The spotlight may have been fixed well and truly on Britney Spears, but the real trouble at last weekend's MTV Video Music Awards came from Motley Crue's Tommy Lee and Kid Rock - both of whom, in case you've been forgetting your celeb gossip of recent years, have previously been in relationships with Borat's favourite lady, Pamela Anderson. Indeed, Pamela may have been the subject of the altercation between the pair that took place backstage at the VMAs, who knows? What we do know is that the incident led to Kid Rock landing himself "a citation for misdemeanour battery", or so police reports tell us.
Eye witness accounts coming out of the ceremony suggest that Kid Rock lamped Lee after the Motley Crue man took issue with the rapper for ignoring him. Producer Rice Nice said: "It looked like Tommy Lee initiated it because Kid Rock was ignoring him. And Tommy Lee kind of antagonized him. And then when Tommy Lee stood up, it looked a little weird, like, 'Yo, what?'" Following the scuffle, Tommy Lee was ejected from the building while Kid Rock stayed on, though police reports suggest it is Kid Rock who will be called to court later this month - he being the one that allegedly threw the punches.
In other VMA trouble, Kanye West, never one to enjoy being overlooked in the awards department, has launched a scathing attack on MTV for, well, not giving him an award. Huffing and puffing all the way home, West vowed never to return to the VMAs after being snubbed in each of the five categories that he was nominated in. Though, given his previously reported hissy fit last year at the European equivalent of the VMAs, where he stormed the stage demanding to know why his 'Touch The Sky' video - which curiously also featured Baywatch star Anderson - had not won against Justice vs Simian's video for 'We Are Your Friends'', it's not certain whether the hosts would be wanting him back anyway.
Though he did later apologise for that. And to be fair it must be quite gutting for anyone to be nominated in five categories and win none - especially for someone as egotistical as Kanye. Perhaps someone could rig it for him to win the chart battle against Fiddy next week, just to make up.