{"id":507380,"date":"2026-03-01T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507380\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:56:07","slug":"crowd-breaks-in-cheers-at-andrew-mountbatten-windsor-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/507380\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd breaks in cheers at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/653519_1032577_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Brit Awards 2026: Crowd breaks in cheers at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor joke\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Brit Awards 2026: Crowd breaks in cheers at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor joke<\/p>\n<p>The Brit Awards, held in Manchester in Saturday, had an A-lister crowd in attendance to celebrate their achievements of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the accolades distributed during the ceremony, the awards are also the place where all the hosts, with true British humour, enthral the crowd with the commentary on current affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Whitehall, who had been the host for the evening, used the opportunity to make an unexpected dig at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who is now under discussion at the parliament to be removed from the royal line of succession.<\/p>\n<p>The joke came when James Blunt and Maya Jama were introduced to announce the winner of the Artist of the Year category.<\/p>\n<p>The host called the You\u2019re Beautiful hitmaker \u201cthe only man posher than me at the Brits\u201d. He then added that James was \u201c30th in line to the throne\u2026 might be 29th soon\u201d which left the whole crowd into fits of laughter and cheers.<\/p>\n<p>An audience member told Hello! that\u00a0\u201cthe whole crowd went wild, cheering for the joke\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There was another joke, which had been censored for the TV broadcast in relation to Peter Mandelson and the Epstein files.<\/p>\n<p>As he scoured through the audience, Jack spotted Labour\u2019s Andy Burnham and Lisa Nandy at their table and asked, \u201cAre there any more politicians here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then quipped, \u201cMandelson was on the list, oh no that\u2019s another list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brit Awards 2026: Crowd breaks in cheers at Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor joke The Brit Awards, held in Manchester in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-507380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}