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She’s always been pretty controversial, so the fact that Madonna has come out on top in a poll of the most shocking moments of the year isn’t particularly surprising.

However we’re guessing this particular moment is one she’d rather forget.

The iconic popstar’s dramatic Brit Awards stage fall has been named the most jaw-dropping showbiz story of the year in Channel 5’s annual round-up show.

Madonna’s performance went horribly wrong during the ceremony back in February when she failed to untie her cape before her unaware dancers yanked it off her.


‘I had a choice, I could either be strangled or fall with the cape and I fell,’ she explained during an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show.



In scenes that were rather painful to watch, Madge was dragged backwards down a set of steps in scene, but she says it looked worse than it was.

‘I didn’t hurt my butt, I hurt my head. I did,’ she added.

‘I know how to fall, I’ve fallen off my horse many times and I tucked and I have good core strength.’

But while the 57-year-old’s embarrassing tumble topped the list, she had stiff competition from the likes of Kimye, Ferne McCann and Zayn Malik during the Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2015 rundown.

Check out the top ten here:

10. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West name their son Saint West.

9. The Pig-Gate scandal: Lord Ashcroft’s claims that David Cameron put a ‘private part of his anatomy’ into a dead pig’s mouth.

8. Ferne McCann faces one of the most horrifying Bushtucker trials ever in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here.

7. Cilla Black dies at the age of 72.

6. Gwen Stefani splits from husband Gavin Rossdale after 13 years of marriage.

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5. Perez Hilton’s outrageous behaviour on Celebrity Big Brother 2015.

4. Jeremy Clarkson is sacked from Top Gear after apparently punching the show’s producer when he was told the crew had stopped serving hot food.

3. Zayn Malik quits One Direction in the middle of the boyband’s world tour.

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2. Caitlyn Jenner transitions from male to female.

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1. Madonna takes a major tumble on stage at the Brit Awards.

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