MTV_Australia_Video_Music_Awards_2007 Knowpia

2007 MTV Australia Video Music Awards
2007 MTV Australia Video Music Awards
Date	29 April 2007
Location	Acer Arena, Sydney
Hosted by	Fergie & Good Charlotte
Website	mtv.com.au/avma
Television/radio coverage
Network	MTV Australia
	← 2006 2008 →

The MTV Australia Video Music Awards 2007 was broadcast live from Acer Arena on 29 April 2007 on MTV Australia. It was then repeated on the Ten Network on 6 May 2007.

The hosts for the awards were Fergie, along with Good Charlotte, while Sophie Monk who hosted the red carpet show and stars such as Pink and Thirty Seconds to Mars and special guest Kristin Cavallari from Laguna Beach also appeared. Also, the cast from the MTV series Dirty Sanchez presented.^[1]

In the awards new categories were added such as "Best Hook Up Video", "Download of the Year" and New Zealand Viewers Choice and "Sexiest Video" has been re-introduced to the categories after its absence from the 2006 show. Also, the "Video Vanguard" award was introduced to the Australian Awards for the first time which honoured Australian band Silverchair.

Performers edit

Thirty Seconds to Mars — "The Kill"
Good Charlotte — "Dance Floor Anthem"/"Keep Your Hands off My Girl"
Pink — "U + Ur Hand"/"Sweet Dreams"/"Get the Party Started"
Teddy Geiger — "These Walls"
Damien Leith — "Night of My Life"
Eskimo Joe — "Black Fingernails, Red Wine"
Evermore — "Light Surrounding You"
Sneaky Sound System — "UFO"
Silverchair — "Straight Lines"
Stephanie McIntosh — "So Do I Say Sorry First?"
Fergie — "Glamorous"
TV Rock and Dukes of Windsor — "The Others"
Billy Talent — "Fallen Leaves"
Juke Kartel — "Throw It Away"

Nominees and winners edit

The winners are in bold.

Snoop Dogg controversy edit

Snoop Dogg was due to attend the ceremony, but the Department of Immigration and Citizenship cancelled his visa on the basis of "character" issues. Minister for Immigration, Kevin Andrews cited numerous drug and assault offences to back up his decision.^[2] The decision has been highly controversial, especially amongst MTV and Snoop Dogg fans.

In protest, MTV Australia had created a website^[3] to gather interest and to help Dogg attain Australian Citizenship.

Award moments edit

Darren McMullen lifted his kilt exposing his buttocks.^[4]
While Nicole Richie was announcing the winner of the award for Best Male Artist, she miss pronounced the winners name saying Sha-NON Noll instead of the correct Shannon Noll.
During a broadcast backstage interview, The Veronicas told viewers that they had a so-called "crush" on the 2006 winner of Australian Idol, Damien Leith. When the girls were interviewed again they stated that Leith's wife had confronted them shortly after they made that remark.
Also in The Veronica's backstage interview, Andrew Hansen from The Chaser's War on Everything did something for the show, he acted as a journalist about to ask a question but broke out into a song.

Notes edit

^ Emily Dunn (23 April 2007). "Stars jet in to sing or bling at MTV awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
^ "Who put the Dogg out?". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 April 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
^ Welcome Snoop Archived 1 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ "MTV host busted in Los Angeles - 9News".