TalkTV host Piers Morgan, 57, has slammed the BRIT Awards’ decision to only nominate male artists for BRITish artist of the year in 2023.The award show has sparked controversy this year by not nominating any female artists - despite making the award gender-neutral last year in the name of inclusivity.Sharing a picture of the best artist nominees to his Twitter on Thursday evening, Piers described how his “fears” had been confirmed in view of his 8.3 million followers.He wrote: “So the @BRITAwards goes gender-neutral and ZERO women get nominated for Artist of the Year. “Exactly what I feared/predicted.
Congrats virtue-signallers!”With the BRIT Awards only a month away, viewers already know that the winner for best artist will be a man.
READ MORE: When the nominations for this year's ceremony emerged on Thursday, there was a backlash over the all-male best artist list.Shockingly, out of 70 stars who were eligible to be nominated for the prize, only 12 of them were female.Some stars spoke out about the decision, with Charlatans lead singer Tim Burgess tweeting: “So The BRITs introduced an Artist Of The Year category as a gender neutral replacement for Best Male and Best Female Artist category…“But this year all five nominees are blokes.
One step forward, three steps back.”Actress and writer Emma Kennedy penned: “No female artists nominated in artist of year is Bull.Shit.” (sic) Singer Kara Marni wrote: “Sorry but I had to speak on it cuz not a SINGLE woman in sight for the #BRITs AOTY award….
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