Nickelodeon’s 27th annual Kids’ Choice Awards, held on Saturday in Los Angeles, opened with a colourful Todrick Hall-choreographed performance and closed with Mark Wahlberg getting slimed. Along the way One Direction won two awards, the producer Dan Schneider won the show’s first Lifetime Achievement Award and Robert Downey Jr got real after winning Best Male Buttkicker. “This is the highest honour yet bestowed on me – I’m grateful, humble, the whole deal,” the Iron Man star said. “You know, I wasn’t always a butt kicker. In fact, life has kicked my proverbial butt countless times in many ways for many years, until I decided one day to start kicking back. Now look at me!”
One Direction won Favourite Music Group and Favourite Song for Story of My Life, Jennifer Lawrence won Favourite Movie Actress and Female Buttkicker, Selena Gomez was named Favourite Female Singer, Adam Sandler was named Favourite Male Actor and Kevin Hart took Favourite Funny Star at the fan-voted awards.
The awards show isn’t much more than an excuse to slime some of today’s top stars. The first-time host Wahlberg executed several slimings as he successfully escaped the green goo for the show’s first 80 minutes. One of his first victims was the singer Pharrell Williams, who chose fortuitously to wear a pair of bright yellow SpongeBob SquarePants pyjamas instead of his now-trademark hat.
It was Hart who eventually tricked Wahlberg into the goo, with some assistance from the actor’s three young children. “I can’t believe my own kids turned on me,” Wahlberg shouted.
