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Gordon in the morning: The annual tradition of the Brit snub
Gordon has looked at the Brits shortlist, and - while he's happy with the presence of women - he finds reason to be outraged, too:
But how can SuBo - who had the biggest selling album in the UK and US last year - not be nominated for Best Female?
She must have been considered too uncool.
Oh, how I wish. How I wish that Susan Boyle had failed due to some sort of hitherto undisclosed quality threshold.
But, no, as Gordon should know: she didn't actually release anything in time to qualify for the 2010 Awards, and so when Gordon rails that:
[O]utrageously, SuBo, TAKE THAT and BEYONCE have all been snubbed
Nobody has actually been snubbed, have they? They just haven't qualified.
Every year we have this. Every bloody year.
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When is the cut-off point for nominees, just out of interest? I did try to find out on the Brits site, but it's a little light on actual information (although it did seem keen to tell me how much asparagus was served at the party in 2002, for some reason). Piers Morgan's on the case too see...
According to this, the cut-off was 30th November, so Boyle could just about have scraped in. But as the qualifying period wraps around slightly, she could still nominated next year. Or not.
From the article Chris has linked to there, you've got to love this:
"I think it's a crime," said the Brit Awards chairman Ged Doherty, who is also head of Boyle's record company, Sony.
Yeah, there's nothing about this that is completely and utterly wrong.
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