@AmericanIdol: “AmericanIdol.com will have some special news about Season 9 champ @LeeDeWyze tomorrow. Stay tuned!”
Here’s hoping the news is about Lee DeWyze’s first single off his upcoming album coming out November 16! Lee said in a tweet today that the single was “coming soon”
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@BlakeLewis: “Early start. I’m Off to go host for Hollyscoop. Should be a fun day.”
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Today is the last day for American Idol My Space auditions. For more information check out this link.
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Idol producers head to Arkansas next to film Season 10 promo with Kris Allen, @Gsafarian: “In Dallas now…hooking up with some friends for a nice Texan dinner :D Meeting the rest of the crew tmrw and it’s off to Arkansas!”
On Friday, Kris presents a check at Excell Park in Jacksonville, AR, Kris’s birthplace and in the afternoon, there’s a shoot scheduled in Conway park where he performed for his Season 8 homecoming.
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Mike Lynche joins forces with an Idol winner: @BigMikeLynch: “Working with Ruben Studdard down in Alabama this week!!!!”
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The London BMI Awards took place Tuesday night and several Idol songs won awards in the Pop category, including: “Come Back to Me” written by Amund Bjørklund and Espen Lind, sung by David Cook, “Battlefield” written by Wayne Wilkins, sung by Jordin Sparks and “Live Like We’re Dying” written by Andrew Frampton, Daniel O’Donoghue and Mark Sheehan, sung by The Script (also by Kris Allen)
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Kris Allen entertains troops at Ramstein
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Via the Armed Forces Network
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Anoop Desai interview and acoustic performance of “All is Fair” from WTKS AM. Check it out HERE.
“All is Fair” from WOTC TV
Anoop performs at the Little Pink Dress party in Savannah, GA tonight at 6 pm Via AnoopDesaiOfficial
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Diana DeGarmo is Working “9 to 5” with Wilson
Diana DeGarmo was hanging out at the Chik-a-fil with peeps from FOX Charlotte. She’s in town with “9 to 5 the Musical”
via FOX Charlotte
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Carrie Underwood Calls Hubby the ‘Missing Piece to My Puzzle’
With two careers that keep them on the road, Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher haven’t had much together time since their July 10 wedding, but the singer says for her, marriage is a perfect fit.
“Mike’s the missing piece to my puzzle – he’s a few pieces, ” Underwood tells PEOPLE Country in its November issue. “He makes me a better person.”
Though Underwood, 27, admits that winters in her hockey player husband’s native Canada can be rough (“I can’t do my cute heels in the winter!”), for now, the couple are content to shuttle between their Nashville and Ottawa homes.
Read more at People
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Live From: Bo Bice
Cowboys & Indians: Some people have said your latest album, 3, is a bit like that old Donny and Marie Osmond song?—?a little bit country, a little bit rock ’n’ roll.
Bo Bice: [Laughs.] Hey, I’m a big Osmonds fan, so I take that as a compliment. But, yeah, that’s what it is. I feel like it’s a nice mixture of country music and Southern rock. The last CD, See the Light, was very much Southern rock. I know that’s how most people think of me. That was kind of my label on [American Idol]?—?I was supposed to be “the rocker.” But it’s not a far stretch to include the country side as well. Particularly on some of my singer-songwriter stuff.
Read more at Cowboys and Indians
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Constantine Maroulis visits FOX 25 Boston
The national touring company of Rock of Ages featuring Constantine Maroulis opens in Boston, MA on October 6.
Constantine sings “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
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Travis Cottrell, Melinda Doolittle To Share Carnegie Stage For Sacred Heritage Series
IN:CIITE artist TRAVIS COTTRELL and “AMERICAN IDOL” finalist and HIFI RECORDINGS artist MELINDA DOOLITTLE will share the CARNEGIE HALL stage in NEW YORK CITY in the ISAAC STERN HALL for the SACRED HERITAGE SERIES on OCTOBER 18th.
The one-time special performance will begin at 8p (ET) and will be led by Conductor Maestro ERIC DALE KNAPP. COTTRELL and DOOLITTLE will perform a collection of the best-loved songs of both artists and unique collaborations between the two.
Read more at All Access
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Photo Coverage: Jennifer Hudson Celebrates Her Chicago Roots
Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson helps Michigan Avenue magazine celebrates its two-year anniversary in Chicago, IL on October 5, 2010.. Hudson who performed I Will Always Love You and I Tell You I m Not Going , posed for the magazine’s September cover. Hudson is a Chicago native.
See the Photos at Broadway World
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David Archuleta’s Billboard Q&A
David Billboard from Larissa Cheong on Vimeo.
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Part 6 of David Archuleta’s stroll through Central Park, NY
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Glee-Dux: Praise Cheesus! Ryan Murphy Gives Insight on Tonight’s Episode—and What’s to Come
Dear mighty and savory Grilled Cheesus, please shower us with your infinite power and deliver us more Glee episodes like yours. We cried. We laughed. We can’t get rid of the goosebumps that came during the “One of Us” number. And we’d like to thank you.
Wait. You say Glee boss Ryan Murphy is fully human and not a cheesy, delicious sandwich? Oh. Well, we already have his scoop and feedback from tonight’s episode. Plus juiciness on what’s ahead.
Read more at E Online
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‘Dancing with the Stars’: Eliminated contestant talks about ‘competing against athletes, graceful people’
After hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke tortured the contestants through another excruciating night of who’s safe and who’s not (better to wait and hear everything they say, Cheryl Burke!), another low-scoring performer was sent packing Tuesday on Dancing with the Stars. For more about the celebrity who got the heave-ho, go to the jump. Margaret Cho may have been responsible for some of the best soundbites this season (she called her samba on Monday “the gayest thing that ever happened”), but it looks like viewers weren’t too interested in her impromptu yuks. After she and Louis Van Amstel scored 18 out of a possible 30 for dancing to Barry Manilow’s “Copacabana” on Monday, the comedienne became the third contestant to leave the ABC reality show.
Read more at Entertainment Weekly
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Backstage at DWTS: Are You Ready for Spicy and Sexy Bristol Palin?
So what if she can’t act her way out of an Alaskan icebox? Bristol Palin is absolutely, positively going to be around for at least one more week of Dancing With the Stars fun!
And get ready, Bristol fans, because Ms. Palin and partner Mark Ballas just promised some steamy times ahead. (Someone better warn ol’ Mama Grizzly up in Alaska, OK?)
Read more at EOnline
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ET Exclusive: Julianne Hough Spills ‘Footloose’ Secrets and Talks Ryan Seacrest!
Julianne remained mostly mum about her relationship with the “American Idol” host and radio personality, but she did address recent rumors that he was planning to propose!
“Well, that’s news to me, and I think it’s news to him, ” she said with a smile. As for her summer European trip with Ryan where they were snapped by paparazzi enjoying each other’s company on a private yacht, she reveals the most exciting thing about the vacation was, “Eating, eating, eating, eating; I definitely had to get into shape for this movie after that little trip. But it was amazing!”
Read more at ET Online
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X Factor: Gamu Nhengu ordered to leave Britain
The 18-year-old, from Zimbabwe, had been tipped to win the competition outright but failed to even qualify as one of the final 12 contestants after being rejected by judge Cheryl Cole.
Reports earlier this week claimed Gamu’s failure was related to issues with her visa, and on Tuesday night the Home Office confirmed her family had been sent an official letter telling them to leave Britain.
Read more at Telegraph.co.uk
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CNN’s Piers Morgan Vows Format Changes
EXCLUSIVE: Piers Morgan tells me that he’s planning big changes to the Larry King Live interview slot he inherits in January. “The format, everything, will change. I’m not just going to be another man sitting in the CNN studio wearing red braces.” Morgan tells me his mission is to help boost CNN’s sagging primetime line-up. Larry King Live scored its lowest monthly viewer total in nearly 20 years in May, averaging just 653, 000 viewers each night.
President Obama tops Morgan’s list of potential CNN interviewees, although nothing’s been agreed yet. The production team needs to be finalised before guests are signed. The show will be mostly filmed in New York apart from 3 months in the summer when Morgan is judging America’s Got Talent in Los Angeles. Morgan’s reality show pals Donald Trump and Simon Cowell have already said they’ll be interviewed.
Read more at Deadline London
