Kelly Clarkson to play Sudbury Arena in August
EZ Rock and the Human League are proud to present Kelly Clarkson at the Sudbury Arena on Saturday, August 6th, at 8pm.
The concert wraps up the week-long Playing for Change event, which features the 14th Annual NHL Legends golf tournament, the Bryan Trottier Hockey Camp, and a live performance by Kelly Clarkson, American Idol’s first winner and reigning queen.
The event will support the Human League’s breakfast program – currently feeding over 3000 children at 25 local schools, and the P.L.A.Y. program, which allows financially challenged families to enroll their children in popular organized extra curricular activities, such as hockey, soccer, music, dance and art.
Read more at The Sudbury Star
Country Stars Step Up To The Plate For City Of Hope
The 21st Annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge is set to take place on Saturday, June 11 at Greer Stadium in Nashville. The first artists confirmed to play in this year’s game are Vince Gill, Dierks Bentley, David Nail, Brett Eldredge, Chuck Wicks, Jake Owen, James Wesley, Josh Gracin and Point of Grace. These artists, and more to be announced soon, will take the field for the highly anticipated game between longtime rivals Grand Ole Opry and After MidNite with Blair Garner.
Read more at Country Music is Love
Idoloonies: Jacob Gets Booted, James Gets a Pass, Lauren Gets a Rewrite, Haley Gets Squat
American Idol is a harsh, frustrating, and inconsistent mistress, but to paraphrase one of the ditties covered during Top 5 week, I can’t live…if livin’ is without Fox’s ubiquitous ratings behemoth. Yes, folks, Season 10 has been filled with maddening moments, like the judges conveniently overlooking James Durbin’s pitch problems on “Closer to the Edge, ” or the producers rewriting Idol history to create an “underdog rising” story arc for Lauren Alaina, or Haley Reinhart never getting the respect that she’s entitled to.
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Jacob Lusk ‘Didn’t Want To Be A Charity Case’ On ‘American Idol’
“I didn’t want to be a charity case, ” Lusk told MTV News on Monday afternoon (May 9). “I didn’t want to use my father’s death or my mom starting on welfare and going to college or getting her degree or me moving on my own and having rough times and barely finding a place to live and barely making ends meet.”
See the Video at MTV
From ‘Idol’ To Access: Jacob Lusk Performs ‘You’re All I Need To Get’
Fresh of his ‘American Idol” elimination, Jacob Lusk comes to the Access stage and performs “You’re All I Need To Get” by Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell, one last time.
See the Video at Access Hollywood
VIDEO: American Idol’s Jacob Lusk Discusses Outpouring Emotions and Diva Tendencies
Emoting can be a 24/7 job, especially for a soul singer such as American Idol’s recently eliminated contestant Jacob Lusk.
“I don’t know when to turn it off and on … I wear my emotions on my sleeve, ” he tells TVGuide.com. Despite that, he was able to hold it together for our interview, in which he told us that he embraces comparisons to gay icon Sylvester, as well as the “diva” label — to a point.
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Kris Allen Sees Fatherhood In His Distant Future
It’s the little things that count for American Idol winner Kris Allen, who confesses he was attracted to wife Katy because of a certain asset.
“The first thing that I saw was that she had a nice butt, ” he tells me at the Mint Jubilee Celebration surrounding the Kentucky Derby in Louisville. “That’s what attracted me to her initially.”
Although Katy doesn’t join him for the Derby festivities, he plans to treat her to a nice hat. “She’d love that.”
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Chris Daughtry tweets, “Finishing up a killer tune with @RiversCuomo I think he’s rubbing off on me… http://twitpic.com/4w0ehu
How The Voice Found Its Singers
America’s got talent, but not everyone is lining up to audition for TV’s growing number of singing competition shows. That’s where Michelle McNulty, the casting director for NBC’s new hit series The Voice, comes in. McNulty and her team spent months tracking down performers in clubs, at rehearsal studios, on YouTube and via personal contacts in order to find the right contestants.
TV critics have been impressed with the caliber of talent on The Voice, particularly in the premiere episode — and credit much of the show’s early success to those performances. “We were looking for singers that might not audition for American Idol or any of those other competition shows, ” McNulty says. “We were looking for real artists.”
Read more at TV Guide
Simon Cowell Addresses Mariah Carey ‘X-Factor’ Rumors [AUDIO]
Ryan reveals, “Paula [Abdul] signed on in the last hour, ” adding, “the deal was done just moments before they started the auditions with Paula.” With the judges of Simon, Cheryl Cole, Antonio “L.A.” Reid, and Paula now secure, the buzz which remains is whether Mariah Carey will be partaking in the competition show or not.
Ryan took the rumor into his own hands and phoned Simon himself, who clears up for us, “whatever Mariah wants, Mariah can get. All she’s got to do is call me, and I’ll work out a deal.”
Simon adds, “she can honestly do whatever she wants, but you know, she’s got to tell me when she wants to do it.”
Listen to the audio clip at RyanSeacrest.com
Backstage at Dancing With the Stars: When Will Ralph Macchio’s Knee Heal?
Macchio tells us, “What’s the diagnosis and the prognosis? They say [to expect improvement] three to five days from when it happens…ish…if you stay off it. It’s a ruptured cyst and inflammation in the tendon or whatever, and they said I should be back to normal hopefully Wednesday or Thursday.”
Read more at EOnline
‘Glee’: Mike O’Malley on prom, pilots and practical advice
On Tuesday (May 10), we grabbed “Glee’s” Mike O’Malley (aka Burt Hummel) when he stopped by the KTLA Morning Show. We asked him about the upcoming “Prom Queen” episode, his comedy pilot — “Family Album” — and stood by helplessly when the interview was crashed by “Parenthood’s Dax Shepard.
O’Malley told us he hopes Burt Hummel will eventually get to sing on “Glee.” Citing Artie’s out-of-the-wheelchair dream sequence “Safety Dance, ” he didn’t see why a similar scenario couldn’t be concocted for Burt.
He also had blunt advice for would-be prom-goers: “It’s really just a party where everybody’s dressed up. It’s really just a dance … I think that if people look at it that way they won’t be disappointed when it turns out to be just another dance in a fancy costume.”
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Alec Baldwin Drops Out of ‘Rock of Ages’ (Exclusive)
The high-profile cast of Rock of Ages is down one star. Alec Baldwin has fallen out of the New Line adaptation of the hit Broadway musical being directed by Adam Shankman.
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Alec Baldwin Joins ‘Rock of Ages’ Cast
Shankman said on March 5 that the Emmy-winning 30 Rock actor had agreed to join the cast. “Based on info I got today, ” Shankman said on Twitter, “I’m gonna confirm Alec Baldwin as Dennis in Rock Of Ages. Hollah.” But sources say Baldwin has now decided not to do the film.
Baldwin was to have played Dennis Dupree, the owner of the Bourbon Room, the Sunset Boulevard nightclub at the center of the movie.
Read more at THR
‘The Voice’: Smooth crooner Tje Austin opens up about epic ‘battles’ and auditioning for ‘Idol’
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did you hear about the competition?
One of my friends actually sent me a message on Facebook the day before, or a couple days before, for an open audition. I wasn’t gonna do it, I really wasn’t gonna do it. I really didn’t want to get involved in a competition. I’m not that type of person, but I went to the audition and they really enjoyed my performance, which got me excited and then finally when I heard that they accepted me, I was just amazed. It made me feel really good.
Read more at EW
