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Tonight, Chris Soules continues his search for the perfect mate on The Bachelor. Jimmy Kimmel guest stars. You DO NOT want to miss Shnugs hilarious live blog. 8/7c pm ABC.
Donald Trump will fire two more celebrities on tonight’s Celebrity Apprentice. A segment the late Joan Rivers taped for the series airs tonight. Steven live blogs! 8/7c pm NBC.
In his second ‘American Idol’ run, Josh Sanders staying focused on faith, family – “We used to picnic over there by the creekside,” he said, gesturing toward a grassy stretch near the trees. Other times, Josh said, his father would bring groups from church out to the park for singing and fellowship. Back in 2012, at age 23, Josh was on national TV. He’d been touring, playing bars and clubs with country and rock bands. He was living a dream thousands try for and never achieve. But it didn’t happen. “I got to almost the top 48 (contestants),” Josh said. “This was the group rounds, in Vegas.” – Read more at Salisbury Post
Carrie: New Music This Year – (Lon) As you’ve been writing, have you chosen co-writers who understand what you’re going through now? (Carrie) “I’m always looking to write with new people. I definitely enjoy it when I get to write with other women, it’s one of my favorite things to do. I enjoy being around other female energy, because I’m a lady, and it’s nice when there’s somebody else who talks like me, and uses phrases a woman would use. Sometimes I hear songs and think, this was written for a girl by a man because girls don’t say that.” – Country Countdown USA
Carrie: Mike Likes The Name “Bo” – Carrie Underwood and her husband Mike Fisher are expecting their first child, a boy, in a few months. Carrie told Country Countdown USA’s Lon Helton that she and her husband have already had some conversations about raising their son: “He keeps trying to push the name “Bo” for our little guy. I just won’t have it. Bo Fisher? I don’t know. I don’t like it. He thinks of it like bow & arrow.” So do you have a name you’re pushing? “No.” – Read more at CountryCountdownUSA
‘American Idol’ alum Alexis Grace presents debut EP, ‘Kiddo’ – That was the day the 27-year-old singer’s very first music video, a GB Shannon-directed clip for the song “I’m So Done” that she had previewed a week earlier for friends, family and fans at Studio on the Square, hit the Internet. Just a half-hour later, the response from the Memphis native’s loyal local fan base was already pouring in. “It’s totally out of control right now,” Grace said of the sudden inundation of congratulations draining her battery. “It’s good. I just don’t want it to be dinging the whole time we’re talking.” – Read more at Commercial Appeal
The brutal secrets behind ‘The Biggest Loser’ – Hibbard had never seen “The Biggest Loser.” She had no idea what she was in for. ‘The whole f-?-king show,” she says today, “is a fat-shaming disaster that I’m embarrassed to have participated in.” “Safe weight loss is one to two pounds per week, and most people find that hard,” says Lynn Darby, a professor of exercise science at Bowling Green State University. “If you reduce your calories to less than 800-1,000 a day, your metabolism will shut down. Add five to eight hours of exercise a day — that’s like running a marathon, in poor shape, five days a week. I’m surprised that no one’s really been injured on the show.” – Read more at The New York Post
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