Mick Fleetwood on TV's moments from hell
 

Hi,

Did any other British ledgies see that Mick Fleetwood's Brit award fiasco made No. 2 in the top 100 chart of 'TV moments from hell'? (He was beaten to the number one spot by Richard Madeley's impression of Ali G on This Morning) Poor Mick. It was funny though.:laugh:

Angela
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Fill me in - What was his Brit awards fiasco?

Mick Fleetwood was the co-presenter of the Brit Awards in 1988? along with a topless model/pop singer called Sam Fox. To start with Mick is 6' 6" and Sam Fox is about 5' 2" so they looked stupid side by side. The major problem was that they were both hopeless at presenting. Sam Fox isn't the brightest spark in the world so couldn't really handle the autocue. As for Mick, we all know he is dyslexic so having him read off an autocue is waiting for disaster to happen. From what I remember neither of them managed to get a single link right. To cap it all, there were severe problems with the autocue jamming so Mick and Sam had to ad-lib which made them both look really stupid.

If i remembered well, Samantha Fox, she got two big blue eyes, blond hair and a meassure less front. Seems to be not very clever (with her looks,.. ho gives a S**T). Fleetwood is a trained moneymachine, always looking for some profit. I mean he's oke, but when you don't know how to play the guitar,,... you will end up as a bad player. Mick knew exactly what he was doing. As smart as he is, don't confrontate yourself with your worst nightmare. So i guess that's bad luck for Fleetwood. On the other hand, looking dumb with Samantha always looks cute.
For all American people who doesn't know her, look at the picture i added,...
And is there a possibility that we could see it??

Will
Sorry i couldn't find a bigger pic on the internet

I have a video clip of that debacle and it's painful.

He should never even be invited to an awards show after that. :nod:

I remember it well. It was awful!

Pip

lol. After the 'Are we alive?' sampler from the AMAs, I could only imagine an entire show being run by Mick. :laugh: It would be ... interesting. :)

PLEASE post the clip somewhere!:laugh: :nod: :laugh:

Thicke of the Night back in 1984, Mick looked so stoned and was very flat with host Alan Thicke. Billy, George and Steve (the guys from the Zoo) tried to make up for Mick's bizarre behavior.

It wasn't just the autocue
 

Phew. Just posted a long reply but it didn't get posted because of the transfer teething problems. So, here goes again...

There were also all kinds of technical problems on the show, which were not Mick or Sam Fox's fault, but with which they were unable to cope. My favourite was when they announced the Four Tops - and Boy George walked on stage! Apparently the Four Tops had managed to get themselves locked in their dressing room! All poor Mick could say at the sight of Boy George was 'ah'. I do remember him saying 'indeedy' a lot too, to cover his nerves and embarrassment.

I've just found this piece about it from an interview with Mick posted on Burnish.com:

Okay, it's the inevitable 'Brits fiasco with Samantha Fox' question. Discuss.

"It's amazing that that fiasco - and that's what it was - has endured. To me it's like, wow. Who cares? I don't know how to answer. It was definitely a fiasco, and I felt terrible at the time. It was so not Samantha Fox's - bless her little cotton socks - or my fault.

"That particular show was the first time they'd opened it up to the general public. They put 300 fans of some boy band [Bros] at the front. Consequently you couldn't hear anything on stage. They screamed the whole way through the damned thing. The whole production broke down and I was left floundering because they couldn't communicate. We were hung out to dry. They did at least take out an advert trying to explain it was not our fault. By then it was too late. We got screwed, and it was a nightmare. I couldn't wait to get out of the country. We looked like a couple of idiots up there. Such is life."


I do feel sorry for Mick - but it made for a classic TV moment.

Angela
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Why, Pip.

He is doing it to itself, he's a grow'n man.

Will

This is not to suggest that because she was a topless model that Samantha was brain dead. She did have a big hit with a song called 'Touch Me (I Want Your Body)' :)

Rochelle

Re: It wasn't just the autocue
 

Angela thanks for that run-down. It would have been cringeworthily hilarious! 'Indeedly!'
And Mick just saying.. 'Ah.' when Boy George walked out instead. :laugh: Poor guy. When will they leanr - do not give that man a microphone! :distress: ;)

In all my years, I never heard of this!!! Samantha Fox didn't strike me as a stupid girl, she was the first Britney, older but she took teen pop into a slutty place in the late 80's and she was big with my age group ( I was about 10 when she was big)

But I would love to see that! I hope someday I do:)

My fav Mick moment is on MTV. Kirk Loder is speaking of the band and he goes to a clip of the 1988 band and Stevie and Mick look ready to kill, especially Mick. Im sure he was halfway to hell with drugs and it was really awkward. All Kurt could say was " what a happy group" or whatever.

Re: Re: It wasn't just the autocue
 

Just like they shouldn't let me near a keyboard. :rolleyes:

Don't feel bad, I think it was Marty back in the day who called me typo queen. I was the worst typist ever born. It took a good 6-7 years of typing everyday to just barely get by without too many typos LOL.

Samantha Fox reveals who was to blame for "worst night of my life" hosting Brit Awards with Mick Fleetwood
Contrary to popular belief, the model explains for the first time why she wasn’t responsible for possibly the most excruciating two hours of live television seen to date on British screens

Samantha Fox has recalled how she took part in one of TV’s greatest live disasters – presenting the Brit Awards in 1989 with 6ft 5in Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood.

The 5ft star – dwarfed by her co-host – remembers it as “the worst night of my life”.

But contrary to popular belief, she explains for the first time why she wasn’t responsible for possibly the most excruciating two hours of live television seen to date on British screens.

Sam admits: “By the end of the night I just wanted to be swallowed up and disappear but none of it was my fault.

“Mick Fleetwood was so stoned he didn’t know what was going on.

“When I gave him a good-luck kiss before the show he stank of grass.

“Then I saw this massive lump of hash the size of a block of Parmesan cheese fall out of his pocket. The lights were on but nobody was home.”

If that wasn’t challenging enough, she said she also had Bros fans screaming at her from the side of the stage.

Sam recalls: “They kept shouting, ‘Samantha Fox, you slag,’ so during one of the breaks I went over to one, grabbed her shirt and said, ‘Shut your mouth’.

“Then the old lady with the autocue, who I think was deaf, couldn’t hear what we were saying and when it stopped working I kept trying to nudge Mick to improvise but he was away with the fairies.

“If you think it was painful to watch, imagine how I felt on stage.

“And it’s all right for Mick. He escaped back to America straight afterwards but I’ve never heard the end of it.

“If I saw him now I’d say, ‘Why didn’t you stick up for me?’ Not that he can probably even remember being there.”



http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...blame-11672021

I think its funny that Samantha Fox was surprised or upset people were slut shaming her. Really? Her 80's videos were like soft porn and that was the image she embraced.

^^^Why would anyone call her a slut for a video she made? And why should she accept that as fact? She was a young pretty woman who showed her breasts in fotos, no need to slut-shame her.

Welcome to 2017...:wavey:

It was very funny TV....
Mick kept announcing...The Four tops, the four tops, when out walked Boy George.
Boy George quipped ....I’m afraid I’m just the One Top.
The whole thing was a shambles and very funny.

When your hit songs are about having sex and your videos show groups of men groping you over and over and simulating sex....why would anyone be surprised someone dared call you a slut. If that is the image you present how can you be shocked if someone calls you out. Here in the states we all confused her with porno star Samantha Fox. Because once you saw the singer's videos, it was an easy mistake :eek: Parents would be angry at MTV with her videos and yell slut and whore to the TV. She really pushed the envelope. But hey that is what made her famous.

Samantha Fox the singer was a soft porn star...well, a topless model at least. That's how she started out and made her name- she showed her pots in The Sun Newspaper every day.

hahahaha.. This I did not know.

I came of age back in the 1980's with the likes of Sam Fox, Maria Whittaker and Linda Lusardi. At least British people know who I am referring to.