# Brit Awards prompt 825 complaints about music stars to Ofcom

6 March 2025



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The Brit Awards ceremony last weekend prompted 825 complaints to media watchdog Ofcom, with the majority involving Sabrina Carpenter's pre-watershed opening performance and Charli XCX's outfit.

US star Carpenter opened the awards show at The O2 in London on Saturday evening with a mash-up of her hits Espresso, Bed Chem with Rule Britannia!, while wearing a red sparkly military-style mini-dress with matching stockings and suspenders.

She was also seen having a close encounter with a dancer dressed as a soldier wearing a bearskin hat during the show, broadcast live on ITV.

Essex star Charli XCX, who won five awards, wore a see-through black dress and addressed the controversy over her outfit during one of her speeches on the night: "I heard that ITV were complaining about my nipples. I feel like we're in the era of 'free the nipple' though, right?"



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Sabrina Carpenter performed a medley including a few bars of Rule Britannia!

An Ofcom spokesperson said: "We are assessing the complaints against our rules, but are yet to decide whether or not to investigate."

These complaints numbers are not huge by Ofcom's standards.

The  was 58,000 in 2021, about Piers Morgan's criticism of the Duchess of Sussex on Good Morning Britain. Ofcom found ITV was  of broadcasting rules.

An episode of Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 4 got 45,159 complaints in 2007 and the same show, on Channel 5, got 25,327 complaints in 2018.

The television watershed is 21:00. It marks the time when TV programmes which might be unsuitable for children can be broadcast from. The Brits began at 20:15 GMT and ended at 22:40.

Charli XCX won album of the year for her summer hit Brat. She also picked up best dance act, song of the year for her track Guess, featuring Billie Eilish (who was the first non-Brit to appear on a best song-winner), plus songwriter of the year.

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