Sir Elton John and his husband
David Furnish are to received a Lifetime Achievement Award for the decades of work they have done for AIDS awareness and fundraising. But that's where things get weird.
According to a report in PageSix, the tape of John and Furnish accepting the award will not be shown during the telecast, because the person who shot it is, in the words of the events company producing the show, "holding the footage hostage."
It gets stranger still. The man who shot the speech is actor
Erich Bergen, who played
Madame Secretary. He was also seen in