With only hours till Mo Gilligan takes the stage to host the Brit Awards 2023, the comedian isn’t going to let haters ruin his day.
The comic’s popularity has risen in the entertainment industry in recent years, from anchoring his late-night talk show to serving on the judging panel for The Masked Singer UK.
Last year, the 34-year-old presented the Brit Awards at London’s O2 Arena, one of the greatest nights for music in the UK, and he’ll do so again tonight.
In the early hours of Saturday morning, a Twitter user felt compelled to voice their displeasure with Mo on the social networking site, naming him directly in a tweet that read: ‘I like @MoTheComedian but lost a lot of respect for him just now.’
While it’s unclear why the person suddenly ‘lost respect’ for the Celebrity Gogglebox star, or why they felt the need to tag him, Mo’s answer demonstrated the insult was water off a duck’s back.
He mocked the comment by writing, ‘Let me add that to the second L that I’ve taken today Or lost,’ implying that it’s his’second loss’ of the day.
He also shared a video of himself stating: ‘So, safe to say I took a major L today,’ before showing a close-up of a swish Bentley with the ‘L’ missing from its name.
‘Literally, like the L came off the Bentley,’ he added dryly.
One person replied to Mo’s witty comeback by tweeting: ‘This is a different kind of flex.’
‘#HumbleBrag,’ someone else wrote, while another commented: ‘This guy 😂😂.’
Ahead of his second year in a row of hosting the Brits, Mo also brought back an old tweet that a troll posted last year during the 2022 ceremony, when they wrote: ‘@BRITs is getting worse every year, Mo Gilligan is irritating and the acts they have on are shocking.’
Mo simply quoted the old message, before writing his own post that read: ‘Catch Me hosting this years @BRITs Live at the @TheO2 tonight at 8:30pm on @ITV & @ITVX 🙌🏾.’
Now that’s how you do it.
The Brit Awards 2023 airs tonight from 8.30pm on ITV and ITVX.