Jennifer Lopez To Join The American Idol Judges

July 30, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): Pop queen Jennifer Lopez will soon join the well-liked singing-reality show ‘American Idol’ as a judge subsequently season as per a particular buzz. She would replace Ellen DeGeneres, who announced her departure from the judging panel on Thursday afternoon.

The buzz also says that Lopez sealed her ‘American Idol’ deal in the previous part of this week, subsequent to a succession of meetings organized by her manager, Benny Medina. It is also said that it was DeGeneres who had asked Fox executives to set her free from her agreement, which made the comedian and talk show host to be a judge on the demonstrate for another season.

Currently, ‘Idol’ executives and the representatives of Lopez haven’t responded to the desires for remark. DeGeneres, in the meantime, explained her choice to leave ‘American Idol’ in a statement on her website, saying that she didn’t feel right to be a judge on the demonstrate, even though she loved the experience.

Dannii and Cheryl return as X Factor confirms show changes

Hurrah! The X Factor will shortly return to usual as Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole are predictable to be back for Judges Houses. This year however, bosses have confirmed the Cowell and co. will have even more capacity to play with.

It’s been a turbulent time on this year’s X Factor, with Dannii Minogue off having baby Ethan and Cheryl Cole contracting malaria, forcing her to drag out of auditions.
Lastly it seems that things are getting back to usual… well kind of.

X Factor bosses have confirmed there will be a slight change to the demonstrate, but fear not, it’s nothing too drastic and should really make the format a little more exciting.

Simon, Cheryl, Dannii and Louis will be given eight acts rather than six to pick from through the Judges' Houses phase.

Grease is still the word

Jack Barry's mum is probable to be his number one fan when performances of the Rosehill College musical Grease begin on August 3.

She's a very big fan. She's the one who introduced me to Grease, Barry says as he slicks back his hair in true Danny Zuko manner.

Back in the day we used to watch it every time.

After an imposing performance at auditions the 16-year-old scored the lead role in the school's biennial musical beside 13-year-old Darby Fullerton as Sandy Olsson.

While Jack has used the last few school terms to brush up on his vocals, his acting skills have previously been proven – he was nominated for the most excellent supporting actor award at the 2009 Showdown Auckland secondary school production contest for his role in the Diary of Anne Frank.

Diary of Anne Frank director and Rosehill's head of drama Stacey Bolt topped her type at the 2009 Showdown Awards and takes on the director's role once more this time around.

Linda Hamilton in Chuck Season 4

Linda Hamilton returns to acting with her revolve as Mama Spy in Chuck Season 4, reports EW. Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) has forever wondered what became of dear old mom, and now it seems he will get a opening to catch up first-hand. Hamilton appeared as Sarah Connor in James Cameron’s classic sci-fi thriller The Terminator, but it wasn’t until T2: Judgment Day that we discovered what this lady could actually do.

Hamilton is a pleasant choice, and one that complements current casting decisions of adding Olivia Munn and Dolph Lundgren to the fourth season payroll. Known for both sexuality and braun, Hamilton’s forever been the kind of girl, who could either kiss you or kick your ass, and have you be okay with either result. But is she too old to still bring it?

Chuck Season 4 premiere on September 20, which also happens to be my birthday. I prefer money.

Debutant Amrita Puri Of Aisha Speaks Up

The promos of the future movie Aisha shows a girl with behenji look getting hip-hop makeover with the help of Sonam Kapoor. The girl is debutant artist Amrita Puri, who plays a Bengali girl Shefali Thakkur.

She is shown carping in pain at a salon in the movie and shaping her eyebrows also seems to be alien to the girl. Amrita is a model, who acted in numerous plays and has no connection with film industry. She is the daughter of the head of HDFC Bank. Coming from such a business background, her decision of acting had faced some apprehension.

The Mumbai girl Amrita said, My dad said there is no safety in acting career and it is not considered a long-term career option.

Amrita was a student of Bombay Scottish School and the St Xavier's College. She added, I finished my post graduation in mass communications and then had sometime in an ad agency. After this, when I approach my dad, he said if you are so resolute then go ahead.

‘So You Think You Can Dance’: Enrique Performs And Everybody’s Safe—For Now

The judges have had it simple thanks to the curse of Season 7. Instead of having to break the terrible news to a beloved dancer, an injury arises and does the eliminate for them. That is until previous night. With Billy Bell opting to sit this week out (even with a doctor’s authorization to dance), the judges lastly had a chance to use their powers to send a dancer home (cough. Jose. cough). Instead, they opted to sit this week out of judging. That’s right, everybody stays this week! First they bring back the All-Stars, then we have a Top 11, then two injuries, and now this! Everything is going directly to Crazy Town on SYTYCD.

Ryan Seacrest: 'Strange' to be at 'Idol' auditions without 'roommate' Simon Cowell

Ryan Seacrest met the press for a little minutes yesterday at the Bradley Center in downtown Milwaukee, where the American Idol auditions were in progress without, of course Simon Cowell.

It's a small strange to not have my roommate, joked Ryan, according to the Journal-Sentinel. I woke up this morning a small late…normally he's like, We gotta go, buddy, it's time to get prepared, I've got to do my hair.

'American Idol' Auditions in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE - As Lee DeWyze, Crystal Bowersox and the rest of the ultimate ten competitors from the ninth season of American Idol tour the U.S., it is time for a latest crop of singers to audition for the tenth season of the FOX Television illustrate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

FOX reporter Justin Williams meets with Milwaukee native Danny Gokey and Matt Giraud, who were both part of last 13 competitors on the eighth season of American Idol, as people penetrate the auditions.

OnMedia: Tips for "Idol" wannabes

Milwaukee auditions initiate Wednesday morning for singers between the ages of 15 and 28 who've registered to endeavor their luck in front of the American Idol casting folks.

While the registration method is cut and dried, the audition process at the Bradley Center is the first hurdle wannabe Idol singers have to obtain through.

It's obviously more than just a singing competition, so how do you break through and get a shot before the judges? And what happens when you're really facing the judges -- even though the toughest, Simon Cowell, has left Fox's top-rated reality contest.

Lake Shore auditions over, T.O. Snooki TBD

Lake Shore, the Toronto version of Jersey Shore, MTV’s sociological experiment gone badly wrong, wrapped up auditions this weekend and has already posted photos of the hopeful JWows and Situations. The pool of contestant will be narrowed down to 25, and then the public gets to fist-pump, er, vote its top eight picks onto the demonstrate, which is slated to begin shooting in the winter or spring.

Creator Maryam Rahimi got some heat premature on when she said the show would be focusing on Persian princes and princesses and has instead decided to release it up to fame whores of all ethnicities. Initially the show was going to focus on a collection of hipsters of Persian descent, but following a lot of thought, [director] George Tsioutsioulas and I thought it would be much more fascinating to explore how eight enormously diverse 20-something Torontonians cohabit, Rahimi said in a statement.

Nicole Scherzinger returns to X Factor judging panel for boot camp as Cheryl Cole recovers from malaria

With Dannii Minogue's pregnancy and following birth and Cheryl Cole's battle with malaria, this year's X Factor has been thrown into chaos.

After managing to get through the live auditions with the help of a variety of celebrity guest judges, TV bosses have asked Nicole Scherzinger to return for the boot camp session subsequently week after Mrs Cole was deemed to ill to return.

The Pussycat Dolls singer, 32, will join Simon Cowell, 50, and Louis Walsh, 57, at the boot camp auditions after that Thursday after formerly appearing alongside them at the Manchester auditions last week.

While X Factor bosses have managed to secure Scherzinger's presence, they have decided to cancel the live feature of the boot camp, which was initially scheduled to take place at Wembley Arena.

An X Factor orator said on the show's Twitter site: 'Nicole Scherzinger will be standing in as a judge at The X Factor Bootcamp subsequently week, alongside Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh.

One word: Intense -- Aspiring young dancers push themselves to a new level of perfection in Flint's Magnus Midwest Dance Intensive

For 13 years now The Whiting has presented a public summer dance performance that is known as the majestic finale of a month-long training program held in Flint for 100 of the nation's most brilliant student dancers. Previously known as the Joffrey Midwest Dance Intensive, this year the demonstrate has been renamed in the honor of the program's long-standing artistic director John Magnus - a renowned dance instructor who hails from South Africa.

While the program’s title has changed, it's Magnus' vision and teaching that has remained over the years, bringing these aspiring professional dancers to the area for such prestigious training and eventually showcase performance that will be held this Saturday.

Cheryl Cole Refuses to See Girls Aloud Bandmates

Cheryl Cole is refusing to see her Girls Aloud band mates while she recovers from malaria.

The singer has banned her contiguous pals in the group, Kimberley Walsh and Nicola Roberts, from visiting her in hospital because she doesn’t want them to see her so unwell.

The weak star will only permit her mother Joan Callaghan and Derek Hough, who she is rumored to be dating, to sit by her bedside as she recovers from the potentially lethal tropical disease.

A source said, Cheryl doesn’t desire people to see her as she is.

After being rushed to a London hospital two weeks before, the 27-year-old pop star has now been moved the tropical diseases ward to her individual private room, and is said to be much happier.

The source added to The Sun newspaper, she was pleased to get some privacy. She is still tremendously frail and drifting in and out of sleep, but she has shown great signs of improvement.

Cheryl is likely to remain in hospital under surveillance until the end of July, but Simon Cowell says she wants to be back on the British version of his pop star search demonstrate The X Factor for the boot camp phase.

Who wore it best: Nicole Scherzinger or Blake Lively?

They've both been speckled in a particularly 'Posh' frock!

Okay, so we all checked out Nicole Scherzinger's X Factor audition dresses, right? Fine, one in particular looked enormously familiar to us! We're talking about that black peplum costume that she wore with red nails, Smokey eyes, a top knot, and silver shoes...

Gorgeous, right? We know we've previously seen it on the designer, Victoria Beckham, but there's one more superstar who has been sporting this frock, too...

And it is none other than Blake energetic! With red lips, her signature blonde hair and electric blue platform heels, she looked extraordinary in the same dress as Nicole Scherzinger.

We never thought we'd see the day when a Pussycat Doll and a hearsay Girl went head-to-head, but this is it, Sugarscapers!

So say to us, who wore it greatest: Blake or Nicole? Comments, please!!!!

Grammy Award-winning producers seek out the top female talents in Asia

Grammy Award-winning producers Eliot Kennedy and Brian Grant team up with Far West Entertainment, Asia's new global media company founded by previous Electronic Arts executive Jon Niermann (host of Asia Uncut), to seek out the top female talents in Asia and launch them into an unprecedented global music career.

Visiting the Philippines lately to lay the groundwork for Project Lotus, Kennedy explains their objective in simplest terms.

In principle, it's a ability search across all Asia, he begins.

What we're doing is a very easy idea but it's never been done before. We want take five girls from five dissimilar Asian countries, 5 from Philippines, 5 from Japan, 5 from China, 5 from India, 5 from Korea. And what we're going to do is take every one 25 girls and put them in a place called the Lotus Academy in Hong Kong [where there's] an enormous facility with dance studios, recording studios, vocal studios, etc.

Nicole Scherzinger: X Factor Flirt

Gearing up for her guest judge duties, Nicole Scherzinger was speckled arriving at the X Factor auditions in Manchester, England today (July 9).

The Don’t Cha songstress gave the boys copiousness to drool over in a curve-hugging grey dress with sexy black heels.

Previous night (July 8) Nicole looked excited to be in the UK as she arrived at her luxury hotel in Manchester.

As for her rumored upcoming wedding with Lewis Hamilton, a source told press, [Nicole wants a wedding] like in a movie - the waves, the driftwood… so idealistic. And after the wedding they want a big party for all their friends at their preferred haunt - The Dorchester hotel in London.

'Sierra Stars' auditions set

Because of the tremendous curiosity and feedback from the community, the Mark Twain St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation will one time again present Dancing with the Sierra Stars on Nov. 13 at Ironstone Vineyards.

Auditions will be held Aug. 7, starting at 9:30 a.m. The six couples selected will contend for the coveted mirrored ball trophy and help support the foundation’s efforts to subsidize a Family Medical Center and Women’s Health Resource Center in Angels Camp.

Magic dancers hold auditions for new season

The Orlando Magic dance team is holding auditions for the 2010-2011 basketball seasons.

The final 30 participants will be contending for one of 20 spots to represent the Magic as a 2010-11 Orlando Magic dancer.

The last auditions will be a free event, open to the public and will be hosted by in-game emcee Scott B.

The event which will be held inside the Groove at Universal's City Walk will feature performance by the Magic Air Tran Flight Crew and a performance by Gina Marie Incandela.

The main event includes the 30 audition finalists performing their routines one ultimate time before a live audience and an eminent panel of judges.

Surfer Erica Hosseini Reveals New Mutant in X-Men: First Class Movie

After much rumor, we now have an interesting bit of news from someone who really auditioned for the upcoming X-Men movie franchise, X-Men: First Class. In a current interview with Straight2DVD, surfer-turned-model and aspiring actress Erica Hosseini revealed that she auditioned for the role of a mutant not formerly depicted in any of the X-Men movies.

I just went in for a reading for the latest X-Men movie: First Class... I was tremendously nervous and reading my lines the best I could. But I have absolutely no acting experience. I actually hope that I get a call back, but I'm not holding my breath.

I was auditioning for a role named Willow (expectantly I don't get in trouble for blabbing details on the off-chance that I get it). It's a role comparable to Mystique [the blue-skinned shapeshifter played by Rebecca Romijn in the X-Men trilogy] from what I comprehend. Potentially lots of body paint, so that would be truly fun.

Cheryl Cole pulls out of X Factor filming 'with exhaustion'

Cheryl Cole has withdrawn from filming The X Factor after supposedly collapsing at a photo shoot this weekend.

The Fight for This Love singer is believed to have been diagnosed with tiredness and gastroenteritis after she allegedly fainted at a north London photo shoot on Saturday.

The Sun newspaper reports Cole insisted on finishing the promotional work at the weekend despite studio staff expressing concern over her pale look.

And after she reputedly fainted soon following photography began under the studio lights, her representatives have confirmed she will be missing from filming auditions for The X Factor until further notice.

X Factor 2010: Louis Walsh praises 'amazing' Katy Perry

Katy Perry’s judging stint on X Factor went down healthy with judge Louis Walsh, who has gushed that she did an astonishing job.

The I Kissed A Girl singer was the third famous person to join the panel during the audition stages following Geri Halliwell and Natalie Imbruglia.

Speaking to the Evening Herald, Louis Walsh said: She was implausible, she was one of the best guest judges we’ve ever had.

Perry joined the jury for the Dublin audition stages.

It was revealed former today that Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger will also be taking arrogance of place behind the judging panel when the auditions hit Manchester.