The phenomenon that is Susan Boyle is alive and well. The good-natured frump from Scotland is on course to score one of the fastest-selling albums of the decade.
The 48-year-old Britain’s Got Talent runner-up shifted more than 130,000 copies of her debut album as it went on sale yesterday. Susan has already sold two to three times the estimated pre-release total for retailers and set a record for the highest preorder record of all-time at Amazon.
She’s expected to move over 500,000 copies of her debut album and outsell Rihanna, Adam Lambert, and even Lady Gaga — who are all releasing discs this week.
I Dreamed A Dream features her version of I Dreamed A Dream from the stage productionLes Miserables, which catapulted her to fame when she performed the song on Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year.
The album also includes the standard Cry Me A River, as well as covers of Madonna’s You’ll See and The Monkees’ Daydream Believer.
Jay Leno talked a lot of smack during a Green Car Challenge on The Jay Leno Show Monday — that is until Gov. Arnold stepped in to blow the competition away….literally.
ABC has halted production on its freshman drama FlashForward, Variety has learned.
The show, which stars Joseph Fiennes and Sonya Walger, will take a six-day hiatus to tweak a few scripts and is expected to resume production next week.
“They want to maintain the high quality of the show, and this gives the writers the opportunity to do so,” a rep for the network told the trade paper this week.
Producers of NBC’s veteran crime drama Law & Order are reportedly considering one of their infamous “Ripped From The Headlines” storylines inspired by the forthcoming criminal trial of 9/11 conspirators.
Series producer Rene Balcer spoke publicly about the idea during a recent program at The Paley Center celebrating the show’s 20th anniversary, The New York Post reports. Earlier this month, the U.S. Justice Department announced that five conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on America will be tried in the murders of the nearly 3,000 who died in the 2001 attacks.
Government regulators have ordered the recall of more than 2.1 million cribs made by Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc. after four infants were strangled due to a drop-side malfunction in the cribs’ construction. The recall is the largest of its kind in U.S. history.
On Monday, actress Alyssa Milano confronted an online impostor who was pretending to be her on Twitter.com.
The former child star — who has over 400,000 followers on her well-trafficked social networking site –confronted a person holding a fake account who was posting messages under an ID similar to her the name of her Official Blog.
“Maybe Alyssa Milano would like to tell us all why she is pretending to be me,” Milano wrote. The imposter’s account has since been suspended. A brief message on the fake’s page now reads: “Sorry, the profile you were trying to view has been suspended due to strange activity.”
Amy Winehouse reportedly spent thousands of dollars on extravagant underwear, perfume, and a kinky diamond-encrusted whip during a shopping at Agent Provacateur in London last weekend.
The 26-year-old jazz crooner is rumoured to be getting back with ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil — is hoping the new pieces will help amplify her new surgically-altered bosom.
“Amy loves showing off her new boobs and wanted to get sexy underwear to make the most of them. She couldn’t resist getting a few other bits and pieces, like he whip,” the source added.
FX is taking a bite out of The Twilight Saga. The network has acquired the ad-supported TV rights to the four movies in the Twilight film franchise as part of a package deal with producer Summit Entertainment.
Under the pact, FX will start running last year’s Twilight, the first movie in the franchise, beginning in late 2011. The Twilight Saga: New Moon which opened at $142.8 million domestically last weekend, will be available in late 2012. Eclipse, which is slated for a June 30 release, will have its premiere on FX in early 2013.
As part of the package deal with Summit, FX also gets the rights to air The Hurt Locker, Push, and Knowing.
She may be the most famous teenager in the world, but there are still some people who have never heard of Miley Cyrus.
Lucky them.
The Hannah Montana star — who celebrates her 17 birthday this week — and a friend visited Pop Burger on East 58th Street in New York City last week and placed their order. Much to Miley’s displeasure, the counter manager asked for her name to mark the order, The New York Post reports.
“Are you serious? You don’t recognize me? I’m Miley Cyrus,” the actress snapped at the manager a PageSix spy dishes.
The counterman still had no clue who she was, ran her credit card with her name on it, and shrugged.
“That’s nice for you. Here is your order. Have a good day,” he added.
Did you catch Lady Gaga on last night’s Leno? The singing star talks about growing up in New York, her new LP The Fame Monster, and her upcoming tour. You don’t want to miss her live performance of “Bad Romance.” Here’s the video:
