Oh come on, you knew this day was coming. The day where you'd have to tear down all your Ryan Seacrest posters, scribble out his name in your notebooks, and stop planning for the time when you two could own all forms of media, forever and ever amen.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? "American Idol is adding a fourth judge: Grammy-nominated songwriter Kara DioGuardi. DioGuardi will appear at the judges' table with Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson on the eighth season of the hit show, which premieres in January."
When Miley Cyrus was chosen to host the Teen Choice Awards, which was filmed last night and will air tonight, we're unsure whether or not the producers expected her to hog the spotlight as much as she obviously did. Judging from the pictures, she treated the entire awards show like one of her infamous YouTube videos, including her BFF Mandy in most of her bits and ruining a perfectly good LL Cool J performance.
In other news, Dwight graced the show with his presence, Mariah continued to use a glitter microphone, Arcuhleta's dad still won't go away — and when did Chace Crawford become so good-looking?
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What do you do when you've found true love on national television and you want the world to continue paying attention? Well, according to The Bachelorette DeAnna Pappas, you drag your new fiance to a taping of America's Best Dance Crew and pose with Randy Jackson. Then you create a Web site so all your adoring fans can continue to stalk you and then you plan your wedding just in time for May sweeps so ABC can film it. Ah, young famewhore love.
• Watching local news reporters lose their cool never gets old. [DListed]
• Another reason why we love New York: 53 percent of New Yorkers agree with Governor Paterson's support of same-sex marriages. [QT]
• Lindsay Lohan was spotted with a baby bump. Praise Xenu it's fake. [PS]
• More signs of the apocalypse: Britney Spears is being considered for an Emmy nomination. [INO]
• Randy Jackson thinks Clay Aiken is going to be a great father, but we all know Randy has questionable taste. (See: His obsession with David Archuleta) [ICYDK]
Every week, a bunch of “real” people say really stupid things on reality TV. These are their stories.
10. "Don't be a vulture, learn your culture." — Flavor Flav, Flavor of Love 3
Last night's American Idol was Jason Castro- and excitement-free, littered with Randy Jackson's incomprehensible ramblings and typical final three lackluster performances. David Archuleta attempted to "youthanize" his image with a traumatizing rendition of Chris Brown's "With You," complete with awkward swaying you might find at a middle school dance. And Archie? Don't call me "boo." Ever.
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After all that begging, I sit here, typing through the tears (OK, maybe that's a bit melodramatic), hoping for a miracle to save Jason Castro. Except maybe I don't want him to be saved. After last night's unwarranted beating by the judges, maybe he deserves to be done with this show and the horrible people who run it; the brutality will be even worse if he survives this week, and the public will hate him for not being voted off after his roughest night to date. CONTINUED »
American Idol's Neil Diamond night was just as disastrous as I feared, and it's safe to assume everyone not named David is in danger of getting axed tonight. Everybody was off their game, including sobriety princess Paula Abdul. Once each contestant had performed their first songs of the evening, Ryan asked the judges to offer their comments; naturally, Paula began giving Jason Castro her critique of both his songs, one of which had yet to be sung. Her excuse: "This is hard."
So what happened? Conspiracy theorists are crying foul, saying the show is fixed and she had written the critiques beforehand, but we're talking about Paula Abdul here. It's quite possible that she just mixed the wrong meds.
Every week, a bunch of “real” people say really stupid things on reality TV. These are their stories.
10. "If there's somebody there to help you through each thing, then who are you? Are you you? Or are you us? And then if you're us, then who the hell are we?" — Nicky2States, Miss Rap Supreme
If you missed last night's American Idol elimination, this little video nicely sums up the hour-long episode in a mere five minutes. Amazing how that works out — it's almost as if the majority of last night's show was a waste of time. If you don't want to know the result, don't press play and don't keep reading. CONTINUED »
So last night was the Mariah Carey hour on American Idol, and it was just as much the train wreck as we expected. The girls failed to deliver, David Archuleta refused to go away and Mariah gave lots of awkward half-smiles as she offered the contestants advice.
We couldn't pick one favorite performance from the evening, so we'll let you decide between our top two picks. CONTINUED »
Details magazine celebrated their Mavericks 2008 issue last night in LA. Under the false pretense that they are true mavericks, a bunch of reality "stars" showed up. How embarrassing for them.
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Paula Abdul kind of snuck up on us today. She surprisingly admitted her video isn't that great, and then she provided us with a great new phrase we will be implementing in every conversation possible.
She doesn’t think it’s Heidi Montag-bad, but she’s still trying to pretend like it didn’t happen. If Randy [Jackson] wasn’t involved, she’d be more vocal about it, but she does appreciate the fact that he was involved.
The source goes on to say that Paula has a newfound perspective on what the American Idol finalists are experiencing: "She's going to go really easy on them." Thank goodness, because we were starting to get offended by some of the harsh criticisms served up by Paula.
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In a world where Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block are reuniting, why not 'NSync? JC Chasez confirmed that the band will likely never reunite: "I think everybody's really excited about their own projects. Joey [Fatone] is doing a great job hosting these television shows. Obviously Justin [Timberlake] loves what he does and he's super successful at it, and rightfully so."
And who wouldn't be excited about JC's new project? He's the host of that awful Randy Jackson-hosted show on MTV — something about a dance crew? We watch Rock of Love 2 every Sunday night, but even we won't subject ourselves to that mess.
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"You call that sunshine? That performance was ab-solute-ly dreadful. At most that was the simple work of a Type M star—the lowliest, coolest stars. And the temperature? Pathetic. I've felt more heat off a squirrel's fart in a snowstorm. Pay attention, because I'm going to be honest with you: Don't ever, ever try to shine again. I look forward to you being eclipsed."
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As Randy Jackson might say, "American Idol is completely flipping the script on your ass, dogg."
Us is reporting that the ratings heavyweight is shopping for a Paula Abdul replacement, and apparently they're looking to the Yoko of grunge to fill her shoes. That's right, Courtney Love has been tapped to guest judge, and possibly take over for Abdul.
Love reveals to her favorite magazine Web site that Idol's executive producer Nigel Lythgoe called her office last week inquiring into whether she would be interested in sitting in as a judge on the hit FOX show.
"He called," Love tells Usmagazine.com. "He was wondering if I was interested. I thought it was kind of weird but brilliant."
Is FOX lining up a replacement for slap-happy Paula Abdul, or just looking to spice up the show with the always-entertaining rocker/actress? Love, who is currently in L.A. recording a solo album, declined to reveal any more specific details.
But a source tells Usmagazine.com that Lythgoe was considering having Love "replace Paula."
FOX, hate to break it to you, but replacing Paula Abdul with Courtney Love is like replacing a Merlot stain with a blood stain.
That said, I think I'll file this under "To believe when seen," especially considering their main source is Love herself who, in the past, has also tried to convince people that she's godlike and cool. Both of which seem to be fairly specious claims.
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My primary experience with Randy Jackson was watching American Idol this season for the first time. While his silly looking and consistently coordinated glasses/shirt combinations intrigued me, I was never quite sure what he was bringing to the table. Other than the ‘Dawg Pound’ and I think we all could do without that.
Mariah Carey, on the other hand, has a little more faith in Randy’s taste. She is hiring both his name and his expertise to help her on tour this summer.
Mariah Carey is tapping a longtime friend - American Idol judge Randy Jackson - to help her mix things up a bit on her Adventures of Mimi tour, which kicks off in August. "With this tour, I'm going to be working on some different arrangements for some of the older songs, to kind of like, give it a little more life to them," Carey recently told the Associated Press. "That's not to say they're going to sound totally different and to freak anybody out… (but) I love re-singing songs to different music."
I mostly just hope that Randy Jackson sits in the front row of every show judging Mariah, constantly judging, and shushing the crowd after every song so that he can throw in his two nonsensical cents.
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