Helena Paparizou and Sakis Rouvas were voted as Artist of the year and Best male artist respectively by the Greek fans in the 2008 Mad Video Music Awards. Ukrainian Eurovision 2008 runner up, Ani Lorak was also present to present one of the awards and ..talk about Sakis.
With 120.000 votes, Helena Paparizou, winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest for Greece, was the public's choice for the VMA Artist of the year award. "This category excites and scares me as there are many great artists. I promise I will work hard to become a better person and artist. Thank you very much!" Helena said.
Betty and Mathilde Maggira, the Greek commentators in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest were the ones to present Sakis Rouvas with his award of Best male artist of the year. Both ladies, dressed as brides, called Sakis on stage who accepted the Award saying appropriately "I do!". Sakis Rouvas, who will soon become a father for the first time, stated that he feels the particular awars is very important as it does not reflect the success of a video clip for example, but his overall work during the year: "I feel you support and love me", Sakis told the audience.
Ani Lorak also had something to say about Sakis. The Ukrainian shady Lady was present at the VMA's to Bulgaria's Best Video clip. She performed the chorus of her Eurovision entry and when asked whether she liked Greek men and Sakis Rouvas she said "Oh yes! They are very passionate!" As for Sakis, Ani said that he is a great star and she has no words to describe him.
Helena Paparizou also won the award for Best Pop video clip for her video of the song To fili tis zois. Helena thanked her fans telling them that " If it weren't for you, I would not have accomplished any of the things I have done!" and she went on to thank her team with a special mention to Fokas Evangelinos, known to Eurofans for choreographing Greece's entries in 2004 and 2005and Ukraine 2008 to name a few as well as being the artistic director of Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens.
Michalis Chatzigiannis (Cyprus 1998) won the Best duet award for his collaboration with Despoina Olymbiou.
The show will be broadcast on Alpha TV on Monday 23rd June at 21.00 and on Mad TV on 29th June. You can read more here. (In Greek)
