(Photo: Star Tribune)
By now you've probably watched it on YouTube numerous times. With a running tally of over seven million views, the wedding video of Kevin Heinz and bride Jill Peterson dancing to the alter has become an overnight Internet sensation.
But amid the palpable joy, TV titans ABC and NBC caught the newly married Minnesota couple in the middle of a rivalry based competition.
According to The Star Tribune:
A Minnesota couple whose joyful wedding entrance was the subject of a popular YouTube video were kicked out of their New York City hotel and had their airline tickets taken away Friday when ABC, which had paid their way, learned they were to appear first on a rival NBC show, a New York tabloid paper reported Saturday.
"We've been kicked out of our room," Heinz told the Post on Saturday from the lobby of the Millennium Hotel. "New York is cut-throat."
According to the Post, ABC's "Good Morning America" rescinded the hotel and plane money after the couple appeared on rival NBC's "Today" in a segment aired before "Good Morning America" put them on the air live. "Good Morning America" had paid for their ushers and attendants to fly into New York to dance live with the couple on TV.
NBC moved them to another hotel and agreed to pay their airfare home, the Post reported.
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