Prizes take backseat at MTV awards


Blood, buttocks, snakes and angry rants are just some of the surprises served up by the MTV Video Music Awards over the last three decades, and at today’s ceremony, there is stiff competition to deliver the show’s next most outrageous stunt.

R&B star Beyonce and newcomer rapper Iggy Azalea lead the nominees at the Video Music Awards, or VMAs, with eight nods each, and winners will receive the “Moonman” statuettes at the newly renovated Forum arena in Inglewood, California. New Zealand teenager Lorde is up in two categories.

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