Headlines: The Band Disturbed, Posts Touching Nyle DiMarco Email

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UFC Fighter & ‘DWTS’ Contestant Paige VanZant Joins ‘Kickboxer: Retaliation’ Pic -Ultimate Fighting Championship’s Paige VanZant is heading out of the cage and onto the big screen for her feature debut. The UFC’s eighth-ranked Women’s Strawweight fighter and current Dancing With The Stars finalist contestant will be joining Kickboxer: Retaliation. In the latest pic in the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme-originated Kickboxer franchise, VanZant will play Gamon, a 26-year-old with high-level fighting and shooting skills with some strong criminal connections too. The role was specifically written for VanZant after producers saw her on the ABC dancing competition show this season. “Paige is the up-and-coming darling of the UFC and her star quality shines through on camera,” producer Rob Hickman of Our House Films said in a statement. “She’s a tremendous asset to the film both as an onscreen talent and as a trainer fighter.” – Read more at Deadline

Christina Aguilera to duet with Ariana Grande on tonight’s The Voice finale

Disturbed Website Posts Email From Nyle Dimarco Asking for Permission to Use The Sound of Silence for Dancing with the Stars – Hello Disturbed Ones, we would like to share a touching email we recently received from Dancing with the Stars contestant Nyle DiMarco, who happens to be deaf and will performing his final dance tonight for the trophy to our version of “The Sound of Silence”. Nyle emailed us to ask for our permission to use our version of the song that has inspired him and hopes to convey an even bigger message to help people better understand the history of the deaf community. Nyle wrote: ” I feel this is important for you to know that we the Deaf people underwent a terrible history and we are still stuck in the darkness. The darkness of oppression that your song truly reverberated to me. Before the year 1880, we the Deaf people lived normal lives. Because of the conference that almost led to the death of the Deaf culture (and was basically genocide and cultural-genocide), we are still trying to get out of the dark.” – Read more at Disturbed1.comDisturbed’s cover of Sound of Silence is a huge hit song right now, plus Dalton Rapatonni covered their version of the song on Idol and he even mentioned it, so I assumed everyone knew who they were.

Are Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani Paying People to Post About Their Relationship? – Coincidence? It’s possible that Becca Tilley and Stephanie Pratt, strangers to each other and again, to Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton, have the same “new fave couple.” The inclusion of the same, specific link to the performance in each post, however, suggests that the posts were coordinated in some way. But by whom? And why? There are several brands mentioned in each post: Honda, I Heart Radio, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, the relationship of Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. Any of these parties and/or their representatives could be responsible for convincing Instagram influencers Becca Tilley and Stephanie Pratt to post about Gwen and Blake. The message of the (potential) ads is clear, though: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are baes and goals and heart eyes! Click here, millennials. – Read more at NYMag.com

The Voice Coaches—Blake, Christina, Adam and Pharrell—on the Top 4 – “Pretty good but not perfect,” Daly said. “There have been certain years, like last year with Jordan Smith, that everybody felt there were frontrunners. Javier Colon in Season 1 was, ‘Oh, my God.’ But then there have been seasons where I thought someone else was going to win. Jermaine Paul won one season. I didn’t see that coming. He sang, ‘I Believe I Can Fly’ on the Monday night finale performance show and blew everybody away. He won the next night. I think it is a pretty close race. I know a lot of people think Alisan is in the front but I don’t know if that is necessarily true. I would watch out for Adam Wakefield in particular, and who knows about the other two?” – Read more at Parade.com

Jessica Sanchez: “It’s crazy to finally have some new music to share with my fans.” – After spending much of her time touring, Sanchez is excited to continue work on her second studio album and assures us that more new music is on the way. “It’s crazy to finally have some new music to share with my fans, they have been very patient so I’m excited to see what they think. This is just a preview of what’s to come from my music, so it means a lot to have so much support from everyone and hearing all the feedback helps me continue to grow as an artist.” – Read more at the fourohfive.com

Dancing with the Stars Partners Nyle DiMarco and Peta Murgatroyd Get Emotional Backstage About Their Final Dance – There were a lot of tears on the performance finale of Dancing with the Stars on Monday, but there were even more waterworks backstage after the show. “It’s been three intense months and…I don’t know…,” pro dancer Peta Murgatroyd told PEOPLE with tears welling up in her eyes after her final dance with partner Nyle DiMarco. “It’s been such an amazing experience that I know I’ll always look back at and would do again in a heartbeat.” And the feeling is mutual. “It’s bittersweet,” DiMarco said of getting perfect scores for their freestyle routine on Monday. “We’ve been here for three months and I’ve seen her face every day. I’m not looking forward to not seeing her face.” – Read more at People

Dancing with the Stars’ Ginger Zee Reveals the Severity of Her Injury: ‘I Couldn’t Hold My Baby!’ – “On Thursday there was definitely a point where the physical therapist said, ‘Stop. You can’t dance anymore right now,’ ” Zee told reporters. “I didn’t know how that was going to play out. The next day I felt a little bit better, but she said, ‘Don’t do any of the [lifts].’ So I hadn’t done my dances full out all the way through until today. That was scary.” “I couldn’t hold my baby,” said Zee, who gave birth to son Adrian Benjamin in December. “The therapist said I shouldn’t hold him on either side. It was awful.” – Read more at People.com

How one casting director made Dancing With the Stars the leader in celebrity image rehabilitation. – Dancing With the Stars, which airs its season finale Tuesday night, is a massive hit, regularly the highest-rated reality show in the key 18–49 demographic. And if there’s one woman responsible for the show’s success—and its unique place in the pop cultural ecosystem—it’s Deena Katz. She’s been casting the show since it premiered in 2004. Back then, Katz recalls, reality shows starring celebrities were “very dog-eat-dog.” There was The Surreal Life, which first aired in 2003 and assembled a crew of has-beens like Dave Coulier and Verne Troyer so they could butt egos and confront demons under the unfriendly gaze of ’round-the-clock cameras. A few years later, VH1’s similarly tragicomic Celebrity Rehab premiered. The Apprentice began in 2004, eventually spawning Celebrity Apprentice, a B-list cockfight dressed up as an entrepreneurial battle of wits. – Read more at Slate

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