Idol Headlines for 1/14/13

The World Premiere screening of the American Idol XIII takes place tonight in movie theaters across the country. At 8:30 pm ET there will be a LIVE Q&A session that will live stream at AmericanIdol.com. I’ll be putting up a separate post for the event later. American Idol XIII premieres tomorrow night at 8/7c pm on FOX!

The Biggest Loser continues tonight at 8 pm on NBC.

GRAMMY® Nominees John Legend, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift, And Keith Urban To Perform On The 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards® – The latest performers for the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards® telecast were announced today and they include: current GRAMMY® nominees John Legend, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift, and Keith Urban, as well as nominee Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr — who as members of the Beatles will receive the 2014 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. Other special performances include nominee Sara Bareilles together with four-time GRAMMY winner and 2014 MusiCares® Person of the Year Carole King. – Read more at PRNewswire

Keith Urban Treats Superfans to One EPIC Weekend! – All these superfans have seen Keith Urban in concert over 100 times each, but something tells us the show they saw last Friday was their best EVER. Ten very lucky Urban aficionados got the VIP treatment, after the country star flew them to Chicago for the weekend of a lifetime. And toofab has all the details! We’ve learned the singer selected 10 fans who have all seen him at least 100 times in concert to join him in The Windy City. Between the 10 of them, they’d seen him a combined 1,200 times! – Read more at Too Fab

James Wolpert still calls Strasburg home – James Wolpert may be a worldwide star since his appearances on “The Voice,” but at home in Strasburg, he remains one of the family — at least until the Wolperts leave their house. During a visit home for the holidays, Wolpert paused for an interview on Friday following a tour of Lampeter-Strasburg schools. He was accompanied by his sister, Rachael, and mother, Margie. His Dad, Bud, was at work. Without warm clothes for shoveling snow these past weeks, the singer got out of snow-removal duty, his mother, Margie, said. Wolpert said sleeping in on snowy days helped as well. Still, Margie Wolpert said, America’s idol must empty the dishwasher when asked. – Read more at Lancaster Online

Jennifer Lopez: ‘I Don’t Know’ If I’ll Marry Casper Smart – One thing Lopez has learned is to accept that she is someone who prefers to be in a relationship. “I’m one of those people who does not like to be alone,” she said. “I have no shame saying that at this point in my life. I think we have to own who we are.” But when it comes to wedding bells in Lopez and Smart’s future, the star is unclear where she thinks their relationship is headed. “I don’t know. We’ll see. I don’t know,” she said when asked if she would like to get married for the fourth time. “You know, I’ve always believed in that institution. I believe in it, but it is difficult. I’ve had my challenges, but at the same time I believe in love, and I think that is the main thing.” – Read more at People

‘X Factor’ Judge Paulina Rubio Sues Telemundo (Exclusive) – Mexican pop music superstar Paulina Rubio has filed a lawsuit against Telemundo, alleging that the NBCUniversal subsidiary has reneged on a $1.325 million deal for her to star in a second season of the highly rated music competition show La Voz Kids, which is a Spanish-language children’s themed spinoff of The Voice. Rubio also stars as a judge along with Simon Cowell and Kelly Rowland on Fox’s The X Factor, and in her lawsuit filed on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, she says that Telemundo used scheduling concerns as a “pretext” for getting out of a contract. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

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