Did MTV set up Britney Spears to fail? MTV says no. But was Spears’ look sabotaged just minutes before going on stage at the VMA? One source says yes, bigtime! 

MTV is denying reports it set up Spears to fail just for ratings. “Britney Spears has had so many memorable, high-energy performances at the VMAs over the years and no one wanted to see her succeed more than her MTV fans and MTV,” the network says.

However, one report indicates her look was sabotaged by her own people minutes before going on stage. Reports are circulating that one of her camp destroyed her look just before going on stage and that’s why she looked as awful as she did, and hence perhaps so nervous.

Celebrity gossip columninst Marc Malkin has confirmed that a nasty spat between a frozen margarita drinking Brit and her longtime stylist resulted in the hair guru destroying Britney’s hair extensions before taking the stage! Holy Vidal Sasoon, say it’s not true!According to Marc:An insider tells me that shortly before Spears was to go onstage at the Palms Hotel & Casino’s Pearl Theater, she had some sort of disagreement with her hairstylist.And, I’m told, said hair guru quit on the spot. But before leaving, my source reports, the disgruntled stylist cut up all of the extensions Spears was planning on wearing for her big number.

But the big question is …. did he cut up her underwear too? Sorry, couldn’t avoid that one.

Meantime, there are new reports about clothing switches that may have caused her innability to move about on stage. Check lalate for that breaking story later tonight. 

Oh, and click here to see her latest crotch flashing from the beginning.

Photo credits: MTV, WENN

Source: Variety

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Britney Spears is making us think her comeback song “Gimme More” might refer to her new eating habits or her crotch flashing skills. lalate message to Kanye West: this is why Britney opens the VMA, not you.

If you want to see the bald wonder, yet again, click here and here . Pictures by WENN.

Back to Britney.

If you don’t know, often performances like Britney’s at award shows can be staged by the show (MTV), or the singer’s label (JIVE), or in conjuction. We don’t know who staged her performance. The whole act, irrespective of Britney, was awful. It was cheap. It was slow. It didn’t make sense. And it’s not Britney’s fault because she didn’t design it.

Was she good? No she was awful. If she was given bad moves by MTV, don’t hate her, but dislike her for agreeing to do a horrible production, whoever created it, and wasting your television viewing time.

Finally, her body. Give the girl a break and a stylist. She made the mistake of showing skin when she really wasn’t in shape. Enough sad.

Our thoughts: we love her, she knows she bombed, but you have to feel sorry for her not to have anyone around her telling her the obvious ahead of time.

What do you think?

Photo credits: MTV, WENN

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Out of shape, out of touch, Britney Spears opened the worse MTV Awards Show ever, an atrocious disaster show inspired by Timbaland that served as a big infomercial for the Palms Hotel. If this is the music business, no wonder albums aren’t selling; they don’t have a clue what they are doing!

It seemed the MTV show felt like it had a contract clause with the Palms that said “one long pan shot of Palms sign required every 39 seconds”. The show repeatedly had performers “perform”, if you can call that, by singing while walking up and down a flight of stars while angry men shouted like extras of the Orsenio Hall show and planted hoochie mamas wiggled their behinds.

The show felt like you were in an underground nightclub filled with angry people. It didn’t feel like Vegas or an award show. In fact, it just felt like a waste of programming time.

A huge boo to Timbaland, MTV, Britney Spears, and the Palms.

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OMG the rehearsal video for her performance Sunday night is HOT! Watch it right now! (It’s only a few seconds, sadly.) Go Brit Go!

Las Vegas, NV, September 6, 2007 – After weeks of mind-blowing media speculation, MTV confirms today that Britney Spears will be opening the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. Celebrating her long awaited comeback to her fans, Spears will be performing LIVE her new song “Gimme More” from her highly anticipated new album due on November 13th. The star studded awards show will air live Sunday, September 9th at 9PM Live ET/Tape delayed PT.

Immediately following Spears’ performance, fans who want more of the superstar can download two ringtones available exclusively through MTV Mobile for two days prior to any other service. The tones — one for “Gimme More” and the other featuring the much discussed “It’s Britney, B****” catch phrase from “Gimme More’s” intro — are available for fans who text “Gimme” or “Brit” to 33633. MTV Mobile also will carry a live simulcast of the show, a first ever for an awards show.

For more about Spears at the VMAs, MTV.com will have exclusive details about her performance, as well as a look back at her history at the VMAs. The star-packed event will also feature one night only performances by Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Chris Brown, Foo Fighters, Rihanna, Common, Nelly Furtado, Gym Class Heroes, Akon and Soulja Boy, T-Pain, Cee-Lo, Daniel Merriweather, Lil’ Wayne, Alicia Keys, T.I., Adam Levine, Mastadon, and Serj from System of A Down. Diddy, Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, Kid Rock Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Pamela Anderson, the cast of Entourage, Shia Labeouf, Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke, Megan Fox, Jennifer Hudson, Rosario Dawson and Eve are set to present at the “2007 MTV Video Music Awards.” In addition, Justin Timberlake with Timbaland are set to host a Fantasy Suite party, while critically acclaimed producer, artist and DJ Mark Ronson will rock the party in The Pearl with help from his turntables, horn section and surprise guests. This year, Timbaland will also find himself working overtime as the official Maestro of the VMAs, responsible for creating several show-stopping and unexpected artist collaborations.

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Sunday, Las Vegas will become just a tad more sinful than ever before, as though that is possible, as Vegas goes very Hollywood with the MTV Video Music Awards. And guess who has the rundown on where the hottest parties in Vegas will be? lalate, Vegas’ number one national nightlife site since 2005.

Friday at Hard Rock is Snoop Dogg. Saturday still at Hard Rock is Snoop Dogg while the Rolling Stone Magazine party is at the Palms. Tao Sunday will host Jermaine Dupri and Nelly. 50 Cent will be at the Hard Rock Pool. Saturday Nicole Scherzinger at Pure. Saturday Cristina Aguilera at LAX.

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“It’s not our voice, but it’s sexy enough.”

The net’s fastest growing celebrity news site is now coming to your Ipod. lalate (”L.A. late”) news today added audio services to its celebrity news site that enables users to listen to stories from Zac Efron to Britney Spears on their Ipod. 

The feed is located at http://podcasts.odiogo.com/lalate-news/podcasts-html.php. Users of the LA late news site (http://news.lalate.com) can also listen to stories by clicking an audio button at the top of each story.

Just in its second week, lalate has become the fastest growing celebrity news site in America, ranking number 10 on Google of over 50 Billion celebrity news site results its first week.

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If that ass-et looks that nice standing still, imagine how it looks when Kim’s dancing on stage? !

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Oh Yes! This one is sweet! For all our peeps staying in L.A. this weekend, which is most of you, LALATE NEWS has for you the HOTTEST party this Labor Day Weekend, the ONLY VIP private party in Hollywood this weekend - Sunday at Cabana Club!

This event will be packed and we will reach capacity. So visit http://news.lalate.com/lax to rsvp and get there early. You will be on LALATE (”L.A. Late”) guestlist for the party! Don’t miss it!

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WOW! lalate news has jumped to rank Top 10 on Google for a “celebrity news site” in just its first week! In its stratospheric jump from 30th to 10th on Google, lalate news had surged ahead of other celeb sites Access Hollywood and People Magazine, and currently only trails Hollywood Reporter, MTV/VH1, Perez Hilton, TMZ, and E! Online respectively. 

Even websites widgets of lalate’s news feeds today currently now outrank Hello Magazine, Yahoo’s OMG, and Access Hollywood.

On August 18, the old lalate news site ranked #34.

But when the new lalate news site premiered at http://news.lalate.com August 27, it jumped to #24. Days later on August 30, it leaped to #12. And on September 2, after a weekend of exclusives and breaks - including being one of the fastest sites to leak Britney Spears’ new tracks “Gimme More” and “Cold as Fire” hours before its own party at LAX - lalate news jumped to No 10.

“We are ecstatic. People understand that we report celebrity news much differently that anything you’ve seen before. Our way of reporting has caught on, faster than we had predicted! We have a lot of new surprises coming.”

Its jump might be caused by its ability to get news out faster than over 90% of most celeb sites. Nearly a thousand people listened to Britney Spears’ “Gimme More” through lalate news hours before most major sites have even heard of the leaked track. And when they caught up, lalate news was onto carry a second “Cold as Fire”. lalate news later that evening hosted its own launch party at LAX Hollywood while Spears would host her single’s annoucement at LAX Las Vegas’ opener the following day.

lalate reports celebrity news in a new format, carving a niche it calls “fresher, edgier, more positive, and to the point.” Not salacious, lalate nabs the stories that people want to read and news sites want to quote. lalate’s choice of what celebrities to report on, and how to report on them, has defined lalate’s rise.

lalate has revolutionized news by telling you about the celebrity breaking news before it happens … and gets you into the party to experience the story live yourself. lalate news is from the world’s largest nightlife site today, www.lalate.com, that since 2002 has been America’s leading website for latenight, carrying over 30,000 celebrity parties in 6 countries. More young adults turn to lalate.com for upscale latenight advice today than any other site. lalate is owned and is produced by the Television Internet Broadcasting Network (www.televisioninternet.com), the originator of television programming online.

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BREAKING NEWS! Did Kim Kardashian get BOO’ed out of Las Vegas’ biggest Wednesday night club this week?! Could this mean popularity trouble for her upcoming Las Vegas’ show?

If Las Vegas Confidential’s report is correct, Kimmy K got a dreadful response from the crowd at Tangerine Nightclub Wednesday.

Tangerine, located inside Treasure Island Hotel, is Las Vegas’ top Wednesday spot for years (and always with lalate!). But its crowd didn’t want Kimmy K this last week according to reports!

Apparently she received a “smattering of boos and little applause from the crowd when the deejay announced Kardashian as one of the hosts of the evening’s party — a launch of fashion model Caroline D’Amore’s clothing line, D’Amore by Marceau”.

“Later in the evening — following Kardashian’s departure from Tangerine — members of her group that stayed were removed from the nightclub after a woman in the party became disrespectful toward one of the nightclub’s VIP hosts. Tangerine’s staff didn’t appreciate the situation and quickly rectified the problem by removing the rowdy group from the nightclub, sources told Vegas Confidential.”

Could this mean trouble for Kim’s popularity in an upcoming Vegas show?

lalate news was the first to break that Kardashian will appear this September as a Pussycat Doll in the Las Vegas show inside Pure Nightclub. She will hope that this crowd from Treasure Island down the street doesn’t come to Pure also.

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