party then turned back to the jukebox to dance to “Stupid Cupid” and “Good Vibrations”.

Later walking backstage Kelly Osbourne was trying to impress a bored looking Rihanna, my little brother and I saw Amy again and we walked with her back to the bar, she was stopped by Simon of Klaxon fame in a flurry of gold makeup who questioned Amy “Are you going to the Universal Party?” Amy asked, “I thought Ronson was having a party?” At this my brother and I left to get my parents to go to the Universal party. Not before seeing the Arctic Monkeys drunkenly fireman lift an unknown man up and shout “WAHEY!” then were after-all dressed as farmers or huntsmen, whatever they were it looked as if they were dressed for a university themed night at the SU! There was even a mallard involved!

 

A hop, skip and a jump to the Hempel hotel for the Universal Party, Katherine Jenkins and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber were there, sitting in the private area. Mika came next hyped up exclaiming “This is the first bit of alcohol I had in 10 months!” and reminding me of a story I told him (and the whole table) during a dinner in France of university, alcohol and sex.  I blushed, quietly explained I have calmed down a lot since then, also if you give me too much good wine and champagne I will develop motor mouth! He laughed.

Adele sauntered in; this must be the year of revivals! Amy Winehouse in my opinion is strongly like Janis Joplin, even though flirtier with her hips! Adele a strong voice like Mama Cass and Alan Carr…um well he was doing lots of John Travolta “Saturday Night Fever” pointing when dancing to Macca.

At which, Adele and Mika sat down with Jodie Harsh and Perez Hilton and started gossiping like mad! I said to Mika’s sister Paloma wouldn’t you love to know what they do about celebrities? “No, if they are so into celebrities those two maybe boring in real life!” I concurred and told her about the girlfriend comment journo said earlier “no way!” she laughed enthusiastically, we then decided to meander outside.  

 

Doing the rounds outside the seating area we met the forever-dapper Dan “The Feeling” Gillespie, who greeted us warmly and as we struggled to walk around we decided to return to the seating area. Dan came in and talked to us, he hoped the new record would do well, we all reassured him it was fantastic and the excitement of the booze being back at the Brits, although the Jarvis Cocker escapade will be sorely missed.

 

Leaving the hotel poor Girls Aloud rambunctious blonde Sarah was drunk at the exit proclaiming, “I am so upset my favourite bar in Camden burnt down!” Oh Sarah, at least she had her mates with her safety in numbers I always say!

 

Well that was my night at the Brits; I wonder what would happen in 2009? Hopefully The Osbournes won’t be presenting, the stodgy script and lack of intimacy did not make them reputable hosts, also sources told me that Sharon and Ozzy had a massive disagreement back stage therefore the hosts were a bit frosty, my ideal host would strangely enough be Simon Amstell, someone a bit more ruder and edgier. As for the awards, who knows, your comments will be my answer!

 

 

 

March 20, 2008. Tags: celebrities, gossip. Uncategorized. Leave a comment.