Malawi’s Nation newspaper asked Madonna some questions regarding her failed adoption application. While I understand she is very disappointed, all this really means is that she is going to have to go through the proper channels by having a residence there for 18-24 months. Yes it’s a delay, but no doubt her high priced dream team is already in full appeal -mode.
It’s common knowledge that the US has a very nasty habit of allowing those who are privileged to be above the law, that doesn’t seem to be the case in Malawi.
She had this to say:
“I want to provide Mercy with a home, a loving family environment and the best education and health care possible. And it’s my hope that she, like David, will one day return to Malawi and help the people of their country. Though I have been advised that I cannot publicly discuss the pending appeal regarding my desire to adopt Mercy, I do want to say how much I appreciate the level of support that I have received from the people of Malawi and my friends around the world.”
I see that she has already put the onus on the two little children with saving their birth land, so I’m really looking forward to seeing Lourdes help the poor of the USA and little Rocco helping the poor of England.
Oh and Happy Easter to all. Here is an old Easter ad I found:
Carrie Underwood came away with the night’s top honors at the 2009 Academy Of Country Music Awards held at the MGM Grand tonight in Las Vegas.
She won Top Female Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year (a fan-voted category this year), winning over Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban and George Strait.
Carrie did a shout out to her boyfriend hockey player Mike Fisher during her acceptance speech saying:
“My baby, I wish you were here!”
Carrie also sang her hit song “I Told You So” and looked stunning in a fabulous crimson dress, which cascaded like a waterfall over half of the stage. Check out her performance below:
Lily Allen did a concert in L.A. last night and during her cover of Britney’s “Woomanizah” (which Lily and her proper British heritage pronounces “Womanizer”), Lindsay Lohan sauntered onto the stage. She whispered something to Lily, gave her a monkey hug, and tried out a few of her sexiest dance moves.
Lindsay’s appearance was totally random and unnecessary, but isn’t her life these days? Seeing her go up there looking like some useless attention-starved little monkey was just sad.
This video makes me wonder. There’s someone up there singing somebody else’s hit song, and some spaced out scaregrow joins her on stage for no apparent reason other than to fame whore. Lilo can’t even dance in the background!
And all these fools in the audience cheering like it’s all super awesome.
Here is one of the promo pictures from the Jonas Brothers new series.
The Jonas Brothers and their pals Chelsea Staub and Nicole Anderson are busy at work getting ready to kick off their new series that starts in May.
To give you an idea of what the first episode that’s titled, “Wrong Song, is about:”
“Nick Lucas writes a love song for a girl he’s just met — fellow student and aspiring singer Penny (guest star Bridgit Mendler) — despite warnings from Kevin and Joe that he’s moving too fast with this brand new crush. Then the brothers attend Penny’s first gig, where she sings the love song to another boy. Meanwhile aspiring fashion designer Stella (Staub) tries to invent high-performance, tear-proof clothing for her friends to wear on stage.”
“Wrong Song” premieres Saturday, May 2 @ 8PM ET/PT on Disney Channel.
John Mayer dressed up for his Mayercraft Cruise that departed from Long Beach, CA on Friday looking like the long lost son of Captain Stubing from that hit 70’s show, The Love Boat.
Rumour has it that his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Anniston dumped him because he was addicted to Twitter. He had this to say about the phase he’s going through to E! News recently:
“It’s inherently silly and it’s inherently dumb. If you really think that Twitter is the pathway to spiritual enlightenment, well…It’s one step away from sending pictures of your poop. I don’t have a devotion to Twitter. I didn’t sell out to Twitter. You do Twitter until everybody gets off of Twitter and it’s something else you go and try out.”
He left this tweet awhile ago:
“Watched the sunset. I just had a beer with the unknown, and it’s actually really cool if you shut up and listen to what it has to say.”
Here he is sniffing his mankini for some freaky reason:
TMZ is reporting that 110 passengers became ill on the cruise and needed to be taken off the boat. Wonder if it was after they watched this sniffing performance??!!
Lindsay Lohan is featured in new commercial for the Spring/Summer 2009 ad campaign for the Italian fashion line Fornarina.
A rep for Fornarina told press:
“[Lindsay] is that very self-confident, dynamic woman. She’s got a lot of attitude. That’s what we’re hoping our customer will aspire to.”
Director Marco Bragaglia shows Lindsay as a modern day “Alice in Wonderland” who is checking out three metaphysical settings with fluctuating geometrical shapes in neon colors. The commercial was filmed earlier this year in L.A at “Hollywood Center Studios.”
Amy was tottering around wearing high heels in London today looking as if she was dressed for a night of clubbing when she was actually arriving to the City of Westminster Magistrates Court to face charges for one of her many misbehaving antics!
Last September she did the freak on a fan named Sherene Flash at a charity ball. She plead “not guilty” to one charge of common assault and then checked out. A trial date has been set for July 23rd.
The entire proceedings lasted about 15 minutes.
Her dad Mitch did a fabulous job of chaperoning to make sure she arrived on time and looking so stylish. Her beloved well-worn ballerina slippers were not part of her outfit and it’s painfully obvious she isn’t used to wearing sexy peep-toed pumps. Check out her sexy wobble-walking:
Self-imposed rehab did work wonders on her though. I have to admit, she looks healthy.
I think of seen this video-style from her like… 15 times now? The munchkin-techno vocals, sexy gazing into the camera, the strutting back and forth. Her lack of creativity has become so stunningly obvious!
Spelling “bad words” is amusingly juvenile in grade school. Is she’s trying to make her music kid-friendly? I probably would have found the “hidden meaning” of this song hilarious if I was 16 and foolish, but I’m not so I didn’t.
Check out her weave tracks at the beginning of the video when she first appears on cam and flips her hair. It’s a very noticeable editing mistake. I’m embarrassed for her. If I noticed it, many many other women will too!
Here is a clip from the proceedings of Chris Brown’s court appearance:
TMZ has a copy of the protective order that was filed March 5th in Los Angeles Superior Court, showing the document instructing that Brown must not:
“harass, strike, threaten, assault (sexually or otherwise), follow, stalk, molest, destroy or damage personal or real property, disturb the peace, keep under surveillance, or block movements of” Rihanna.
The order expires in March 2012.
Here is Bobby Trendy who showed up outside of the court house to spread some sweetness as only he can do. He brought along his pooch in a stroller.
Michael Jackson held a press conference today to announce his comeback tour which he called “This Is It”. The series of concerts will be held at the O2 Area in London, England. The concerts kick off on July 9th after which 10 shows will go on sale March 13th and more may be added.
It was quite the spectacle as all things related to wacko Jacko usually are. He spun around, punched his fist into the air and thoroughly enjoyed the screaming and adoring fans going crazy at the mere sight of him!
A new album is also in the works for the former King of Pop!
Britney Spears kicked off her Circus tour with a concert in New Orleans, Louisiana on Tuesday night (March 3). It was another fantastically orchestrated Jamie King production… the same genius who did Madonna’s Sticky And Sweet Tour. Is there anyone better to put on a massive spectacle like this? I think not.
As for Brit not singing live, what did you expect? Does anyone actually go to one of her concerts to hear live singing from her? Seriously, come on!
She wore costumes designed by Canadian identical twins Dean and Dan Caten of Dsquared2.
She made her grand entrance by descending from the ceiling on a trapeze and sang her recent track, “Circus”. She also did a pole dance to her song, “Radar”. One of the highlights of the show is when she performed Breathe On Me accompanied by two aerialists, who turned and shaped their bodies into a bed and sent Britney flying into the air with them. She seemed completely fearless in the air and did some impressive moves herself.
Britney also sang her classics “Boys“, “Me Against the Music“, “Baby One More Time“, “Womanizer” and many others.
Britney’s back and her fans welcomed her with all the love they had to give. Through all of her struggles, she has managed to once again rise to the top and impress all who attended. It was non-stop action. She looked fantastic healthy and alert. She didn’t talk to the audience except at the end thanking them all and telling them she loved them.
The tour has 39 more dates and concludes in London on June 14th. If you want to be entertained with flying sets, smoke, wind, pyro, then you won’t be disappointed.
Here are the brothers as they hit the red carpet last night. They made another of their 3D Surprise Theater Invasion Tour appearances in Dallas, Texas.
It’s being reported that the brothers have had a disappointing opening at the box office for their Jonas Brothers 3-D Concert Experience even with their “surprise personal appearances” at various screenings throughout the U.S.
The 3-D Concert Experience did not rake in the projected $30-$40 million at the U.S. box offices, instead it earned Disney an estimated $12.7 million dollars.
It’s probably because many parents do not have the extra cash to spend on their kids right now in this economy. 3D = $15 per person, plus popcorn and drinks! Most likely, 11 year old girls don’t have that kind of spending money to blow on a movie as that is what their allowance is for two weeks!
As a comparison, Miley Cyrus’s Hannah Montana 3-D earned almost three times that amount in it’s opening weekend – and it was only played in about half as many theaters.
The Jonas Brothers are seen here getting off their private jet after it landed in New York this morning. They are making the rounds for their surprise theater invasions.
Today, Nick, Joe, and Kevin thrilled their fans at the Palisades Mall in Nyack, NY.
“The great thing is that we used to live close to this mall and watched tons of movies here,” the boys said on their blog. “The crowd went crazy. It was so fun to see the joy on the faces of the fans!”
The brothers will continue their cross nation tour this weekend, making unexpected ‘pop- ins’ for fans at theaters screening The Jonas Brothers 3D Experience.
Get ready, they could be dropping in at a theater near you!
Britney Spears’ official website has just posted the artwork for her latest single “If U Seek Amy.”
The song will be the third single to be released from her sixth studio album Circus. The track was co-written and produced by Max Martin, who also wrote “…Baby One More Time” and “Oops!… I Did It Again”.
An unnamed source told In Style Magazine that she did the shooting for the video outside Malibu in Pacific Palisades California earlier this month. The insider who was an eye witness had this to say:
“The dancers are all dressed in metallic colors, and shiny tights. They look awesome, with sequins all over their outfits” .
The picture above caused quite a stir when it came out in Vanity Fair. It’s of Miley Cyrus and her dad Billy Ray Cyrus. So many people thought it was inappropriate, that they seemed too close.
In her new memoir, yes Miley has one out, she’s only 16 I know, but girl has things she needed to write about, she comments about all the negativity the picture received:
Miley writes:
“The media has said some stuff about my dad and me being too close and too cuddly for a father and a daughter. For me and my dad it’s not weird at all. we don’t let other people tell us what expressions we’re supposed to have on our faces when we take a picture together!”
She says that the people who criticized their relationship are:
“so full of anger, hatred and bitterness.”
I think a LOT of people would think ANY photo of a father and daughter posing the way a couple would do for an engagement photo has an ewwwww factor. Also, the way she’s dressed, low rise jeans, tummy showing and her body posture mixed with the fan machine blown hair, just seems a bit … much.
Not to mention, their hillbilly antics didn’t help the situation much either!
At a Motley Crue show in San Diego a couple of weeks ago, Nikki tossed a bottle of water into the audience. Some girl in the audience threw it right back at him and Nikki then started ranting and swearing at her.
He had the stage, the spotlight, the mic and the security… yet he starts picking on a woman bullying her really, trying to make her cry. When she then starts crying he doesn’t stop. He ends up looking like a school yard bully.
Reports from the Caribbean isle where Amy has been relaxing and vacationing while trying to recover from her heroin and crack cocaine addiction told reporters that she had been drinking heavily.
One person said:
“She looked in a terrible state, a shaking mess. The people with her were very concerned.”
Amy’s spokesperson has confirmed she was admitted and said the reason for her collapse is that she had run out of a drug replacement she has been using.
Amy is recovering well and should be discharged from the hospital soon although if she is still blazing and drinking, her long term chances of getting clean are very low. Getting an opiate addict like her through the withdrawals with medical supervision is the relatively easy part. Keeping her clean in the long run is the challenging part and that is where the replacement drug, possibly Suboxone (if that is what she was on when she ran out), is used. Biochemical changes in the brain persist for quite some time after withdrawals are over. Severe depression is common for 6 – 12 months, which often results in a high relapse rate.
Replacement meds like Suboxone are given for the length of time it takes the brain to eradicate the neural connections that were created by the habit of taking the drug. After the brain unlearns those habits, the addict can safely be withdrawn off Suboxone and have a real chance of staying opiate free.
Beyonce and Jennifer Hudson both came away winners last night at the 40th annual NAACP Image Awards. The awards honor achievements and performances of people of color in TV, film, music and literature. Former Vice President Al Gore and Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai received the Chairman’s Award. Boxing legend Muhammad Ali won the President’s Award. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was given the Vanguard Award.
Beyonce kicked off the show with a fantastic performance of “Halo.” She won for Outstanding Female Artist category while Jennifer Hudson, performed “The Impossible Dream” for President’s Award recipient Muhammad Ali, won for New Artist award. Both women co-starred in the 2006 film “Dreamgirls.”
“This is where we come from,” Hudson said, accepting the trophy. “So it’s always an honor to come home and feel welcome and to feel the love. I really cherish this and appreciate it.”
Jamie Foxx won for Best Male Artist.
Chris Brown and Rihanna who were both nominated, were noticeably absent.
will.i.am and Seal performed on stage at the Shrine Auditorium ceremony, which was hosted by actress Halle Berry and actor-screenwriter Tyler Perry. The awards show coincides with the 100th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and launches a year long centennial celebration.
Sean “Diddy” Combs received a TV Movie Actor Trophy for his role in “A Raisin in the Sun.”
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons won the Vanguard Award for his achievements in charity.
Jessica Simpson has been getting more than her share of negative publicity this past couple of weeks. First it was for gaining some weight, then supposedly her boyfriend Tony Romo was partying in her house with some hot brunette while she was out of town working, and the latest critique is for the sub-par performance she put on when she opened for Rascal Flatts in Grand Rapids Michigan last night.
Apparently she was close to tears, forgot the lyrics and barely made it through a pathetic 38-minute set of songs.
As she opened up with “These Boots are Made for Walking,” she was seen fumbling with her ear monitors as she tried to keep them in place, saying she was having difficulty hearing herself.
At one point, she had her seven-piece band stop, then start over, during “Pray Out Loud.”
As if that wasn’t bad enough she then forgot the lyrics to her single “Come on Over,” and she apologized to the audience.
Making it worse when she was introducing her closing song, “Do You Know,” she even said there have been times when she felt like walking off the stage — “like tonight.”
When she closed off with her last song, she thanked her band for “having her back,” and it appeared she was crying and wiping her tears as she exited the stage.
Here is a clip from that night:
Word is what might have set her off is that her boyfriend missed his flight that night. Poor girl, we all have days/nights when things go wrong, it must be that much more embarrassing when it’s all caught on tape.
Her rep had this to say to TMZ today:
“Jessica had an off night. She’s a perfectionist and wanted to start some songs over. She always wants to give the best performance for her fans.”
As we all know, Beyonce was asked to sing “At Last” at the presidential inauguration and she did a fine job although why they didn’t just ask Etta instead is beyond me.
Etta feels the same way and she is still upset she wasn’t asked to sing her song. During one of her concerts in Seattle the other night, Etta started hissing about it.
Etta told the audience:
“You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain’t my President–had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She’s going to get her ass whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I’m going to sing it for y’all….”
Just thinking, wouldn’t it have been nice if Beyonce had asked Etta to sing the song with her? Although, I’ve read that many think of Etta as ‘old school ghetto’ … as in the woman can bring the house down when she belts out the tunes, but she also can belt out the raunch!
I have to admit though that just the thought of old Etta kicking BeYAWNce’s fine a** is sexay! Etta and Sacha Fierce … cage fight. I’d so be there!
