Cristián de la Fuente is recovering from the surgery he needed after becoming injured on Dancing with the Stars 6. He “had surgery last week to repair the tendon he tore from the bone in his left bicep in the middle of a dance routine,” and that “required that a hole be drilled through his …
Six years after coming up with the idea for America’s Next Top Model in her kitchen, Tyra Banks now “makes an estimated $18 million a year, and her net worth is around $75 million,” according to a New York Times Magazine profile. Part of that is from the 25 percent of Top Model she owns. …
Clay Aiken has artificially inseminated his best friend and former record producer who, yes, is female, and the ambiguously gay American Idol 2 runner-up will become a father in August. The mother is Jaymes Foster, David Foster’s sister, who produced A Thousand Different Ways and is apparently Clay’s best friend/roommate. People confirmed unsourced gossip reports …
Tonight, IFC debuts At the Death House Door, a documentary that explores the death penalty in Texas via a pastor who served as a death row chaplain for 15 years. It debuts at 9 p.m. ET and repeats this weekend and next week. For those without access to IFC, the network has made the film …
In a story about several new MTV series, network executive Tony DiSanto told The Hollywood Reporter that their programming strategy’s “main goal is to always pull the rug out. If something is working great, we don’t want to do it again, we want to do something new. Our viewers expect us to keep evolving, genre-busting …
David Cook’s rendition of The Time of My Life is the number one song on iTunes and MP3 on Amazon.com, probably because it was sung by David Cook and not because it’s the awful winner of the American Idol 7 songwriting contest. Last Friday, that track “and the three songs he sang in this week’s …
The 2007-2008 TV season has ended, and after being interrupted by the writers’ strike, reality TV occupies nine of the top 20 spots, and six of the top 10. And America has a new number one TV show: the American Idol performance show. Those numbers are a bit misleading; the six in the top 10 …