Cee Lo Green plays Patti LaBelle at BET show

Cee Lo Green didn't just give a nice speech about Patti LaBelle at last night's BET Awards 2011 show.

The Voice star dressed up as LaBelle, complete with sparkly jacket and spikey wig, to pay tribute to her, as the recipient of this year's BET Lifetime Achievement Award.

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After an introduction, which included tributes from Beyonc� ("When anyone asks me who I want to be like, I always say Patti LaBelle") and Gladys Knight, Cee Lo sang a rendition of LaBelle's Somebody Loves You. He even brought a can of hairspray on stage with him and stopped to spray his wig.

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