Katherine Heigl: Hollywood actress suffers embarrassing wardrobe malfunction

1000AM GMT nineteen March 2010

Katherine Heigl (L) accepts the Female Star of the Year Award after piece of her skirt pennyless during the ShoWest ceremony. Photo GETTY

In the idealisation conform nightmare, the former Greys Anatomy star was on theatre at the ShoWest awards rite in Las Vegas, when the tag on her red skirt broke.

The American actress, 31, had been usurpation the Female Star of the Year endowment at Thursday"s ceremony, that is the central gathering of the National Association of Theatre Owners.

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But as she proposed to appreciate the large audience, one of her straps broke, withdrawal the repelled singer struggling to hold up the skirt and cover her modesty.

She one after another undeterred, handling to contend her thanks, but asking the host, Billy Bush to assistance hold up the strap.

Heigl, who has not long ago left the strike TV show to combine on movies such as The Ugly Truth, with Gerard Butler, Knocked Up and twenty-seven dresses, after managed to grin and giggle off the incident.

Earlier judges praised her for her appeal and bent in giving her the award.

"Her ever-present appeal and inherited bent have done Heigl"s passing from one to another from TV shade to china shade clearly effortless," pronounced Robert Sunshine, the events handling director.

"Her comedic timing and aptitude for behaving are showcased in each of her purposes and have perplexed audiences around the globe."

ShoWest"s masculine star of the year, was Australian actress Sam Worthington, star of Avatar, James Camerons pound 3-D hit, that has turn the top grossing movie ever.

Attracting representatives from all over the world, attendees saw hide previews of expected summer hits as "Toy Story 3" and the "Karate Kid" reconstitute featuring Jaden Smith, Will Smiths son.

Heigl is due to star with Ashton Kutcher in a new regretful comedy, patrician Killers, that is a reduction of movies Mr and Mrs Smith, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and What Happens in Vegas, starring Kutcher and Cameron Diaz.

The tract facilities Heigl and Kutcher"s characters rushing to the tabernacle prior to unexpected realising their neighbours are assassins who have engaged to kill them.