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Tonight:
- Clay Aiken appears on the Chelsea Lately, VH1 11 pm
- Lee DeWyze appears on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC 12:35/11:35c
- Carrie Underwood performs at the Grand Ole Opry, Municipal Auditorium in downtown Nashville, Tenn.
- Alex Lambert sings the National Anthem at the LA Dodgers baseball game.
Ellen DeGeneres wants ‘more dynamic’ people for ‘Idol’
As American Idol is a learning experience for singers, so it was for freshman judge Ellen DeGeneres.
“Your first year anywhere is going to be tough because you’re trying to figure out what your role is. I think next year my role will be to be exactly who I am, sometimes funny and sometimes serious and I think I’ll probably learn to be a little harder on people without being rude. But I think it was a fine line for me to walk this year, ”
“I’m hoping to find more unique people who never would have maybe been given a chance to be on the show, ” she said. “I like the fact that Crystal (Bowersox) was on the show this year and wouldn’t have necessarily been on before. I want to find more dynamic people and more interesting people.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Randy Jackson Hopes Rupert Murdoch Replaces Simon Cowell on ‘Idol’
However, judge Randy Jackson isn’t at all disconcerted by the lackluster sales of the newly-crowned singing star.
“I’m never surprised by that kind of stuff, ” Jackson told Pop Tarts at the 6th Annual Butterfly Ball in L.A on Saturday evening. “I’m just happy that he won, I’m happy that we had a great finale and I think they’re both [DeWyze and runner-up Crystal Bowersox] going to have great careers.”
“We’re taking our time with ]selecting a new judge], we’ll have a nice twist, ” Jackson assured us.
Although there is one person he would like to see take the hot seat – his very own boss, the head of News
Corporation, which owns FOX.
“I want Rupert Murdoch!” Jackson exclaimed.
Michael John’s “Hold Me” is #5 on the USEN Japan Western Charts
Hawaii, Cabo just a start for singer
Jordin Sparks remains the youngest winner of “American Idol, ” having won the singing competition when she was just 17. Now 20, the singer-actress is on tour promoting her current album, “Battlefield.” Sparks, who lives in Glendale, Ariz., where she was born and raised, will make her Broadway debut in August, starring in the Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights.” Though her tours have taken her to many destinations, the young singer has a long list of places she wants to visit. And she plans on taking her dog with her, if possible.
Jordin Sparks Is Just An “Average Girl”
Jordin Sparks will soon be on Broadway, has racked up several Top 10 hits, met the President and—oh, yeah—won American Idol. Still, she tries to maintain a bit of modesty on new Veronicas-esque track “Average Girl.” Decide if Jordin is as ordinary as she claims by listening below.
Edit: Jordin tweets, “Juuust to clear things up: ‘Average Girl’ isnt a new song. Its over a year old & we wrote it for fun! :)”
Michael Sarver album coming in July
American Idol Season 8 finalist Michael Sarver will release his self-titled debut album July 27 on the Universal Music Group-distributed Dream Records label. Michael wrote or co-wrote six of the album’s 13 tracks, with Nashville writers including Rivers Rutherford, Ben Glover, Kyle Jacobs and Rachel Thibodeau also contributing material. Michael’s Ferris Wheel single is currently available on iTunes.
‘Idol’ winner David Cook to perform at Rio Tinto
The last time “American Idol” winner David Cook performed in Utah was back in 2008 during the “American Idol” tour.
Cook, who took the winning title during Season 7 of “American Idol, ” will perform at the Rio Tinto Stadium after the Real Salt Lake/Los Angeles Galaxy Game on June 9.
The singer said he’s looking forward to coming back to Utah.
“It has been a minute for sure (since I was in Utah), ” Cook said during an interview from Los Angeles. “I’m not sure what I’ll be playing, because we’re still trying to figure out the set list.”
Cook has been busy working on his new CD, the follow-up to his 2008 self-titled release.
Dierks Bentley, Danny Gokey, Josh Turner Signing Autographs at Country Music Hall of Fame
Dierks Bentley, Danny Gokey and Josh Turner will sign autographs at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville on Thursday (June 10). Turner will sign copies of his album, Haywire, at 10 a.m. Gokey will sign My Best Days at 12:30 p.m. Bentley will sign copies of his new album, Up on the Ridge, at 2:30 p.m. In addition, Jake Owen will sign Easy Does It at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday (June 9), followed by Trisha Yearwood signing her new cookbook, Home Cooking With Trisha Yearwood, at 1 p.m.
Geri Halliwell joins panel for X Factor auditions as pop legend Prince also in talks to appear on show
He has barely uttered a word in public for decades and is notoriously shy. But millions of viewers could be set to hear a lot more from pint-sized popstar Prince as he is in talks for a guest role on the X Factor, alongside former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell.
The reclusive musician, 52, will be in the country this week and will discuss the role then.
Meanwhile, Miss Halliwell, 37, will join Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Louis Walsh at the first round of auditions for the new series of the ITV talent show tomorrow in Glasgow.
Five-year-old gets her dying wish to sing to Simon Cowell
Bethany Fenton, who had an inoperable brain tumour, was granted her wish to visit his TV studios on Saturday.
She sang Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star to the judge in his dressing room after afternoon rehearsals.
But she became poorly on Monday and, in the early hours of yesterday, she was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where she died. Cowell’s spokesman, Max Clifford, said: ‘He was happy that he was able to do a special something on Saturday night to give her a few precious moments.
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Why “Glee” is this century’s “Twin Peaks”
Fox’s “Glee, ” which ends its first season tonight, is one of the most stylistically bold broadcast network shows since “Twin Peaks.” That might seem an unlikely claim on first glance: “Glee” is a feather-light comedy at least 70 percent of the time, and a glib, mannered one at that. From its wistful-kooky incidental music to its subtext-as-text quips (Noah “Puck” Puckerman: “That Rachel chick makes me wanna light myself on fire, but she can sing”), “Glee” is shellacked in cuteness. And its subject matter — the private and public melodramas of high school students and teachers — is the stuff that dismissive reactions are made of.
Glee Creator to Hunky Cast: “Don’t Do It in the Trailer!”
Glee creator Ryan Murphy was honored over the weekend at the ninth annual Chrysalis Butterfly Ball, and he had three mega hotties from his cast in attendance: Mark Salling, Matthew Morrison and Matthew Morrison’s abs.
“Matthew sent me the picture two seconds after he saw it, ” joked Ryan about Morrison’s yummy, and out-of-nowhere, ab shot in this month’s Vogue. “He was very happy to show [his abs] off; he’s been making jokes about it.”
So how does Murphy try to tame his cast of incredibly sexy hunks? Simple…
It’s Official! John Stamos Will Come to Glee Next Season
Update: “It’s true, ” executive producer Brad Falchuk just confirmed to me exclusively: John Stamos will definitely be coming on for Glee’s second season! “Not sure how many episodes yet, ” he says.
Somewhere, Jayma Mays is crying with happy delirium. And I imagine, some of you fellow fans.
Here are more details on this awesome casting…
In what can only be described as an obvious ploy by my former future husband to recapture my attention, John Stamos is, as EW reported, joining Glee.
So why am I gonna have to put the smackdown on Jayma Mays?
In tonight’s episode (which I was on set for—playing a zombie!) we’ll learn that Jayma’s character, Emma, is “dating” her dentist. And that dentist will indeed be one Mr. John Stamos, who will appear in season two in a recurring role.
