Danielle Bradbery performs the National Anthem before the NBC NFL season kickoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Denver Broncos. Pre-game at 7:30/6:30 pm. Keith Urban is set to perform before the game (not televised).
It’s a double eviction tonight on Big Brother! Tune in tonight at 9/8c pm. CBS. Project Runway airs tonight on Lifetime at 9 pm.
Candice Glover grows from ‘Idol’ winner to performer – Q. Was there a point when you knew you had a good chance at winning “American Idol”? A. I went through the whole thing more nervous than probably anybody who’s ever been on that show ever. After having auditioned so many times, you never expect to come back. You just want to do a good job. You just want to try your best. I never thought I was going to win at all. – Read more at The Detroit News
Kree Harrison Reacts to Harry Connick Jr.’s American Idol Judgeship – “I think Harry Connick Jr. will be great,” Harrison said in a recent radio interview. “He’s got such good wit, but more than anything, he’s educated in music. I mean, he knows what he’s talking about in that area, so I think he’d be good.” – Read more at CMT
Carrie Underwood sings ‘Sunday Night Football’ theme – “Right now, I’m working a lot of on my own, memorizing lines, working on the music with help,” she says. “I don’t want it to sound like Carrie Underwood, country singer, singing The Sound of Music. I really want to do the part justice, the way it was written, and immerse myself in this whole other world. I’m really excited to get that opportunity to step outside of my world and try something new.” – Read more at USA Today
Underwood brings new ‘Sunday Night Football’ theme – “We were definitely mindful — she had put her mark on it for so many years,” Underwood said in a phone interview. “We definitely wanted to go in and make sure we switched gears a little bit and made it sound more like me. And changed up the look and the feel just so it wasn’t, you know, the same song with a different blondie up there singing it.” AP: One of the songs [In the Sound of Music] “The Lonely Goatherd,” involves yodeling. Do you have to practice at that? Underwood: That’s the one thing I don’t have to practice. I actually have some yodeling experience. I can yodel. I don’t think you can necessarily learn it. I can just do it. I didn’t have to learn it. I am one of the blessed few. – Via the Associated Press
Jesus Takes the Wheel!
Like. Literally.
Ruben Studdard Joins The Biggest Loser
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Kelly Clarkson Says Brits Didn’t Really Get Country on American Idol – “They’re British-based, you know?” she said in a recent radio interview. “So they didn’t really get country music. So in the first season, I kept trying to push for a country week, and they would not do it. But now since Carrie [Underwood] and all these other people into country music are involved, I think it’s important that they have somebody representing that genre.” – Read more at CMT
Jennifer Hudson Was ‘Very Intimidated’ By the Role of Winnie Mandela
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From ‘Idol’ to Auburn – Paul McDonald to perform at Bourbon Street – “It was kind of a last minute deal,” McDonald said about auditioning. “I’d never really seen ‘American Idol.’ Our guitar player’s girlfriend at the time was on a TV show called ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ and we came back in town because our gig got cancelled in Colorado and she was like, ‘Hey, you should probably put on a suit and try out for this ‘American Idol’ thing.’ McDonald said he decided he may as well try and see what happens. “Our management in our band wasn’t the strongest. He was promising a bunch of different things that just weren’t happening,” He said. “I thought ‘If I do this I might catch a break.’ I’m one of those guys where it’s kind of like ‘You know what, I might as well try it. If I fail at it, whatever, but at least I did it.’” Paul is currently on tour with Hanson – Read more at The Corner
Emblem3 Names Their 5 Favorite Pop-Punk Albums
Simon Cowell: ‘My child will inherit nothing’ – Cowell tells Britain’s Esquire magazine, “I’m going to leave my money to somebody. A charity, probably – kids and dogs. I don’t believe in that passing on from one generation to another… Your legacy has to be that hopefully you gave enough people an opportunity, so that they could do well, and you gave them your time, taught them what you know. I like that feeling.” – Read more at ABC Action News
Jane Lynch gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame – On Wednesday, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce awarded Lynch the 2,505th star along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. An animated Lynch told CBS News she now expects to have trouble sleeping after receiving the honor. “I am going to wake up in the middle of the night and say, ‘Ahh, I am a star!'” she said. – Read more at CBS News
Anna Trebunskaya Expecting First Child – There’s a big reason why Anna Trebunskaya isn’t joining the cast of the new season of Dancing with the Stars — she’s expecting. The reality show star, 32, is four months pregnant with her first child, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. Trebunskaya – who split from her husband of nine years, fellow DWTS pro Jonathan Roberts, last October — hasn’t revealed the name of the baby’s father. – Read more at People
Nashville Set To Get ‘Crazy’ Music Industry Reality Show – Nashville will get another Music City-centric show thanks to A&E. The cable network, under Executive VP and GM David McKillop, has ordered the series Crazy Hearts: Nashville, a docuseries chronicling the lives of aspiring country music artists, according to a statement from A&E. – Read more at Music Row
