PHOTOS: Pop stars, key workers gather for BRIT Awards in London

Some 4,000 folks watched singers Dua Lipa and Arlo Parks triumph in addition to carry out on the BRIT Awards on Tuesday, within the first main indoor music occasion with a stay viewers held in London in over a yr. Britain's pop music honours, for which the viewers didn't need to put on masks or socially distance, came about on the O2 enviornment on the River Thames because the nation emerges from COVID-19 lockdown. The ceremony, throughout which Billie Eilish and The Weeknd have been additionally winners, is a part of the British authorities's Occasions Analysis Programme aimed toward establishing whether or not massive occasions could be held in closed environments with out social distancing. The viewers, of which 2,500 have been key employees with visitors, have been sat in rows, trying down on two levels - one for presenters and one other for performers. Nominees sat at distanced tables.