Here is Kelly Clarkson’s just released cover for her upcoming single, “My Life Would Suck Without You.” Looks like she’s all set for Valentine’s Day with that heart lollipop!
The song, which was written by Max Martin and Dr. Luke, will hit radio on January 19. Kelly who is now 26-year-old and THE original American Idol champ will release her fourth studio album on March 17, 2009.
Axl Rose is accusing Pepper of profiting off the Guns N’ Roses name, after the company’s website crashed during their free Dr Pepper giveaway this past Sunday. The 20 oz. handouts were a promise made by Pepper if “Chinese Democracy” their new CD ever hit the shelves.
Axl’s lawyers are demanding full-page apologies in four major newspapers: the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. They also want an extended period of time to collect on the free pop and payment for unauthorized use of the Guns and Roses name.
UPDATE: In a statement to E! News, a Dr Pepper rep says: “For us, this was a fun giveaway that has always been about the fans, and we’ve taken great steps to fulfill it, including:
• extending the window for the giveaway from 24 to 42 hours • Adding a toll-free line to handle consumer requests for the coupons • Setting up an interactive voice recorder to accept coupon requests This was one of the largest responses we have ever received for a giveaway, and we’re happy we were able to satisfy the thirst of so many Dr Pepper fans.”
Kanye West made a blog post in his traditional all in CAPS to explain his arrest early Friday morning in the U.K. for allegedly assaulting a paparazzo. Here is the alleged victim below. Notice his injuries. They seem rather insignificant, which is probably why there are no charges pending!
Kanye writes:
“WHO’S WINNING, ME OR THE MEDIA?
REGARDLESS OF HOW MUCH LIGHT I PUT OUT, THERE ARE PEOPLE WORKING JUST AS HARD TO ONLY DELIVER DARKNESS. IF YOU LISTEN TO MY MUSIC, HOW COULD I DELIVER SO MANY POSITIVE UPLIFTING MESSAGES AND BE THE MONSTER THAT THE MEDIA PAINTS. PAPARAZZI GIVE REAL PHOTOGRAPHERS A BAD NAME. A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, THEIRS ARE WORTH A THOUSAND DOLLARS…
LET US NOT FORGET THE PAPS KILLED PRINCESS DIANA. WHEN WILL THERE BE A LAW PASSED THAT SIMPLY ENFORCES THAT SOMEONE HAS TO ASK TO TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU. THAT WOULD SEEM LIKE COMMON COURTESY. RIGHT NOW THE PAPS ARE ABOVE THE LAW AND THE PEOPLE THEY SHOOT ARE BELOW IT. WHAT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL IS PICTURES TAKEN WITH THE INTENT TO SELL….LIKE DRUGS WITH THE INTENT TO SELL… OR CROSSING CUSTOMS WITH ENOUGH MERCHANDISE TO HAVE THE INTENT TO SELL. THE EXPLOITATION OF MY IMAGE IS THE PROBLEM. IT PRODUCES A “BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY” BEHAVIOR THAT CAUSE THE PAPS TO DRIVE RECKLESSLY ON FREEWAYS, JUMP OVER FENCES AND INVADE PRIVACY ALL IN AN EFFORT TO GET THAT “MONEY SHOT.” YOU SHOULDN’T BE ABLE TO SELL A PICTURE OF ME WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. AFTER THIS LAW IS PASSED, WHEN YOU ENTER A PUBLIC PLACE LIKE A BASKETBALL ARENA ETC., THERE WILL BE A SIGN THAT READS…”ALL PHOTOS TAKEN HERE ARE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND CAN BE USED AT THE PHOTOGRAPHERS DISCRETION.” OBVIOUSLY RED CARPET EVENTS WHERE PEOPLE SHOW UP TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED WILL ALSO APPLY. THE PERSONAL PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THE PAPS IS WHEN THEY TRY TO CATCH YOU BEING A REGULAR PERSON. I AM NOT A CELEBRITY. I’M A NORMAL PERSON THAT’S JUST FAMOUS. I REFUSE TO SNEAK IN AND OUT OF BACK DOORS AND KITCHENS OF HOTELS ETC….
I AM PROTECTING MY PERSONAL SPACE SINCE THERE ARE NO LAWS TO PROTECT THAT FOR ME.
I PUT MY HAND UP TO THE CAMERA IN SELF DEFENSE!
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED…WHEN I LEFT THE CLUB, I WAS ENCOUNTERED BY A THIRSTY PAPARAZZI AS USUAL. HE FELT HE HAD MORE RIGHTS TO MY SPACE THAN ME, SO I PUT MY HAND UP TO PREVENT HIM FROM TAKING MY IMAGE. I DIDN’T ASSAULT HIM BUT MERELY PUTTING MY HAND UP TO COVER HIS LENS. MY SECURITY YELLED, “GET THE CAMERA OFF HIM.” I GUESS IN ALL THE COMMOTION THE CAMERA SCRAPED HIS NOSE.
THREE HOURS LATER I GET A KNOCK AT MY HOTEL DOOR. THERE WERE FIVE POLICE OFFICERS IN FRONT OF MY ROOM AND I HAD NO IDEA WHY. I HAD MY SECURITY GO SPEAK WITH THEM. THE COPS WERE VERY CORDIAL BUT TOLD ME THEY HAD TO ARREST ME BECAUSE A COMPLAINT WAS FILED. THAT WAS THE BOGUS PART. THEY PLACED ME IN HANDCUFFS AND DROVE ME TO THE STATION. THEY SPOKE ABOUT HOW THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY A PUBLICITY STUNT BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER BUT THEY STILL HAD TO GO THOUGH THE MOTIONS. WHEN I GOT BACK TO THE HOTEL THERE WERE PAPARAZZI HANGING OVER THE BRIDGE ABOVE THE HOTEL TRYING TO GET A SHOT OF ME GETTING OUT THE POLICE VAN. EVEN THOUGH I WASN’T CHARGED, THE DAMAGE WAS DONE. SURE ENOUGH THE NEXT MORNING, PLASTERED ACROSS EVERY MEDIA OUTLET… KANYE GETS ARRESTED. IT DIDN’T MATTER THAT I WASN’T CHARGED OR THE FACT THAT I HADN’T ASSAULTED ANYONE. ALL THAT MATTERED WAS THAT I WAS ARRESTED.
SIDEBAR, THEY QUOTED ME AS SAYING…”GET THE CAMERA OFF HIM!” LIKE I WAS TALKING IN THIRD PERSON. HE TRIED TO MAKE ME SOUND LIKE A CRAZY PERSON AND PEOPLE BELIEVED HIM. WHAT MERIT DOES THIS GUY HAVE THAT HE CAN SAY SOMETHING ABOUT ME AND PEOPLE TAKE IT AS LAW? THE FACT THAT HE COULD GET ME ARRESTED OFF A MERE COMPLAINT BUT I CAN’T ASK HIM TO STOP TAKING PICTURES OF ME IS VERY LOPSIDED.
Joe Jonas did a nasty thing when he dumped Taylor Swift during a 27-second phone call last month, and she’s now decided in her own “Fearless” way to publicly state that he cheated on her with 10,000 B.C. actress Camilla Belle.
“They’ve been together for months,” Taylor told OK!. “That’s why we broke up.”
I notice she says ‘That’s why WE broke up.” Poor thing, I guess it is still too painful to admit she was dumped by him. While there is NO easy way to break things off with someone, it’s sad he didn’t have the decency enough to do it in person, face to face… before he hooked up with someone else.
Joe who is 19, and Camilla who is 22, met and got to know each other when she starred in the brothers’ video “Lovebug.”
“We saw her in [10,000 B.C.] and, to be honest, we all fell in love with her,” Joe’s younger brother, Nick, has said. “We said why not have her in a music video?”
Rapper Mos Def is being hunted by the Las Vegas police department over his alleged attacking of a fashion event photographer this past August.
A warrant has been issued for Def — real name Dante Terrell Smith. He currently is facing charges of felony robbery and malicious destruction of private property.
Volker Corell who is the official photographer for the Men’s Apparel and Garment Industry Convention (MAGIC) in Las Vegas has claimed Def did the freak on him as he was taking pictures of attendees at the event until Mos allegedly yanked the camera off his neck, bashed it around on the ground and then left in a snit with the trashed equipment.
The photographer says his hand was cut during the scuffle.
Def’s hate on for the paparazzi is well known, but Corell was a photographer who was hired for the event and what’s ironic about it all? He says he didn’t even know who Mos was until after the alleged attack!
Miley and her boy friend Justin Gaston were snapped shopping together at Best Buy in Los Angeles on Monday.
She just got back from her European promo tour for her new CD Breakout yesterday. While she was in Paris, she performed 7 Things and tossed in this little tidbit at the end of her song:
“I still hate you.”
Supposedly the song is about her ex-love Nick Jonas.
What I find really interesting is that Justin who is 20 years old dressed up as… [insert drum roll here] Nick Jonas for Halloween this past Friday! Take a look.
A Long Island judge has granted 50 Cent regular access visits to see his 11-year-old son, Marquise Jackson. The custody has been arranged and 50 is now allowed one weekend a month, one month summer vacation, and half of the time their son is off school during Christmas and Spring breaks
The legal battle between 50 and his ex-girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins is ongoing. She was granted an order of protection against him. Shaniqua stated that she felt 50 Cent may have been responsible for a fire which gutted his $2.5 million dollar long island home while she and Marquise were sleeping inside.
50 Cent strongly denied her claims and responded by filing a $20 million dollar defamation lawsuit.
Because of the Order Of Protection that Shaniqua secured against the rapper she had to drop their son off at a police precinct in Queens on visiting weekends where the boy was picked up by 50 Cent or his driver. Not sure if that arrangement is still in effect.
The cause of the “suspicious” fire at 50’s Long Island Mansion is still undetermined.
Lindsay Lohan is being sued by three guys in an SUV she drove during a car chase that resulted in her second DUI arrest last year. The past really can come back to haunt a person! Her legal fees will be outrageous to defend herself. She better get some work, make more money, ’cause she’s going to pay pay pay.
The actress was “angry and aggressive” and the guys “felt surprise, shock, fear and panic at Lohan’s surprising and sudden act” of allegedly commandeering a car in which they happened to be sitting to chase her personal assistant through the streets of Santa Monica, according to the lawsuit.
Ronnie Blake, Jakon Sutter and Dante Nigro who are the plaintiffs – are seeking unspecified damages in the case, filed in Superior Court in Santa Monica.
Though no one was physically hurt, their lawsuit describes a wild, traumatic ride with Lindsay supposedly upset and intoxicated as she went after the other car following a party.
“Dante and Jakon continued to implore Lohan to slow down, stating specifically that she was endangering all of their lives and that they could be killed,” the lawsuit says. “Lohan refused to slow or stop, but instead responded with abusive cursing and vulgar language, including a statement that she did not care about the risk of death.”
The lawsuit adds: “She also stated that because she was a celebrity she could do whatever she wants.”
Lohan’s attorney, Ed McPherson, tells TMZ.com the lawsuit is “absurd.”
“These guys had the night of their lives, playing with the radio and leaving the vehicle at one point and getting back in,” he says.
After her arrest Lindsay reached a plea deal in the case and spent 84 minutes in jail for DUI.
She also was sued by the passenger in the car she was chasing.
The Apprentice boss Donald Trump, gave his opinion with regards to the reports that Madonna could lose half of her $500 million fortune in her divorce from director Guy Ritchie because the couple do not have a prenup.
The Donald who himself has been divorced twice told Life & Style:
“I always thought she was smart — until now.”
I myself just read this on England’s policy on pre-nups:
“In England and Wales the courts have traditionally given little weight to a prenuptial agreement, and have viewed the enforcement of prenuptial agreements as being against public policy.”
The Donald isn’t the only one down on Madonna, her soon to be ex-father-in-law John Ritchie had this to say to The Daily Telegraph :
“She is being beastly. She is saying, ‘Did you ever love me?’ It goes back to a time when she fell off her horse, and she’s blaming him for that. She’s calling him an emotional retard. When he’s being bashed by her, it’s horrid.”
*sigh* Must be awkward and embarrassing to have one’s divorce become public knowledge although, she didn’t help matters by dissing her ex in concert the other night!
Check out this clip of dance crew JabbaWockeeZ’s performance during a tribute to the Jackson Five, recipients of the Icon Award, at the 8th annual BMI Urban Awards in Beverly Hills. Love how they are rockin’ those ‘fros!
The Jackson 5 were crowned icons at the BMI Urban Awards, but the King of Pop, brother Michael was an absentee as was Jermaine.
Some of the other winners were: Soulja Boy, Polow Da Don, Rodney Jerkins and DJ Montay. Song of the year was awarded to Ne-Yo, Espen Lind and Amund Bjorklund for “Irreplaceable.” Jonathan “J.R.” Rotem, Kanye West and T-Pain were honored as producers of the year. T-Pain was also selected as songwriter of the year. Universal Music Publishing Group was given the publisher of the year award.
Music group ONE sang “I Want You Back.” JoJo and Lloyd did a duet on “I’ll Be There,” Mario performed a rendition of “Heartbreak Hotel,” and Keri Hilson sang “Who’s Loving You.” The finale featured Mario, Bobby Valentino, Lloyd and Ray J teaming up for “Never Can Say Goodbye.”
Janet presented her bros their award saying her family was her greatest commodity and that she was proud to salute her brothers for their accomplishments in the music industry.
BMI stands for: Broadcast Music Inc. is a performing rights organization that collects license fees on behalf of its songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
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