Janet Jackson may skip Grammys
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Singer Janet Jackson is not likely to appear at the Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday, her publicist said Wednesday.
"We don't think she's going to go," publicist Steven Huvane told CNN.
Jackson, whose right breast was bared to a national television audience during Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show, was scheduled to introduce a tribute to singer Luther Vandross. Since Vandross is too ill to attend the ceremony, Jackson may not appear.
Jackson's name was not on a list of presenters released Wednesday by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.
A day earlier, CBS announced it will broadcast the Grammys using an "enhanced" tape delay system, an apparent effort to avoid a repeat of the breast-baring incident.
For the first time in the 46-year history of the Grammys, the network will be able to delete inappropriate video as well as audio, CBS said in a written statement Tuesday.
Celebrities have been known to misbehave on awards shows, including U2's Bono using a four-letter vulgarity during NBC's live broadcast of the 2003 Golden Globes. In 1998, a non-celebrity caused problems at the Grammys when he rushed the stage during Bob Dylan's performance.
In previous years, the show aired with a five-second tape delay, enabling network censors to delete offensive language but leaving them helpless against surprise images such as nudity or hand gestures.
"The precise length of the new delay has yet to be determined," said the statement, which makes no mention of Jackson or the Super Bowl.
At the end of the Super Bowl halftime show, Jackson's right breast was exposed when Justin Timberlake ripped off a portion of her outfit as they finished singing "Rock Your Body."
Politicians and throngs of CBS viewers voiced their outrage. Timberlake called it a "wardrobe malfunction." Jackson spokesman Stephen Huvane said Timberlake was supposed to pull away Jackson's bustier while leaving her red-lace bra intact.
Jackson herself said neither CBS nor MTV, which produced the halftime show, were aware of the stunt beforehand.
"The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals. MTV was completely unaware of it," Jackson said in a written statement.
"It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL."
Despite those apologies and others from CBS and MTV, the Federal Communications Commission launched an investigation Monday and FCC Chairman Michael Powell said he did not believe the breast exposure was an accident.
Powell said MTV and the CBS network's 16 owned-and-operated stations and more than 200 affiliated stations could "conceivably" be fined $27,000 apiece.
This year's Grammy Awards ceremony will be broadcast at 8 p.m. ET Sunday.
Timberlake, 50 Cent, Christina Aguilera, Outkast and Celine Dion are among those set to perform.
Timberlake is nominated in five Grammy categories, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year.