The Best & Worst Of The Brits: Katy Perry's Dancer Fail, Ed Sheeran's Onstage Collab & More

23 February 2017 | 1:11 pm | Staff Writer

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The 2017 Brit Awards took hold of London's O2 Arena overnight, and as is the case with all award shows, a ream of awesome, terrible and controversial things went down.

Here's what you missed.

katy perry's little house dancer fell off the stage

This has the laugh-cry emoji written all over it. In what has been deemed Left Shark 2.0, Katy Perry's performance of new single Chained To The Rhythm featured a neighbourhood of dancing houses, pretty much turning the stage into a Monopoly board. The little house face-planted off the edge of the stage, and we'll eat our hats if the audience seated right there didn't pee their pants right there and then.

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Might be a lesson to not take a job as Perry's back-up dancer.

ed sheeran collaborated with stormzy

Singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran took to the Brits stage to perform a medley of his newest hits, starting with Castle On The Hill and turning into Shape Of You, featuring grime artist Stormzy.

It was a cool collab and a — perhaps tokenistic? — nod towards Stormzy who last year called out the Brits for being too white in its nominations and not featuring any black winners. Stormzy, despite being nominated for British Breakthrough Act this year, didn't come away with an award but at least he ripped up this performance. 

little mix won their first brit and people went nuts

The quartet won their first Brit Award this year for Shout Out To My Ex (Best Single) and their fans went mental, picking up on the irony that the girls beat out Zayn (singer Perrie Edwards' ex) in the same category with a song titled Shout Out To My Ex. They also slayed a performance of the song on the night. 

 

chris martin paid tribute to george michael and people weren't feelin' it

The Coldplay frontman was enlisted to pay tribute to late legend George Michael with the song A Different Corner, and while we think it's a strange combo, some fans had stronger (and more creative) feelings about the tribute...

bowie picks up posthumous awards

David Bowie reportedly became the first person to receive posthumour Brit Awards, winning British Male Solo Artist and Album Of The Year. 

His son Duncan Jones accepted the latter award on his father's behalf and it might just have been the most heartbreaking moment all night.