Thousands watch as celebrities arrive and perform at glittering awards shows like the VMAs - but it turns out it's not all glitz and glamour.
Ed Sheeran performed at this year's MTV VMAs and didn't mince his words when he revealed what it's really like to be there, reports the New York Post.
"The room is filled with resentment and hatred towards everyone else and it's quite an uncomfortable atmosphere," he said in an interview with The Julia Show.
He hastened to add that it wasn't his fellow performers acting "toxic", but the energy from their entourages and from the setting itself.
"All the artists are sweet people, but they're, like, surrounded by entourages that want them to win, too, so it's one artist surrounded by 10 people and another artist surrounded by 10 people and everyone is kind of giving each other the side-eye," Sheeran said.