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 kerryp48

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she's supposed to be a performer,a stadium full of people shouldn't be intimidating to her. she was hired to do a job ,she should have done it . the anthem doesn't need to be stylized.

By dntknowy

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That is not fat between Joan Rivers ears, it is nothing but air....or her daughter trying to get famous off of mommy's insults. Both of them are disgusting creatures and I am not even sure if they are human. I used to like Go Daddy, never will I visit their site again, how disgusting can you make it, oh yeah, put Joan on it???? A has been and a total loser who can't tell a joke so she rips people apart for nothing and hopes to get noticed. HELL has a special place for people like her and her daughter.....they probably already have a room with their names on the door.

Monday 07 February

By tjlewis132

Maybe sitting on that jumbo boom box distorted the words while she was trying to sing... Oh, sorry, that was her a--!

By Ellie

Joan Rivers needs to the SHUT THE HELL UP with her demented plastic surgery face!!! The woman looks a HOT MESS!! NO amount of surgery has helped with her crow-bird face. Ugh....... and to think folks think this idiot is funny or an authority on anything! Joan Rivers is nothing but OLD and DESPERATE and it shows!!!

By Linda

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Ok so Christina forgot some words...the part she did sing was amazing. She has an amazing voice, better then Brittney, better then J Lo, better then Whitney. Oh and better then the woman from Glee that sang too. Joan Rivers has let all that plastic surgery go to her head. Get yourself a shrink Joan!!!

By Stuart

What do you expect from a dumb talentless spick ? She is a Cindy Lauper look alike and sings like a ghetto koon.

By The Truth

Hey Stu....no need for the racial slurs.

By Nadal

Xtina is no SP!C so don't confuse her with that SP!C JLO> Xtina's father was a Spaniard and her mother is white so Xtina is white. JLO is the SP!C ghetto COON who can't sing.

By Flo

Stuart you are a disgusting racist.

By blt43

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Stuart, yes she was awful but you do not have to call her a ghetto koon. One more thing, what is a ghetto koon? You seem like you would know the answer, hhhmmm!

By Mike

The Peas are a disgrace. This is the second time I've seen them live on TV and they're terrible.

By Eddie

I agree with what Joan said, but isn't it time she let herself out to pasture? I wonder if she's pays networks to let her on the air.

By Sue

C A was horrible .....next...let's move on

By CHRIS

oh Joan, you are such a summer's eve disposable....talentless dogs like you and summer's jr are always the first to criticize...enough with the crap already....i can't believe its still being discussed....

By Debbie

Is that Joan Rivers? I thought that was "MADAME" the puppet Waylon Flowers had .......

By Sarah Walker

Joan Rivers has the audacity to rip Christina for her weight? Joan Rivers is so incredibly ugly and ALL fake she needs to get a grip on herself before she points fingers at someone else. At least Christina has always been pretty, she can lose weight but Joan you cannot get rid of ugly even with dozens of surgeries!

By Thr Plain Truth

It was an honest mistake. Joan Rivers needs to get over herself. I guess she thinks this is good publicity for her gawd-awful reality show.

By suegus1

After listening to Christina's rendition, I can say that a rectal examine is less painful.

By omnes omnibus

Everyone makes mistakes ; I'm not a fan of Ms. A , but ,c'mon, knock it off people .

By Diane

They need to stop making this Epic song their own and sing it the right way!!!!!!!

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