ordin Sparks wears a purity ring because she doesn’t want to look like a “slut”.

The ‘American Idol’ winner, who wears the band on her left ring finger to show she won’t have sex before marriage, has spoken out against promiscuous teenagers.

She said: “I just have one thing to say about promise rings. It’s not bad to wear a promise ring, because not everybody – guy or girl – wants to be a slut.”

Jordin, 18, made the passionate speech at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles last night, after the show’s host Russell Brand ridiculed the Jonas Brothers for wearing purity rings.

The British comic, who claimed the young musicians should be using their celebrity status to date, later apologised for his comments, saying: “I didn’t meant to take it lightly. I don’t want to piss off teenage fans.”

He added cheekily: “Promise rings, I’m well up for it. But a bit of sex, it never hurt anybody.”

Earlier this year, Jordin was romantically linked to R’n'B singer-songwriter Steph Jones.

Britney Spears enjoyed a triumphant return to the scene of one of her most humiliating public appearances here, scooping three top honors at the MTV Video Music Awards.

The pop icon suffered a critical mauling at the same awards show last year, when she stumbled and mimed her way through a performance that came amid turmoil in her private and professional life.

But a beaming Spears — who appears to have got her career back on track in recent months after a seemingly endless series of lurid headlines — cut a different figure as she accepted her honors here Sunday.

Spears won prizes for best female video, best pop video and video of the year for her single “Piece of Me” which took aim at the paparazzi who follow her every day.

It was the first time Spears had won a statuette at the MTV video awards despite 16 previous nominations.

“Thank God first and foremost for just blessing me like this, thank my beautiful family, my two beautiful boys for just inspiring me every day and my fans, this is for you. Thank you so much,” Spears said after collecting her first award of the night.

Spears recently ended a custody dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline regarding the couple’s two young sons.

The Los Angeles-based singer lost custody of the children last year as her life unraveled in the full glare of a frenzied media.

She hit rock bottom in January when she was twice rushed to hospital for treatment in a psychiatric unit following fears for her mental health.

Spears shot to superstardom in late 1998 with her smash-hit debut album “Baby One More Time,” which she followed with another chart-topping success the following year, “Oops! … I Did It Again”.

Britney Spears’ VMA Performance was anything but a comeback and many people had interesting commentary about it. Here’s a list of some critics and some celebrities commenting on the failed performance.

What the Critics Said:

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? So why was Britney Spears’ totally lame, pathetically lip-synched Video Music Awards performance at the Palms Casino last night allowed to be seen by the rest of the world?

Spears was stuffed into a spangled bra and hot pants and jiggled like Jell-O as she sleepwalked through the song.
New York Post

Out-of-synch lip-synching. Lethargic movements that seemed choreographed by a dance instructor for a nursing home. The paunch in place of Spears’ once-taut belly. At times she just stopped singing, as if even she knew nothing could save her performance.
AP Cincinnati

Britney Spears’ black bikini sparkled, but her “comeback” performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last night fell as flat as her ill-fitting blond weave…Glassy-eyed and out of step, Britney seemed lost in a sea of pole dancers and overmuscled male models who groped her so much she wasn’t even mouthing the words by the time her number ended.
NY Daily News

As in most train wrecks, it was hard to focus on just one thing as the Britney Spears disaster unfolded on MTV’s Video Music Awards. There was just so much that went wrong. Out-of-synch lip-synching. Lethargic movements that seemed choreographed by a dance instructor for a nursing home. The paunch in place of Spears’ once-taut belly. At times she just stopped singing, as if even she knew nothing could save her performance.
Yahoo-AP

Sexy never looked so sad.
LA Times

What the Celebrities Said:

Kanye West
“I have no words.”

Common
“It felt like her heart wasn’t in it. It didn’t feel like she was really goin’ for it. It just felt like she was there, man,” he added. “There’s so much talk about her personal life, you wanna see her come out on top. She eventually still can. But that performance, I don’t think it was what we were lookin’ for … to light it up.”

50 Cent
“I told you outside, she was gonna be the hottest thing, and she did it, she worked it out. Yeah, she had a big production, things started coming out of the sky.” But then he changed the subject to another performer: “Chris brown was hot too, he jumped from table to table.”

Nicole Scherzinger- “It’s hard because being an artist like myself, I don’t like it when I’m not in front of the house and I can’t hear the monitors properly. … I dunno, it was cool, I was just sending her good vibes the whole time.”

An out-of-shape, out-of-touch Britney Spears has delivered what was destined to be the most talked about performance of the MTV Video Music Awards – but for all the wrong reasons.

Kicking off the show with her new single, Gimme More, Spears looked bleary and unprepared, much like her recent tabloid exploits on the streets of Los Angeles.

She walked through her dance moves with little enthusiasm. It appeared she had forgotten the entire art of lip-synching. And, perhaps most unforgivable given her once-taut frame, she looked embarrassingly out of shape.

Even the celebrity-studded audience seemed bewildered. 50 Cent looked at Spears with a confused expression; Diddy, her new best friend, was expressionless. The VMAs was hoping to reinvent itself after suffering poor reviews and a decline in ratings over the last few years.

MTV moved the show to Las Vegas’ Palms Casino, shortened the show from three hours to two, and changed the show’s set-up to focus more on performances than awards. To that end, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy and the Foo Fighters were each hosting four separate suite parties, where much of the show’s performances would be held.

Thankfully, after Spears’ dismal start and a lukewarm intro by comedian Sarah Silverman, the show rebounded. Timberlake’s suite was packed with revellers, alcohol and eight lingerie-clad stripper types on raised platforms.

Before he accepted the Quadruple Threat of the Year award at his suite, the DJ summoned the partygoers to watch the monitor and go crazy if Timberlake won.

He did, they did, and Timberlake said: “I want to challenge MTV to play more videos!” Then he was whisked away by bodyguards and disappeared. He later won male artist of the year, and hit home on that point: “We don’t want to see the Simpsons on reality television” – apparently he is not a fan of either Jessica or Ashlee’s MTV shows.

Meanwhile, Rihanna won Monster Single of the Year for her ubiquitous hit Umbrella, and Beyonce and Shakira won Most Earthshattering Collaboration for Beautiful Liar. Beyonce’s shimmering gold dress barely contained her top; immediately after she picked up her trophy, she asked an assistant backstage to help fix her dress, apparently to prevent a wardrobe malfunction.

Other performers were appearing on the show’s main stage, in front of an industry-only audience seated at tables, like at the Golden Globes. Chris Brown gave one of the evening’s most extravagant performances – a dance-centric, eye-popping spectacle that channelled Michael Jackson, right down to a brief Billie Jean imitation. Later he was joined by Rihanna, who performed her monster single.

Watch more Pics of her show at the VMA here