X-FACTOR...
Last summer, the biggest question in the world of televised singing competitions was: Can "American Idol" succeed without both SIMON COWELL and PAULA ABDUL?
This summer, the big question will be: Will a Simon / Paula reunion on "X Factor" take down "Idol"?
Earlier this week...after months of rumors...Fox finally made it official: Paula will re-team with Simon on "X Factor". As previously announced, the other two judges' seats will go to L.A. REID and CHERYL COLE.
Simon and Paula both released statements. Simon said, "This show would never have been the same without Paula, and I can't believe I am saying this...I have missed her a lot, and I am thrilled she's on the show."
Paula said, "I am excited beyond words to be a part of 'X Factor'. I'm also delighted and grateful to be sitting next to Simon again...but you might want to check back with me in a week or two!"
Somewhere RANDY JACKSON is very unamused.
The co-hosts of "X Factor" have been locked in: It's going to be former PUSSYCAT DOLLS singer NICOLE SCHERZINGER, as expected...and some Welsh guy named STEVE JONES, as UN-expected.
OOPS...
A few years back, 34-year-old Adam Lynch of Denver, Colorado was dumped by his girlfriend, a woman named Julia Lundstrom. Part of their fight centered around money...he owed her about $11,000.
And he came up with a strategy to win her back. He went on a two-year run of BANK ROBBERIES...where he successfully robbed 24 banks in Colorado, California, Wyoming, and Washington...to pay her back.
He finally got her to meet with him and paid her the money. He said he got it from some stock dividends, but that didn't ring true with her. She started checking up on him and finally got him to admit he'd gotten the money from bank robberies.
Instead of winning her back with the money and the honesty...she called the cops. He's facing up to 20 years in prison
AHHH, GRADUATION...
I think it's now OFFICIALLY a MYTH to say that you should go to college so you can get a good job. Yeah, college might lead to a job down the road...but right now, college seems like just a direct path back to your childhood bedroom.
A consulting firm called Twentysomething Inc. just finished a poll that found that 85% of recent college graduates...or 17 out of 20...move back in with their parents after school, at least for a little while.
In today's job climate...where people with years and even decades of experience are desperate for any jobs, even entry-level ones...less than half of college graduates have a job when they finish school.
WATCH THAT FRIEND REQUEST!
According to Facebook's policies, no one under age 13 is allowed on the site. But...um...EVERYONE under age 13 seems to be on the site.
A study by "Consumer Reports" has found that there are more than FIVE MILLION kids under age 10 who have Facebook pages. They've all just signed up with fake birthdays...which is Facebook's only method of verifying your age.
As for whether their parents know they're on the site and are actively monitoring them...it doesn't look like it. Only 18% of the kids under 10 on Facebook are friends with their parents.
THANK YOU, TAYLOR!!
TAYLOR SWIFT totally gets that you give up your private life when you become a celebrity. She drove that point home yesterday during her appearance on "Ellen".
She said, "I think it's just obnoxious if I complain about anything. I hear other people talk about, 'Oh, the intrusions on my privacy.' It's like there are a million other jobs you could have had.
"For me, I've just come to the acceptance of the fact that this is my life. For me it's just, live your life and if people take pictures...you laugh about it in the car afterwards."
NICKI - NOT CHANGING...
NICKI MINAJ just toured with LIL WAYNE, and she's about to hit the road with BRITNEY SPEARS, who's obviously a completely different artist. But while Nicki does plan on "expanding" her show a little, she isn't changing her approach.
She says, "People think Nicki's going to completely change...I think that's the biggest misconception. I think people don't understand that I remain myself, whether I'm on a hip-hop tour or a pop tour.
"The Wayne tour to me was a pop tour. Most people probably think that they're only gonna see black faces in the audience for him, but we see everyone in that audience. 80% of the crowd is everything but black. To me, hip-hop is pop. They've merged. Everyone listens to rap. I think it's all the same thing."
END OF THE HS YEAR...ALMOST YEARBOOK TIME!
We just LOVE coddling our kids today. God forbid we actually tell them we expect them to make something of themselves.
According to a recent study, only about one out of four high school yearbooks still features the classic "Most Likely To Succeed".
Twenty years ago, more than three in four yearbooks featured it.
And apparently the reason is that we're afraid to give a kid a label that will HAUNT them for the rest of their life: Always pushing them to be a success and making them feel like a failure if they're not an NFL star-turned-doctor-turned-senator.
A survey by the website MemoryLane.com also found that about one out of three people who were named "Most Likely To Succeed" back in high school say it was a, quote, "curse." Two in five say it was a, quote, "inspiration."
I'll sum up my thoughts: pfffffffft.
30-year-old Blake Atwood of Irving, Texas, is one of the people who said it was a curse. He was voted "Most Likely To Succeed" by his classmates back in 1998, and he works as a copywriter for a law firm now.
"Being noosed with 'most likely to succeed' is like lugging an albatross to every job interview, new relationship, or endeavor."
...IT IS!? Well you don't HAVE to put it on your resume if you don't want to, or tell a girlfriend that if you don't want to...quit being a whiney little bitch!!!
UM...I HAVE NO HEADLINE...JUST READ IT...
Some people are just way cooler than you and me.
Although I was telling someone the other night that I'm gonna rock some Batman sheets on my bed. Perhaps that would make me cooler?
Thursday, just before 1:00 A.M., the police in Petoskey, Michigan (hey, I've been there! Northern part of the state) got a call that Batman was on the roof of a building. And he was. Sort of.
They spotted a man in a full Batman costume hanging off the ledge of a building. Considering how dangerous this was, it's fitting that he was hanging off Petoskey's Department of Public Safety.
The police pulled Batman back onto the roof and arrested him. Turns out his secret identity was 31-year-old Mark Williams.
And, on Mark's MySpace page, (they don't have facebook in the northwoods yet), he describes himself as a, "geek...into comics and action figures."
In addition to his Batman costume, he had a Batman baton, lead-lined gloves, and a canister of pepper spray. There's no word on what he was doing on the roof, whether it was 'fake-fighting' crime, or what.
But...HERE'S A PIC!!!!!!
PROM PIX OF THE STARS...
The website CoedMagazine.com put together a photo gallery of celebrity prom pictures...and some of them are priceless.
Take WILL FERRELL'S photo, for instance...in which he was with a pretty hot chick, but felt the need to act like a CLOWN-ASS by wearing a tiara.
Also captured on their big night are Fergie, Brad Pitt, Kellie Pickler, Verne "Mini-Me" Troyer and Kobe Bryant and Brandy...who went to her prom TOGETHER in 1996
Check it: http://coedmagazine.com/2011/05/12/will-ferrell-31-other-celebrity-prom-photos/
OH BOY...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE and her much-taller boyfriend, Ukrainian boxer WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO, announced that they've broken up. Hayden says, "Even though we've decided splitting up is best for both of us, we have an amazing amount of love and respect for each other and remain very close friends."
Klitschko adds, "We had a great time together, but it's not that easy to manage a relationship between two continents."
Hi, Hayden? Yeah, I live on this continent. Call me? :)
DO YOU FB IN BED?
When you wake up in the morning, what's the first thing you do? If you said, "Lean over, pick up my phone, and check my texts and emails"...congratulations. You officially prioritize communication over relieving yourself with a morning pee.
According to a new survey, 35% of smartphone owners say they check their phones before they get vertical in the morning. They even check their phones before they get up to go to the bathroom.
The survey also found that 20% of people say the last thing they do at night before they go to sleep is check their phone.
Only 34% of people say they use their phones while they commute...and 26% use them at dinner.
In other news, 95% of people lied.
RAIN-COOLED ENTERTAINMENT...
AWKWARD PREGGO PICS! http://pregnantchicken.squarespace.com/pregnant-chicken-blog/2010/12/10/awkward-pregnancy-photos.html
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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