Adele's Middle Finger

Adele shoots middle finger at Brit Awards

By Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY

Updated 45m ago

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By Joel Ryan, AP

Adele may turn flipping the middle finger into a new trend.Following M.I.A.'s Super Bowl gesture, the British singer shot the bird Tuesday night at London's Brit Awards. She was making her acceptance speech after being given the best-album award, when host James Corden cut her off to introduce the pop band Blur.

The crowd booed, and up went Adele's hand.

"I flung the middle finger. That was for the suits at the Brit Awards, not my fans," she said, according to the BBC. "I'm sorry if I offended anyone but the suits offended me."

Backstage, she added, "I was about to thank the British public for all their support but they cut me off. So thank you very much for all your support. It's amazing."

ITV, which aired the show, later issued a statement about the incident, saying: "The Brits is a live event. Unfortunately the program was over-running and we had to move on. We would like to apologize to Adele for the interruption."

The wasn't the only thing about Adele that got people buzzing. Bling on her left had prompted engagement rumors for the singer, who kissed and cuddled with boyfriend Simon Konecki throughout the ceremony.

Adele flipping the middle finger at the Brit Awards.  Being cut off before she could finish her thank you's Adele got cut off and flipped off the suits at the Brit Awards.  She says she was offended that they wouldn't let her finished.  If i were her i think i would feel offended too and annoyed that i couldn't finish my thank you's after receiving an amazing award. But was this out of line it is hard to say.  Some people will see this and say what is the world coming to? just inappropriate actions happening constantly.  Or perhaps is she simply defending herself and sticking up for herself, having more nerve then anyone else who gets cut off at the Brit Awards or Grammys.  It is hard to say, i do not sway either way with this.  I believe this was perhaps an unnecessary act but if we put ourselves in her shoes would we have done the same? hard to say.  Flipping the middle finger out of disgust because of the ignorance of the Brit Suits not letting her finish her thank you's seems to be acceptable to the media, nothing that bad was said or written about her and doing this act maybe because this women has earned so much respect by people that she can do such an act and not get judged so harshly for it.