Back when we were young and innocent, Jeff Probst would hold up a bag of Doritos and offer them as a reward, and we’d laugh and think to ourselves, “Silly Jeff, you’re whoring Doritos.” That was then. Last year, there was a 30 percent increase in product placement and appearances on network prime-time TV, to …
A 59-year-old man was arrested and charged yesterday with stalking 20-year-old Jessica Sierra, the singer who placed 10th on American Idol 4. The man, “Daniel Robert Young, 59, called Sierra about six times daily and sent a necklace, a bracelet and dozens of long-stemmed roses to her by way of her grandparents’ house in south …
Bo Bice has again been hospitalized, apparently due to complications form the surgery he had in August to deal with intestine blockage. Yesterday, he started “coughing up blood” in Las Vegas rehearsing for tonight’s Radio Music Awards, and “he was taken out on a stretcher and brought to Desert Springs Hospital, where his wife Caroline …
The Fox Reality Channel has, perhaps unsurprisingly, picked up the rights to air American Idol 4 and American Idol 5. The fourth season’s repeats will air daily at 5 p.m. ET starting on Jan. 2 and end on Jan. 17, when season five debuts on Fox. Repeats of the fifth season will repeat starting in …
Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts record entered the Billboard 200 chart at number two, after selling “nearly 315,000 copies,” according to Billboard. Although she was beaten by Madonna on the Billboard 200, that was enough to “[make] her the highest debuting new artist in the country genre since SoundScan began,” according to a press release. Carrie …
American Idol 4 runner-up Bo Bice recently moved to a new home on a six-acre property in Nashville. Instead of selling his old house in Alabama, he gave it “to a family who had lost their home in Hurricane Katrina,” People reports. Besides working on his album The Real Thing (which will be released Dec. …
American Idol 4 winner Carrie Underwood’s debut album Some Hearts hits stores today. The big question is whether or not Carrie’s country pop will sell. The record’s first single, “Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “was the most-added song and received the most increased plays on country radio last week,” and her single “Some Hearts” will be …