Host Evan Farmer welcomes Lauren Alaina to this week’s CMT Top 20 Countdown. The show debuts tomorrow (9/16) at 11 am ET/PT and repeats 9/17 at 11 am ET/PT and 9/18 at 11:38 a.m. ET/PT
Oh look. Worlds collide. Blake Lewis meets Diana Agron and Naya Rivera of Glee, “@DiannaAgron @NayaRivera Twas great meeting you both last weekend. More pool beatbox in the near future.”
James Durbin tweets, “About to record yet again. Trying to knock out 2 songs today before we head off to Philippines! Just saw my album art! It’s badass!…I know y’all will love it! ..thinking of album name titles..any cool ideas?
Listen to the ENTIRE Duets II album from Tony Bennett, featuring Carrie Underwood, Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse and more. The album drops 9/20. Listen at NPR.
Jennifer Hudson has been named one of People Magazine’s 10 best dressed celebrities. See a slide show at the Vancouver Sun.
Brad Beams Carrie to Tampa
Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood just topped the chart with their soaring duet, “Remind Me.” Brad has been on tour all summer, but that duet was conspicuously absent from his set list. Until last weekend. On Friday, September 9, the song was added to Brad’s show with a very stunning visual effect: A digital Carrie. The day before that show, Country Countdown USA host Lon Helton spoke with Brad & Carrie about performing the duet live. Carrie said, “I will make an appearance in Brad’s shows.” And Brad added, “And I’ll be at all of her’s too. They’ve actually perfected transporter technology from Star Trek, and she’ll be there, ” And Carrie said, “He’ll beam me up.”
Listen to the Interview at Country Countdown USA
Kris Allen visits the New Era Style Retreat in New York City
Catching Up with Anthony Fedorov
Season 4’s Anthony Fedorov released a song on the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. We hopped on the phone with the New York resident to find out about his song, his EP Never Over, and he shared some of his Idol thoughts and memories.
Read more at American Idol
Exclusive! Move Over Ryan Seacrest. “The X Factor”’s Steve Jones Has Arrived.
What is it about Wales that it produces so many extremely attractive and talented men? Despite having a population of only three million, the country has given the world a long list of handsome actors, singers and celebrities including Luke Evans, Tom Jones, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys, John Rhys Ifans, Anthony Hopkins, Gareth David-Lloyd and the recently deceased Andy Whitfield.
To that list I predict will soon be added 34-year-old Steve Jones, whose career is likely to hit hyperdrive when Simon Cowell’s U.S. version of The X Factor hits American television next Wednesday night.
Read more at After Elton
Simon Cowell Thinks Ryan Seacrest Is Insincere
As Cowell recalls (while having an imaginary chat with the absent Ryan for the interviewer), “I’d say, ‘Remember all the people who cried in these auditions?’ and you’d say, ‘I’m going to miss you so much. I care so much about you.’
“Have you ever picked up the phone and said ‘Are you OK?’ The answer is never. It’s all for TV.
“The difference with me is I have no qualms saying whether I like you or dislike you. I find it more unkind when you give someone false hope.”
Read more at Village Voice
Hollywood rolls out red carpet for Cowell’s “X Factor”
“I am feeling excited now. There is always nerves before a launch but it is good nerves…I have always wanted to have, not a film premiere, but a TV premiere in the cinema. I think it is brilliant”, Cowell said of Wednesday’s splashy event at one of Hollywood’s top cinemas.
Read more at Reuters
Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi Contemplating Writing a Broadway Musical
Singer-songwriter Kara DioGuardi, who is currently making her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, may pen a Broadway musical.
In a recent interview with Playbill.com, DioGuardi said, “I totally want to do something. Absolutely. It would be a tremendous challenge [to write a musical]. I have to find the right property. I think I would love to do something that catered to women and daughters, mothers and daughters… Do what you know.”
Read more at Playbill
Which Glee Star Had Her Breast Implants Removed?
“Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don’t, ” Heather Morris reveals in the new issue of Fitness magazine. “It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn’t like always being in pain, so they had to go.”
Morris also reveals that she’s happy she wasn’t chosen to be on So You Think You Can Dance when she auditioned for the show three years ago.
Read more at EOnline
Emmy Watch: Seating Chart
When your co-worker hosts the Emmys (Jane Lynch), you get a front row seat. Chris Colfer will be sitting right in front of Lea Michele, and next to Betty White.
I’m thinking Emmy organizers thought it would be hilarious to seat Chris’s grandma (she’s his date) next to Betty White in the front row). There are more seat charts inside
Glee’s Chris Colfer: I Don’t Deserve to Be Put on a Pedestal
Do you feel pressure to be a role model?
“Sometimes. A lot of that is also because a lot of people respect Kurt so much and put Kurt in that light. A lot of times people put me on a pedestal I do not deserve. Sometimes it’s hard for me because I do put a lot of pressure on myself because I know there are little kids in Iowa and Nebraska that don’t have too many people to look up to.”
What will Kurt do after high school?
“I think he’ll make it out of Lima eventually. I think the sky is the limit and he just has to realize it. I always thought he would go into fashion, but it looks like he is going more into becoming a performer. I think he should be a fashionable performer.”
Read more at Parade
