Idol Headlines for 11/15/11

Scotty McCreery appears at the 2011 Kicks 99 Guitar Pull at the James Brown Arena in Augusta GA Doors open at 6:30pm, show at 7:30pm.
Jennifer Hudson will be Ustream live at 8 pm EST.

‘The X Factor’ Marks Its Spot at The Grove

“The X Factor” judges/coaches Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid, Nicole Scherzinger and host Steve Jones will take over the “Extra” stage at The Grove Thursday, November 17!

The “X Factor” event begins 7:00 PM Thursday, November 17 at The Grove!

Read more at Extra TV

Season 9 Idol, Casey James, revealed to his fans in a twitter party that his debut album will come out in February.

Kris Allen will sing the National Anthem at the Green Bay Packers home game on Sunday November 20.  there’s also a contest for one lucky winner to hang out with Kris for the day. More details at his website.

Nikki Reed and Paul McDonald Attend the Twilight: Breaking Dawn Premiere

Paul and Nikki attended the big premiere last night.  Paul tweeted, “I have never experienced anything quite like a #twilight premiere. It was crazy! Off to NYC!”.  Stefano Langone and Lauren Alaina also attended.

“Twilight” Star Nikki Reed: “Fame Is Not Success”

Congratulation on your marriage. There’s a thing that often happens when people get married and they feel surprisingly different once the ring is on and the documents are signed. How is it different now that it’s official?

Well, we get to share health insurance! That’s pretty cool, and there’s something called The Family Plan with AT&T that I’ve discovered. I don’t know – I don’t feel like it different with him and I. I feel like it’s different with other people. I feel like our families view the situation…he’s from the South and so every time we went back home his mom was always very clear about, like, ‘So, if Nikki is going to stay at the house I’ve made the bed up downstairs in the guest room.’

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James Durbin Talks About his Album, Band, and Wedding

As James Durbin’s newly selected band caught some sun outside, the Season 10 fourth place finalist hopped on the phone with the AI-Insider to talk about his bandmates, Memories of a Beautiful Disaster, wedding planning, and more!

Read more at American Idol.com

Bahamian Rhapsody, or How I Spent My Winter Vacation with ‘Idol’ & ‘AGT’ Stars

Some people book vacations to the Bahamas to get away from it all. I, of course, am not one of those people. So when it came time for me to take a winter holiday, I chose to fly out to Grand Bahama Island for the Grand Lucayan resort’s Inaugural Celebrity Weekend, a charity gala organized by entertainment industry veteran Lisa Tenner (founder of Las Vegas’s EAT’M Festival), to see some of my favorite reality singers–“American Idol’s” Blake Lewis, Didi Benami, and Tim Urban, and “America’s Got Talent’s” fabulous fop Prince Poppycock–perform in a seaside setting. Now that was a proper vacation, as far as I’m concerned. Velvet-sand beaches, bottomless Bahama Mama cocktails, AND Prince Poppycock covering Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” in the Grand Lucayan ballroom? Yep, this was a total Bahamian rhapsody.

See the Videos at Yahoo Music

Looks like Dude loves his lady! Steven Tyler and long-time younger girlfriend Erin Brady smooch on the beach in Hawaii

Steven Tyler shares a lingering kiss with his long-time girlfriend Erin Brady during an afternoon on the golden Hawaii shores.

The 63-year-old American Idol judge was spotted smooching his lady love, and mysteriously putting his hand on her stomach while hanging loose on the beaches of Maui where they seen with other members of Aerosmith.

The music legend wore bright red board shorts, his chic Ray-Ban aviators, his wrists full of leather bracelets, multiple rings on both hands, and strings of shells around his neck.

See the photos at the Daily Mail

‘Dancing With the Stars’: Maksim Chmerkovskiy Has a Four-Letter Word for Carrie Ann Inaba

Tonight’s issue stems from Carrie Ann Inaba commenting on the duo smiling through their critique, which drew raised eyebrows and zipped mouth from Maks during the show. He was less shy backstage.

“F— Carrie Ann, next question,” Maks told reporters.

It should be acknowledged that he was laughing quite a bit when he said this, but he seems to have had enough of the scoring this season.

Read more at the Hollywood Reporter

‘Dancing with the Stars’: Is Maks feuding with Carrie Ann now?

“But that’s not the point,” Chmerkoskiy said. “The idea is to validate all the effort that you did in dress rehearsal for that one time during the performance. Our dress rehearsal wasn’t great. This was great. I’m happiest that that’s what worked. She validated her effort. To me …. it was a great tango.”

Read more at EW

Cheryl Burke on ‘Dancing With the Stars’: ‘It’s Just a Show, Not a Real Competition’

Rob Kardashian isn’t letting big sister Kim Kardashian’s divorce drama get in the way of his dancing, says his ‘Dancing With the Stars’ partner, Cheryl Burke. Instead, he’s focused on making it to the finals, a feat he never thought possible back in week one.

“He’s gained so much confidence in himself,” Burke tells AOL TV. “He’s not even the same guy that he was in week one, and he’s just proved to everybody that he is really talented.”

Read more at AOL TV

Backstage at DWTS: Why Was Everyone Crying and “Disappointed” Tonight?

Plus, how is J.R. Martinez’s twisted ankle holding up?

“I’m a little disappointed,” J.R. admits of his performance (he ended the night in third place). “Obviously, I injured my ankle. We worked so hard all week and then on Friday I twisted my ankle and the routines weren’t delivered the way that we would have liked.” He adds that he and partner Karina Smirnoff could have scored high on their tango if it wasn’t for his injury. “When I spun her around on the floor there was another lift, it was a really powerful move but the way it puts pressure on my leg, it didn’t feel right.”

Read more at EOnline

Howard Stern as ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge? No way, says parents group

Rumors that Stern is being considered as the new judge for the NBC talent competition show “America’s Got Talent” has the advocacy group fired up, and they are instructing NBC to vote him out of consideration, saying he is not appropriate for the family-friendly series.

“If the rumors are true that NBC is considering the addition of radio shock-jock Howard Stern to the ‘America’s Got Talent’ judges table, the result will be the alienation of tens of millions of advertising dollars,” said PTC President Tim Winter in a statement. “Such a move smacks of desperation by the once-proud peacock network. Any short-term buzz from Stern’s shock value will result in a longer-term decline as families abandon the show for more suitable programming.”

Read more at the LA Times

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