Not that you’d have known it from watching the telecast, but Mary Mary walked away with the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Gospel Artist (Traditional or Contemporary) at last night’s 40th annual awards show.  Also nominated were Hezekiah Walker, Marvin Sapp, Regina Belle, Take 6.

Really??? Okay.  I’m a bit surprised cuz I thought everyone was loving Marvin Sapp right now.  Well, kudos ladies and rock on!

On a side note, I’ma need the producers of the show to get it together.  All you needed was ONE uber-excited intern to be responsible for updating a Twitter feed, which could have been placed on your website, giving us real-time results and info on the winners.  I had to scour the web just to confirm who won the gospel category!  Aaarrrrggggh…

Shout-out to The Envelope at the LA Times for their full list– click here to see it.