Monday, 14 September 2009

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Madonna and Janet Jackson led tributes to Michael Jackson at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards.

The Material Girl opened the show at New York’s Radio City Music Hall with a touching speech.

Michael’s sister Janet, 42, later took to the stage with a group of dancers to recreate the routine to their 1995 duet Scream.

Madonna, 51, admitted it was an honour to have opened the show.

‘[It was] extremely important because I didn't really have my chance to pay my last respects to him or speak of him in the way that I wanted to,’ she told MTV.

‘[It] took me all week to write [the speech], and I just wrote it from my heart.’

The MTV Video Music Awards air on MTV1 tonight at 9pm.

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