Posts Tagged “Ryan Seacrest”

  • Britney Spears finally made it through an entire deposition in her child custody battle with ex Kevin Federline, spending two hours likely answering questions about her past drug and alcohol abuse, failure to follow court orders and her abilities as a parent.  She later said she endured it for the two most important reasons in her life–a Lifetime movie and a People’s Choice Award
  • Amy Winehouse has kinda become the Britney Spears of Britain, with regular tabloid reports of her drug and alcohol abuse.  Then again, Amy’s criminal, lunatic, drug-crazed husband makes K-Fed look like a genius…
  • As Academy Awards nominations were announced today, the big story of the Oscars is still whether there will be a traditional ceremony with writers still on strike.  Producers insist there will be still be a televised show–maybe they plan to really put the seat fillers to work…
  • For those who prefer to revel in the worst of movies, Razzie nominations announced yesterday include the Lindsay Lohan flick I Know Who Killed Me, which ended up in nine categories including worst picture, actress and screenplay.  At least LiLo can’t take the blame for the writing…
  • Writer’s Guild union reps and several media moguls will begin informal negotiations today in hopes of ending the strike that began November 5, although any agreement would be at least 2 weeks away.  That’s so union members can have adequate time to write plenty of jokes about the deal…
  • American Idol’s Simon Cowell says a listening bug was planted on the set of his show Britain’s Got Talent , likely put there to learn who the judge’s favorites were in order to to influence the wide-spread betting on talent shows there.  Simon is totally ticked off about it–he’s sure someone heard his intimate phone calls with Ryan Seacrest
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  • Paramore has found themselves in the Grammy hunt for a Best New Artist award, thanks to their huge hit Misery BusinessJosh Farro of the band says he wrote the song with lead singer Hayley Williams about a girl they knew who ruined their buddy’s life…
  • Mariah Carey’s long-awaited follow-up CD to her huge comeback album The Emancipation Of Mimi will be titled That Chick and will be released April Fool’s Day.  Mariah says it’s her favorite album so far–which means it’s even farther away from the influence of ex and one-time record boss Tommy Mottola
  • Paula Abdul visited Ryan Seacrest’s LA radio show Friday to debut her new single Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow.  Funny–I was sure it was called I Wanna Sleep with A Contestant
  • Backstreet Boy AJ McLean says he wants to do what he can to help Britney Spears and said in a magazine interview that he’s there for her.  I understand Britney really appreciates it, and hopes he’ll pick up a couple of lattes for her on his way back from getting her dry cleaning…
  • Colbie Caillat said recently that she considered changing her professional last name to Coco–it’s the title of her CD–since that was her childhood nickname and her real last name is tough to pronounce.  But Colbie added that she was already so well known by her real name that changing it just didn’t make sense…(by the way, it’s pronounced "CAL-ay", like "ballet")
  • American Idol’s Randy Jackson has taken Chris Daughtry to task for recent comments Chris made about the show being in decline, with Dogg saying Chris wouldn’t exist as an artist without the show.  Then again, Randy wouldn’t exist at all…
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  • Congress and the White House are scrambling to take steps to avoid a recession, with tax rebates of up to $800 per person a likely solution to put money into the hands of those who might quickly spend it.  If there are those unwilling to go on a buying spree, Uncle Sam can just send their check my way…
  • A $97 million winning Powerball lottery ticket puchased at a suburban New Orleans gas station is likely a local resident according to the station owner, who like others there hope the winner is someone from the neighborhood which is still struggling to return to normal after Hurricane Katrina.  One thing’s for sure–it would definitely make for one fine Mardi Gras
  • Scientists say they have been able to create a mature cloned embryo from adult skin cells–another step towards growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases.  This is certainly an amazing breakthrough, although I’m not sure I want even a little bit of a cloned Ryan Seacrest around…
  • The White House says it has no reason to believe that millions of emails from the early days of the Bush administration are missing–a change from statements it made last spring that suggested it was uncertain about the possibility.  They still don’t know where they are–it’s just that now they’re sure they aren’t missing…
  • France is abuzz with rumors about whether its new president Nicolas Sarkozy and his model-singer girlfriend Carla Bruni were secretly married–and Sarkozy is saying nothing to suggest otherwise.  After almost 8 years of no Bill Clinton, it’s nice to have a world leader again whose love life is news…
  • A group of actors including John Turturro, Robert DeNiro and Susan Sarandon have asked New York mayor Michael Bloomberg to save nearly 3 dozen Carnegie Hall studios from renovation in order to preserve the homes of artists and musicians who have taught many great performers.  I think this is a very noble cause–just as long as none of them take credit for that obnoxious infomercial guy Billy Mays
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