People watching the BRIT Awards last night were left furious after Mo Gilligan asked Leigh-Anne Pinnock an 'inappropriate' question.
Music stars and other celebrities took to London's O2 Arena on Saturday night to celebrate a year of achievements in the industry, and were treated to performances from the likes of Lizzo and Harry Styles.
Comedian Mo was on hosting duties for the night, but he sparked annoyance on social media after chatting to Little Mix singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock in between awards.
The Mirror reports that Leigh-Anne and her footballer fiancé Andre Gray, 31, are proud parents to twins who were born in August 2021 - but the star was attending the event clearly without the babies.
Mo asked the singer: "Who is babysitting tonight, because tomorrow's Sunday? Are you going out? Having it large?"
His comments were slammed as allegedly being misogynistic and sexist as people took to social media to voice their rage at the presenter, and to defend Leigh-Anne.
One unimpressed viewer tweeted: “mo asking leigh anne who's looking after the children is literally so annoying when women are constantly reduced to being questioned about motherhood their whole lives. it's not like she was a part of the biggest girlband in the world or anything? #Brits2023.”
Another asked: “Did he ask all the dads as well?”
A further fan echoed this sentiment, tweeting: “So, Leigh-Anne Pinnock gets asked who is babysitting her kids, but Stanley Tucci is not asked this. Wonder why. #BRITs."
And another fuming viewer tweeted: "Turned on #BRITs to see an atrocious little man asking Ellie Goulding about her breasts, turned off. Turned it on again to find another atrocious man asking Leigh-Anne Pinnock who was looking after the baby. Sexist p***k bingo card looking pretty full."
That wasn't the only awkward moment of the night that Mo had to face, as he also accidentally introduced Lewis Capaldi to the stage as 'Sam'.
But the singer was able to see the funny side as he later mocked up a photo of himself superimposed on Sam Smith's jaw-dropping red carpet outfit.
The host also had to battle with several technical issues as behind-the-scenes problems forced him to introduced some recycled 2022 footage while present day footage was unavailable.
Elsewhere, a number of award winners may have caused the BRIT Awards some problems as they blurted out swear words while accepting their gongs.
Best Dance Act winner Becky Hill was among offenders when she said "S**t" during her speech - and later admitted to the Mirror she was worried she'd ruined her speech.
She admitted: “I feel like I f**ked it right up.
“I want to check Twitter to see what people I’ve never met before’s opinions are on it. It’s a lot.
“I’ve just had one of those days today where nothing was going right and I was sat at the tables and I thought ‘I’ve got this one I’ve got a feeling’ which is weird because I have the best feelings in the world so I don’t know why I doubted them.”
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