Awards furore

At last nights MOBO awards there was a bit of mix up concerning who won the prize of Best Song. WSTRN were announced as winners and gave an acceptance speech before it was announced MC Abra Cadabra was the actual winner. This is not the first time that an awards event got mired in contervestry. Here are a couple of other examples.


1999 Brit awards

When the award for Best British Newcomer was announced to say that when Belle & Sebastian emerged as winners caused a bit of a shock is to put it mildly. Pete Waterman producer of hot favourites Steps demanded a recount, it turned out that the B&S used a clever internet campaign among it's large student to drum up support for the public vote.


2005 British Comedy awards

Ant and Dec won the People's Choice Award. But the Geordie pair found themselves having to give back the award. So what happened well it turns out the fault lies with the man who presented the award,  Williams said he would appear at the awards as long he would give an award to his Geordie mates. However it turned out that the actual winner of the public vote was Tate. An investigation by a law firm could not find any evidence that suggested that the mix up was a result to guarantee Williams involvement.