'The replacement footage sounded nothing like the live performance.'

         AND, INDEED, when she started singing, some listeners cringed at her
sometimes weak, sometimes cracking voice. But reporters in the pressroom backstage
weren't allowed to hear the singing because all the monitors suddenly went mute.
       What's more, the "feeds" that provided recorded sound of the rest of the show
for the broadcast suddenly went dead a few seconds into the song. "MTV handlers
kept apologizing to the crowd for so-called technical difficulties, but the sound was
fixed again shortly after Kelly's performance," says a source. "Reporters were promised
that replacement footage of her singing would be sent to them. But the replacement
footage sounded nothing like the live performance. It was either dubbed or remixed."

          "It was mixed," an MTV spokesman confirmed. "It was mixed in the studio.
What you heard was her voice. We just mixed it in-studio before it aired."
        "MTV made an awfully big deal out of how Kelly Osbourne was singing live,"
says the insider. "She has a CD coming out this week and the Osbournes obviously
wanted to promote it. It's totally misleading, but MTV has a lot of money invested
with the Osbournes and obviously wants to keep them happy."