Jennifer Lopez with Britney Spears and Madonna insetted. Shutterstock (2)
Ain’t it humorous! Jennifer Lopez revealed she was imagined to kiss Madonna on the 2003 MTV VMAs — however the present requested Christina Aguilera to fill in after the “Ready for Tonight” singer couldn’t attend.
“Sure, that was really true. I used to be filming a film in Canada and we had met — me, [Madonna] and Britney [Spears] — to do it at her residence. After which I simply couldn’t get off the movie,” Lopez, 53, instructed E! Information in an interview printed on Tuesday, January 17. “So we couldn’t do it. … Then they obtained Christina Aguilera to do it. However yea, we talked about it.”
She added, “I’m an enormous fan of Madonna. I at all times have been.”
The now well-known 2003 efficiency — throughout which Spears, 41, popped out of a marriage cake dressed like a bride and sang “Like a Virgin” — paid homage to the 64-year-old “Vogue” singer’s 1984 act. Aguilera, 42, and Madonna later joined the Spears on stage and the trio shared a steamy smooch.
Nevertheless, whereas each ladies locked lips Evita star, solely Spears’ kiss was proven on TV after cameras minimize away to catch ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake’s response.
“It was bizarre,” Aguilera instructed Andy Cohen throughout a Sirius XM radio interview in 2018. “They minimize away to get Justin’s response. It was an affordable shot. I noticed the newspaper the following day and I used to be like, ‘Oh, effectively, I assume I obtained disregarded of that one.’”
In September 2020, the “Fighter” songstress additional opened up about her half within the popular culture staple — and why it wasn’t as salacious as folks claimed — throughout a dialog with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.
“Shock worth will get increasingly excessive or no matter. However truthfully, on the time, yeah, I by no means thought something of it,” she defined. “It was like, ‘OK, it’s two women kissing.’ It wasn’t stunning again then. It’s not stunning now, to me. But it surely’s so many issues.”
The Grammy winner added that regardless of her smooch not making headlines, she holds no grudges about how the evening unfolded.
“I imply all the things occurred so rapidly again then and all the things was in a whirlwind,” she instructed Lowe, 49. “However I had my very own efficiency that evening. It was ‘Fighter’ and it was with Dave Navarro. It was a kickass efficiency. So I used to be OK with that.”
Aguilera might have moved on from the efficiency, however Madonna and Spears have usually talked about recreating their kiss on stage. In January 2022, the “Papa Don’t Preach” songstress opened up about her want to carry out with the “Circus” artist once more.
“Hell yeah, I’ve to,” she replied through an Instagram Livestream after a fan requested if she would do one other world tour sooner or later. “Stadium, child. Me and Britney [Spears], what about that? Yeah, I’m unsure she’d be into it, however it could be actually cool. We may, like, reenact the unique kiss.”
Whereas the pair haven’t been capable of share the stage once more fairly but, they did lock lips on the “Stronger” singer’s June 2022 marriage ceremony to husband Sam Asghari.
“Kissing the one and solely Madonna 💋 !!!” Spears wrote through Instagram in June 2022 alongside a photograph of the twosome sharing a kiss. “I didn’t know Madonna has virtually as many number-one singles as The Beatles !!! So honored she got here to my marriage ceremony … perspective … The Beatles have 20 and miss thang has 12 !!!”
Asghari, for his half, jokingly responded to the second within the feedback part on the time, writing, “Minutes after we obtained married you cheated on me 🤬🤬🤬.”
