Archive of the January 2010

• January 12, 2010

  IDOL 411: Top 5 reasons you'll miss Simon Cowell on 'American Idol'

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  TV’s best showman leaves nothing up to chance.

  On the eve of the ninth season premiere of “American Idol,” Simon Cowell has announced he’s leaving after this year’s winner is crowned, guaranteeing massive promotion for the show he turned into a television sensation.

  Timing is everything.

  POLL: What do you think? Can “Idol” survive post-Simon?
  

  Before Cowell departs to develop the US version of his British megahit “The X-Factor,” and “Idol” producers scramble to squeeze someone into a Simon-shaped hole, we came up with the Top 5 things we’ll miss about our favorite Brit.

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• January 11, 2010

  Fox411 Exclusive: Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo reveal the source of their biggest fights

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  Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo have had their ups and downs during their four years as a couple and Fox411 has exclusively learned the source of many of the duo’s fights.

  Fox411 caught up with Lachey and Minnillo at the Nivea XOXO Chain Launch in Times Square recently, where Nick told us that he and Vanessa tend to have their biggest quarrels during “sports nights.”

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• January 11, 2010

  You Decide: Should Conan stay or should he go?

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  (NBC)

  Conan O’Brien is considering his options in the wake of NBC’s comically (no pun intended) inept handling of their late night comic talk show talent.

  SLIDESHOW: Could Conan’s best “Late Night” bits make a comeback?

  One report even has him looking at Fox as a new home. (He wrote for “The Simpsons” back in the day.)

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• January 11, 2010

  David Hasselhoff replaced on 'America's Got Talent'

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  (Reuters)

  Often horizontal David Hasselhoff has been replaced on the popular show “America’s Got Talent.”

  Germophobic comedian Howie Mandell will take over his chair on the dais beside scary Sharon Osborne. We see her trying to touch him a lot to freak Howie out.

  Hasselhoff said the decision was his, telling People he has a new TV show in the works that we’ll learn more about very soon.

  Hoo boy.

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• January 7, 2010

  'Real Housewives' star Tamra Barney's husband files for divorce

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  There is a chance “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Tamra Barney won’t be a housewife for much longer, as her husband filed for divorce Wednesday.

  According to a report from RadarOnline.com, Simon Barney contends that his wife of 11 years “has been verbally abusive and has committed acts of disloyalty and infidelity.”

  Radar reports that Tamra moved out of the couple’s million dollar home this week and into a two bedroom apartment.

  A source tells Radar that Tamra and Simon have been having severe problems for years, but that Tamra was unaware that her husband would be filing divorce papers.

  “Simon has simply had enough,” the source says. “The show changed her.”

  Barney has been especially critical of fellow castmate Gretchen Rossi, who she claimed had an affair while engaged to her late fiancé Jeff Beitzel.

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• January 7, 2010

  Rumors swirl that Jay Leno will reclaim his 'Tonight Show' host title

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  Just hours after NBC denied reports that Jay Leno’s show was getting canceled, TMZ  and the New York Times reported that, no, Jay isn’t exactly getting canceled, he’s just retaking his old 11:30 time slot.

  There’s just one little problem.

  Conan O’Brien hosts a little show called “The Tonight Show” on the network right about that same time.

  Citing unnamed NBC executives, The New York Times reported that the network is considering reinstating Leno as host of “The Tonight Show,” a job he turned over to Conan O’Brien last spring.

  TMZ said the move would happen as soon as next month, following NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics.

  NBC, however, is denying any plans to cancel “The Jay Leno Show” or get rid of O’Brien from the late-night line-up.

  In a statement released to FoxNews.com, NBC said Conan will remain a part of their late-night shows, although they made no mention of his intended time slot.

  “We have the best comedy team in the business,” the statement says.  “We remain committed to keeping Conan O’Brien on NBC. He is a valued part of our late-night line-up, as he has been for more than 16 years and is one of the most respected entertainers on television.”

  The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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• January 7, 2010

  Singers Vince Gill, Amy Grant open up about controversial relationship

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  After ten years together, singer-songwriter couple Vince Gill and Amy Grant are opening up about the scandal of their decision to begin seeing one another.

  When Gill and Grant began dating ten years ago, their relationship was clouded in bad publicity and alleged improprieties. But to celebrate their anniversary, the duo is posing on the February cover of Good Housekeeping magazine, which hits newsstands Jan. 12.

  “When I went through my divorce , there were some things in certain magazines, and I despised the way it made my kids look,” Gill said. “So as a parent, there’s a side of you that just builds a wall and says, ‘You can ask all you want, but you’re not gonna get any of that stuff’”

  Still, Grant says she did not let any of the negative publicity get to them when it came to the decision to leave their prior marriages and begin a life together.

  “I don’t mean this in a flippant way, but I was so unconcerned by what somebody who I would never meet wrote in a rag. I felt like I had flipped a car over three medians and I was trying to figure out if my children – if we all – still had a pulse.”

  Click here to read more of Grant and Gill’s interview with Good Housekeeping.

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• January 7, 2010

  Jay Leno's show not canceled, NBC says

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  NBC has repsonded to a report on the entertainment website FTVLive.com that said Jay Leno’s prime-time show on NBC was on the verge of cancellation.

  “Jay Leno is one of the most compelling entertainers in the world today. As we have said all along, Jay’s show has performed exactly as we anticipated on the network,” an NBC rep said in a statement issued Thursday. “It has, however, presented some issues for our affiliates. Both Jay and the show are committed to working closely with them to find ways to improve the performance.”

  “The Jay Leno Show” has been losing viewers since its debut, as have the local news programs that follow it in several major markets.

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• January 7, 2010

  Fox411 Movie Pick: Michael Cera shows new depth in 'Youth in Revolt'

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  What’s a boy to do when everyone and everything seems to stand in the way of him finding – and bedding – the girl of his dreams?

  That’s the frustrating situation facing Nick Twisp (Michael Cera) in the oddball coming-of-age comedy, “Youth in Revolt.”

  Nick is too nice for the girl he’s most interested in – so he lets his inner beast loose: an alter-ego named Francois Dillinger, who does all the bad things Nick could never do.

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  This delightfully offbeat comedy shows Cera doing what he does best, but with new twists to his low-key persona.

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  4 Stars (Out of 6)

  Click for the full-length review at Hollywoodandfine.com.

  - Marshall Fine

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• January 7, 2010

  Woods mistress Loredana Jolie taking up golf, writing Woods tell-all

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  (Playboy)

  Playboy model Loredana Jolie is cashing in on her sexual encounters with Tiger Woods with an innovative, two-prong publicity plan.

  First, Jolie is taking golf lessons and plans to join an amateur golf tour.

  That gets an ‘A’ for creativity.

  SLIDESHOW: More pics of Loredana Jolie and the other women linked to tiger Woods.

  But that’s just the appetizer.

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