Adam Lambert's GMA Performance CANCELED: Good Morning America Calls Off Morning Concert

ABC has called off Adam Lambert's Wednesday morning concert following his controversial performance on the ABC-aired American Music Awards Sunday night. CBS has picked him up, however.

During that Sunday performance, he simulated oral sex, had a dancer on a leash, flipped the bird and kissed a male band member. Lambert has since defended his act, while ABC has fielded thousands or angry calls.

A spokesperson for ABC said, "Given his controversial American Music Awards performance, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning."

Meanwhile CBS announced that Lambert will perform Wednesday and sit for an interview on "The Early Show," which airs at the same time as GMA.

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[KCRoger]

11:00 AM on 11/28/2009

I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Lambert did an outrageous performanc­e to stir up controvers­y and get noticed. It's nothing new. The same trick has been done by Alice Cooper, Madonna, and Marilyn Manson to name a few. You could even argue that Elvis Presley started it all with his gyrating hips.

Be that as it may, all performers that try to create shock have to understand that not every media outlet is going to broadcast their performanc­e, and there can be some backlash. That's part of the game. It's not unexpected that Good Morning America would give Lambert a pass. They broadcast at a time when soccer moms are getting their kiddies ready for school. It's not surprising that Lambert's performanc­e was controvers­ial, and even less surprising that GMA didn't want him on their show.

[relentless63]

07:45 PM on 11/27/2009

I love this singer. Think he's brilliant. Funny ... we'll stand for gratuitous violence, a less than upstanding news media. But sex?!
Nevermind, he is extreme and everyone has a right to their opinion.

[MindyM]

06:10 PM on 11/27/2009

Adam Lambert isn't that special. Everyone is subject to censorship on network tv. Did anyone try to actually hear the words of Eminem's song? You couldn't, because every other word was bleeped. Maybe the network didn't consider a tape delay because they had no idea that Adam was going to do all this vulgar nonsense. It was stupid, mindless and totally unnecessar­y. If that's entertainm­ent, then we are all in trouble.

This is a guy who is great looking, with an magnificen­t voice, yet he feels that he has to go for shocking and outrageous just for the sake of it. Is this what he thinks he has to do to sell his album? What a shame! Unlike Madonna, he actually has a great voice. He doesn't need all this garbage. I was a huge Adam Lambert fan, but I am over him. It's not just the AMA's. That was the last straw. He has been courting controvers­y for the sake of it. That gets old really quickly. Stop playing the victim, Adam! This is not about you being gay! It's about a talented young man who has to stoop to the lowest depths out of arrogance, cockiness and just plain cluelessne­ss!

[yamaniyama]

10:08 PM on 11/27/2009

I agree. I was really liking and respecting him there for a while, but now he's lost me.

[mcscave]

12:46 AM on 11/28/2009

Maybe he just wanted a hug. Get over yourselves­. he's a singer not an icon

[Indra]

05:42 PM on 11/27/2009

I would rather drink vomit than watch Lambert.

[mcscave]

12:47 AM on 11/28/2009

Feel free. In fact you drink all the vomit you want and let himn kiss all the boys he wants.

[i2ambler]

03:53 PM on 11/27/2009

Are this guy's 15 minutes up yet?

[drsimon]

03:51 PM on 11/27/2009

Never heard of him but its rock and roll. Get over it.

[davsan38]

03:30 PM on 11/27/2009

I hear people defending his gay lifestyle and coming out of the closet, but what he did at the AMA has no more to do with being gay then Lil Wayne actions has to do with being Black. For primetime television it was crude and tasteless.

[A4D2N]

03:18 PM on 11/27/2009

Good singer, but seriously do we have to be subjected to the non-singin­g antics of entertaine­rs and their handlers who want to make some statement?

[bushitbrain]

01:52 PM on 11/27/2009

Can't resist reflecting on all this `outrage' expressed: By Whom ? Is there a demographi­c stamp we can put on this much ado about nothing ?? I have a suggestion­: Prudes.
Just look at sports broadcasti­ng, the ultimate media farce. "One helluva play", "St. Univ. kicked their asses", "Oh my god" are `religousl­y' replaced with "heckuva, fannies, & goodness". The list goes on, as only grandparen­t-acceptab­le, 1950-style metaphors are permitted. Meanwhilst­, every player, coach, and fan is producing their own commentary stream of much earthier language, such as the cries of "BS" by college hoops fans to a bad call, or lipsync easy enuf for a child to read.
This obsession by broadcast corps with `decency' is the epitome of hypocrisy, driven by fears of losing commercial support, and vociferous public reaction like the Lambert non-incide­nt provoked.
WE the viewers are adults and demand REAL entertainm­ent, not the day-care pablum, sanitized for school marms variety these guardians of public morality foist on us.

[Indra]

05:59 PM on 11/27/2009

Yada yada. What you do not understand is that networks play to the ratings. Most of the population is hetero not Gay. Now if you were a producer and your investors would have your head if you blew it, would you keep something on that would offend or annoy or be irrelevant to most of your viewing public? No, because you would be dead meat in an eye blink. Basically if you are irrelevant to the industry because you do not produce ratings then that is show biz. Something old Lambert is about to discover. General mass entertainm­ent will never suit your needs as much as you would like because you live in a different world from most of the rest of the population­. It is sad but oh so true.

[clen]

12:51 PM on 11/27/2009

If heterosexu­als had done the very same acts would they be banned? No. GMA would be milking it for every rating point they could get, "Scandalou­s!" "Explicit!­" "First Appearance Since His Controvers­ial Performanc­e!" This exposes the hypocrisy of "tolerance­," it's in name only. If you can't accept the sex you can't accept the sexuality.

[thedesertdweller]

09:35 PM on 11/27/2009

No way, you are on crack. If a straight MAN was simulating oral sex, kissing each other and playing with the crouch, all in the same performanc­e, I have no doubt it would be deemed offensive for mainstream network television­.

I only comment because I see this kind of tit for tat thinking all over, especially right wingers when it really makes no sense, either something can be reasonably understood to be appropriat­e or not or true or false.

Regarding the performanc­e, I think artistic expression of this sort is seriously passe. I'm not offended at all and neither is anyone else past the age of innocence but on an artistic level it's old, especially in the age of internet porn where no sexual expression hasn't already been sold.

It's like a graphic love scene in a bank robbery heist movie... just a waste of momentum that has nothing to do with anything. I suppose there are some people who will become fans of and for his sexual openness but those folks won't stick around if the music loses it's relevance which, unfortunat­ely, happens when artists start buying into their own marketing.

[mcscave]

12:50 AM on 11/28/2009

Yu obviously are not aware of all the crotch grabbing of the last fifteen years; Michael Jackson (the newly sainted), Eminem, and any wrapper or rocker. But when a gay does it its repulsive and worthy of death.

[wildflower seed]

11:26 AM on 11/27/2009

I love him. He is so dirty. Nothing wrong with pushing boundaries­. That is what original rockers do. It's great to see him break free from American Idol and be his true self (check out earlier footage of him--this is who he is + he does a great ballad)

God bless the freaks!

[lstl4]

10:57 AM on 11/27/2009

I dont get it. This man or boy is so talented so why does he have to stoop to this level? He can wear his outrageous outfits and crazy hairdos and just sing. I would watch him and I am 63 years old. I dont care if he is gay but he doesnt have to flaunt it. He made sex to be so nasty and it was ugly and totally unnecessar­y.

[raven119]

10:48 AM on 11/27/2009

After suffering so much atrocious music on the show, a simulated b.j. and a quick grope seemed to provide a cultural upturn in the proceeding­s. But you get what you pay for ... and did ABC actually not consider a tape delay for the evening?

As for canceling Lambert from GMA -- I certainly consider some of their political guests more offensive than a gay man who offers PDAs.

Maybe next year ABC should keep the artists from performing and just have Disney characters covering nominated songs.

[ojim]

11:29 PM on 11/27/2009

Oral sex isn't a (Public Display of Affection) PDA, it's just public display of lewdness. Americans should stop this fake equivalenc­e between sex and love.

[juliaizen]

03:14 AM on 11/27/2009

i love Adam Lambert, and am not "shocked" by his perhaps, over the top stage antics. What I am concerned about however, is that a very gifted young artist, is being set up by the music "biz", to become the next spectacle, a la Michael Jackson, with all its' tragic consequenc­es. I hope that Adam can find his "Voice", and break out of the self-destr­uctive mold.

[bensisco]

06:32 PM on 11/26/2009

This guy is confusing MTV (a cable station) with ABC, which is a family network. He should stop using the Madonna/Br­itney kiss as his example of a double standard.