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Was The Kanye West Taylor Swift Moment Staged? The Great Debate
7:23AM Brian Moylan | When Guest of a Guest speculated that last night’s Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident at the VMAs was scripted it sent a shockwave through Defamer HQ. Brian Moylan thinks it’s fake and Richard Rushfield thinks it’s real. Punches are being thrown! More »
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Will The Lady Gaga Penis Conspiracy Get The Full Reveal Tonight?
5:30AM Foster Kamer | Okay, it’s silly. Lady Gaga probably doesn’t have a penis. But maybe she does. And now, there are rumblings that Lady Gaga has something incredible in store for us at tonight’s VMAs. Let’s go over this one more time. More »
Britney Spears and Russell Brand Go On First Date Sans ‘Third Wheel’ Elephant
3:55AM Defamer Hollywood | After a long history of exclusively dating poseurs and paparazzi, comeback-adjacent singer Britney Spears may be taking on her biggest romantic challenge yet: Russell Brand. Though their first meeting at a VMAs commercial went poorly, with Spears recoiling from the comedian and calling him “Russell Brown,” the Daily Mail reports that the two hooked up this week (noting, in their helpfully British way, that Brand is “an ex-drug and sex addict”):
VMA Killjoy Jordin Sparks Brings Less-Than-Helpful Chastity Tips to Talk-Show Circuit
7:33AM STV | Bravely taking her pro-abstinence, purity-ring-rocking message to the Fox News flock, Jordin Sparks spent a few minutes last night explaining her recent outburst against oversexed Video Music Awards host Russell Brand. The difference between a “non-virgin” and “slut” remains foggy, but, at the very least, Sparks’s convictions are burnished here to the fine Murdochian glow that so eluded the MTV class last weekend. The same cannot be said for her remarks on the subject of temptation (”I’m not saying I’m perfect by any means!”), from which conservative firebrand and noted hymen-defence expert Sean Hannity was later forced to rescue her with that metaphorical bucket of ice water known around the Fox offices as “a commercial break.” [Fox News] More »
Did MTV Censor Russell Brand’s Shocking Bristol Palin Joke?
6:20AM Defamer Hollywood | Mostly lost in the furor over the purity ring comments made by VMAs host Russell Brand were the even more scathing jabs he threw the Republicans’ way during the telecast. Never afraid to be politically controversial (a formerly crack-addled Brand was fired from British MTV for showing up to work on September 12, 2001 dressed as Osama Bin Laden), the comedian called President Bush a “retarded cowboy” who “wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors,” then dismissed the teen pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s daughter as a “PR stunt.” Now, Brand is telling the UK’s Daily Telegraph that he had one even more outrageous Palin joke in that vein, but MTV wouldn’t let him tell it: More »
Upon Reflection, Maybe Jordin Sparks Didn’t Mean to Call You All ‘Sluts’
4:50AM Defamer Hollywood | The VMAs tend to be known for their feuds, whether it’s Madonna vs. Courtney Love, Kid Rock vs. Tommy Lee, or Michael Jackson vs. his overwhelming fear of Lisa Marie Presley’s pursed lips. This year’s ceremony was no different, though the anger came from an unexpected source: American Idol winner Jordin Sparks, who overstepped a line while defending the Jonas Brothers’ purity, declaring, “It’s not bad to wear a promise ring, because not everybody — guy or girl — wants to be a slut.” This implication of an either/or sexual ultimatum prompted an outcry from the historically ribald music world, with elder stateswoman Courtney Love prescribing an unorthodox remedy of “pussy and some cock” and the Jonas Brothers themselves laying hands on salacious host Russell Brand to forgive him. Now, in an interview with EW, Sparks clarifies her controversial words: More »
8:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Purity Ratings: Though this year’s chaste edition of the MTV Video Music Awards couldn’t boast a must-see trainwreck on the level of Britney Spears’s 2007 performance, it still outrated that telecast by 15% in MTV’s 12-34 target demo (it beat the 2006 edition by a whopping 41%, and averaged 8.4 million total viewers overall). In fact, according to Broadcasting & Cable, the VMAs telecast was the highest-rated cable show in that demo so far this year. Just think how many more viewers could have been retained without the weirdly shot, one-joke Jonah Hill intro! [Broadcasting & Cable] More »
And Lo, The Jonas Brothers Did Absolve Russell Brand Of His Sins
5:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Heading into Sunday night’s VMAs, one could never have predicted that the Jonas Brothers would end up central to the ceremony’s only real controversy; and yet, thanks to Russell Brand’s purity-tweaking jokes and Jordin Sparks’s impassioned tirade against sluts, there they found themselves. Would the squeaky-clean trio retaliate by wagging their ringed fingers in Brand’s face, or would they take Courtney Love’s colorful advice to sample “some pussy and some cock and shut the hell up”? According to the BBC, they chose a different route, claiming to be fans of Brand (thanks to his last Conan O’Brien appearance) and giving him some pointers on pleasing the fickle American audience:
Courtney Love Has the Last, Incoherent Word on the VMAs Purity Ring Controversy
8:35AM Defamer Hollywood | Though it’s been a long while since Courtney Love caused controversy at the VMAs, the singer wasn’t about to let last night’s purity ring flap pass by without giving that virginal young upstart Jordin Sparks the what-for. Yes, even though Love claims not to have watched last night’s ceremony (though she adores host Russell Brand), she took to her blog to denounce the latest crop of chaste young performers, giving them the sort of X-rated advice that would make a Jonas Brother blush (not that Miley, though — she’s heard it all). We’ve excerpted the best bits below, though we warn you that they’re hard to read — not because of their shock value, but because their author is the garrulous misspeller Courtney Love: More »
