Simon Cowell asked FOX to reschedule the World Series?
That’s what The Wall Street Journal reports in a new and in-depth article on the man we love to hate. Afraid that the series would interfere with the X Factor rollout, Simon asked network executives if they might reschedule.
“I asked them if they would change it by a couple of days, ” he admits. Executives at Fox Broadcasting, which will air both, said no.
Oh No! Nigel Lythgoe told the crew at Good Day LA today that Alex Wong who spent a year recovering from a broken tendon has snapped the tendon in his OTHER LEG! It happened on Saturday at an audition. He was all set to join the SYTYCD All-stars, but of course that’s not going to happen now. Dude has the worst luck!
Nigel confirmed to TV Guide that DWTS pro and SYTYCD alum Chelsie Hightower will join the All Stars, but Chelsie tweets that due to her DWTS contract, she’ll only appear once. “Very excited none the less!” she says.
Songwriter Marti Frederiksen tweets, “Back in with James Durbin and James Michael cooking up another one.”
Nigel Lythgoe, fresh off of 18 nominations between American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance, tweets, “Thank you for all your kind words this morning. For the first time in ages my Twitter site was #Moron free. Love y’all.”
With Nicole Scherzinger leaving the NBC reality competition show The Sing-Off for a flashier judging gig over at FOX on Simon Cowell’s X Factor, the peacock network had a spot to fill on the underrated singing competition.
Taking Nicole’s seat will be singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles (Love Song). She’ll join fellow iconoclast Ben Folds and Boyz II Men alum Shawn Stockman on the judges’ panel when the show begins it’s 3rd season on September 19.
UPDATE: Chris tells Access Hollywood that he learned of his upcoming departure from Glee on twitter! “Yeah, I found out that they made that announcement. I didn’t necessarily know that it was going to be our last season next year, I knew something like that was coming up eventually.
A source close to the show told Access that the three actors had “no idea” the news was coming.
Immediately after the Emmy nominations were announced this morning, Chris Colfer shared his feelings about his departure from Glee at the end of the upcoming season and his 2nd Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Kurt Hummel.
“I think it was something we all knew was coming, just because Ryan has said from the beginning that people would be graduating, ” Chris tells TV Guide, “It’s definitely not my choice but I absolutely respect it and understand why it has to happen.”
(E News interviewed Chris right after he learned he was nominated. See the video after the jump.)
See a little teaser of the upcoming “I Love You This Big” music video from Scotty McCreery, via Access Hollywood. “This is going to be a nice little chill summer bar-b-que…kind of a community thing on the 4th of July.” says Scotty of the video, “A really fun thing. Chillin’ is the word.”
American Idol alum Blake Lewis invited fellow alum Elliott Yamin and The Voice contestants Nakia and Vicci Martinez on stage at his LA Grove gig last night to sample some vocals.
It took a little bit of doing to get everything recorded, but once they did, the quartet performed a rendition of Blake’s “She Loves The Way.”
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