Pia Toscano performs her single “This Time” on the So You Think You Can Dance results show, FOX 8/7c
Idols Live heads to Milwaukee Bradley Center in Milwaukee, WI
The Voice at Bank of America Pavillion, Boston MA (Nope, Not attending)
Allison Iraheta and Katie Stevens will perform at the Eleven Nightclub in Los Angeles
Anwar Robinson at Bubby’s in Brooklyn NY
Danny Gokey at Sweetwater County Fair, Rock Springs WY
David Hernandez at “Jersey Rocks” in Scottsdale AZ
Fantasia at Oak Hollow Park, High Point, NC
Kellie Pickler at American Music Theater, Lancaster PA
Sanjaya Malakar at Bottom Lounge, Chicago, IL
More at IdolStages
Haley Reinhart will visit Windy City Live tomorrow morning at 9 am CDT. She’ll make an announcement, as well as perform a song. Here is the link for the live feed.
Blake Lewis tweeted, “Coldplay was amazing at UCLA tonight! Great friends and great music.” Michael Johns and Didi Benami were also at the concert.
Kelly Clarkson is very excited for Zooey Deschanel’s holiday record with She and Him. Kelly tweets Zooey, “I do not know you but let me just say right now how freakin’ excited I am about a holiday record from @sheandhim” Zooey tweets back, “@kelly_clarkson – Thank you so much ms. clarkson! I am so excited that you’re excited!!!”
New Adam Lambert photos from Lee Cherry
Scotty McCreery comes with ‘Idol’ tour to Joe Louis Arena
As Season 10’s champ, the 17-year-old McCreery is not only headlining the 48-date trek but, when there’s rare free time, is “going to the nearest studio” to continue recording his debut album, which is expected to be out before the end of the year. It doesn’t leave much time to relax.
But McCreery insists that he’s “really having fun, ” and he finds this pace preferable to the actual “American Idol” competition.
“I’d say it’s definitely easier, ” explains McCreery, who’s the youngest male and second-youngest contestant (behind Jordin Sparks) to win an “Idol” season. “On this tour I do kind of get to relax; I’m not on till the end, so I get to relax the whole show until the very end when I have to go out. I definitely have the pressures of getting the album out, and my days off are still pretty much recording or doing interviews or something, sure.
Read more at Daily Tribune
American Idol Finalist Talks About His Fight with Colitis
American Idol Finalist Talks About His Fight with Colitis: MyFoxPHOENIX.com
Via FOX Phoenix
American Idol’s Scotty: There’s always light at end of tunnel
We couldn’t resist a chance at getting some tips from “American Idol” winner Scotty McCreery before a recent show.
Question: What’s one thing worth remembering in tough times?
Answer: There’s always the light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes you’ve got to work through some tough times and you’ve got to work really hard. It might seem like it’s never going to work out or you’re never going to break through, or you’re never going to get that record deal, but if you just keep working through, you never know what can happen.
Read more at Kansas City.com
‘Idol’ McCreery a cool customer
Via Star Tribune
Happy accident helps propel ‘Idol’ No. 3 Haley Reinhart into recording deal
But this year on “American Idol, ” the 20-year-old Chicagoan used her seductive growl to escape near-elimination in the early rounds and finish strongly in third place in the competition. Thing is, her signature move was nothing she ever planned on doing.
“It’s funny, I never really did that at all before I got onto ‘Idol, ‘ ” says Reinhart, on the phone last week from a tour stop in Charlotte, N.C. “And I remember during ‘God Bless the Child’ that sound just came out of me, and there was no turning back.”
Read more at the Detroit News
Fantasia Barrino’s Baby Due Just Before New Years
Fantasia Barrino is pregnant by her married boyfriend, and RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned the former American Idol winner’s due date.
The 27-year-old singer is due to have her baby on December 29, 2011, according to a source close to the couple.
“They’re excited to be having the baby around the holidays, ” the source said.
Read more Radaronline
Chris Daughtry tweets, “Laying down acoustics on a ballad”
Obama turns 50th birthday into campaign fundraiser
The warm welcome he received from a crowd of 2, 400 who heard performances from musicians Jennifer Hudson and Herbie Hancock was a balm for the president’s wounds.
See a photo of Jennifer with the President HERE.
Dianna Degarmo, Joe Jonas and More at Hairspray rehearsals
Dianna DeGarmo will perform in a production of Hairspray this weekend at the Hollywood Bowl in LA.
Via Cambio.com
Kellie Pickler Says Married Life Is ‘Better Than What I Thought It Would Be’
“It’s better than what I thought it would be, ” Pickler tells Taste of Country. “I never thought I’d be at this particular place in my life, so that’s a real surprise for me, and I’m glad I jumped because I’m so very happy with Kyle. I can’t complain as far as he and I go. I’ve been really, really blessed as far as that’s concerned. He’s my best friend, so I think that’s the first rule of marriage is you’ve got to make sure you are marrying your best friend.”
Read more at a Taste For Country
Jerry Lewis out as Muscular Dystrophy Association chairman
(CNN) — The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced Wednesday that comedian Jerry Lewis is no longer serving as the organization’s national chairman.
Lewis, 85, and MDA had announced in May that he was retiring as host of the MDA Labor Day Telethon in September. But he said then in a statement that he was planning to continue to serve as the organization’s national chairman.
Jim Brown, vice president of public relations for the MDA, told CNN in a telephone interview that Lewis will not be replaced in his role as national chairman.
He also said that Lewis will not host this year’s telethon, which is scheduled for September 4. Instead, it will be hosted by Nigel Lythgoe, Nancy O’Dell, Allison Sweeney and Jan Carl, Brown said.
Read more at CNN
New Crib for Glee’s Chris Colfer in Laurel Canyon
BUYER: Chris Colfer
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $860, 000
SIZE: 2, 462 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.75 bathrooms
Sassy Mister Colfer will inevitably move on to bigger and better things. As per both The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial and our impossibly well-informed confrère Lucy Spillerguts–he will also soon move into a new house that hovers over the rugged Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles, CA.
Property records show that Mister Colfer, through a trust, paid $860, 000 for an ass-uglee residence perched on the last hairpin curve of a secluded cul-de-sac high above Laurel Canyon. A deeper dive into the property records reveals that Mister Colfer bought the blue beast out of foreclosure. Some of the resident Real Estate Chicken Littles around here will surly go giddy when they learn the non-celeb sellers of Mister Colfer’s new crib purchased the property just over two years ago for a substantially higher $1, 232, 000 and lost the house, according to the docs we peeped, into the snapping claws of foreclosure in September 2010.
Read more at Realestalker
