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How Will Madonna, Taylor Swift Divide Up MTV Video Music Awards Tonight? The Show is Theirs Because They Are Present (The Fix Is In)

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Let’s cut to the chase.

Tonight, it’s the MTV Video Music Awards at 7:30pm on CBS, MTV, and associated networks.

Madonna is opening the show.

Taylor Swift is getting a lifetime award for most awards there ever.

Madonna also has 13 nominations. Swift has 11.

Also, Taylor is debuting her new video, starring Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson.

The only question is, How will these ladies divide up the spoils?

You have two superstars present, and they have the lions’ share of nominations.

The only award they’re not eligible for is Best New Artist.

Otherwise, it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing any of the other nominees hanging around, waiting to lose.

As usual with these shows, except for the Grammys, the fix is in.

The other stars hitting the red carpet aren’t nominees, but various participants in tributes — for Nirvana, Dolly Parton, etc.

Still, it will be fun, to some extent.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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