Eminem was MTVs second choice for staged Bruno stunt
Many of you thought that the incident in which Bruno’s crotch landed in Eminem’s face at the MTV Movie Awards was partially staged, but that Eminem’s reaction of disgust was genuine and that he had no idea that the prank would go that far. In case you missed it, Sacha Baron Cohen, dressed in character as flaming Austrian TV host Bruno, dropped from the ceiling on a wire right in Eminem’s lap. He landed so that his legs were up in the air, and his goods – clad only in a thong – were right in Eminem’s face. Eminen sneered “are you f’ing serious? Get this motherf’er off me.” Members of Eminem’s band D12 sitting next to him then started trying to disentangle Bruno and ended up pushing him as he flailed around.
Life & Style claims that it was a planned stunt gone too far and that homophobic rapper Eminem was not the producer’s first choice for a Bruno target. Bland cheap brand representative Paris Hilton was first approached about having Bruno land on her, and she refused. Eminem was said to be a good sport in theory, and agreed to the set up without realizing what it would entail:
At Sunday’s MTV Movie awards in LA, viewers were shocked when Sacha Baron Cohen landed nearly butt-naked on rapper Eminem’s face. A shocked Eminem then cursed and stormed out of the theater. But an MTV insider has told Life & Style that producer Mark Burnett cleared the prank with the rapper beforehand. However, Eminem wasn’t aware of exactly how naked Sacha would be when he agreed to do it! A second insider also confirms that Eminem was actually Burnett’s second choice. The first? Heiress Paris Hilton, who, luckily for her, declined to participate (probably because she was on a date with boyfriend Doug Reinhardt!). “Paris is quite happy she turned down the offer,” the insider tells Life & Style.
[From Life & Style]
It sounds like Paris is gloating that she was Bruno’s first choice, and I bet she would have gone through with it if she realized all the publicity it would entail. With Paris no one would be paying much attention, though. She just would have giggled and flipped her fake hair. Recreating the scenario that made Paris Hilton famous just doesn’t carry the same weight as offending a macho homophobe.
Contrary to Life & Style’s account, a writer for MTV confirms that not only was Eminem aware of the stunt, it was practiced just that way with Baron Cohen’s junk in Eminem’s face. If that’s the case Eminem is a much better actor than I gave him credit for.
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