VMAs Behind The Scenes

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By Tamar Anitai, James Montgomery, Shaheem Reid and Jennifer Vineyard

Even with all the different stages and performances at Sunday night's VMAs, a lot of excitement happened that didn't make it into the main show! Check out some of the highlights that our eagle-eyed reporters picked up behind the scenes, as they happened ...

From the red carpet ...

7:16 p.m. ET — Heavy D walks up. No car — just calmly strolling and talking on his BlackBerry. Soon the roar of the motorcycles traveling with Young Jeezy can be heard: They're nowhere in sight, though, they just have very loud pipes.

7:18 p.m. ET — Sean Garrett just told us he's working with Beyoncé. He said it was supposed to be a secret, but now the secret is out.

7:23 p.m. ET — The Cab frontman Alex DeLeon appears super blown away by the star power of preshow co-host Taylor Swift. "We were behind her and all the photographers were like 'AAAAH!' " he laughed. "And then when we rolled up, they were like 'Eh.' " No matter, though. "Last year we just hung out in Fall Out Boy's suite. This year we get to see Kanye perform. Plus, no one knows who we are, so I can get drunk!"

7:25 p.m. ET — A dapper Donnie Klang and two bodyguards stop for a minute to enjoy the view of Lauren Conrad while she does an on-air hit with MTV News' Tim Kash. Audrina Patridge walks by, and I swear she was talking to her publicist about a hot dog stand. Seriously!

VIDEO Y NOTICIA ENTERA AQUI : http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1594284/20080908/rihanna.jhtml