The Bachelorette airs tonight on ABC at 8/7c pm.
‘American Idol’ star Kelly Clarkson to open Microsoft Store with free show in Metro Detroit – DETROIT, MI – Former ‘American Idol’ star Kelly Clarkson will help The Somerset Collection mall in Troy open its new Microsoft Store on Friday with a free concert for fans. Clarkson is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. in one of the mall’s parking lots on the corner of Coolidge Hwy and Cunningham Drive. – Read more at MLive
Demi Lovato tweets to her fans about the death of her father, “I feel so humbled to have had so much support from my fans, friends, family and complete strangers.. God bless you all, thank you so much.”
The Voice’s Danielle Bradbery Talks ‘Awkward’ Blake Shelton Love-Song Duet, Scotty McCreery ‘Controversy’ and Season 4 Greatest Hits! – The 16-year-old from Cypresss, TX, used a combination of powerhouse vocals and highly strategic song choices to repeatedly crack the iTunes Top 10 singles chart on her way to victory. And while she considered the idea of veering outside her country wheelhouse, Danielle says her coach Blake Shelton discouraged her from doing anything that might slow her runaway momentum.
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The Voice’s Sasha Allen Talks Whitney Houston, ‘At Last,’ That Shocking Top 6 ‘Striptease’ – After tuning in for several seasons of American Idol and The Voice, veteran backup singer and Broadway performer Sasha Allen found herself doing some soul-searching. “My friends were having a conversation, and I was saying, ‘Am I going to let this era of [reality singing competitions] just pass me by? Am I going to think that it’s not the cool way or that I’m too old or come up with all these excuses?’ I decided that I had to give it a try.” – Read more at TV Line
Candice Glover Talks Debut Album & Becoming Famous – ESSENCE.com: You’re in the studio now recording your debut album, Music Speaks. Tell us about the album’s flavor. CANDICE GLOVER: The songs I’ve recorded so far are definitely R&B. Some of them remind me of songs you’d listen to in the summer. I also have some love songs that I’m doing. I sat down once with Mark Heist and we wrote some stuff together. I have some stuff lined up from some really well-known people who are really great at writing so I’m looking forward to getting into that. – Read more at Essence.com
Fremantle Sells ‘The X Factor’ to Fox in Russia, Eastern Europe – BUDAPEST – Production giant FremantleMedia has kicked off Eastern European TV market NATPE Budapest in impressive style, opening the event with a series of major regional deals, including ones for hit talent show The X Factor. Fremantle inked deals for three seasons of U.S. version of The X Factor with Fox International channels for Russia, Poland, the Baltics and the CIS region, as well as Bulgaria and the Balkans. Commercial network RTL Klub grabbed the U.S. X Factor for Hungary.
Fox also picked up seasons three to six of Fremantle format Project Runway for its Bulgarian and Balkan channels and Sony Channels in Russia took seasons eight and nine of the fashion reality show. – Read more at The Hollywood Reporter
Adam Shankman Breaks Down So You Think You Can Dance Top 20 – The Green Mile is where we tell the final contestants if they’ve made it onto the show or not. Each “yes” is always tempered and dampened by each “no.” Frankly, it’s hell. This season was no different, yet the broadcast used the Green Mile in a wonderful way, by framing each segment as a celebratory introduction to this year’s top 20. Since the Green Mile was shot 10 days before the performance show, I’ll just write about what aired, but keep in mind, every “yes” and “no” could have been its own blog. Yes. It was that heavy. – Read more at Parade.com
