Adele eyes Brit Award success

Singer Adele is set to dominate The Brit awards following her recent success at the Grammys.

The south London songstress, who won six awards in America, is nominated in three categories - best single, album of the year and best female.

Jessie J, also nominated for three, is a contender in the best female category.

She told Sky News she will still be supporting her fellow Brit school graduate this evening at the O2.

Jessie J said: 'I'd much rather be up against someone I respect, love their music. I've seen her work so hard this year and if she wins I'll be standing on my chair cheering.'

Ed Sheeran tops the Brit nominations with four and said he is stunned to have been recognised so quickly.

He said: 'Tinie Tempah actually came up to me at the Brits (last year) and said you'll be cleaning up next year and I thought he was mad.

'I thought the next year, give me time to set it up and I'll come back in 2013, so to be here now it's lovely.'

The Military Wives are one of 10 acts including Sheeran, Adele and Jessie J who are nominated for single of the year.

Voted for by the public, they are in with a chance.

Lorraine Smith, a member of the choir, said: 'It's absolutely awesome, it's amazing, it's just so surreal and I keep wanting someone to pinch me to wake me up.

'It's like a massive dream.'

There will be tributes to Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse during the show, as well as performances from Adele, Rihanna, Coldplay and Blur - who are getting the outstanding contribution to music award.

Host James Corden has said this year, like last year, it will be all about the music.

He said: 'For so long the Brits was just this big drunken melee of stuff and it felt like it had a lot more clarity last year and it was more precise and certainly all about the music and that's what the Brits are all about.'