Jennifer Lopez says she simply missed being a part of an iconic awards present second.
The “Hustlers” star instructed E! Information in a current interview that she was initially slated for one of many onstage kisses Madonna shared with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera on the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.
“I used to be filming a film in Canada, and we had met — me, [Madonna] and Britney — to do it at her dwelling, after which I simply couldn’t get off the movie,” Lopez instructed the celeb information outlet. “So, we couldn’t do it. They received Christina Aguilera, I believe, to do it, and I didn’t wind up doing it.”
Lopez didn’t identify the movie she was engaged on, however her 2004 films “Jersey Lady” and “Shall We Dance” had been filming in Canada round that point.
At New York Metropolis’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, in the meantime, a special type of efficiency took heart stage on Aug. 28, 2003.
Spears and Aguilera first took the stage to carry out Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” after which the Queen of Pop joined them for her music “Hollywood.” Earlier than Missy Elliott got here out to carry out “Work It,” the trio took a beat for Madonna to kiss Spears after which Aguilera.
“Shock worth will get increasingly excessive or no matter,” Aguilera reportedly instructed Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in 2020. “However actually, on the time, yeah, I by no means thought something of it. It was like, ‘OK, it’s two women kissing.’ It wasn’t surprising again then. It’s not surprising now, to me.”
What did shock Aguilera was the frenzy Spears and Madonna’s kiss had garnered over her personal. MTV lower from the stage to the group after Spears’ kiss to get her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake’s response — thus failing to broadcast Aguilera’s smooch with Madonna.
“And you already know why they lower it?” Aguilera instructed Andy Cohen in 2018 throughout an interview on his SiriusXM “Radio Andy” present. “They lower away to get Justin’s response. I noticed the newspaper the following day and it was like, ‘Oh — effectively, I suppose I received not noted of that one.’”
In the meantime, Spears fielded incessant questions in regards to the kiss for the remainder of the yr. She reportedly instructed CNN that September that she “didn’t comprehend it was going to be that lengthy and all the pieces,” she doesn’t “go dwelling and have orgies,” and that she “by no means kissed a girl earlier than.”
Spears added on the time that she most likely “wouldn't do it once more” except it was with Madonna — which she did throughout her marriage ceremony ceremony to Sam Asghari final yr.
As for Lopez, who lately tied the knot herself, it’s all gravy.
“I like Madonna,” Lopez instructed E! Information. “I’m an enormous fan. I at all times have been.”
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