Adam Lambert who was the American Idol runner-up regrets what he did on the stage during his live performance at American Music Awards which was being watched by 14 million people. The incident has triggered a wide-spread controversy among the US gay community. His performance included a homosexual kiss. A large number of people who felt offended jammed the phone lines of ABC TV for the offensive live telecast. Due to this strong public reaction, ABC TV has cancelled the “Good Morning America” news and chat show which was supposed to telecast Lambert’s post-AMA interview yesterday.

CBS, the competitor of ABC TV, invited him on its “The Early Show” where Lambert commented regretfully that he didn’t have any deliberate intention to do that but he was just carried away and couldn’t control himself. But he refused to apologize and said: “I admit I did get carried away, but I don’t see anything wrong with it”. He told that he didn’t have any intention to offend people. He then criticised the people who dragged him in to the wide-spread controversy and told that had it

been two females kissing each other, the people wouldn’t have made such hue and cry. He told that he would not apologise because he believes that there was nothing wrong in it.

Although CBS TV tried to take advantage of ABC TV’s jeopardy by inviting Lambert on its Show yet it couldn’t spare itself from gay-community sarcasm when it blurred the controversial scene it showed on its TV show. Gay rights groups blamed CBS television of having double standard because CBS had shown the kiss between Britney Spears and Madonna at MTV awards in 2003. But CBS had his own argument and negated the accusation of using double standard on the ground that Madonna’s telecast didn’t involve any current controversy. On the other hand, Adam Lambert was already in hot waters. So CBS didn’t want to exasperate the situation.

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