Jordin has 'no regrets'

"American Idol" winner Jordin Sparks apparently has no regrets about putting MTV Video Music Awards host Russell Brand in his place after he mocked the Jonas Brothers' pledge to remain virgins until marriage.
"It got to a point where she was so peeved she couldn't take it anymore," a Sparks pal told Pop Tarts. "Jordin felt very strongly the issue needed to be addressed and has no regrets saying what she said."
Reps for Sparks and Brand did not respond to requests for comment. But it isn't just the chastity condemnation that has caused an outcry across America - Brand's "retard cowboy fella" reference toward President Bush has deeply angered numerous disability groups.
"We don't think the words 'retard' or 'retarded' should be used in connection with people," Andrew Imparato, the president of the American Association of People with Disabilities, told Pop Tarts. "When either word gets used, we find it offensive, don't think it's funny, and find it similar to the 'n' word in that it has a long and sordid history and does real harm to the people who have carried that label historically."
But it turns out that Brand's wild ways have gotten him in deep trouble before - he was even fired from the network that has given him his fame today. Brand's first major hosting gig was as a veejay for MTV in the U.K., but he thought it would be funny to come to work dressed as Usama bin Laden after 9/11. His contract was consequently terminated.
"We then hired him back in a swirling haze of scandal," Van Toffler, the MTVN president, said in a statement earlier this year. "We're definitely gluttons for punishment, since we already know he's sought advice from some of his British colleagues, like Amy Winehouse, about how to behave in public."
Well, it looks like Brand's brand of controversy - along with Britney Spears' much-hyped "opening act" - did wonders for the VMAs, which averaged 8.4 million viewers on Sunday, its biggest total since 2004. The show was up from 7.1 million last year. The VMAs hit a record high with 11.9 million in 2002.
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