Justin Bieber appeared on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ on Thursday night (April 1), performing ‘Baby’. Afterward, Justin sat down with Jay and talked about visiting ‘American Idol’ earlier this week, his FunnyOrDie.com purchase, how he got his start thanks to YouTube, and how he always wanted to be a car mechanic. Bieber added that he bought a Range Rover after turning 16 and getting his driver’s license.
Video at YouTube has since been removed.
Aqualung checked in with fans on his blog at MySpace on Monday (March 29), discussing news that his song with Sara Bareilles, ‘Remember Us’, will be featured on Thursday’s episode of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’. Matt Hales writes:
Right. So. This coming Thursday (not to be confused with Coming Thursday which is something quite different) April 1st one of my new songs will be on Grey’s Anatomy (airing on ABC at 9PM ET). The song is called Remember Us and is one of my favorites. It’s heavy and sad and fond and sadder still because of how much fondness there is. My friend the lovely and very talented Ms Sara Bareilles is singing with me and it all came out so very well that I sometimes forget it’s me and get all caught up and teary.
So please watch and listen and I hope you like it.
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Gin Wigmore visited ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ in Hollywood earlier this month to perform her new single ‘Too Late for Lovers’, a track off the New Zealand singer songwriter’s new album ‘Holy Smoke’.
Video at the ABC show’s YouTube channel has since been removed.
Ashley Tisdale has signed on to star in the upcoming CW show ‘Hellcats’, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series will also star 78violet singer Aly Michalka, who plays a college student who joins the school’s competitive cheerleading team to make ends meet. Tisdale will play the cheer squad’s preppy captain and will be Aly’s adversary. Ashley writes on her official web site’s blog at ashleytisdale.com:
I’m so excited for this project. I love the cast I’m working with and am so thrilled with the character I get to play.
Jessica Simpson spilled the beans about her relationships with Tony Romo and John Mayer during an appearance on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ on Wednesday night. When Dave asked about Mayer’s headlining making interview with Playboy magazine, where he compared the singer to “sexual napalm”, Jess said, “Normally you’d think someone you care about would keep those details to himself. It was definitely a compliment, in a way. I don’t really want people to know that about me. I’m like the good girl, then that happened.”
The interview video on the CBS show’s YouTube channel has since been removed.
It hasn’t received much attention, but during Thursday night’s ‘American Idol’ semi-final elimination show, the audio cut out when Tyler Grady was eliminated from the hit FOX show and Alex Lambert was safe. Lambert, a 19-year-old high school student from North Richland Hills, Texas, had been told by Simon Cowell his performance was “the most uncomfortable performance of the night” the prior evening. A Fox spokeswoman did not immediately respond to the Associated Press to clarify why the audio was apparently censored.
Surprisingly little traffic about the incident was posted on Twitter when searching for “Idol censored” or other word combinations related to the muted audio.
Update: A posting at Vote For The Worst’s message board says Lambert’s words were, “You’ve gotta be fu**in’ shi**in’ me.”
Update 2: A Fox spokesperson confirmed to E! that “the audio was dropped by broadcast standards due to language.” No word yet on whether this will prompt ‘Idol’ from dumping Lambert.
Cyndi Lauper will be participating in the new season of ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ on NBC, where she’ll be working for Donald Trump and competing for her charity, the Stonewall Community Foundation for True Colors where she is working toward civil rights and equality. “I just feel like it’s an awesome experience, I’ll learn a lot,” Lauper says in the video. “I’m a hard worker. I’m used to 18-hour days.”
The teaser video at NBC.com has since been removed.
Ken Jeong talked about his favorite ‘American Idol’ visiting ‘Community’ in an episode that airs early March following the Olympics on NBC. In another clip, Joel McHale talked about Kat, calling her “awesome” and “easy on the eyes”. A third clip has McPhee talking about how she’s a huge ‘Community’ fan and a fan of McHale.
The videos at NBC.com have since been removed.
Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie are planning a 25th anniversary remake of ‘We Are the World’ to raise money for Haiti, and ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ joked about who is being lined up to replace the late Michael Jackson on the single.
The comedy clip via the ABC show’s YouTube channel has since been removed.