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Adam Lambert Loses ABC, Picks Up Barbara Walters

Posted by Emma Renda on December 4th, 2009

Adam LampertControversy or not, American Idol-runner-up Adam Lambert made his chart debut at #3 this week. For Your Entertainment sold almost 200,000 albums in its first week, overtaking the New Moon soundtrack, following his controversial performance at the AMAs in New York City.

It’s no surprise then that Lambert has been invited for an interview on Barbara Walters’ 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009 television special which will air Dec. 9. Walters has also enlisted Lady Gaga, Kate Gosselin of Jon & Kate Plus 8, vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, NFL quarterback Brett Favre, filmmaker Tyler Perry, Fox News host Glenn Beck, South Carolina’s first lady Jenny Sanford, and Michael Jackson’s three children, Paris, Prince Michael and Prince Michael II.

Adam Lambert is an interesting candidate, as the majority of his appeal has popped up following his AMA appearance. Openly gay, Lambert used his performance of “For Your Entertainment” to showcase a display of sado-masochistic sexuality, then shoved a male-dancer’s face into his nether-regions and kissed his keyboardist. The event caused such a stir he was dropped from ABC’s Good Morning America (the same network that airs Barbara Walters 20/20).

“Given his controversial American Music Awards performance, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning,” an ABC News spokesperson said.

The CBS rival The Early Show was quick to snap up Lambert for a spot to discuss the performance, some of which was cut when the AMAs re-aired on the U.S. West coast.

This week, Lambert was informed ABC cancelled his spots on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. But he is still busy, with upcoming spots on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and the Jay Leno Show.

Lambert told Rolling Stone any cuts to his song would be “discrimination.”

“My goal was not to piss people off, it was to promote freedom of expression and artistic freedom,” said Lambert. “I think it’s up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television. Lady Gaga smashing whiskey bottles, Janet Jackson grabbing a male dancer’s crotch, Eminem talking about how Slim Shady has 17 rapes under his belt — there was a lot of very adult material on the AMAs this year and I know I wasn’t the only one.

“The minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.”

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  • SCat

    I call bullshit on this ABC cancellation.

  • Adam Addict

    PINK did the SAME THING (exactly) a few years ago and NOBODY SAID A THING. Yes, double standard? You betcha.

  • Tagrid

    @Adam Addict – the 2004 Billboard Awards show (5 years ago), where Pink ground a male dancer’s face into her crotch, was on the Fox Network. And the reason there was no public outcry about it was, despite the fact that you can now see the full video on YouTube, FOX used their 10 second delay to cover the screen with a full-screen Fox logo – so no TV viewers ever saw it.

    ABC COULD HAVE done the same for Adam’s performance, but chose not to! THEN ABC chose to punish Adam, instead of admitting their own responsibility for what viewers saw.

    Adam has been invited to appear AND perform on The View, on Dec 10 – the day after the Barbara Walters Special. And you can BET it was Barbara Walters who pressured ABC to allow it! She’s my new heroine!

    The only way ABC can make amends for their reprehensible, homophobic decisions would be to reinstate Adam on BOTH Kimmel and the New Year’s Rockin’ Eve broadcasts!

    Be sure to watch Adam hosting NewNowNext PopLab on LOGO, Monday, Dec 7 at 7 PM EST. He’s also going to be on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Monday, Dec 14, on Larry King Live on Dec 15, and on Leno on Dec 21.

    Also, to Emma Renda – I seriously doubt “the majority of (Adam’s) appeal has popped up following his AMA appearance.” That’s just silly. Adam’s fans have been following him from Day 1 on American Idol. And his TRUE FANS have supported him even after his misstep on the AMAs. While Adam may have picked up a few new fans after the AMAs, he also lost a few fair-weather fans too.