Not staged at all. You can clearly hear the difference.

Jahmene was a bit thrown ( watch him shake his shoulders etc)

Beautiful from both,.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpTvs...-zBW3FkAdpYa4u

They handled that really well, outstanding performance.

I agree. It was a tricky situation, but they dealt with it as professionally as they could and neither missed a beat.
If I were Jahmene I think I'd have been knocked right off my stroke by Nicole taking the mic from me.

What are you guys talking about they both were terrible. He sounds like a duck in heat, and she's attention seeking this should have been his moment not hers.

For a second or two he was. Must have thought Nicole had taken leave of her senses when she grabbed the mic from him while he was still singing.

Recording this later....made up for his 1st song. What about the firemans lift to James then? Wonder if he could have done the same to Chris??? LOL

I could hardly belive my eyes when she took the mike from him and she carried on singing while poor Jahmene stood there looking lost. However, they pulled it together and it was amazing in the end.

Just had another watch and it was great. Fantastic connection between them, they handled the mic situation brilliantly and together they sounded lovely.

Awww, bless Jahmene, thought he was really good last night, considering the thing with the mic.

At first I thought she was swapping the mica because his had something wrong but they never missed a best with playing it out. Kudos to Nicole, I think Jahmene might have been thrown for a bit otherwise.

I noticed that, but I don't think she actually realised what she was doing or how it looked.

It could've gone really wrong, but I think they handled it well. Poor Jahmene having to trail Nicole around the stage waiting for his turn of the mic

Who said it was staged? Nicole was furious afterwards so I think it was genuine. I felt a little bit sorry for the sound man as he was in for a beating. In fairness though radio mics are sometimes a bit unpredictable and it may have been one of those things.

People are saying Nicole threw the mic on the floor..looks like to me she was trying to place it on the floor ...and that was well into the song not at the beginning as reported

I think maybe she went to give Jahmene the silent mic to hold then decided not too maybe incase he tried to sing with it and did not know it wasnt working
seems feasilble to me

It was a great performance just a shame that it was shaky at the beginning due to the mic issues, must have thrown Jahmene for a bit having the mic snatched off him - he's not a professional so doesnt have the experience to work around these problems but he did great, he went a bit wobbly for a line or two but when they worked it out it was fantastic!

I thought they were really good and handled the glitch well, though I did think it was bad that she took the mic from Jahmene so that she could sing her line, before he had even finished his own.

I hope that there will an opportunity to do the duet again. As it should have been.

I remember when I was watching it I was thinking why did she just take his mic.
I don't think Nicole meant anything bad by it she was just acting on the moment thinking of what to do in the situation. They wouldn't have been prepared for a mic failure it was still good regardless of that.

Someone made a gif of the moment she grabs the mic from Jahmene. Jahmene looked terrified of her for a few seconds. Hilarious.

Even more amazing was how his singing never changed or faulted, when he didn't have the mic in front of him after passing it to Nicole