She’s great when she’s in the close quarters of television because it’s intimate. She’s great when she’s horsing around with co-hosts because her infectious laugh fills the television studio so well. They chat, the laugh and they play silly games with each other all while viewers are watching live, and that’s why she’s excellent. She cultivates a mood that becomes the selling point of her shows, however when she’s on stage for an award show… everything’s wrong. You can’t be intimate with 10,000 people all at the same time. While the TV camera provides the opportunity to be ‘in the room’ with her, a stage just makes it all the more obvious how unusual her style is.
Smash Hits Poll Winners Party 2005, just before introducing Jack and Kelly Osbourne, she says to the crowd, quipping,

Can you say Boo?

It’s hilarious because it’s so like… eh?! WTF?! It’s funny for us ‘at home’ because the crowd are still screaming in anticipation for the next act and they didn’t really hear her, meaning all they could really do is go on screaming; Yah! They couldn’t understand what she’d said and so it was even more silly. No-one understood what on earth she was on about!
Lessons for the future: When on a live stage, speak clearly and don’t make clever side remarks: nobody hears them!

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