TMZ reports that Jennifer Lopez signed for a 1 year deal with Idol for a little more than 12 million. Read more HERE.
***
Michael Franti tweeted: “80 000 peoplel at Power to the Peaceful this year!” Crystal Bowersox performed at this festival on 9/11.
***
David Cook tweets: “Shooting idol promo today back home. Happy Tuesday everyone!”
***
@AOLRadio: Tune to New Pop First on @AOLRadio for David Archuleta’s new song, ‘Elevator, ‘ at 11:30AM ET! Link: http://bit.ly/bHVBza “Elevator”, David’s new single, was released to radio yesterday.
***
Country Stars Take Over “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”
A private school outside Nashville that had been devastated by the flood in May is being rebuilt this week. Filming started Friday and runs through this Saturday, September 18. ABC won’t reveal who the country stars are. But, there’s a good chance Carrie Underwood is one of them.
She recently changed her next Grand Ole Opry performance from this Friday, September 17th to Thursday, September 16th. The Opry says it’s so the concert can be filmed for a show on Nashville’s recovery. Sounds like it could be ”Extreme Makeover: Home Edition!”
Read more at Country Music Tattle Tale
***
More Headlines after the JUMP…
***
Chris Sligh, ‘The Anatomy of Broken’: A track-by-track review
showed a fondness for grand pop statements on 2008’s Running Back to You. That hasn’t gone away on The Anatomy of Broken: Few songs here finish without a sweep of strings or a dramatic leap into falsetto. But Chris has grown more confessional, and that’s where The Anatomy of Broken shines. It’s hardly a perfect album — but given its name and subject matter, it really shouldn’t be. It is, however, an honest and revealing one. Sometimes, that can be just as rewarding.
Read more at USA Today
***
“Beauty and the Beast” f. Jordin Sparks: Preview
Disney’s #1 most requested title returns to movie theaters for an exclusive two-day cinema event on September 29, 2010 and October 2, 2010 hosted by Jordin Sparks with an exclusive sneak peek at her “Beauty and the Beast” music video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pps4p9wtWW8&feature=player_embedded
***
Breathitt County Shooting Victim Appeared In Episode Of “American Idol”
The details continue to horrify the small Jackson community in Breathitt County after a shooting incident over the weekend that left six dead, including the alleged gunman. In a tragic coincidence, one of the victim’s recently appeared to be doing what she could to help get her family on the right track.
It’s a program that helps family’s in poorer communities help their children, and shooting victim Teresa Fugate saw the importance in the program, and her love and support made her family a perfect model for the “Save The Children” program. The entire country got to see Fugate’s dedication to her four young children with actress Jennifer Garner during a segment on American Idol.
Read more at Lex18.com
***
Diana DeGarmo, the hardest working girl from Snellville, returns for “9 to 5: The Musical” at the Fox Theatre
It’s been almost seven years since Diana DeGarmo, then a Snellville teen, lit up “American Idol, ” a popular television singing competition. Since her 15 minutes of fame, she has been building a credible résumé in musical theater, appearing on Broadway and taking some calculated career-building risks, such as getting naked in “Hair” and starring in the camp off-Broadway comedy “The Toxic Avenger.” (Yes, it’s not only a musical, it won awards.)
Read more at ArtsCriticATL
***
Fall Issue Extra: Harry Shum, Jr.
You got a taste of Glee‘s Harry Shum, Jr., in our Fall 2010 issue. The Costa Rica-born Chinese American is a mega-talent, dancing in the summer’s Step Up 3D, dancing and choreographing the Legion of Extraordinary Dancer (catch his Elliot Hoo episode here), and now back as Mike Chang in the season premiere of Glee, Tuesday, September 21. If you wanna see him in the flesh, you just might catch him (and a bunch of other stars) at Audrey’s Night Out 2010, our fashion event extravaganza on September 23, 2010. Buy tickets now, because we always sell out early.
Here, writer Han Cho gives us more from her interview with Harry Shum, Jr.
Read more at AudreyMagazine.com
***
X Factor ultimatum: ITV make Simon Cowell £24m take it or leave it offer
Simon Cowell has been offered a whopping £24million deal by frustrated ITV… but warned that’s it.
Executives tabled the 11th hour “take it or leave it” package in the hope it would tie the 50-year-old mogul to the station for the next three years.
Only last week Cowell admitted he is prepared to dump both X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, sending shockwaves around ITV’s London headquarters.
Read more at the Daily Mirror
***
Video: Mark Salling’s ‘Pipe Dreams’ Become Reality; Matthew Morrison ‘Proud’ of ‘Glee’
Monday night at the Fox Fall Eco-Casino Party, benefiting Habitat for Humanity, Salling told us about some of his extracurricular activities.
“It’s called ‘Pipe Dreams, ‘” said the actor, referring to his new album that comes out October 12. “It’s a compilation of tracks that I selected from a library of 50 or more that I compiled over the last eight years.”
Matthew Morrison also graced us with his presence and filled us in on a few details about the upcoming season. We asked Matthew about “Glee”‘s forthcoming episode paying homage to ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’ “We’re actually filming it right now, ” Morrison told us. “Adam Shankman is directing it. It’s a lot of fun. It’s a really, really, really crazy episode.”
Watch the Video at ETOnline
***
Leaked track from Jennifer Lopez – ‘Run the World’ Produced by The-Dream and Tricky, with help from Rick Ross
So, I guess we care about Jennifer Lopez now? Here’s a leak off of her pushed back album, Love?. It’s pretty bland.
Found at Vulture
