Hours after ABC pulled the plug on Adam Lambert’s Good Morning America performance, Ryan Seacrest exclusively spoke to the Idol runner up who shocked audiences Sunday night at the AMAs with a sexually charged performance.

Check out the following quotes from the revealing interview:

On his racy AMA performance:

“It’s choreography, we were dancing. The sexuality of it kind of got a little more extreme when I got up on stage. I think the adrenaline kind of took me over, and I admit it, and i’m proud of the fact that I did get a little carried away.”

“I don’t feel I owe anyone an apology for anything. I performed, it was late night TV, I did something that female performers have been doing for years, no different. It’s just the fact that I’m me and it’s a little different for people. It’s really not that big of a deal.”

“I’m not a babysitter, I’m a performer.”

On the appearance of a double standard:

“I do think there’s a slight double standard. We’ve seen female pop performers doing extremely sexual routines for years and all of the sudden a guy does it and it’s crazy.”

On ABC’s decision to cancel his GMA performance:

“Obviously I respect their decision, they gotta do what they gotta do. It’s too bad, I think there were a lot of fans who were excited to come see me.”

“They probably had a lot of pressure coming at them from certain people who weren’t happy about it. I respect their decision – I don’t necessarily agree with it, but they need to do what they need to do.”

Listen to the audio here

Nicole Richie took to her website today to thank her fans for supporting her, while she’s at home recuperating from pneumonia!

I’d like to thank you all for the kind words and well wishes over the past few weeks. I wish I could have been there for the Bebe-House of Harlow 1960 evening. I was truly looking forward to meeting everyone there and sharing that moment and capsule collection with you. I am also disappointed I wasn’t able to attend the Holt-Renfrew Calgary opening. I heard the store looks beautiful and Holt has been such an amazing partner over the past year. I will definitely be back in the Spring when Winter Kate launches.

Right now it’s important for me to stay in bed and recover. Reading all of your messages on Twitter and my website has really brightened my spirits and I am so grateful for the support. I look forward to seeing you all very soon and wish you a happy Thanksgiving.

Peace & Love,
Nicole

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I want him to age 10 years so I won’t feel so weird for thinking he’s hot. He was pretty stinkin hot in New Moon (after he lost the terrible wig).

I posted a bazillion of pictures from this photoshoot – which are equally hot. Check them out here.

Did you see New Moon? What did you think?  I saw it, and I liked it. Wouldn’t say I loved it – but I liked it, I suppose. New Moon was the book I liked the least, so maybe that just translated into how I felt about the movie. I think I actually liked it more than Twilight. I didn’t like director Catherine Hardwicke. I thought Chris Weitz did a better job directing. I’m looking forward to Eclipse (which comes out in June!)- because it was my favorite of the books, and hopefully the movie will be better than the last two!

Barack Obama does not have Angelina Jolie’s seal of approval.

“She hates him,” a source close to the U.N. goodwill ambassador, 34, tells the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands now).

“She’s into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise,” adds the source. Ouch!

But don’t expect to see the Salt actress rally against Democrats on Fox News like her staunch Republican father, Jon Voight.

“Angie isn’t Republican, but she thinks Obama is all smoke and mirrors,” the source says.

And those political views are putting her at odds with Brad Pitt, 45, who is a big fan of the president and even went solo to the 2008 election party in Chicago.

“They get in nasty arguments all the time about it,” says the source. “She doesn’t respect Brad when it comes to politics, but, in the end, this won’t tear them apart.”

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Lady Gaga, poses with children and signs autographs for her new CD “The Fame Monster” at a Best Buy store in West Los Angeles.

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