Host Kelly Clarkson along with Hedley, Vanessa Hudgens and Shawn Hook, Ban Ki-Moon, Lilly Singh and More Unite at the 10th Annual WE Day Toronto to Celebrate Youth Taking Action on Local and Global Social Issues – WE Day Toronto will be taped for a special broadcast premiering on Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 7 p.m. ET on CTV. The special encores on CTV Two on Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 10 p.m. ET, and again on Monday, December 18, 2017 at 8 p.m. ET on MTV. Hosted by Kelly Clarkson, a cast of new faces and returning favourites will take the stage this year including Sabrina Carpenter, Sofia Carson, Andre De Grasse, Mia Farrow, Rick Hansen, Hedley, Vanessa Hudgens and Shawn Hook, Ban Ki-Moon, Gaten Matarazzo, Penny Oleksiak, Lilly Singh, George Takei, Jacob Tremblay, Alexandre Trudeau, Spencer West and more to be announced including a surprise special guest. – Read more at GlobeNewsWire
Multi-Platinum Recording Artist and Actress, Jordin Sparks, Joins Burlington Stores and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society To Raise Funds To Fight Blood Cancers – RYE BROOK, N.Y., Sept. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) is proud to announce its 16th consecutive year of partnership with Burlington Stores, the national off-price retailer. Joining Burlington and LLS to support the cause for the first time is singer and songwriter Jordin Sparks, an avid activist for cancer research. Each September during Blood Cancer Awareness Month, Burlington and LLS team up to create awareness for the urgent need to fund research to advance cancer cures. A point of sale fundraising effort launched on Sunday in 599 Burlington stores across the country, encouraging customers to donate $1 or more at checkout to support LLS’s goal to create a world without blood cancer. The point of sale collection period will run through December 9, 2017. – Read more at PRNewswire
LDS ‘America’s Got Talent’ contestant Evie Clair to compete in finals – Evie Clair will compete in the finals of “America’s Got Talent,” reported 12 News. Hillary Abplanalp, Clair’s mother, wrote about the decision on her blog. “Evie Clair has made the decision to return and compete in the finals of ‘America’s Got Talent’ after being given the option from Simon to come back next season,” she wrote. “We are happy to be back in LA with the remaining cast, crew and staff who have become like a second family to us this past year.” Clair’s father, Amos Abplanalp, passed away due to stage 4 colon cancer earlier this month – Read more at Desert News
Canadians claim Underwood stole No. 1 hit – Two Canadian musicians and writers claim in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Nashville last week that country star Carrie Underwood and her writing team copied them for her 2014 No. 1 hit “Something in the Water.” Lyons-Savage and McNeill claim they wrote a song called “Something in the Water” in 2012, which was pitched to Underwood in 2014 for an upcoming album. Underwood and her team reportedly declined to record the song, but then shortly after wrote their own song called “Something in the Water,” which went on to win a Grammy Award and achieve platinum status. Underwood’s version was written along with Chris DeStefano and Brett James and produced by Mark Bright. – Read more at Nashville Post
Kellie Pickler ‘Would Love’ to Make a Cameo on American Idol Reboot: ‘It Forever Changed My Life’ – In the new issue of PEOPLE, Pickler confirms her heart is tied to American Idol. “It forever changed my life, and I will always be grateful to have been a part of the show,” she says. Pickler competed on the fifth season of American Idol and finished in sixth place before launching her country music career. Of the upcoming ABC reboot, Pickler says, “If an opportunity comes along for me to go back, I would love to!” – Read more at People.com
Q&A With ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Season 25 Contestant Jordan Fisher – Jordan, what made you decide that Season 25 was the right time to do Dancing With the Stars? Jordan Fisher: Timing is huge. They initially approached me a few seasons ago, and I was about to go on a radio tour, and I knew, knowing myself—knowing that I like to put 110 percent into everything—I wouldn’t be able to commit that to the show. And Dancing With the Stars isn’t going anywhere, and they were like, “Once the time’s right we’d love to do it.” – Read more at TVInsider
Val Chmerkovskiy Admits Having a Formerly Paralyzed DWTS Partner Is a ‘Major Challenge’ but He’s ‘Grateful for It’ – When Valentin Chmerkovskiy found out his Dancing with the Stars season 25 partner was Victoria Arlen, an ESPN personality who was paralyzed for almost four years, he had a lot of questions about how her recovery would factor into their rehearsals. “She can’t feel her legs and feet,” Chmerkovskiy, 31, told PEOPLE after Monday’s premiere episode. “She doesn’t know if it’s right or left,” he said. “It takes patience from the both of us, because I have to adjust my teaching and how I explain things, and in turn I have to be patient that this is all very new to her, even the walking thing. – Read more at People
