Aubrey O’Day is on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Randy Jackson appears on The Talk, CBS 2 pm.
Colton Dixon appears on Live! With Kelly
Kelly Clarkson tweets, “I just finished taping some of my stuff for Duets, the new tv show I’m doing, and it’s gonna be awesome!! I’m so excited for y’all to see the show and my duet partners!! YEAH!!!”
Lee DeWyze Update! he tweets, “Okay. Lil something for ya. This week I’m going into the studio , and am recording a few songs from my upcoming album ACOUSTICALLY…And… I’m going to get those out to you guys before my album comes out. It’s an idea I had, and we’re going to follow through :)”
Trial of man accused of killing Jennifer Hudson’s mom, brother and nephew to begin in earnest – CHICAGO — A gift of balloons. That, prosecutors contend, is what sent singer Jennifer Hudson’s then brother-in-law into such a jealous rage that he shot dead her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in a horrific act of vindictiveness in the home where the Hollywood star grew up. A prosecutor is expected to tell jurors that Monday during opening statements at the trial of William Balfour — charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the Oct. 24, 2008, slayings that generated nationwide headlines because of Hudson’s fame. – Read More at Washington Post
Simon Cowell hates country music, says American Idol’s Carrie Underwood – She also revealed Simon Cowell “hates” her musical genre — something many believe was a major reason behind the flop of his new show X Factor USA. Underwood, 29, who has sold 13??million albums and 18.5??million singles, will perform at the Royal Albert Hall on June 21. She said: “It will be my first time with a UK audience. There needs to be a few country artists out here, to let people know what they’re missing. – Read more at This is London
Kris Allen’s Dog Zorro Graces Cover of New Album – The pooch was a surprise Christmas gift from Allen’s wife of three and a half years, and also a compromise. “She wanted a dog, but she wanted a small dog, and I was like, ‘I don’t like small dogs,'” he explained. “But [a French bulldog] is kind of the middle ground because he’s still kind of like chunky and got like big muscles, [and] big dog personality.” – Read more at People
Air Supply Musical Lost In Love, With Constantine Maroulis and Andrea McArdle, Gets NYC Reading April 23 – Tony nominees Constantine Maroulis and Andrea McArdle lead the industry readings of the new Air Supply musical Lost In Love, which begin New York presentations April 23. Robyn Lee directs the private New York City readings that take place April 23-24. The musical pulls its score from the catalogue of the Grammy-winning band Air Supply. – Read more at Playbill
‘Smash’ capitalizes on star Raza Jaffrey’s musical theater expertise –
RMusical numbers are an expected element of the NBC hit series “Smash,” which centers on the making of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. What’s not so expected is that in Monday’s episode, “Publicity,” there’s a Bollywood number, “A Thousand and One Nights,” and it features a character who’s not in the musical-to-be. Dev (Raza Jaffrey), who works for the New York City mayor, sings a duet with his girlfriend, actress/singer Karen (Katharine McPhee), in a dream sequence. – Read more at NewsOK
William Levy: Cheryl Doesn’t Care about My Ankle – After gutting it out and performing on Dancing with the Stars with an ankle injury last week, William Levy updated ET on the status of the injury and also on how his partner, Cheryl Burke, was treating his injured ankle.Levy revealed that his injury is getting better but is still ailing him but Burke isn’t doing much to work around his injury in their routine. “She just don’t care. She just don’t give a s*** about my ankle,” he said. “She comes and tells me we have to do four lifts. Now, I hurt my ankle and she come[s] and say[s] we have to do 20 turns…She just don’t care.” – Read more at Entertainment Tonight
Gotye Disses Glee’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” – “It gets to that point where it starts to feel a bit self- conscious and I don’t want to hear any more people doing something with this.” Glee gave the song a huge boost, but Gotye has mixed feelings about the version. “They did such a faithful arrangement of the instrumentals but the vocals were that pop Glee style, ultra dry, sounded pretty tuned and the rock has no real sense, like it’s playing to you from a cardboard box,” he said. Read more at CourierMail
Lea Michele from ‘Glee’ The House That Bad Cover Songs Bought – Mashing up your favorite songs really does pay … ’cause “Glee” star Lea Michele just bought a new house in the L.A. area for $1.4 million. Don’t stop believing! Michele picked up the 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom house earlier this month. It features a solar-heated salt-water pool, a master suite with French doors and a custom bath with steam shower and tumbled Carrara marble (whatever that is). Read more at TMZ
Chris Colfer Goes Back to High School (and Dies) in Tribeca Smash ‘Struck by Lightning’ – “He’s a version of me if I didn’t hold back,” Colfer told TheWrap in an interview at Tribeca. “Half the things he says are things that I point-blank wanted to say to people in high school, but I bit my fist.” As a gay teen who didn’t have a lot of friends but liked to hang out with “the lunch ladies,” Colfer said he vented in his script because he wouldn’t dare do it in real life. – Read more at The Wrap
Chris Colfer Talks ‘Struck By Lightning’ & Ninja Turtles – “For one, me of all people, I didn’t want to do another sexual identification story,” Colfer, who both wrote and starred in the movie, explained. “In my opinion, if you address a character’s orientation and they have a really strong message to tell, kids who don’t identify with that orientation won’t identify with the message. So I feel like if he was gay in the movie, straight kids wouldn’t listen as much, and if he was straight the gay kids wouldn’t identify as much. And I think, selfishly, being part of Glee, I didn’t want to do another couple! (Laughs.) I just wanted the point of the movie to be the message, not who he was sleeping with or what he jacked off to.” – Read more at NewNowNext
Ashley Fink: I’m Not Coming Back To ‘Glee’ – “Of course I miss me on Glee. I miss everybody. I miss the fun experience that show is. But Glee is very much a fly by the seat of your pants [operation] in the way that best laid plans never quite come together. They have so many [characters] to take care of and I think once they made the decision that all these characters were going to graduate, it shifted the way this season was going to go. I haven’t heard anything from Ryan, but I visited [while they were filming] prom, so I got to see everybody, which was great.” – Read more at The Insider
