Now What Happens to the VJ's? TRL Cancelled

With videos long banished, the real story behind the cancellation of the once mighty TRL (MTV '98-08) is the collateral damage: The elimination of VJ's.

An MTV talent insider gave credence to our theory, telling TheCHIMP.net " What does it mean for VJ's-to-be now that the mothership of VJdom has taken off?" Let's hypothesize for a second: nothing good.

Ex MTV VJ Susie Castillo (Methuen H.S. - MA '97, Miss USA '03, pictured above) told TheCHIMP.net exclusively " MTV still needs hosts for specials like the Real World reunions, The Challenge reunions, New Years Eve, etc.".

Ouch. 3 hours of screen time a year isnt going to land the next generation of talking heads a book deal!

While the intensity of pent-up nostalgia for 90s MTV surprises, the post-channel accomplishments of its alumni VJ's traditionally go un-noted. " One of MTV's strengths has always been to know when to let go," says the source.

Castillo adds, "It will be sad to hear Damien (Fahey), (Longmeadow H.S. '95, Northeastern '03) say "thanks for watching, thanks for caring" for the last time. RIP TRL."

It's MTV Week in L.A.

That means a lot of intense award speculation and nervous nominees partying. 

TheCHIMP.net will provide "spirited" coverage of everything we can sneak in to.

Check the twitter feed often, for sloppy text message updates "on the fly".

Random Thought: Having witnessed the famous kiss from 50ft away inside Radio City Music Hall in 2003, how come nobody remembers Christina Aguilera? Not only was she on stage with them (as was Missy Elliot ??), Christina got Britney's sloppy seconds. The Brit kiss was 1.5 seconds earlier.  I wonder what we'll forget this year...besides everything.