All that twerking is coming back to bite poor Miley Cyrus in the ass, as her controversial performance at the MTV Video Music Awards has lost her the chance to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine.

The 20-year-old singer's duet with Robin Thicke featured Miley twerking and gyrating up against the singer and using a foam finger in a 'sexually suggestive' way at the ceremony in New York City last month made headlines across the world, but unfortunately one person watching watching who didn't enjoy it was Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who has decided to drop shots of Miley intended for the cover of the December issue of the fashion bible because of her 'distasteful' performance, with the MailOnline saying: 'Anna found the whole thing distasteful. She decided, based on Miley's performance, to take the cover in a different direction.'

Miley was seen on stage in a flesh-coloured, latex bikini, 'wagging her tongue' and 'making sexual facial expressions', which is now the new version of 'Just being Miley', while she danced up against Robin as they performed his hit 'Blurred Lines'.

The former 'Hannah Montana' attracted an avalanche of criticism on social media and from watching celebrities, with One Direction's Harry Styles saying: 'I think it's quite inappropriate. Especially for the age groups that it's aimed at. I think it's, you know, promoting promiscuity.', while Cyndi Lauper described the whole thing as sad, saying: 'That was girl gone wild. So sad, so sad ... I just felt like that was so beneath her and raunchy, really raunchy. It wasn't even art.'