Lee DeWyze sings the National Anthem at Game 2 of the NBA Finals @ Staples Center, tonight at 8 pm on ABC.
DeWyze parties cost Mount Prospect $40, 000
A Mount Prospect police officer stands by as a frenzied crowd welcomed American Idol Lee DeWyze home during parade in downtown Mount Prospect last month. Officials said the parade, and a later viewing party, cost about $40, 000.
Before the “American Idol” finale aired, Lee DeWyze was declared by some as the best thing ever for Mount Prospect.
Fantasia Gets Honorary Degree From Andrews High School
Greensboro, NC — Singer Fantasia Barrino appeared in Greensboro Saturday, but she had a different reason to be on stage.
The singer earned her honorary degree while becoming apart of Andrews High School graduation ceremony.
Barrino walked with the graduates in a cap and gown at the Greensboro Coliseum today.
Andrews High School was among at least five other high schools to graduate from the Guilford County schools system.
Stars prepare for TV Bafta gala
Stars of the small screen are preparing for the annual Bafta TV awards, where Simon Cowell and Melvyn Bragg will receive special honours.
X Factor star Cowell will be recognised for his “outstanding contribution” and “development of new talent”.
Lord Bragg will be given an Academy Fellowship for his “exceptional” contribution to television.
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Dizzee Rascal and James Corden debut Simon Cowell’s unofficial World Cup song on Britain’s Got Talent
Dizzee Rascal and James Corden debuted Simon Cowell’s unofficial World Cup song on Britain’s Got Talent last night.
Shout – based on the 1984 Tears for Fears hit – saw rapper Dizzee and comedian Corden leaping around in England shirts at the end of the talent show.
Dizzee rapped: “Come on England, we need to sort it out… Leave the Wags alone, set aside your ego, We’re tired of bragging about 40-odd years ago.”
Royalties from the song, to download from Wednesday, go to Great Ormond Street hospital.
Britain’s Got Talent won by Spelbound gymnasts
Gymnastics troupe Spelbound have won ITV1’s Britain’s Got Talent, earning an appearance at the Royal Variety Performance later this year.
The group, of Ashford, Surrey, also picked up £100, 000 after winning the final with an act which saw one member thrown over the heads of the judges.
Street dance duo Twist & Pulse were the runners-up in the public vote and drummer Kieran Gaffney, 13, came third.
Judge Simon Cowell said “the right boys and girls won on the night”.
How ‘American Idol’ contestant Paige Miles got her groove back
How could she not be? She’d just gone through another round of criticism from the judges on “American Idol, ” the popular reality sing show on which she was a contestant this spring. They said she’d butchered her version of “Against All Odds.”
The judges picked at her song selection, which wasn’t her first choice. They knocked her vocal prowess, without knowledge of both a laryngitis issue she’d been struggling with or that her systolic blood pressure had spiked dangerously over 200 despite medication.
But the worst part was that she was starting to believe them.
And so that is what she has set off to do. After taking a week or so for a Naples sabbatical, Miles is headed back to Los Angeles, where she’s been living since January. She’s rented an apartment with fellow “Idol” contestant Lacey Brown, a spunky Texan who was eliminated the week before Miles.
Jane Lynch and New Wife Had an Instant Attraction
It was a meeting and a courtship so gleeful, it probably would make Sue Sylvester sulk.
“We actually have a picture of the moment we met, ” Glee star Jane Lynch, who plays the hilariously menacing Coach Sylvester on the Fox hit, tells The New York Times” about a May 2009 San Francisco fund-raiser where she was a presenter and clinical psychologist Dr. Lara Embry was among those being honored.
At the gathering, it was the good doctor who pushed to meet Lynch. “I said, ‘I want my picture taken with her, ‘ ” Embry tells the newspaper. “I thought she was cute.”
