James Corden on Adele spat: If you listen to it, it's not a bad speech
Published Feb 22 2012, 15:26 GMT | By Lewis Corner
James Corden has confessed that Adele had a longer final speech than he remembers.The Brit Awards host was forced to cut short the singer's 'British Album' winner's speech as the live broadcast was running over on time.
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Talking about the incident to Richard Bacon on BBC Radio 5Live, Corden explained: "The truth is, just after Adele was saying thank you, people were saying, 'You have to go in now', and I said, 'I can't'. They were like, 'You have to'.
"I said, 'How can we cut her off?' The whole room was on their feet and they were like, 'You have to do it'. It was such a surreal moment and essentially you can hear five people in your ear having an argument.
"Then there was just one overriding voice saying that you have to."
After listening back to a clip of the incident, Corden revealed that Adele had a longer speech than he remembers as he was so preoccupied with what was being discussed in his ear.
He added: "It's a shame, but it's a live show and what can you do? All you can do is learn from it and the channel will learn from it and we can see how we can rectify that and change it next year.
"I don't think it's quite as big a news story as some might [think]. If you listen to it, it's not a bad speech. It's just unfortunate that it was cut short."
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Talking about the immediate moments following the incident, he revealed: "I was so upset last night and I know Adele was and I couldn't even stay and watch Blur. I immediately went and spoke to her.
"I just said to her that I was so sorry and that if I had it my way, you just push the news [back] a minute and a half. If it was up to me or the executive producer of the show, then that's what would have happened."
ITV has released a statement apologising to Adele for the interruption and maintained that it doesn't want it to "undermine her incredible achievement".
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Kieran Campbell Oh **** right off. How dare you!? for one thing, your 'example' is ridiculous, and it's nice to see you have faith in our MOD and our army to reassure and notify family members of our soldiers - Also, nice to see that you have been keeping up to date with the news seeing as we're not even in Iraq anymore.
And your petty, small minded insinuation that I don't care about the news and what happens to British citizens and countries around the world is more aiming towards a personal attack which makes you look like a ******* idiot. I am not an empty-headed girl who only cares about who wins what award at a ceremony. I like to see people do well, and I like to see people rewarded for their successes. Yes, obviously this makes me the lowest kind of person who loves causing other people pain and suffering.
The news changes, of course it does. The news is also on on several other channels at exactly the same time. A couple of minutes on one channel does not make any difference, and it's certainly been postponed longer because of less significant things. You really think that the coverage of Whitney Houston's funeral was more important than what's happening in Syria or Afhganistan?
How wonderful to know there are still people like you making assumptions and crass, baseless comments like the one you just made. It restores my faith in humanity so much.
February 23rd 2012 at 6:11pm
Jessica Hill My point was that the news DOES change every minute of every hour. Just imagine some poor family hearing on the news earlier that a soldier in Iraq had died. Their boy is out in Iraq, heard nothing. The news might shed some light on where it happened, give them some peace of mind. James Corden pops on the screen and goes:
"Sorry, but we can't inform you of world events because Jessica Hill wants to hear a singer thank her for buying her album."
You've accused people of being melodramatic and needing some perspective, yet you think that Adele giving a speech is more important than the news.
Do you live on the same planet as the rest of us?
February 23rd 2012 at 4:37pm
daveydave.2012 Haha absolutely, i think he'd be pelted with bottles and such by the fans lol
February 23rd 2012 at 4:30pm
Salvatore Paradise You know what, yes I am prioritising Adele's speech because it happens once. The news is on three times a day at least on just one channel. Like I said, it's a good news story, so get the **** over yourself and stop being such a pretentious ****. She sold aound 4.5 million albums in the UK over the course of the last year including her first album, 19. That equates to just over an album per second. Look it up.
February 23rd 2012 at 3:03pm
Jessica Hill The inference of your discussion is that the news "could be shown two minutes later" or found elsewhere if one so chooses; thus you are priotirising Adele's acceptance speech. Meaning is equally as important as direct articulation. "She did sell an album every 7 seconds in this country since last year's Brits"- let me deal with that in two ways: to enforce an average aggregate time for the sales of an album is a ridiculous method of quantification. The album sold more in the aftermath of her Brits 2011 appearance for instance than she did, say, during the summer. The argument is spurious and risible. Secondly, Adele sold 3.4 millions copies of 2011 over the course of 2011. There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year, divide that by seven and the figure is 4.5 million. Ergo, your own frankly, risible method of quantification is simply wrong. Look it up. Check your facts.
February 23rd 2012 at 2:47pm