French artist Martin Solveig was invited to this yr's annual soccer Ballon d'Or award ceremony as a visitor host, however incited outrage when he ruined the awarding second for Ada Hegerberg by asking her if she knew learn how to "twerk" whereas she was on stage.
The Norwegian winner made historical past by changing into the primary to obtain the distinction of Ballon d'Or's inaugural title as one of the best feminine participant on the earth. She beat 14 different candidates. Throughout the award's 62-year-long historical past, solely males have been acknowledged for one of the best participant award.
Unfortunately, as she graced the stage to obtain her award, Martin Solveig requested her if she knew learn how to "twerk" on stage, to which she rapidly responded "no" and turned her again on him.
Reactions each within the room and on-line have been fast to sentence Solveig's remark and categorical how surprising his habits was, particularly throughout such a monumental second for Hegerberg's inaugural win.
Martin Solveig has already addressed the incident, sharing a video on Twitter expressing his "amazement" with what he had been seeing in reactions on-line. "I, in fact, did not need to offend anybody," he continues. "This comes from a distortion of my English stage and English tradition stage, which clearly will not be sufficient, as a result of I did not imply to offend anybody and I did not know that this is able to be seen as such an offense. Especially for those who do not see the entire sequence in whole once we ended up dancing on Frank Sinatra - Ada and myself. This was a joke... in all probability a nasty one."
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