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Jade and Perrie's proud mams react to Little Mix's historic Brits win

Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards' mams were among the many people to react to Little Mix's historic Brits win on Tuesday night.

The girl group marked their 10th year in the music industry by becoming the first female act to ever take home the award for Best British Group.

The now trio looked shell shocked as they took to the podium, although they did have a speech written on a phone on the off chance they'd win.

In it, they thanked former Little Mix member Jesy Nelson, who quit last year, their fans and team and dedicated the award to other girl bands who'd been nominated for Best Group at the Brits in the past, like Spice Girls and Girls Aloud, but failed to win.

Online reaction to the girls' win was huge, with the Spice Girls posting their congratulations.

And two other people quick to respond were Perrie's mam Debbie and Jade's mam Norma.

Debbie took to Twitter to share a red carpet picture of her daughter with bandmates Jade and Leigh-Anne and wrote: "Proud mother Alert! I am buzzing how beautiful and talented our girls are .. proud proud proud"

Little Mix speak out on sexism in music after monumental Brit win (PA)

And Norma shared a series of tweets about Little Mix's victory on her Twitter page as well as taking to Instagram to post a picture of the girls with their British Group trophy, which she captioned: "Absolutely buzzing and so proud! The first and only girl group EVER to win Best British Group, history has been made!!

"Congratulations, you work so bloody hard and deserved this so much. I’ve got the champagne on ice for when you get back pet"

A fan commented: "How are you feeling Norma? I’m just so proud, I’m on cloud 9 right now," and another wrote: "they're not biggest girlband for nothing"

As well as paying tribute to other British girl groups in their acceptance speech, Leigh-Anne addressed the struggles they've faced over their decade in the music industry, saying: "It's not easy being a female in the UK pop industry. We've seen the white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of diversity.

"We're proud of how we've stuck together, stood our ground, surrounded ourselves with strong women and are now using our voices more than ever."

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