Brit Awards 2025 viewers threaten to call Ofcom over Sabrina Carpenter’s racy performance

ITV viewers have threatened to complain to Ofcom after watching Sabrina Carpenter’s Brit Awards performance.

The Please, Please, Please singer, 25, opened the show with a raunchy tribute to the UK.

Sabrina took to the stage at The O2 in London wearing a red sparkly military-style blazer dress and walked down an aisle lit up with the Union flag as performers dressed as King’s guard soldiers followed behind.

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She then transformed into a red sparkly lingerie set as she performed her song Bed Chem, with sexy moves throughout.

And it clearly proved to be too much for fans, who threatened to ring watchdog Ofcom.

Sharing the end of her performance, which saw her suggestively kneel in front of a guard as he winked at the camera, one person, Charlie, wrote on X: ‘Ofcom is gonna be getting lots of complaints tonight.’

‘As a dad of 11 and 13 year old girls I am fuming that this was the opening scenes of #BRITs2025,’ @Jugyman said.

Hayley added: ‘I should say!! I was thinking of all the young kids watching.’

‘How nasty,’ Lesley said, while Hilary wrote: ‘Sorry not a good idea to open up with before 9pm! It’s still family time, very inappropriate.’

Others rushed to defend the Espresso singer, with Efa writing: ‘Sabrina already getting ofcom complaints for her brits performance is so funny why does this country hate having fun.’

Gigi said: ‘People are threatening to call ofcom after sabrina’s brits performance oh i know this must be amazing.’

Rachel wrote: ‘My thoughts and prayers are with the people working at Ofcom right now after Sabrina Carpenter triggered the pathetic Karen’s and the pearls they’re now clutching.’

‘Sabrina Carpenter doing Bed Chem pre-watershed? The ofcom complaints about that performance are gonna be through the roof but I enjoyed it. That’s my girl!’ @minidronalia added.

Sabrina was later crowned winner of the 2025 Brit global success award, receiving it from Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown.

‘The first time I ever came to the UK was ten years ago with my mum and nobody knew who I was, maybe ten people, but all I kept thinking about was one day how exciting it would feel if anyone in the UK knew my music, and now this week I get to headline the O2 because of you guys,’ she said.

‘And the Brits have given me this award and it feels like such an insane honour in a very primarily tea-drinking country, you guys streamed the s**t out of Espresso,’ she joked.

‘You really understand my dry sense of humour because your sense of humour is so, so dry,’ she went on, saying how much she ‘loves’ her British fans.

‘Most importantly, I want to thank the fans that have followed me since the begining, the ones that followed me since tonight, I love you so much, this is all because of you and this is for you, thank you so much.

‘Cheerio!’

Tonight’s Brit Awards, hosted by Jack Whitehall, also saw performances from Myles Smith, Jade Thirlwall and Teddy Swims, with Charli XCX walking away with numerous awards and Sam Fender and Ezra Collective also taking home wins.

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