Mercury Music Winner Speech Debelle Booed Off Stage By Take That Fans

November 27, 2009 9:26 a.m. EST

London, UK (CNS) - This year's Mercury Music prize winner Speech Debelle was reportedly booed off the stage on Wednesday night (November 25th) when she attempted to rap one of the band's greatest hits "Pray."

The 26-year-old rapper was performing in London for the release of Take That's new "SingStar" game. Speech Debelle took to the stage to rap the band's 1993 hit "Pray" in honor of the band and was met by boos from some of the 500 audience members. The rapper spoke to the crowd after they started booing saying: "I can do better that Take That".

With that, the host, actor James Corden, responded with: "Anyone can rap." In which then lead to the "Gavin and Stacey" star launching in to his own rap. Other stars that were present on the night were singers Lily Allen, Paloma Faith and Rachel Stevens, model Kate Moss, and Pixie Geldof. Amy Winehouse's goddaughter, Dionne Bromfield aged 13, performed her version "Patience". The band themselves were there to perform some of their hits as well.

The party launch was held in aid of Body & Soul, which is a charity dedicated to supporting children, teenagers and families across the UK who are living with or a closely affected with HIV. The party was originally meant to be held back in October but was postponed due to the death of the lead sing Gary Barlow's father.