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MTV Video Music Awards to be held in physical venue on August 30

Missy Elliott poses backstage with her Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award during the 2019 MTV VMA. Photo: Reuters.

The MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) show will take place in New York at the end of August, MTV and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Monday, marking the first major awards show since the coronavirus pandemic that will occur in a physical venue.

MTV and Cuomo said the Aug. 30 VMA show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn would follow safety guidelines and would have “limited capacity or no audience.”

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