Megyn Kelly ripped into Madonna’s appearance at the 2026 Video Music Awards, calling the music icon “needy.”

The “Confessions II” singer came out on top Sunday night at the awards show with seven trophies, including Artist of the Year and Best Collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter for their song “Bring Your Love.”

Madonna’s opening performance during the show featured dancers that had a laser seemingly coming out of their crotch area. Kelly railed into the singer, saying that it was unnecessarily vulgar.

“It’s really more of a butt exercise they’re simulating if I’m being honest because I don’t think most people have sex like that,” she said, commenting on the video in real time on Monday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “I don’t know if this is simulated blow jobs or what.”

Kelly also said that the singer started “bombing” while accepting an award later in the night. Madonna pretended to pull the laser out of her butt and drop it.

“Again, the picture of class. Um, sad, but that’s what she thinks is entertaining,” she said.

During another part of the show, Madonna asked the production team to raise the mic, so she wasn’t having to bow down to it, joking that she has “been bowing down to people for too long.”

“What the what? Who? You’re Madonna,” Kelly asserted. “Who have you bowed down to? Give me a break. Stop trying to act like you’re a victim.”

“Could you please try to find a more empowering narrative for age 68, please? I’m begging you,” she added. “She stinks of desperation.”

Later the former Fox News host made fun of Madonna for not even trying to lip sync during her performance, saying that she frauded the audience. She also pointed out what seemed to be padding in her bloomers.

Kelly said that Madonna used to be in good shape, but now at 68, she lost some muscle definition that she once had. The host said that the butt pads looked unnatural.

“It doesn’t look good. She just wants us talking about her, which I’m complying with,” she said. “But again, how is this hot, attractive, sexy? It just telegraphs needy to me.”

Watch the full clip from “The Megyn Kelly Show” above.

Sylvester Stallone is weighing in on seeing his life’s story retold on the big screen in the upcoming biopic I Play Rocky.

The film, which premiered to much fanfare at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, follows the making of 1976’s Rocky, with Anthony Ippolito playing a young version of Stallone as he develops and pushes the film through a tumultuous production.

During a chat at 92NY on Monday promoting his new memoir The Steps, Stallone reacted to the project, admitting he was initially “kind of mixed because I’m going, ‘I’m not dead yet. Aren’t we jumping the gun a little bit?’ And then I saw this video of this kid [Ippolito]. I actually thought it was me the first moment; there were a couple of angles. I go to my daughter and say, ‘That’s unbelievable.’”

The star emphasized he has “nothing to do” with the movie, which was directed by Peter Farrelly. “I said, ‘I’ll just sit back and watch.’ I talked to the kid. I said, ‘If you want any questions, here I am,’ and that was it. But they did it all on their own,” as Stallone joked that in seeing Ippolito’s portrayal, “I go, ‘Do I talk like that?’ Now I get it. Now I get it.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, Stallone spoke about what it’s like for him to watch the Rocky movies now (“It’s like you look at a photo of yourself, everyone else likes it, but you go [growl]”) and revealed he’s trying to get Amazon to let him recut 1990’s Rocky V, calling the movie “a thorn in my side.”

“It bothers me to death because I know I took my foot off the gas,” he said, noting that he should have directed it himself and “I should have been more aware of not trying to be cool to the audience.” He joked that if he’s able to do a recut, “It’s not going to be great. It’ll be acceptable.”

Stallone was also asked by the moderator, CBS Sunday Morning’s Tracy Smith, if he thinks he could make it to the top of Hollywood if he was just starting out today.

“It’s a whole different ideology out there… I don’t think so. It’s a whole different mindset,” he replied. “The actors look different. They act different — not the mentality, but the subject matter isn’t something that I could relate to. Like action right now is kind of anachronistic.”

He continued, “For example, if you were going to make The Godfather today, try casting it. Impossible. The whole premise — it just came at a certain time, and that’s why it makes it so unique. So quite often when they do remakes, they’re fundamentally forgetting that that film was based on the social climate, the thing, the look, the ethnicity, everything that there was going on at that time. Today, you couldn’t cast the film.”

The Steps hits bookshelves on Tuesday.