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Katy Perry was just too hot for "Sesame Street," and the kid's show is canning a recent segment she taped after it left parents cold.
"Are you ready to play dress up?" Perry asks Elmo in the spot that's been making the YouTube rounds this week.
When the furry red muppet stammers, turns and races away -- possibly because he fears having to wear something similar to the pop star's cleavage-enhancing, ice skater-worthy mini dress, complete with bizarre wedding veil -- Perry launches into a version of her hit "Hot N Cold."
TMZ reports the Sesame Street Workshop received complaints from parents, including such lines as "You can practically see her (expletive)" and "they're gonna have to rename it cleavage avenue."
A rep for Sesame Street Workshop says in a statement that the show "has a long history of working with celebrities across all genres, including athletes, actors, musicians and artists. 'Sesame Street' has always been written on two levels, for the child and adult. ... In light of the feedback we've received on the Katy Perry music video which was released on YouTube only, we have decided we will not air the segment on the television broadcast of 'Sesame Street,' which is aimed at preschoolers."
But Perry's rep says the singer thought hangin' with Elmo was a blast, and fans can check it out at katyperry.com.
"Katy enjoyed working with 'Sesame Street,' Kevin Clash and playing dress up with Elmo," the rep says in a statement on TMZ.
Our take? It wasn't so much Perry's daring dress-up style as her really bad acting skills that had us pushing pause. What do you think? Was Perry's video too hot for "Sesame Street?" Leave a comment below!
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9-23-2010 @ 2:17PM
Holly Q said...Wait -- they decided against airing it based on Youtube comments?? That's pretty funny. I thought the clip was cute, her dress was cute, and the song is perfect for a Sesame Street parody. Not having a kid in the Sesame Street age range, I wouldn't have known the video existed without the "controversy"... I don't think anyone involved with the video is crying over having to announce that they won't be airing the clip on the show -- the whole world is going to watch it online now.
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9-23-2010 @ 5:08PM
Heidi said...What a stupid controversy and how petty of the complainers. I thought it was cute. I would not have had a problem with this if my kids were still young enough for SS. Kids the age of SS's target audience would not have even noticed. So a couple of uptight parents complained. Stupid. As to the dress being too revealing, If I'm not mistaken, SS would have had full control over the filming of this video and no doubt chose the costume. Maybe the producer/director of this segment should be taking the heat for the dress and not Katy Perry. And when did the street background go animated? I remember it being a real street.
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9-23-2010 @ 9:05PM
Bobbie said...Breasts are dangerous and should be kept hidden from sight - if you are perverted, or morally corrupt, like the Taliban. There are lots of disturbed parents these days who have phobias, perversions, aversions and other disorders.
Otherwise babies need to see plenty of them, and they reassure older children too. Normal people can safely look at them also. Except Janet Jackson's one very small boobie - it cost the networks millions in FCC fines and distracted people from the expensive halftime ads. The advertisers were pissed.
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9-28-2010 @ 11:02AM
BlueEyes said...Get over it parts who thought it was bad, no big deal it was cute... Plz threre are worst tings in the world to be worried about go out your time into that ....As your child gets older you will see that this is nothing..... Just wait you will find worst stuff to bitch about just wait
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10-22-2010 @ 3:22AM
oilnejs said...Wow this caused a huge scandal? Oh please there's worse things on the Disney channel. Give me an effing break.
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