Gore the bore highlight of MTV awards

WHEN a wooden politician delivers the best line of the MTV Music Video Awards, you know the thrill is gone.

So was the decadence, outrageousness and spontaneity that used to make the video music awards such a guilty pleasure.

James Blunt and Gnarls Barkley each took home two awards. Pink’s parody of bubble-headed pop tarts, ‘Stupid Girls’ won for best pop video, Beyonce took home the best R&B video trophy for her booty-shaking ‘Check On It’ and Fall Out Boy won the viewer’s choice award for ‘Dance, Dance’. Best Female Video went to Kelly Clarkson for ‘Because of You’.