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Speidi Says 'Thank You, Silver Fox'

Posted Friday 28 August -- 04:00 PM By: Brooke Tarnoff


We don't usually tune into CNN for commentary on celeb appearances, but we did just that earlier this week, when news correspondent Anderson Cooper unleashed a two-minute tirade tearing Heidi Montag to shreds. Montag performed her song 'Body Language,' at the Miss Universe pageant, an event Cooper called a "fresh new way to embarrass herself." Ouch. We're always looking for a chance to talk to our new besties Montag and her husband Spencer Pratt, so we called them up for their exclusive take on the verbal throwdown... and found that they were thrilled.

"Oh my God, I love it," Montag told PopEater. "I am so incredibly flattered that he's talking about the first performance I've ever done, that he's talking about me, that he knows who I am. Who gets on CNN? Britney, when she shaved her head, gets on CNN. That's all that matters: Heidi, CNN, Anderson Cooper. Done."

Not only does she not take Cooper's comments personally, she thinks the extra publicity will help her career skyrocket. And as for Cooper musing "why she is pretending to be a singer or why anyone should listen to her," it takes more than a news analyst to get Montag down. "We're in the entertainment industry. It's supposed to be fun. This is not so serious. We're not judges," she says, and adds that she could not be happier with her performance, no matter what they're saying on CNN.

"I'd never performed before, not even in front of even ten people! Praise God. I had so much fun," Montag says. "Look at everyone's first performances - look at Britney's first performance or Lady Gaga's, even. These girls were hardly even dancing. Britney did a couple little moves; it took her two years to start dancing like I did that first night. And I didn't mess up one move, I had so much fun, it was such a blessing. I was praying so hard, and I couldn't have done better. It was miraculous!"

Montag may not take Cooper's words to heart, but is Pratt as laissez-faire when a CNN anchor trash-talks his wife? He sure is. "He's got his producers, and that's what they want to cover? Go for it. I just find it funny that [CNN] is supposed to be the most serious, hard-hitting news. It's crazy that he doesn't have something else to talk about, like CIA torture or healthcare. It's bizarre when that many seconds are spent being negative about celebrities. It's silly, but hey, I would have paid him to do it." Watch the video:

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Guess who was behind that slab of wood....? She was too close to him, like glued to his right side; I thought about improving the shot by placing something pretty instead.