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Yes they’re currently on hiatus, but many One Direction fans were hoping for a boyband reunion at tonight’s Brit Awards, where the group are expected to take home the Best Video award. But it seems only two members of the group will be in attendance tonight, with Harry Styles and Niall Horan missing out.

Don’t expect Harry Styles to make an appearance at tonight’s Brit Awards.

According to The Sun, Harry and Niall will snub the awards, even though Harry is thought to currently be in London. A source told the newspaper: “This could have been one last hurrah for the boys at what could be their last Brit Awards as a band.”

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British pop singer Jessie J has expressed dismay that her music isn’t as widely celebrated in her own country as it is in America.

It also makes her “sad” that she wasn’t asked to perform at this year’s Brit Awards – or indeed, at any previous ceremonies – despite the fact she won the Critics’ Choice Award back in 2011 and has played at the Grammys and the MTV Video Music Awards.

Jessie J is frustrated at her lack of profile in her native Britain

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Rihanna has been confirmed as performing at this year’s Brit Awards ceremony on February 24th at London’s O2 Arena. It will be the fourth time Rihanna has taken to the stage at the annual awards ceremony, having last performed there in 2012.

Rihanna will perform at this year’s Brit Awards.

Rihanna made her Brits debut in 2008 when she performed her smash hit ‘Umbrella’ with indie band The Klaxons. Then in 2011 she performed a medley of songs including ‘Only Girl in The World’, ’S&M’ and ‘What's My Name’.

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Adele is poised for another great year at the Brit Awards, securing a total of four nominations following the success of her multi-million selling album 25. She has the joint highest number of nominations for the 2016 awards, alongside James Bay and Years & Years.

The 27 year old’s third album has sold millions of copies around the world already, despite being released less than two months ago, including 2.5 million in the UK. 25 is nominated for Best British Album, while Adele herself is up for Best British Female, Single and Video (both for ‘Hello’).

Adele is up for four BRIT Awards

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The Brit Awards has announced a special segment paying tribute to the “visionary and ground-breaking” David Bowie at the winner’s ceremony next month.

Max Lousada, chairman of the Brits, stated in a press release on Tuesday (January 12th) that the annual awards ceremony would honour the “extraordinary life and work” of “one of our greatest icons” at London’s O2 Arena on February 24th.

Bowie, who passed away from liver cancer on Sunday at the age of 69 just two days after the release of his 25th album Blackstar, was named Best British Male at the 2014 ceremony, becoming the oldest recipient of one of the awards in Brits history.

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The Brit Awards has pulled off a major coup by landing Adele to perform at the 2016 awards ceremony.

The singer has cemented her position as the biggest pop star in the world in the last couple of months, with her long-awaited third album 25 smashing pretty much every chart record going since its release on November 20th.

In both the US and the UK, it notched up the highest first-week sales of all time (3.38 million and 800,000 respectively), while it also became the most downloaded chart topping album ever. With a performance at the Brits and, doubtless, a handful of nominations to come, it wouldn’t be at all surprising to see the 27 year old singer add to her tally of four awards.

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The shortlist for the 2016 BRITs Critics' Choice Award has been unveiled with three up and coming artists all hoping they could be the next Adele, James Bay or Sam Smith. Frances, Izzy Bizu and Jack Garratt are all nominated for the prestigious prize, with the winner being announced on Friday 27 November.

BRITs Critics' Choice Award nominee Izzy Bizu.

Izzy Bizu is a 21 year old singer from South London whose debut album A Moment of Madness is set to be released in May of next year. She has already released three singles 'Give Me Love', 'Diamond' and 'Adam & Eve'.

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Pam Hogg has unveiled her design for the Brit Awards 2016 trophy. The fashion designer follows in the footsteps of names including Vivienne Westwood, Sir Peter Blake, Damien Hirst, Philip Treacy and Tracey Emin, who have all designed unique trophies for the awards in previous years.

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It’s official, Madonna will be performing at this year’s Brit Awards ceremony! With Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and Sam Smith already announced for the February 25th awards show, this year’s Brits could be the biggest ever, especially now as the Queen of Pop has added her name to the mix.

Madonna will perform at this year's Brits

Confirming the news herself via Instagram, Madonna posted a picture of the Tracey Emin designed Brits Statue wrapped in black ribbon with the caption, “Hello to all my UK Rebel Hearts!!! See you at the Brits on Feb 25th #BritsImMadonna #livingforlove #rebelheart”.

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They topped UK charts for the sixth time in a row with their 2014 album 'III', and now they are set to release a brand new single from the record (appropriately titled for this snowy time of year), 'Let In The Sun'.

Take That are set to release 'Let In The Sun'

There are good vibes surrounding this upcoming release, since lead single 'These Days' became their first number one hit for six years, and 'Let In The Sun certainly seems to harken to their earlier dance anthems. Producer Stuart Price was on board for the track, having previously worked with the band on their 2010 Platinum release 'Progress'. 

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With Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith already announced as performers, this year’s Brit Awards is shaping up to be an unmissable ceremony. But things could be about to get even bigger and better, as none other than the Queen of Pop Madonna is rumoured to be joining the growing line-up.

Is Madonna headed to the Brit Awards?

The ‘Material Girl’ is said to be '99 percent confirmed' to perform, with a source telling the Mirror newspaper, “Madonna wants to perform to the biggest number of people for the maximum impact and there’s no better place for a controversy-filled Madonna performance than the Brits."

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Boy George has revealed the alleged drug use at the Brit Awards 2014, claiming to have heard a "chorus of snorting" in the toilets during the show's ad breaks. George, 52, suggested that despite rebranding , venue changes and extravagant performances, the often derided awards show remains the same.

Boy George At The Brit Awards 2014

"As I took a leak at The Brit's I could hear a chorus of snorting! We have always called the Ad breaks 'the coke run'. It's still the case'" tweeted the singer after Wednesday's show (February 19, 2014).

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James Corden has become synonymous with The Brits of late, but he’ll have to let go of that tonight when he hosts the show for the last time. He’s planning on going out with a bang, but could we have a live distaster on our hands?

James Corden will be hosting the Brits for the last time tonight

The Mirror have reported that Corden wants to ‘go out in a blaze of glory’. There wasn’t much information, other than the fact the practise run didn’t exactly go to plan…

"Things got a bit out of hand during rehearsals, and the flames were massive, so organisers are a bit worried about how it will go on the night,” a source told The Mirror. “James is confident he can handle it though and it will certainly be a lively opening to the show.”

If that’s not a reason to tune in, then there really aren’t any. Well, there is Beyonce actually. Corden let slip to Zoe Ball on Radio 2 that the queen of pop will be performing at tonight’s award show.

"There's this weird thing with this year's Brits where I've been - more than any other year - told things I can't say," Corden told BBC Radio 2's Zoe Ball. "But I figure it's the day..."

He then said, after turning to his PR people, "I must be able to tell you? Beyoncé. Beyoncé is performing tonight. She's performing a track she has never ever performed live before. Ever."

One person who won’t be enjoying Bey’s performance is Jake Bugg, as the little rugrat of contrived pop doesn’t even want to be there.

“It’s boring,” he says. “I don’t really want to go but I might as well. I’ve got nothing else to do. I love the party afterwards, don’t get me wrong, they’re great but the actual event is pretty boring when you have to watch those crap acts perform.”

Don’t go then.

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Taylor Swift is fast gaining a reputation for skipping between boyfriends faster that you can say ‘We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together,’ which, let’s face it, as song titles go, is a bit of a mouthful. After the Brits, Taylor was spotted out with the winner of the evening’s Critics’ Choice Award, Tom Odell. According to The Metro, Odell and Swift shared a few drinks at the Florists Arms in Bethnal Green, before they headed of to the super-swanky Groucho Club in Soho.

Presumably Tom will have been looking over his shoulder to make sure Harry Styles wasn’t around. After all, it’s not that been that long since Taylor unceremoniously jilted young Harry, of the boy band One Direction. Styles’ band also performed at the Brit Awards. At the time that they were booked, we assume that the Awards organisers thought it might make a nice romantic night out for Harry and his country-pop starlet. Of course, they weren’t banking on Taylor’s attention-deficit approach to dating putting the kibosh on their budding relationship quite so soon. 

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Awards ceremonies are supposed to make you laugh. They’re supposed to make you cry. They’re supposed to make you angry. They’re supposed to shock the living daylights out of you. They are supposed to provide some serious ‘water cooler’ moments for you to talk about at work the next day. Did The Brits do any of these things? Did they heck. The most animated we got last night was when we managed to muster up the energy to actually yawn.

Ben Howard at the Brits 2013, possibly the blandest year ever?

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The Little Mix girls were the talk of the town on Wednesday evening (February 20, 2013) though perhaps not for all the right reasons. The 'Wings' four-piece stepped out at the Brit Awards 2013 in a selection of the most bizarre outfits you're likely to see on the red-carpet all year. We don't know who styles the group, but they really should be relived of all duties, immediately.

Little Mix's Brit Awards 2013 Outfits Were A Little, Err, Strange?

Anyway, the girls were quizzed on who they were most excited about seeing at the annual awards' bash. "What am I thinking? Excited to see Justin Timberlake, hello!" Jesy Nelson told Capital FM's Max on the red carpet, while Leigh-Anne Pinnock added, "I just want to see Emeli Sande perform as well, I can't wait, she's amazing!" The reporter had a couple of different questions for Perrie Edwards, who is of course dating One Direction singer Zayn Malik (whom Emeli Sande revealed as her favourite member of the boy-band later in the evening). Edwards took the opportunity to clean up recent rumors about Zayn's beauty regime, saying, "No he doesn't do none of that! He wouldn't pluck his eyebrows! Girls have it so hard, boys just have it easy, sorry, but they do!" Well that's that rumour out of the window then, isn't it?

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We've got to give the Little Mix girls credit to committing with their new look at the Brit Awards 2013, but, wow, we're not really sure what to make of this one. Cleavage everywhere, brash colours, garish head gear and a ton of make-up, it harked back in a weird way to Spice Girls' excess of the 1990's. Except we're in 2013 now. 

Little Mix sure surprised with their dazzling new look

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