The new cast for Dancing With The Stars Season 9 was announced on Good Morning America today, the cast will feature 16 celebrities including Donny Osmond, Melissa Joan Hart ,Aaron Carter and non other than Joanna Krupa.
Conrad Green, executive producer of the show, said “when we increase the cast we find it makes the competition more interesting, it was about trying to make it as big as possible and try to get that sense of fun and excitement and real character come through on the show.â€
The dancing partners haven’t been announced yet, that will happen on August 24, before the show premieres on September 21. They are really milking it aren’t they?
I don’t know half of the hasbeens, but here is the full line up:
Mya, singer
Melissa Joan Hart, actress
Michael Irvin, former Dallas Cowboy
Ashley Hamilton, actor, comedian, singer-songwriter
Aaron Carter, singer
Kathy Ireland, former supermodel-turned-businesswoman
Debi Mazar, actress
Natalie Coughlin, U.S. Olympic swimmer
Louie Vito, snowboarder
Chuck Liddell, ultimate fighting champ
Donny Osmond, singer
Tom DeLay, former Republican congressman
Macy Gray, singer
Joanna Krupa, model and actress
Mark Dacascos, Iron Chef personality
Kelly Osbourne, reality star
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The lovely Amy Winehouse and her beehive went to visit her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil in jail yesterday, and it took her longer than most to get through the security line. It seems the guards at London’s Pentonville prison had to search Amy Winehouse’s beehive, so they made her undo it. Then they made Amy run her fingers through it to show that she wasn’t hiding anything inside.
Yeah, I’d make Amy search that nasty business herself, too. My hands wouldn’t go near there.
This reminded me of that SNL skit about Macy Gray where the kids go trick-or-treating and she keeps pulling candy and other random things out of her hair. They should have waited a few years, because that skit would have been way funnier with Amy Winehouse.
Source: “Dangerous Territory” [dlisted]
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PEOPLE surveyed several Hollywood celebrities and got their picks for the year’s best books, movies, music and TV shows. Here’s what they found:
TV SHOWS
Ashlee Simpson: Desperate Housewives – “It’s one of those shows like Sex and the City – every girl likes it.”
Monique Coleman: Grey’s Anatomy – “Even though there’s huge issues, at the end of the day we’re still concerned about the characters – that’s good TV.”
Macy Gray: Nip/Tuck – “It’s over-the-top-
drama. It’s crazy. I don’t know who thinks of that stuff.”
John Stamos: South Park – “The show is so timely. If something happens, in like two weeks it’s parodied on there.”
Nicky Hilton: The Girls
Next Door – “I just think they’re so funny.”
MOVIES
Josh Groban: The Prestige – “Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are awesome. And I’ve loved magic since I was a kid. That it’s a murder mystery with twists based on magic makes it amazing.”
Jaime Pressly: The Departed – “It was amazing. It’s a brilliant film. Everyone in it was great.”
Anjelica Huston: Borat – “I don’t know if it’s the best movie, but it’s the funniest. I have never laughed so
hard in a movie. I’ve never laughed so
hard, period.�
Mike Myers: The Fountain – “It’s beautiful. I’ve never seen anything like it. All the performances were great. It was transformative.”
Clay Aiken: The Queen – “Helen Mirren looks just like Queen Elizabeth. Acted like her! I thought it was very good.”
MUSIC
Anne Hathaway: Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat – “You can just listen to it start to finish and it tells a story. It’s beautiful, funny and very subversive. I really love it.”
Chris Cornell: Bob Dylan, Modern Times – “I think it’s fantastic. There’s a lightness to it that doesn’t normally come from him. When I say lightness, like a happiness.”
Zach Braff: Joshua Radin, We Were Here – “It’s just the greatest music. He’s a really talented guy. He’s like the new Paul Simon.”
Katharine McPhee: Christina Aguilera, Back to Basics – “I really like her record. I think she brought some cool old-school
stuff to it, and amazing vocals.”
BOOKS
Terrence Howard: Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho –”It teaches you to enjoy each moment.”
Ben Affleck: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond – “I’m reading a lot
of nonfiction. . . .This is really good right now.”
Jennifer Connelly: In the Land of Magic Soldiers by Daniel Bergner – “That was the last one I read – it was actually about Sierra Leone, where Blood Diamond takes place. It was really fantastic.”
Queen Latifah: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith – “I love it. It’s a whole series.”
Patricia Heaton: The Tiny One by Eliza Minot – “It’s about a girl who loses her mother, and she chronicles the whole day before she finds out her mother died. She’s exactly the age I was when my mother died. I’d read a few pages and then start sobbing.”
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Some aging rockers are forming a made-for-television band.
Variety‘s Josef Adalian has details.
CBS’ “Rock Star” is adding some heavy mettle to its lineup this summer. Drummer Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), along with guitarists Jason Newsted (Metallica) and Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses), are forming a new band called Supernova and will use the Mark Burnett-produced “Rock Star” to search for a lead singer. Season one had the surviving members of INXS on the hunt for someone to replace the late Michael Hutchence.
In addition, “Rock Star” has signed songwriter-performer Butch Walker to produce Supernova’s first album, to be released just before the new band hits the road in 2007. Walker, named Rolling Stone’s 2005 “hot” producer, has written or produced tracks for Avril Lavigne, Pink, Bowling for Soup and Tommy Lee.
Dave Navarro and Brooke Burke will return as hosts. Each weekly segseg will also now feature guest appearances by celebs or rockers. “Friends of mine, like Slash, Macy Gray, Moby and Rob Zombie, will join us and throw in their two cents about who should stay and who should go,” Navarro said.
Supernova is following a path well trod by the likes of the Partridge Family, the Archies, Josie and the Pussycats, the Brady Bunch Kids, and the Monkees.
Hat tip: Reality Blurred
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