First there was “Strange Love.” Then Vh1 single-handedly set the Women’s Lib Movement back thirty years with a sixty minute long catfight adeptly dubbed “Flava of Love.” And on Monday, January 8th, the once respectful music network will roll out the plastic runner for the third television installment spawned from the “Surreal” success of former Public Enemy hype man/resident yuck mouth, Flava Flav in the form of “I Love New York.”
In commemoration of what dollars to donuts says will be a cable television stink bomb, VH1 is already running the first episode of the series on it’s website. And if you were thinking off checking it out, don’t bother, here’s the rundown: Twenty guys fight to impress a Sister Patterson, New York’s mother, who really should get back on her meds and a gay Puerto Rican with a penchant for pink named Chamo for a chance at love with America’s Newest Breast Implant Patient and the woman at the center of “Spitgate” from Season One of “Flava of Love.”
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MTV announced today that both Shakira and the band OK Go have just been added to the list of performers at the Video Music Awards. They join an already long list slated to perform that night, including Panic! At the Disco, T.I., The Killers, Ludacris w/Pharrell, The All-American Rejects and The Raconteurs. Jack Black will host the night’s festivities, and among the list of presenters are the names Axl Rose, Lindsay Lohan, Kanye West, Paris Hilton, Diddy, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Pussycat Dolls and 50 Cent. And that barely even names a few.
OK Go, from Chicago, plans to perform a live version of their internet hit “Here It Goes Again” at the show which airs August 31st at 8pm ET. The band posted the video for the song, which showcases their unusual (and hilarious!) treadmill dancing abilities, on YouTube.com and have been steadily entertaining viewers ever since. The VMA’s will be their first live performance of the song.
Well I haven’t heard anything about whether OK Go will attempt the treadmills live at the awards or go for something more traditional (and safer), but that video is a total hoot! I love it when people look like they’re having a good time, and I can’t imagine they got through that shoot without at least a few good laughs.
P.S. And someone needs kudos for choreography!
Even despite last week’s much talked about day off, Lindsay Lohan has returned to work on her upcoming family drama “Georgia Rule.”
The actress never showed up to the set Wednesday, which prompted producer James G. Robinson to send off a “sternly worded letter” to Lohan.
“I’m just trying to get the movie made,” Robinson professed. “I did what I felt I needed to do on behalf of the movie and on behalf of her, too.”
Robinson also claimed in an interview Friday that Lohan was repeatedly late to the set of the production. He said those incidents also prompted him into action.
“It was not a nasty letter,” Robinson makes clear, “It was ‘Come on be professional.’”
For what it’s worth, Lohan did report directly to the set the following day.
My thoughts? I think Lohan has a long way to go before the word professional registers in her brain or her vocabulary.
Read more about the letter here.
If you like celebrities, reality shows, and cringing with sympathy-embarassment, you’ll probably love the new show “Celebrity Duets” set to air on Fox this fall. If not, stay far, far away.
According to MSN News, the new show will pair celebrities with professional pop singers, and they’ll compete in duets in front of a panel of judges (and most likely a live audience.)
So far, confirmed pop singers who will be participating in this show include Chaka Khan, Clint Black, Michael Bolton, Cyndi Lauper, Macy Gray, Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins, Randy Travis and Aaron Neville. The celebrity participants have yet to be announced.
I will be watching this show on three conditions:
1. They get celebrities that we’ve actually heard of, and not some unknown people who are trying to jump start their acting career by being on the show.
2. The judges aren’t over-the-top dramatic in their criticism.
3. When a celebrity sounds completely tonedeaf terrible, they don’t edit it out.
The series premier will be August 29th, and the rest of the schedule is available on Fox.com
On August 20th, Kevin Federline will get the chance to show his music to the world. He will be at the Teen Choice Awards where he will close the ceremony with his single “Lose Control” from the impending album Playing with Fire.
Federline, an aspiring rapper and husband to Britney Spears, says the audience will be “shocked” by his performance. “It’s been building up for a long time… so I decided to just get out there and jump on stage,” he says.
Britney Spears will reportedly accompany her husband to the event provided she is feeling well enough. They’ve also been collaborating on a duet in the studio in recent months.
“I want to prove myself as an artist, as a rapper, and as a human being in society who goes through everything everybody else goes through,” Federline reported.
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