Joan Rivers Reams Christina Aguilera Over Star-Mangled Banner

By Rob Shuter Posted Feb 7th 2011 10:35PM

EXCLUSIVE: Christina Aguilera has pipes of steel, but her memory failed her on Super Bowl Sunday when she flubbed the ramparts out of the Star-Spangled Banner. With great gaffes come great amounts of criticism, and although the singer has tried to explain herself ("I lost my place"), she couldn't escape the wrath of Joan Rivers.

"How stupid can you get?" Joan asked when I talked to her on Monday. "Christina must have been thinking about food, that's why she forgot the words."

Before the big game, Christina belted out "What so proudly we watched at the twilight's last reaming" instead of "O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming." It was the second time she sang the "What so proudly" line, but before she used the word "gleaming" instead of "reaming."

The 'Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?' star continued using Christina's oft-fluctuating weight to rough up Christina, and offered a line she thought she could have used, "O say can you see ... french fries." Joan snarked that there was an upside to Christina's fluctuating weight. "She's gotten so big," -- here's where you say how big is she? -- "She looks like she could eat Lady Gaga. Great way to get rid of competition."

After 'The Star-Spangled Banner' wrapped, Aguilera headed backstage where a source told me that the singer was "devastated" by her mistake.

Aguilera addressed her performance in a statement to the press. "I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my place. I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through."

Joan made her own appearance during the Super Bowl as well. She's the new Go Daddy girl and starred in their big ad this year. Jillian Michaels and Danica Patrick spend the :30 ad introducing their newest model, but you don't catch a glimse of her face until the last second.

"They were looking for someone stupid to be their new spokesperson," she tells me. "I'm now Joan.co. It couldn't be any easier."

She added, "Those 2 Go Daddy girls are haters. Jillian kept looking at my body, and I said, 'Oh please, Jillian.'"

Though she's joked on Twitter that it was actually her 77-year-old body in the ad, the buxom figure reportedly belongs to model Tabitha Taylor, who starred in a popular Go Daddy ad for the 2009 Super Bowl.

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Tags: Christina Aguilera, joan rivers, super bowl

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Tuesday 08 February

By jadeland

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I disagree...you know what a loser is?? Someone who doesn't know how to spell LOSER!!!!

By BD

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She made a mistake - get over it - haven't you ever made one? And it wasn't nearly as terrible as the half time show - Which ranks up there as one of the worst ever!

Monday 07 February

By Tiana

Joan Rivers needs to sit down and hush.

By Margie

Seriously, it was an honest mistake, made by others before her! Not an act of treason for God's sake!!! Joan Rivers? Such a joke she is herself...at one time she was funny, now she is just mean and hateful. Her face is getting REALLY scary. Go get something lifted!!!

By ron

is that really joan rivers body

Thursday 10 February

By Rost

What a dog! Joan Dog Rivers

By Hooper

No Ron. That's not her body or her face.

No that definitely is NOT JR's body. That picture screams touch-up!! She's got some nerve talking about Christina's weight when she feels so bad about her own looks she has her face sliced up and stretched so tight she looks like someone squeezed her head. ROFL!!

By sullivan

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Xtina is a bloated drunk with Rickets! A flop with everything she does with her 20 tons of pasty clown makeup and her screwed up head strolling around with that so-called boyfriend who is nothing but her beard. Jordan has already spilled the beans about this Lesbo drunk!

By Raejean

Aguilera's the one who needs a "reaming"!!!

By Jay

It wasn't her forgetting the words that was so bad...........It was her incredibly horrible rendition of the song........really poor, off key, super bad phrasing.........wow

I'm with Jay. Something that really peeves me is when someone sings the National Anthem and trys to "make it their own". This song belongs to every American, and all the flourishes and rifts just means no one else can sing along, if they want to. Just sing the song.

By themeeker

How about if we talk about the BEST national anthem performances like when Whitney Houston did the anthem in 1991. That was a truly great moment.

Never mind this other crap.

By Susola

Joan Rivers is the last person to criticize someone for saying the wrong thing. Her huge feet are perpetually in her big mouth!

By Digi

Well maybe if she was more focus'd on signing the song instead of trying to be Ms 'YELL OUT THE WORDS' she might have used one of those remaining 4 brain cells to remember them

singing*

By turbogtrmstr

This loud mouth over-rated plastic surgery queen needs a good as...whipping. She sits on TV picking on others's when her faults are many. Her and that clone daughter of hers. ICK! I'd like to see you sing it you, bleep, bleep, bleep.

By steve b

I agree with you until you said lets see you do it. My eyes and ears could not deal with that.

lol I like watching the slow painful death of someones crappy career..maybe now she can get into the business of lipstick removal

By sway

anyone stupid enough to believe this will end Christina's career is just blowing smoke out their arse

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