# OMG rickroll!!!11!1  Rick Astley nominated for MTV video award

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**Created:** [October 2, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-rickroll-11-1-rick-astley-nominated-for-mtv-video-award/466232 "2008-10-02T20:58:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-rickroll-11-1-rick-astley-nominated-for-mtv-video-award/466232/1 "2008-10-02T20:58:25Z")

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Rick Astley, the 80’s pop singer whose biggest hit was “Never Gonna Give You Up,” has been nominated for “Best Act Ever” at the MTV Europe Video Music Awards. The voting is open to fans on the internet, and the nomination is likely the result of the recent [Rickroll](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickroll) internet fad. Other stars nominated are U2, Madonna, and Christina Aguilera, but the 42 year old Astley is the surprise front-runner.

When interviewed by the BBC, Astley remarked, “To be honest, I think someone’s having a wind-up. But whatever. It’s a bit of fun. I don’t think I’ll be buying a ticket to Liverpool.”

The awards ceremony will be held November 6 in Liverpool.

> **[Rick Astley Lands MTV Award Nod (20 Years Later)](https://www.wired.com/2008/10/rick-astley-lan/)**
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> U2, Madonna and Christina Aguilera normally wouldn’t have to nervously look over their shoulders for Rick Astley at the MTV Europe Music Awards, taking place in Liverpool and scheduled to air this November. But that was before Rickrolling, the...

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**Author:** ![Mbossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Mbossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mbossa)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2008, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-rickroll-11-1-rick-astley-nominated-for-mtv-video-award/466232/2 "2008-11-07T09:36:30Z")

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[And he wins!!!](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/3395589/Rickrolling-Rick-Astley-named-Best-Act-Ever-at-the-MTV-Europe-Music-Awards.html) The ultimate rickroll.

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> “We’ve been well and truly Rickrolled,” Richard Godfrey, a senior vice-president at MTV and executive producer of the awards said. “We wanted to see who our audience would nominate and, given that we’re in Liverpool, we thought it would be someone like the Beatles. But before the nominations were even announced he shot into the lead.”