SHORT TAKES : Milli Vanilli Now ‘Phony Baloney’
RADNOR, Pa. — Pop poseurs Milli Vanilli shared TV Guide’s “phony baloney” award and were joined by Roseanne Barr and Kathie Lee Gifford as recipients of the magazine’s annual ZAP awards.
TV Guide’s Jan. 5 edition gives 1990 Zap awards to the year’s most memorable TV botches and blunders.
Milli Vanilli, the duo of Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus, admitted that they never sang on their hit album and were stripped of their best new artist Grammy award.
They shared the “phony baloney” award with an impostor who persuaded ABC’s “20/20” that he was the actor who portrayed Buckwheat in the “Our Gang” films. The real actor died in 1980.
Gifford got a ZAP, named for the action of changing TV stations by remote control, for telephoning her syndicated show, “Regis and Kathie Lee,” from her hospital bed March 22 to report that she’d given birth.
Barr got zapped for her screeching rendition of the national anthem at a baseball game.
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