Carrie Underwood scores in video awards
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A revenge-themed song by "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood scored a double video win on Monday in the 2007 Country Music Television Awards.
Her song "Before He Cheats" won the top "CMT Music Awards Video of the Year" and the "Female Video of the Year" while the video also snagged a win for the "Video Director of the Year" for director Roman White.
Last year she took home the first Female Vocalist of the Year award and the coveted Horizon award at the Country Music Association show.
A highlight of Monday's show came when
Kris Kristofferson who said to backstage reporters: "He stood up for me when a lot of people didn't."
Kristofferson said that he was taking Rosanne Cash, who lives in New York, to the site of her father's former home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, which was destroyed by fire last week, because she has not yet seen the ruins.
Other winners at the show were:
Breakthrough Video: Taylor Swift "Tim McGraw"
Duo Video of the Year: Sugarland "Want To"
Wide Open Country Video:
Jack Ingram "Love You"
Male Video of the Year:
Kenny Chesney "You Save Me"
Awards Group Video: Rascal Flatts "What Hurts the Most"
good for her!!! go girl!!