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Flavor Flav Says He Was Booted From Backstreet Boys Dressing Room at Rock Center Tree Lighting: ‘What Did I Ever Do to NBC?’

Flavor Flav said NBC kicked him out of Backstreet Boys' dressing room at the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony in NY on Wednesday (Dec. 4).

The legendary Public Enemy hype man was on hand for the annual holiday tradition and in a since-deleted tweet he said that he was inexplicably booted from the Backstreet Boys’ dressing room by NBC security. The network gave the PE MC lots of airtime, covering his pledge of cash and gifts to the U.S. Women’s Water Polo team and pick up rent for discus thrower Veronica Fraley, as well as chronicling his hop around from venue-to-venue cheering on the U.S. teams; Flav said afterwards that he wanted to throw his clock in the ring to be an official torchbearer at the 2028 L.A. games. Though he removed the initial post, a dejected Flav later returned to X to add, “I deleted the tweet … but my spirit is broken.” A fan replied that they were sorry that happened to him and said NBC was wrong in reportedly asking him to leave, adding that the BSB “should have spoken up” about the incident.

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