Organisers of last night's (10DEC03) Billboard Music Awards are fuming after Pink and Lionel Richie's daughter NICOLE turned the airwaves blue.

Worried parents jammed phone lines when censors, trying to keep the live TV coverage clean while it was beamed to America's east coast, failed to bleep out foul-mouthed socialite-turned-reality TV star Richie.

They then had to act quickly to prevent the viewing public from seeing Pink and a dancer simulating oral sex during her performance on the show.

One event spokesman says, "Didn't these girls realise this was a live show? I don't know what they were thinking. Kids watch the Billboard Awards."

11/12/2003 09:06