As we all thought, the MTV Bruno/Eminem stunt has been confirmed as a set-up. But what we didn’t know is that grouchy Marshall was not MTV’s first choice for the Bruno-balling, it was Paris Hilton. She politely  declined but MTV says that Eminem was being a good sport about it until the prank went too far.

At Sunday’s MTV Movie awards in LA, viewers were shocked when Sacha Baron Cohen landed nearly butt-naked on rapper Eminem’s face. A shocked Eminem then cursed and stormed out of the theater. But an MTV insider has told Life & Style that producer Mark Burnett cleared the prank with the rapper beforehand. However, Eminem wasn’t aware of exactly how naked Sacha would be when he agreed to do it! A second insider also confirms that Eminem was actually Burnett’s second choice. The first? Heiress Paris Hilton, who, luckily for her, declined to participate (probably because she was on a date with boyfriend Doug Reinhardt!). “Paris is quite happy she turned down the offer,” the insider tells Life & Style.

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