Idol Headlines for 07/18/11

Clay Aiken guests on The Talk, 2 pm on CBS

Blake Lewis & DJ Dan Birthday Bash at the Hollywood Playhouse. More information HERE.
David Archuleta at the Araneta Coliseum in the Philippines at 8 pm
Sanjaya Malakar at the Maison Frenchman, New Orleans LA
via Idol Stages

Tim Urban sets tour dates

Tim Urban will briefly tour New York and the Midwest beginning Wednesday in New Windsor, N.Y. The American Idol Season 9 finalist also is pursuing an acting career and has plans to release a full-length album. Urban released a six-song EP, Heart of Me, last fall.

Schedule at Idol Chatter

Kris Allen tweets, “Did some blurps for Kidz Bop today and it got me all tuckered out. #whatsablurp

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Detail Marriage in Pre-Divorce Interview

“I do cook, I do lay out Marc’s clothes, I do pack him when he’s about to go away, ” Lopez said. “I do care, I do do things that are going to make their lives better, easier. I do hold them [Max and Emme] when they’re crying – all those things that you do as a mother and a wife are so much more rewarding than anything else in life. I do get a lot of joy out of that.”

Lopez also credited the couple’s Latin roots for a compatible relationship.

Read more at THR

Exclusive: Jennifer Lopez Is “Devastated” by Marc Anthony Split

Singer-actress Lopez “tried everything she could to make it work, ” one source close to the star tells Us. “They went to marriage counseling. She was patient and loving and did everything he wanted her to.. She exhausted all the possibilities.”

“They had a very up and down marriage, ” adds a second source of the couple, parents to 3-year-old twins Max and Emme. “They would get into heated, horrible fights. Then, they would also go through times where they were extremely loving and romantic…It was a roller coaster with them from the beginning.”

Read more at US

Marc Anthony & Jennifer Lopez Split ‘After Months of Nonstop Arguing’

But after news broke Friday that the power couple were ending their marriage, a source close to the family tells PEOPLE that Anthony, 42, and Lopez, 41, who have two children, 3-year-old twins Max and Emme, together, split “after months of nonstop arguing.”

“Marc and Jennifer decided it’s best to go their separate ways for the sake of their two kids, ” the source says.

“Jennifer is doing okay, ” the source says. “In the past two weeks, she has spent a lot of quality time with her kids and her family in L.A.”

Read more at People

J.Lo’s Music Video Hunk DENIES Affair w/ Singer

The hot piece of man meat who starred as Jennifer Lopez’s shirtless romantic interest in her steamy “I’m Into You” music video claims he’s NOT dating the singer nor did they have sex … despite reports to the contrary.

Read more at TMZ

Jennifer Lopez And Marc Anthony: A Timeline

The split came after the two worked closely together on this season of “American Idol” — on which they even performed a song together — and embarked on a South American adventure this summer for their upcoming reality talent competition, “¡Q’Viva! The Chosen.”

The Latin stars first crossed paths in the 1990s and their relationship had a number of ups and downs, but the pair seemed steady, particularly in the last year, working on projects together and raising their twins, Max and Emme, born in 2008. Here, we look back on their union.

Read more at MTV

Adam Lambert’s Grove Movie Date Night

Back on the west coast after kicking off the weekend with a performance in NYC, Adam Lambert enjoyed a night out at the movies in Los Angeles on Sunday (July 17).

Joined by boyfriend Sauli Koskinen, the “For Your Entertainment” hunk hit up the theaters at The Grove Shopping Center – after which he emerged in a cheerful mood while using his cell phone to videotape the paparazzi action.

See the photos at Celebrity-Gossip

Adam Lambert plays Paparazzi

Jordin Sparks European Vacation

Jordin Sparks' photo With Love,  from the Eiffel Tower. <3
Jordin Sparks on WhoSay

Jordin Sparks tweets, “With Love, from the Eiffel Tower.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony: What’s next?

The couple released a joint statement Friday announcing their “very difficult decision” to end their seven-year marriage. It was Lopez’s third marriage and Anthony’s second.

The news shook the celebrity world, which had begun to question the duo’s relationship when Lopez appeared July 9 with her mother at an event honoring the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Los Angeles.

Read more at USA Today

Jennifer Lopez’s Mother Guadalupe “Not Surprised” By News of Split From Marc Anthony

According to an eyewitness, “Jennifer’s mom was gambling the night away at a party for Borgata’s Titanium Club on Friday night, celebrating the casino’s anniversary, just hours after the split was announced.”

“Guadalupe knew things had been rough between J. Lo and Marc for a while, so she wasn’t too surprised by the news, ” the source added to OK!.

Read more at OK

Marc Anthony Jokes: ‘They’re Saying I’m Single’

“They’re saying I’m single, ” Anthony, 42, joked to cheers from the huge crowd at the Símon Bolívar Metropolitan Park in Bogotá.

Never mentioning Lopez, 41, by name, Anthony, dressed in a dark suit and open-necked shirt, ran through a rousing set of romantic salsa hits and blew kisses at girls in the crowd, which sang along.

Read more at People

Blake Shelton, Jimmy Fallon Share a ‘Pina Colada’

Via TicklesCafe

Robbie Williams to mentor X-Factor acts

Robbie Williams has reportedly signed up as a mentor for the UK X-Factor.

The singer has apparently agreed to help his Take That bandmate Gary Barlow by mentoring his acts from his Los Angeles mansion during the judges’ houses stage.

Former judge Sharon Osbourne is said to have agreed to do the same for Louis Walsh, while ex-Destiny’s Child singer Michelle Williams is to help Kelly Rowland and Tinie Tempah will help N-Dubz star Tulisa from a villa in Ibiza.

Read more at Monsters and Critics

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