PHOTO: Ryan Seacrest Tweets Photo Of American Idol Cast

Ryan Seacrest took to Twitter to celebrate the entire Season 10 American Idol cast being back together after Jennifer Lopez signed the deal to rejoin for season 11.

Ryan sent this pic via Twitter of him having lunch during the Savannah, GA auditions with judges Randy Jackson, Steven Tyler and JLo along with this caption:
“First lunch w/the crew for @americanidol season 11.”

Also pictured is the show’s Executive Producer, Nigel Lythgoe, who must be beside himself getting this much approved judging panel back together.

American Idol premieres January, 2012 on FOX.

Jersey Shore Cast Snap Back At Abercrombie & Fitch

Earlier this week, after Abercrombie & Fitch offered to pay Jersey Shore‘s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, a “substantial” amount to NOT wear the retailer’s fashion on the show, the company’s stock fell 9%.

The Situation Tweeted in response, “Looks like Abercrombie got themselves into a Situation!” Continue reading

Jennifer Lopez Gets How Much For Her Second Season On Idol?

We already knew that Jennifer Lopez would be back on the judges’ table on American Idol for one more year, we just didn’t know how much it was going to cost Fox.

Well. Now we know. 
Fox will be shelling out $20 million to have JLo sit next to Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson for the show’s 11th season.

Before inking the deal, producers pushed Lopez for a multi-year contract like the one Steven Tyler has but Lopez would only sign for one year. Fox is willing to give Lopez an $8 million raise over her first year because ratings for the last season of Idol were stronger than they had been in a while with a lot of the credit going to Tyler and Lopez.

Executive Producer Simon Fuller said, “Having both Jennifer and Steven return to ‘Idol’ in 2012 alongside Randy is such a positive reflection on what was a wonderful and hugely successful season last year, and everyone is delighted.”

6 Dead At Stage Collapse At Pukkelpop Music Festival In Belgium

Less than a week after five people were killed and dozens were injured when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair, the main stage at the 2011 Pukkelpop music festival in Belgium collapsed as well on Thursday. 
Six people are reported dead, with dozens more injured. Both collapses happened due to severe stormy and windy weather.

The storm in Belgium produced strong winds and large hail, causing the collapse of the Chateau Tent where Smith Westerns were scheduled to perform. The band wrote on Twitter: “Stage collapsed — max almost got crushed by the tress, I hope pukkelpop has insurance bc all our [stuff] is broke.”

Spotted: Bon Jovi Guitarist Richie Sambora (PHOTOS/VIDEO)

SPOTTEDRichie Sambora, the legendary Bon Jovi guitarist, stopped by The Grove August 17, 2011 for an interview with Extra‘s Mario Lopez.

Richie looked healthy, happy and radiant after his recent return from the band’s record-breaking world tour. Sambora said of the latest tour, “I walked onstage every night with extreme gratitude.” Long-time fans of Bon Jovi, like myself, are also extremely grateful that Richie is back on stage where he belongs after a short absence from touring while in rehab. Continue reading

BIG BROTHER: Who Won HOH 8/18?

Big Brother 13 August 18, 2011 Head of Household competition is taking place right now. Check below for live feed results of who is winning. Keep checking back to see who won HOH.

HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD COMPETITION

All Washed Up is the name of the game – contestants have to transfer a cup of water one at a time and pour it in a jug holding a ping pong ball. The person whose ping pong ball would reach the top first would win and become head of household. This competition is ongoing and as soon as it finishes, I will post results here. SO COME BACK to see who won Head of Household. Also, Julie just told us this is double elimination week!

10:50pm Jeff in the lead
10:54pm Rachel/Porsche in second
10:55pm Rachel in second, Porsche in third..
11:05 pm Jeff’s lead is increasing. Rachel in second place
11:16pm Jeff well in the lead. Shelly, Porsche and Rachel for Second.
JEFF WINS HOH!


UPDATE: Jeff is currently planning on nominating Kalia and Porsche with hopes of back dooring Daniele. He and Rachel have made nice! He has already chosen Kalia and Porsche as the have nots for the week.


UPDATE #2: Click here to see who Jeff nominated for eviction.

RESULTS: Who Was Voted Off Big Brother August 18?

UPDATE: FOR HOH RESULTS, LOOK ALL THE WAY AT BOTTOM!


Big Brother 13 August 18, 2011 eviction and HOH night results has Daniele as HoH, and Brendon and Shelly as nominees on the eviction chopping block.

Read below to see if Brendon, “the Zombie who won’t die”, ended up leaving the Big Brother house for the second time in two weeks.

See below for results.

Come back later tonight for a full recap of the 8/18 show!
And come back this weekend for my exclusive video interview of Lawon!!


EVICTION VOTING RESULTS

Rachel votes to evict Shelly
Kalia votes to evict Brendon
Porsche votes to evict Brendon
Adam votes to evict Brendon
Jeff votes to evict Brendon
Jordan votes to evict Brendon


Brendon is evicted for a second time by a vote of 5-1 and will be the first member of the Big Brother jury house.


BRENDON’s EXIT INTERVIEW WITH JULIE CHEN
Brendon said if Dani had held up her end of the deal, he’s not sure he would have kept up his end of the deal. Brendon said Rachel will win HOH and shake the house down. In their goodbye messages, Dani said she has evicted Brendon twice and if Brendon comes back again she will have to evict herself. Jeff said he wished Brendon was playing this game by himself and asked for instructions for how to deal with Rachel. He also said it breaks his heart to see Brendon go. Kalia was her usual ass self and said she doesn’t know why America voted Brendon back in the house. Rachel promised to kick ass.

HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD COMPETITION
All Washed Up was the name of the game – contestants had to transfer a cup of water one at a time and pour it in a jug holding a ping pong ball. The person whose ping pong ball would reach the top first would win and become head of household. This competition is ongoing and as soon as it finishes, I will post results here. SO COME BACK to see who won Head of Household. Also, Julie just told us this is double elimination week!

10:50pm Jeff in the lead
10:54pm Rachel/Porsche in second
10:55pm Rachel in second, Porsche in third..

11:05 pm Jeff’s lead is increasing, Rachel in second
11:14pm Jeff well in the lead. Shelly, Porsche and Rachel for Second. 

JEFF WINS HOH!

TLC Gives Kat Von D and ‘LA Ink’ Their Walking Papers

And another TLC show bites the dust. First, the network canceled Kate Plus 8. Now it has axed LA Ink, Kat Von D‘s reality show.

“TLC has decided that the current season of LA Ink will be its last. The network is proud of what the series accomplished in four seasons, following Kat Von D’s journey as an artist from Miami to Los Angeles,” TLC said in a statement.

Poor Kat Von D. She has had an awful few months. First, her house burned down last November, killing her pet cat. Then she called off her engagement to Jesse James right after she got a tattoo of his face on her body. And now, this news.

Here is sending some good vibes your way lady…

David Letterman Marked For Death On Extremist Website

David Letterman has been marked for death by a frequent contributor to a jihadist website, Shumuka al-Islam forum.

The contributor is pleading that Muslims “cut the tongue” of the late-night host all because of a seemingly-offensive joke Letterman said on his CBS show.

The contributor, who has identified himself as Umar al-Basrawi, apparently has not taken a liking to one of Letterman’s jokes made after the U.S. military announced that it had killed al-Qaida leader Ilyas Kashmiri in Pakistan.

“Is there not among you a Sayyid Nosair al-Mairi … to cut the tongue of this lowly Jew and shut it forever?” [El Sayyid Nosair was convicted of the 1990 killing of Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane.] For the record, not that it matters, Letterman is not Jewish.

The FBI is obviously checking out the threat, and a spokesman for the Bureau said: “We take every potential threat seriously.”

Neither CBS nor Letterman have yet commented on the threat. And CBS would not make available a transcript of Letterman’s joke on the killing of Kashmiri.

BIG BROTHER 8/17 RECAP: Has The Zombie’s Head Been Cut Off?

We started the Wednesday August 17, 2011 Big Brother episode with Daniele as HOH and Shelly and Adam on the eviction block because Dani had entered into a deal with Brendon and Rachel for final three.

Dani was happy with her nominations because she said “plan A, nominations would stay the same and Shelly goes home.” She continued, “Plan B, I can back door Brendon if nominations change.”

SHELLY MEETS WITH DANI
Dani told Shelly that Brendon needs to go home (Obviously, lying at that moment). Shelly lied too that she never told Rachel that she wants to go to the final three with Brendon and Rachel and that Rachel was the one lying to Porsche about this. We see video footage of Shelly asking Brenchel for a final three deal.

ADAM MEETS WITH DANI
Adam asked Dani if she wants him to win the POV to replace the nominations. Dani said, “I need Brendon to go home….Rachel is no good without him.” She told Adam he is a pawn in the her game.

SHELLY AND RACHEL GO AT IT
Shelly confronts Rachel that Porsche said Rachel told here there is a three person deal with Rachel, Brendon and Shelly. So, Jordan suggested that they have a house meeting with Porsche. They called Porsche and she said Shelly wanted a three-person deal and because Rachel did not trust Shelly, there was no deal. FINALLY, someone is telling the truth. Shelly denied the truth and called Rachel a liar. Rachel said Shelly wanted to have Jordan evicted and Shelly got irate. When Rachel asked Brendon to back her up, Brendon said he wants to stay out of it. Jordan was left confused as to who to believe.

SHELLY CRIES TO JEFF
Shelly protests too much: “I am crushed Rachel said that to Jordan. I have been loyal to a fault in this game.” Jeff told her he doesn’t believe Rachel.

VETO COMPETITION
Only six people get to play in the POV competition. Daniele picked Jordan’s name out of the bag. Shelly picked Kalia. Adam picked Jeff. Rachel and Brendon looked dejected for not being able to play and win to keep the nominations the same. Dani saw this as a potential to back door Brendon.

The game was called Corn Hole, which Jeff is supposedly good at per Dani. The object was to toss a sack and try to get a hole in one or the lowest number on a corn wheel. Jeff said he was in a sticky situation because he wanted to save Shelly but didn’t want to risk Brenchel being placed on the block as replacement.

In the first round, Dani got a hole in one. Shelly missed the board completely and was eliminated. Is there any game she is good at? Once eliminated, Shelly got to chose a prize which was the POV. Of course, anyone eliminated after her, could take the POV from her for a trade.

In the second round, Jordan was eliminated and Dani got her second hole in one. She is the best competitor ever. As her elimination prize, Jordan got 24 hours in solitary confinement and a phone call from home. Jordan got so emotional and said she wants to keep it instead of trading for Shelly’s POV because she wanted to talk to her mom. Then, she asked Shelly if she wanted to speak to her daughter and forced the phone call on Shelly in a gesture of pure kindness. Shelly is later seen crying in appreciation in the Diary Room. Jeff called Jordan an angel on earth.

Round three brought another hole in one for Daniele and Kalia was eliminated. She won a Caribbean vacation and did not trade it for the POV.

During round four, Adam asked Jeff to let him win the POV. Jeff was confused because he had too much riding on this POV and he would burn too many bridges if he won. Adam then asked Dani if Jeff was safe this week in front of Jeff and Dani said yes. Jeff then asked Dani if Brenchel is the target and she said yes. Dani, feeling comfortable that Jeff believes her, threw the competition and won a “Veto Ticket” as the prize. The veto ticket guarantees Dani to play in the veto competition next week. She kept it. Dani then whispered to Kalia that she just decided she wanted Brendon gone and asked Kalia if she is OK with that. Kalia said, “absolutely.”

In the final round, Jeff threw the competition and Adam won by one point. Jeff’s prize was $5,000 and he kept it. Adam won “Humilitard,” and traded it with Jordan for the POV. Jordan will now have to wear an embarrassing letoard for a week which consisted of a Dunce hat and a “I’m with stupid” sign on the front of a t-shirt and “kick me” on the back. She looked uber cute.

DANI AND JEFF MEET
Jeff tried to convince Dani to get rid of Rachel but she insisted Brendon is a better player and must be the one to go. Jeff agreed to vote out Brendon over Shelly only so he can keep himself and Jordan safe until the replacement nominee is made.

BRENDON, RACHEL AND DANI MEET
Brenchel met with Dani to make sure their deal was still in place. When asked, Dani lied and said she had no deal in place with Jeff. Rachel asked if she would consider back dooring Jeff or Jordan because Jeff is racking up an army and the money. Brendon told Dani that the only way Brenchel will make it to the end is if they play with Dani. Dani said she will think about it.


VETO CEREMONY
Of course Adam used the POV on himself because he said he worked too hard to win. Really?? Adam, you won because Jeff and Dani threw the comp. Dani then said the game of BB is full of twists and the twist is that there is a Zombie in the house that they keep trying to kill but who won’t die. With that, Dani nominated Brendon as a replacement nominee for eviction. We ended the show with Dani in the Diary Room saying the only way to win this game is to kill the Zombie by cutting his head off. Then we saw Jeff saying no matter who leaves, he will lose an ally this week and he does not know who he wants to stay and it will be a game time decision for him.