Vegas Wagers on Jennifer Hudson

As Jennifer Hudson landed in Tampa for the Super Bowl, there's a boatload of money on the line over her rendition of the National Anthem at Sunday's game.

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Jennifer has sung that song before and always goes 2 minutes and 3 seconds -- from sea to shining sea. The bet: How long will she go this time?



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31. Thank fully I won't be watching her sing so I will not be able to answer this question. This dumb broad can't sing, she can scream at the top of her lungs, which all any woman can do. Myabe she'll fall through the stage and dissapear FOREVER!!!

Posted at 2:11PM on Jan 30th 2009 by infamous

32. I like JH, and will always feel for her, to lose your mother -in any way - takes something from your life that cant be replaced. Hopefully, Jen and her sister are close, and that they can lean on each other.

Now , to get to the real stuff- Whitney DID NOT SING THE SSB LIVE-IT WAS PRE-RECORED!!!!!! It is so very difficult to sing anyway but more so dealing with the elementes ( out door ) or acustics ( in door ) . Whitney's people had to fess up, but not before people had bought millions of copies.

If you bought one , sorry.

OK,Im done...........

Posted at 3:12PM on Jan 30th 2009 by Buttercup321

33. WHY DOES IT EVEN MATTER? Who really cares how long she sings it as long as she signs it well? I am very certain that she will do a good job. The person who wrote this article should be ashamed that they have no idea how our National Anthem goes! I guess any moron can work for TMZ!

Posted at 3:27PM on Jan 30th 2009 by Heather

34. And don't forget about M. Jackson, everyone's "favorite" singer; can we say skin-lightening and plastic surgery?

Posted at 10:43PM on Jan 30th 2009 by PerrierEveryday

35. Some of you are so limited. You would not even be aware that your comment was totally inaccurate let alone insensitive,
FYI, Jennifer Hudson was quite at the top of her game when the tragedy took place, She had won an Oscar as well as several other prestigous awards, Additionally, she sang at the democratic convention for the man who is now President Barack Obama. Furthermore, with four grammy nominations and a dual career going, it is unlikely that she needs pity from anyone. As far as how famous she is, to quote Myra fro the Martin show " Don't nobody know you." However, I understand some of you are just professional haters that need to get a life. Learn how accentuate the positive,

Posted at 5:47PM on Apr 14th 2009 by esther

36. I don't know which is more pathetic... the fact that the writer of this article does not know the difference between the National Anthem and America the Beautiful or some of the academically challenged readers on this site. Last time I checked, Hudson had 27 awards on her shelf for her acting and singing performance in the motion picture Dreamgirls, her 1st cd dropped September 30th at #2 on the charts, her 1st single hit #1 the week of October 14th... the girl (whose up for 3-4 Grammys) is not a sympathy pick and does not have to justify her talent to anyone of this site. Secondly, Hudson has performed the National Anthem several times... most noticably for Major League Baseball (Jackie Robinson Day at Dodger Stadium in 2007) and for Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. She sings a traditional rendition of the anthem right on the 2 minute mark (sometimes a little less sometimes a little more)... that is the reason for the wager (will she express her feelings and hold a note or two longer stretching it well past the 2 minute mark. Finally, some of you guys need to stop drinking the "HATERADE"... cause your comments are unnecessary. I commend Ms. Hudson's personal strength because if 3 members of my immediate family were executed... I don't know when or if I'd be able to go back to work (they'd might have to put me in a padded cell).

Posted at 12:37PM on Jan 31st 2009 by Anon

37. 17. I agree with Robin (#8), some of these (usually black) singers screech and moan and put their spin on the song and it makes me want to cringe. Just sing it the way it was written and stop trying to inject soul music into it.
Posted at 10:57AM on Jan 30th 2009 by PerrierEveryday

That's their way of telling you that is the way they want America to be. Get it?

Posted at 4:09PM on Jan 31st 2009 by ram1

38. Welcome Jennifer. We all must remember this woman is from the Midwest. She won't nothing stop her, not even the murder of family members, from continuing her success as an entertainer. Phamous Models loves you girl!

Posted at 6:24AM on Feb 1st 2009 by PHAMOUS MODELS - www.myspace.comphamousmodels

39. sorry guy...yall forgot? whitney killed it then BUT beyonce buried it and performed THE best of that song ever in the world....

Posted at 5:43AM on Feb 2nd 2009 by vlo

40. What a dumb bet, the fix is in when the song is a fraud.
Im disappointed Jennifer Hudson lip sync'd. I find fault in her handlers, not the artist, allthough she did participate in the hoax.
Its fraudulant, not law breaking but dupery. Im not picking on her, any artist to lip sync and pass it off as live is a fraud, when the song we hear is recorded in studio, the banner on the bottom should say "previously recorded." Why in the world would pre-game show producer Rickey Minor give such advice? "NOT recommend any artist go live because the slightest glitch would devastate the performance. Thats what the superbowl is all about, pressure and performance on the biggest stage of all." Rickey Minor should be discredited. The lip sync is fact, not opionion.
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Posted at 6:42PM on Feb 2nd 2009 by bobfromnyc

41. oh my god... how can you people not know our national anthem?? I know the sea to shining sea thing wasn't meant to suggest that it's part of our national anthem but all the idiots posting that they "looked it up" and came up with America the Beautiful... way to go public school ejumakashun!!! I mean really... it's not reading TMZ's articles that makes me lose faith in our country... it's the idiots who post comments that make me want to blow us up because 96% of our states are complete useless and filled with complete morons. God Help America. oh man... I think Im going to go build a doomsday device. (watch, now my house gets raided by the FBI... Funding Benefits Idiots meaning the American people not the FBI agents themselves... most of them are competent, useful individuals) UNLIKE THE ENTIRE MIDDLE OF OUR COUNTRY oh man... I hate the South and Midwest and just about everything except New York (City, of course) and parts of California.

Posted at 12:55PM on Feb 13th 2009 by ginny

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