{"id":334,"date":"2025-12-04T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:07:07","slug":"jennifer-lopez-was-supposed-to-be-part-of-britney-spears-and-madonnas-famous-vma-kiss-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovernews9.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez was supposed to be part of Britney Spears and Madonna\u2019s famous VMA kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Madonna originally tapped Jennifer Lopez to kiss her at the 2003 Video Music Awards along with Britney Spears, a former MTV executive said Tuesday in an interview with Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n

Ex-MTV President Van Toffler told\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/a>\u00a0in a new interview that the \u201cLike a Prayer\u201d singer invited\u00a0the \u201cLet\u2019s Get Loud\u201d hitmaker<\/a>\u00a0to perform with her during the historic show \u2014 but Lopez ended up dropping out because of a scheduling conflict.<\/p>\n

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The final performance\u00a0featured Spears<\/a>, Missy Elliott and Christina Aguilera, who smooched Madonna onstage instead of Lopez. The Aguilera-Madonna kiss immediately followed the Spears-Madonna kiss, which went down as one of the buzziest pop-culture moments of all time.<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone reported that Madonna initially handpicked\u00a0Spears<\/a>\u00a0and Lopez because they were \u201cthe best young dancers around.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the \u201cMarry Me\u201d and \u201cHustlers\u201d star wasn\u2019t able to do the VMA performance because she had already committed to shooting the movie \u201cShall We Dance?\u201d that summer, Aguilera stepped in at the last minute to save the day, according to Toffler.<\/p>\n

Toffler told Rolling Stone he was \u201cfearful that the performance was in jeopardy\u201d before the \u201cBeautiful\u201d singer agreed to take Lopez\u2019s place.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s just quintessential Madonna,\u201d Toffler told Rolling Stone of the landmark TV event.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had a history of pushing us and pushing culture, and that\u2019s what was great about her and what was great about MTV. We pushed culture in provocative ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

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