Idol Headlines for 3/31/14

Tonight The Voice enters The Battle Round Part 2! Chris Martin of Coldplay will mentor all the teams. Two contestants will be paired up to sing solos of the same song they chose together. 8/7c pm NBC. The competition continues on Dancing with the Stars at 8/7c pm on ABC. Watch the queens sashay down the runway on RuPaul’s Drag Race on LOGO at 9 pm.

Shakira and Blake Shelton to Duet on ACM Awards – Shakira will join Blake Shelton on the 49th Annual ACM Awards to perform their duet, “Medicine.” The song appears on Shakira’s new, self-titled album. – Read more at ABC News Radio

Danielle Bradbery Signs on as Mentor for Acuvue 1-Day Contest – Danielle Bradbery has signed on as a celebrity guest mentor for The ACUVUE 1-DAY Contest. If you’re between the ages of 13 – 21, share your dream of what you will do “One day …” with Acuvue and you could win a mentorship with Danielle, or one of the other contest mentors, including pop star Demi Lovato, Shay Mitchell from TV’s Pretty Little Liars or actress and singer Keke Palmer. – Read more at The Country Vibe

Clay Aiken Doesn’t Want to Talk About ‘That Show’ – “I’ve got this platform and this microphone now because the people in this district and this state who supported me on that show and voted for me then,” he says to Whispers, refusing to give “American Idol” a name drop. He also doesn’t plan to call in any favors from his fans, called “Claymates.” And at fundraisers, Aiken said he won’t be singing for his supper. “No, I think I’ve retired from that for awhile,” Aiken says. – Read more at US News and World Report

The price for three songs from The Voice’s Tessanne Chin: $40,000 – ow much is a song from Jamaica’s Tessanne Chin worth? Plenty it seems, at least to some Canadians. Toronto philanthropists Michael Lee-Chin and Raymond Chang got into an impromptu bidding war to persuade Chin to sing her first song on Canadian soil. Chin, the winner of Season 5 of NBC’s The Voice, was being honoured at a University of the West Indies fundraising banquet at the Ritz Carlton in Toronto. She wasn’t scheduled to sing on her first visit to Canada. But some spur-of-the-moment bidding at the end of the evening generated excitement for fans of the star. – Read more at The Star

Don’t mind me! Darren Criss’ girlfriend Mia Swier waits patiently as the Glee star is mobbed by fans – As an openly gay character on the hit show, Glee, Darren Criss has a huge following. And the 27-year-old actor was mobbed as he arrived into JFK airport in New York Friday with long-time girlfriend Mia Swier. Girlfriend Mia Swier, a musician and associate television producer, looked like a rocker in high knee black leather boots, black leggings, and a long black sweater. When Darren won his current role back in 2010, a lot of fans assumed he was gay. In reality, the talented entertainer has been dating Swier for at least four years. – OMG PR!!111! No really, there are still people who believe Darren is gay and in a relationship with Chris Colfer – Read more at Daily Mail

BBC Renews ‘The Voice UK’ for Two More Seasons – LONDON – The BBC has ordered two more seasons of singing competition The Voice UK. The show has brought in stronger ratings during its current third season, which added Kylie Minogue as a coach. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ doubles down — EXCLUSIVE VIDEO – On the next episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, airing Monday night at 9 p.m. ET on Logo, the queens are tasked with reading while rapping, and they have some serious guest judges to impress. In an exclusive clip below, hip-hop divas Eve and Trina see one team of queens — including Adore Delano, whose experience under the American Idol spotlight fails her when it really counts — werk their way through the beat-dropping challenge. – See the Video at Entertainment Weekly

Bachelor Juan Pablo Gets a Drink Thrown in His Face in Atlantic City By a Girl Calling Him “F–king Douche Bag” – One girl did what many rejected Bachelor contestants could only dream of — she threw a drink in Juan Pablo Galavis’ face. At the Pool After Dark event at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, Galavis got the shocking wake up call when a girl came up to him while he was sitting on a couch and threw a drink in his face. “F–king douche bag!” she shouted, causing security and body guards to swarm the area and eventually escort the woman out. – Read more at US Magazine

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