Janet Jackson will not appear at Grammys!

LOS ANGELES (Janet Jackson Fans Website) - Embattled US pop singer Janet Jackson said Thursday she will not attend Sunday's Grammy music awards ceremony as the controversy continues over her breast-baring incident during the halftime performance at the football's Super Bowl.
"I can confirm she is not attending. I won't give any more details," Jackson publicist Steven Huvane said Thursday.

The celebrity gossip TV show Extra said Jackson had been chosen as a presenter for a Grammy award to soul and rhythm and blues king Luther Vandross, who is recuperating from a stroke last April.
Instead, rhythm and blues star Patti LaBelle would stand in for Jackson to present the award to Vandross in absentia.

The Grammy awards are to be broadcast by CBS Television, the same network that ran last Sunday's Super Bowl. During the halftime performance, Jackson's singer partner Justin Timberlake tore off Jackson's bodice to reveal the singer's right breast, setting off a controversy.
Both Jackson and Timberlake had apologized for the incident for offending some viewers. "I was completely embarrassed. I don't feel like I need publicity like that and I wouldn't want to be involved in a stunt, especially not a stunt of this magnitude," Timberlake said Wednesday in a TV interview.

Timberlake, nominated for five Grammys, has not changed his plan to appear Sunday, although he may not sing as planned, according to media reports.

Learning a lesson from the breast-baring incident, the live broadcast of the Grammy awards has been tape-delayed for five minutes in order to have time to delete indecent audio and video scenes.