Brits slips

Monkey was, er... fortunate enough to catch the last half hour of the Brits last night and is wondering if ITV bosses will be reconsidering last year's decision to screen the ceremony live. Vic Reeves forgot which award he was presenting - prompting Sharon Osbourne to repeatedly screech "pisshead" at him. Reeves eventually managed to present his award to the tweed-bedecked Arctic Monkeys - who used their speech to lay into the Brits school. Cue cut-away to Fearne Cotton, whose attempt at restoring a degree of gravitas to proceedings was undermined by comic Alan Carr making rabbit ears behind her head. And to cap it all, Ozzy Osbourne introduced Paul McCartney some time before he was due onstage. Still, it wasn't bad news for everyone - Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood may at last have serious competition in the "most shambolic Brits presenters ever" category.