2011 MTV VMAs Officially Hostless, Tony Bennett Joins Amy Winehouse Tribute

Despite promising a wealth of live acts including some of the latest and greatest in music and entertainment, this year’s MTV Video Music Awards will not feature a host for the night’s events. Billboard originally reported in an interview with Amy Doyle, MTV executive VP for Music and Talent and executive producer of the awards show, that attempts to select a host were going “down to the wire”. The website later updated the article to feature an editor’s note claiming that MTV later decided to go with no host. This isn’t the first year that the awards ceremony has gone sans-host; both 2004 and 2007 were also hostless evenings.

In related VMA news, fifteen-time Grammy Award-winning crooner Tony Bennett has joined the cast of artists who will pay tribute to the recently deceased Amy Winehouse at this year’s awards ceremony, according to Rolling Stone. The two artists worked together to record the duet “Body and Soul” for Bennett’s Duets II album, set for release this Sept. 20.

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