The New York Post reports that Chris Brown has been booked by ABC for a Good Morning America appearance in December, which will include a “tell-all” interview with the network’s Robin Roberts (who recently chatted up Janet Jackson in a one-hour prime time special).
So, let’s get this straight (pun definitely intended)—Adam Lambert proved to be too scandalous for Good Morning America following his same-sex lip-locking and face-in-crotch shenanigans on Sunday’s American Music Awards, but felon Chris Brown, who belted girlfriend Rihanna in February, is A-OK morning fodder.
“Chris Brown’s interview was booked way before Adam Lambert took to the stage,” an unnamed ABC contact told the Post. “It is to give him a chance to respond to Rihanna’s interview. The possibility of him performing a song will be worked out next week.”
Well, okay. That’s fair enough. But in case you’re thinking this still sounds like a double standard, the source also added, “The network is giving a mixed message—that it doesn’t trust someone who shocked with an unpredictable show and a gay kiss, but then it is happy to go ahead with Chris Brown, who was convicted of felony assault.”
Regardless, the controversy doesn’t seem to be hurting Glambert’s commercial viability. His album For Your Entertainment is projected to knock out sales of 225,000 copies by next week, which is over three times the amount Kris Allen’s self-titled LP sold its first seven days out of the gate.
Meanwhile, both Chris Brown and Adam Lambert have yet to dent the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with their current singles—as if that actually matters when it comes to being a sought-after pop star in 2009.
hmmm is that mean Disney owned ABC supports the guy who abused women?
It would have been best to put a new upcoming group like “Steel Magnolia” on instead of Brown. Brown was forgiven for beating up a woman and Lambert should be forgiven for what people always view on the net,,
Adam Lambert should indeed be forgiven for his AMA performance. He is a great singer and that cant be denied. So, let’s go on with the show!
good morning america? more like good morning iran! i am apalled. i am trying to raise sons who respect others. that includes respecting people who’s sexual orientation may be different than theirs and adam lambert’s ama performance and the subsequent controversy was a wonderful opportunity to teach them about the rights of people to express their preference, regardless of their sex, and the double standards in this country-just show us faux lesbian sexuality, man-on-man’s not allowed. part of my teaching my sons about respecting others is to be respectful of women, so ABC saying that adam is inappropriate, and thus, untrustworthy, but a man who beat the pulp out of a woman and was convicted for it is a-ok, is so beyond disgusting and gives new meaning to the term hypocritical. FOR SHAME ABC! I WILL NOT SUBJECT MY CHILDREN TO THE GLORIFICATION OF MEN WHO ABUSE WOMEN. if abc does just an interview, perhaps that is news, but if they allow him to promote his music and sing, they will have sunk to a new low.
well…that just sent the message that it is ok to beat women but its not ok to kiss someone of your own sex….hummmm…interesting morale this ABC network displays…
ABC doesn’t mind putting Chris brown on GMA after he beats up women, but Adam kisses some guy and they have a problem. Give me a fucking break, ABC makes me sick. I’ll never watch anything on that sorry excuse of a network ever again. I thought Fox “news” was suppose to be the forerunner of hypocrisy in American media. Even more annoying is that I didn’t even care for this guy before and now ABC’s idiocy got me supporting him. It is his freaking job to shock and entertain. Eat a Dick ABC!
Yyp! You can show 2 guys beating each other to a pulp or one guy maiming another but it’s too scary to show two guys kissing. Sshhh s.e.x.scares the phobes.Today,at eye level for a 7yr old- at grocery check-out is PlayStation mag -with cover of one guy w knife and other guy w throat cut open and bleeding.Games! And the ‘games’ of humans killing each other called ‘entertainment’-never mind-if one dosen’t realize the stupidity of the ‘controversy’ , what point is there to have a discssion w them. There was nothing,nada, zip, zero that Adam did in his performance that has not been done in other performances for many decades now, by the way. I support Adam 100% on this.Do not take away the right of artistic freedom. The show started w a performance by Janet Jackson that showed viewers the flavor of thing to come-if they had brains.
GMA is endorsing Domestic Violence and censoring Kissing… Kids across america will be learning that it is better to punch the life out of a girl and leave her bloody than to kiss someone. I for one am beginning a protest this “mistake” because clearly someone was not putting 2 and 2 together when they did this. It’s like inviting a convicted child molester over to your thanksgiving and turning down someone who has a parking ticket…
Its amazing how you support an asshole that beats and BITES women but not a guy who is no different than Madonna in showing a bit of sensationalism. There are gay people in this world and there will be more exposure to human affections such as kissing!
So GET OVER IT!!!! We are as much of a family than these christian conservatives!!!!!
I can’t tell which has gotten worse, Idolator’s reporting, or it’s comments. I’m officially never coming back.
Trevor, don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out. Adam 4ever!!!!
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Who gives a DAMN!
Chris isn’t the first, and he won’t me the last. Rihanna isn’t a victim, she’s the loser of the fight. Rihanna would probably beat your asses!
@Muffy: Wow! possibly most ignorant comment ever!
Well..I would never have thought ABC would endorse women beatings..Maybe in the future they will air the Stoning of Sarajah..It is so sad because all networks allow whatever if alot of money is attached..The company of Hair performance was sexually explicit at the Tony Awards and nothing was said..TV is not for the family it is for the adult as there is not much family viewing..Now during the DAY ALOT OF SKIN AND EXPLICIT CONTENT IS IN SOAP OPERAS BUT MOTHERS ARE TOO BUSY WATCHING THEM TO NOTICE WHAT THEIR KIDS NEED TO SEE..It is not he fault of the performer..it is the fault of the fake selfrighteous who put on the air what money buys and watches it..
Who gives a crap who or what’s on GMA in December. If Adam’s not on it then I couldn’t care less. So Adam, where are you going to be on that day? Just let me and the rest of your fans know because that’s the show I know I’ll be watching. Same with the other cancelled show(s). Just let us know where else you’ll be, no matter how large or small the venue – I’ll be there : )
p.s. your new CD rocks and your FYE music video is hot!!
True..who gives a crap..I bet ABC will eat Mickey Mouse when Adam does betterwithout that network