FCC Pressure Keeps Lambert off ABC

Singer Adam Lambert has been barred from appearing on two programs this month, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, after a racy performance at the American Music Awards.

Writing on his Twitter page Wednesday night, Lambert said that ABC had canceled his appearances, but not to blame the network. "It's the FCC heat," he wrote.

A spokesperson from the Federal Communications Commission told Advocate.com that the agency were not commenting on the matter.

At the November 22 AMAs, Lambert gave a now-infamous performance, which was broadcast on ABC at the end of the night. The network immediately canceled his appearance on Good Morning America.

Meanwhile CBS took him on as a guest for The Early Show, but blurred out images of Lambert's act, where he simulated oral sex, kissed his keyboardist, and extended a profane gesture to the audience. They did not, however, blur subsequent images of Madonna kissing Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. However, CBS said that the decision to blur him was due to possible legal action.