I was watching the Celebrity Expose on Britney Spears Monday evening (MNTV -- My Network TV -- show), and about halfway in they were showing her panned VMA performance.

Then they said that celebs in the audience had generally been kind about her performance. After showing a couple of people making those comments, they ran an unattributed celeb comment behind some more footage, and I could swear that the speaker was Elliott, from that TMZ?? interview outside the restaurant, most likely.

The voice said -- "She did good for what she was working with" -- and it sure sounded like Elliott's voice to me.

Anybody else hear that?...Or is no one else silly enough to want to see what the entertainment shows are saying about B Spears? ... Or am I just having Elliott hallucinations?

They did interview Elliott outside a restaurant after the VMA's. It was posted here somewhere. TMZ was trying to make fun of the fact that Elliott said she did okay or something like that.

I wish I could remember exactly what he said in that interview. Maybe it's in some archive over there; guess I'll go check. The voiceover on the show the other night sounded uncannily like him, both the voice and the manner of speaking, to me.

According to the show I watched the other night, *most* celebs in the audience said stuff very similar to what Elliott said, and those they showed on-camera interviews with all did. None of them wanted to bash her.

I wonder whether they spliced in the Elliott quote because they didn't have access to much tape that showed that point so used pretty much everything they did have access too -- just not showing E because they figured he wasn't established enough to matter in that way or because his would have obviously been a sort of ambush interview while the ones they showed were not.

The TMZ video is here:

http://www.tmz.com/2007/09/12/idol-loser-sticks-up-for-brit/

Thanks. Well, the quote wasn't in that interview. ... It sure as heck sounds like him on the broadcast, though -- to me, anyway!