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For the second straight year, the MTV Video Music Awards drew its smallest audience ever. Monday's show drew 2.25 million viewers and a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49. Across eight Viacom-owned channels, it drew 4.87 million viewers and a 2.2 in the demo; both sets of numbers fall short of the 2017 VMAs, which set the previous low. The awards also aired on a ninth Viacom network, TV Land, for which numbers weren't immediately available. It's highly unlikely, however, that enough people tuned in there to push the VMAs past their 2017 on-air total of 5.36 million viewers and 2.6...

Kanye West has apologised to Taylor Swift for ruining her 2009 Video Music Awards (VMAs) acceptance speech. The rapper wrote on Twitter: 'I'm sorry, Taylor. We're both artists, and the media and managers are trying to get between us. 'She deserves the apology more than anyone. She had no idea what hit her. She's just a lil girl with dreams like the rest of us. Taylor and her family friends and fans definitely didn't want or need that.' West went on to discuss the backlash he had faced following his behaviour at the VMAs. 'There are people who don't dislike...