WE GON' LIGHT IT UP...

like it's Dynamite? Yes.
Know what? I'm hungry...I'll type this as I eat breakfast....
...ok, I ate breakfast and didn't type a single thing in the last 15 minutes. OK, I feel better now. And I'm gonna shut up and give you the good stuff.




BIG BROTHER CONTESTANT GETS A SURPRISE...
How's THIS for a big bucket of SUCK?
A contestant on the reality show Big Brother has a bittersweet homecoming to look forward to after Wednesday night's finale - her home has been destroyed by fire!!!

Britney Haynes, 22, was cut off from the outside world for the summer while she competed for a $500,000 prize on the CBS show - and she still hasn't been told she doesn't have a home to go back to.

The Arkansas house she shared with fiance Nick Grisham was severely damaged by a blaze early on Wednesday morning, and Haynes' family and friends and the producers of the show have agreed not to tell her the bad news until her time on the TV show is over.

Her future mother-in-law, Laura Grisham, tells the Arkansas Democrat Gazette newspaper that her son was in contact with production about the tragedy: "They agreed they wouldn’t say anything to Britney. She can’t do anything... There’s no sense in her knowing."
Haynes, a hotel sales manager, missed out on being a finalist on the show - but she won $10,000 in a challenge.








KATY WENT 'HOME'...
KATY PERRY performed at her old high school in Santa Barbara, California, on Tuesday...and during the show, she claimed to have spotted a former classmate. And she took that opportunity to RIP HIM for not wanting to date her in school. (Bet he regrets that now, huh?)

It happened in-between songs. Katy suddenly said, "Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular kid in my class! But you never wanted to date me, it was always Amanda Wayne. Oh yeah, you really chose right, honey.

"What's up? What's up now, player? I'm going to dedicate this next one to Shane Lopes everyone. It's called 'You're So Gay'."
http://www.tmz.com/videos?autoplay=true&mediaKey=1c73580b-c3a7-4bdc-9e44-f2e83e0f556d

This wasn't just for show. Shane actually WAS in the crowd. And we know this because he ended up giving a ton of quotes to sites like TMZ and RadarOnline.
Basically, Shane believes it was just some playful teasing. He explained, "I thought it was pretty cool. I haven't seen her in awhile. We went to elementary school together.

"[But] that whole story [about a dramatic high school love rejection] is pretty fabricated. I never got the feeling that she had a crush on me. We've always been friends. (Pfffffft!)

"I think it was more for entertainment...and she was figuring out a way to segue into her next song and kinda embarrass me just for fun."

He also added that he's OK with how things turned out "I don't have any regrets. I'm actually engaged to my high school sweetheart!"








GAGA WANTS TO DO TV...
LADY GAGA is DYING to guest star on "CSI: Miami"...(???)...at least, according to EVA LA RUE, who plays Natalia Boa Vista on the show.

Eva says, "The rumor has been that Lady Gaga wants to do the show really bad. I don't know if we're going to get her or not, but it would be awesome!"

She adds, "She doesn't want to play herself from what I understand. She wants to be a character."








OLD SCHOOL MUSIC NEWS: J SIMPSON
JESSICA SIMPSON is recording a Christmas album, and she's getting a little help from some friends: ANDREA BOCELLI and WILLIE NELSON. (???)
That's according to "Life & Style" magazine...which didn't offer any other information, like a title or a release date.

But they did say that Jessica will also do a duet on "I'll Be Home for Christmas" with some U.S. soldier.






OLD SCHOOL MUSIC NEWS: HOOTIE!!!
A HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH monument is coming to Columbia, South Carolina!!!

The 20-foot long, 10-foot-wide, 12-foot-tall hunk of steel and black granite will be unveiled on October 21st. It'll be located just a few blocks away from the University of South Carolina, where the band formed in 1986.
What it will look like? No clue.







EMINEM KICKED OUT OF #1 BY...
SARA BAREILLES, who had the #1 hit "Love Song" a few years back, has the new #1 album the country. Her second disc, "Kaleidoscope Heart", which has her new single "King Of Anything" on it, moved 90,000 copies in its first week.






THE CLUB?
Did you know the guy who invented "The Club" is from right here in our listening area? Very edge of it off to the east.
He's 81-year-old James E. Winner Junior of Sharon, Pennsylvania...and he has died. And he died in his car.

But no, it wasn't in some ironic way like a carjacking gone wrong, or his steering wheel locking itself in place. It's just a sad, un-ironic car accident that claimed three lives.

On Tuesday afternoon, James was driving his Lexus when he drifted across the center line and crashed head-on into a Chevy Blazer.

James died, and so did both the driver and passenger in the Blaze...82-year-old Bobby Jarrett of Forest County, Pennsylvania, and 76-year-old Raymond Fair of Tylersburg, Pennsylvania.

James invented The Club in 1986. He got the idea when he was serving in the Korean War and he and his fellow soldiers were told to lock up their steering wheels with metal bars and chains.