Leave it to comedian Kevin Hart to start off the MTV Video Music Awards with a controversial bang. As the host of the awards show, Hart was led into the Staples Center by a team of midgets. They were apparently his Secret Service detail, as the announcer introduced him as the “future president of the [...]
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