It was another tense night on American Idol when Ryan Seacrest called on who would remain in the competition and who would be packing it up and going home. As Sanjaya made it to another round (without surprise anymore), Chris Sligh was cast out. However, he is one hell of a singer and has a good shot at stardom in the future. So long, Chris!
Hellooooo Smashing Pumpkins! After disappearing for six-and-a-half years, the Smashing Pumpkins are returning in a big way. Scheduled to kick off the relaunching of their music career on May 22 in Paris, they will then continue to make their way across Europe in the summer before hitting North America in the fall.
Nice! I love the Smashing Pumpkins!
Speaking of great musicians, Bono was crowned a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Thursday at a Dublin home of British Ambassador David Reddaway.
And Michael Jackson was crowned the celebrity with the most bizarre court happenings -- or... he should be, anyway. This go around, London resident, Nona Paris Lola Jackson (yes, that's the name she's going by), is claiming to be the REAL mother of Jackson's three children and has continued her efforts in having a say in the child custody settlement between Jackson and Debbie Rowe. According to Nona Paris Lola Jackson, she delivered the three kiddies by "water birth" because she is "technically an herbalist." Now, she wants shared physical custody!
Uh, OK?&*$#&
After months of hearing that Tori Spelling received a small portion of her dad's gigantic will, Randy Spelling set the record straight.
"It's not like my dad would give me one thing and Tori another," Randy said. "...Nothing was changed in the will."
Although not many of us know much about Randy Spelling and personally, I have only seen him hanging out at the clubs I went to back in my clubbing days, we are all going to get a formal introduction to the son of Aaron Spelling on A&E. Coming soon... Randy Spelling, Sean Stewart (son of Rod) and talent agent Dave Weintraub star in Sons of Hollywood, a reality-based show following the livings of three best buds as they move out of their parent's homes and try life as roommates.
And finally, Ms. Halle Berry gets real with Parade magazine and talks openly about her suicide attempt after her first marriage to baseball player David Justice in 1996.
"I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming when I had an image of my mother finding me," she said. "She sacrificed so much for her children, and to end my life would be an incredibly selfish thing to do."