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7 year oldBy Peter Helman
Last night, as Billboard, E! News, US Weekly, and every other entertainment publication in existence reports, Zayn Malik won Best Music Video for “Pillowtalk” at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Zayn was in France for Paris Fashion Week last night, but after iHeartRadio announced his victory, he posted a brief acceptance speech featuring his “Pillowtalk” costar Gigi Hadid on social media. iHeartRadio then broadcast his speech on their official Snapchat.
The only problem? Zayn didn’t actually win. Best Video is one of the categories determined by fan vote, and evidently, iHeartRadio took another look at the vote counts today and decided that whoopsie, Fifth Harmony and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Work From Home” video won.thank you ???????? #iHeartAwards pic.twitter.com/gxaJXQ2jVG
— zayn (@zaynmalik) March 5, 2017
Congrats #Harmonizers. You helped @fifthharmony win #BestFanArmy, #BestCover and #BestMusicVideo at our #iHeartAwards! pic.twitter.com/dNYXQxU2UX
— iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) March 6, 2017
So far so Oscars, right? But instead of just admitting that they made a mistake and issuing an apology, iHeartRadio proceeded to scrub any mention of Zayn’s Best Video win from all of their pages and make up a totally new category, “Best Solo Breakout,” to justify his acceptance video.The face you make when you find out you won #BestMusicVideo at #iHeartAwards ❤ Thank you all!! @tydollasign #BestCover #BestFanArmy pic.twitter.com/Xkknxp2f4V
— Fifth Harmony (@FifthHarmony) March 7, 2017
Congrats @zaynmalik on winning #BestSoloBreakout artist at our #iHeartAwards. We love the speech! https://t.co/dAKOhCBVQS
— iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) March 6, 2017
apparently i was nominated for an i heart radio award last night and no one knew including me! still cool i guess? haha pic.twitter.com/cjiO5AszZR
— olivia o'brien (@oliviagobrien) March 6, 2017
i know there's some controversy over the award bc no one knew it was a thing but it's still cool to see my name there! lol
— olivia o'brien (@oliviagobrien) March 6, 2017
I’m sure Zayn is very happy with his made up award, and I guess the iHeartRadio Music Awards did get their Oscars-style snafu after all. Good for them! Everyone wins! Except Zayn fans, who are pretty incensed about the whole thing and trying to get #iHeartWasRigged to start trending on Twitter.
We’ve reached out to iHeartRadio for comment.
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