Celebrity | Nickelodeon Nickelodeon Won't Pull Brown By John Johnson Posted Mar 10, 2009 4:05 PM CDT Copied Chris Brown, left, speaks with attorney Mark Geragos during Brown's arraignment on charges of assault, Thursday March 5, 2009. (AP Photo/ Bob Chamberlin, Pool) Nickelodeon says it won't pull Chris Brown from contention in its Kids' Choice Awards later this month, despite an onslaught of protests from angry parents, E! reports. "The kids who vote will ultimately decide who wins in the category," said the TV station. Parents stepped up protests with an online petition after Brown was formally charged with beating Rihanna—whom parents also now want off the show because she's reconciled with Brown. ''I've never seen anything like it,'' a Viacom official told the Chicago Sun-Times, referring to the protests. ''The words I'd use to describe the situation are overwhelming and swamped." Read These Next White House summoned Lauren Boebert over support of Epstein petition. A grandmother allegedly fatally struck her own grandson with her car. Prosecutor of James Comey, Letitia James is in the hot seat Thursday. And ... 23,000 pages of Epstein files are now out. Report an error