Ellie Goulding is remaining humble about her chances of pocketing a BRIT Award tonight (February 19).

The British music awards ceremony is taking place this evening at London's O2 Arena and the 'Burn' star is up for a total of five gongs.

She is nominated twice in the Video and Single categories as a result of her Calvin Harris collaboration 'I Need Your Love', whilst she is also up for the British Female Solo Artist prize.

However, Goulding told The Sun that she is keeping pessimistic about her chances of winning.

She said: "I'm definitely a professional at dealing with not winning. I've been to a lot of awards now where I haven't won. Who knows if I'll win at the Brits? Fingers crossed, but if I don't I won't be surprised. I have learnt not to get my hopes up."

Speaking meanwhile about performing live at the event, Goulding added:

"I've wanted so badly to perform at the Brits so I'm just gonna embrace it and enjoy it. It's going to be nerve-racking but I'm just going to give it my everything. It's been fun to plan the performance and it's been fun to go a bit further and push it a little bit."