It may not be a South Carolina tailgate or a Home Depot , but the set of Bethenny worked just fine for one couple yesterday. During a segment on Bethenny Frankel’s talk show, a man told the host that he didn’t have a question for her, but rather a very important one for his girlfriend. He turned to his love, asked for her hand in marriage… and she said YES! Hooray! Watch now to see the proposal and to learn what Bethenny gifted the couple in celebration of the big news: Couple Gets Engaged on Bethenny
Very sad news this week out of Oregon: Bart Colantuono, a pilot best known for his role in the History Channel’s Ax Men , died in a helicopter accident near Detroit Lake on Monday. He was 54 years old. According to Portland’s KPTV, Colantuono was picking up a load of logs from the National Forest (en route to building a deck in Idanha, Oregon) when the crash took place. Federal aviation investigators are looking into the cause of the incident, but witnesses say they heard logs fall to the group prior to the helicopter tumbling down, suggesting Colantuono released them because he was aware something was amiss. Colantuono was the only passenger in the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene. A native of Indialantic, Florida, Colantuono had over 15,000 hours as a pilot on his resume before this tragedy took place. “We are extremely saddened to learn that a member of the Ax Men family, Bart Colantuono, passed away yesterday,” a statement on the show’s Facebook page reads. “All of us at HISTORY and Original Productions, along with our Ax Men team, would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Bart. He was an important part of Ax Men when he appeared in Season 2 & 3 and his talents will be greatly missed.”
‘Mr. Spielberg, when you meet him, he is not intimidating at all,’ McPhee tells MTV News. By Christina Garibaldi Katharine McPhee Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/ Getty Images It’s been a while since we’ve seen Katharine McPhee in the spotlight. Now all eyes are on her as the “American Idol” alum takes on the leading role as Karen Cartwright in the highly anticipated NBC musical drama “Smash.” But the road to “Smash” hasn’t been an easy one for McPhee. After coming in as runner-up in the 2006 season of “American Idol” and starring in “The House Bunny,” McPhee has had a rough road on her career path. She was dropped from her record label in 2008 and struggled with getting other movie projects off the ground. But her determination paid off, which is something she could relate to when playing her character on “Smash.” “My character, Karen, is the biggest dreamer of them all, she dreams big. Our show is about dreaming big,” McPhee told MTV News at the New York premiere of “Smash.” “She has a big heart, she has a lot of drive and she’s very determined about what she wants in her career and what she wants out of it and how she’s gonna go about doing it, and keeping a real strong moral code. I think she is a little green when you first meet her. She’s not quite sure how things go and how things are worked in the business, [and] she learns a lot throughout the course of the first season.” The show centers on the making of a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. In the first episode, viewers will see McPhee’s struggle with several auditions before getting a callback to compete against newcomer Megan Hilty’s character for the part of Marilyn. But according to McPhee, her audition for the role of Karen was nothing like the one you will see during the premiere on Monday. “I did have to audition for this,” McPhee said. “It was actually one of the more simple auditions I’ve been through. I auditioned, put myself on tape, flew to New York the next week, was testing for it. I waited two days for Mr. Spielberg to watch the tape and I got the part.” Yes, that’s right. McPhee had to audition for Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg, who is a producer on the series. So we had to ask: Who is more intimidating to audition for, Spielberg or former “Idol” judge Simon Cowell? “I would say neither,” McPhee declared. “Mr. Spielberg, when you meet him, he is not intimidating at all. He’s the most lovely, wonderful, gentle man.” Are you excited for Monday’s premiere of “Smash”? Let us know in the comments. Related Artists Katharine McPhee
Just-released clip has warring hipsters, a mariachi band … and Wayne Newton. By James Montgomery All-American Rejects’ Tyson Ritter in the “Beekeeper’s Daughter” music video It’s been a while — like, almost three years — since the All-American Rejects have made a music video, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that, when they got the go-ahead to shoot a clip for “Beekeeper’s Daughter” (the first single from their upcoming Kids in the Street album), they decided to go all out. “This was the first video where, when we got [the treatment], everyone said ‘yes’ and I said ‘yes … but could we please have some of this?’ And I proceeded to sort of expel every fantastic idea I could think of,” frontman Tyson Ritter explained. “From, like, a hipster fight — beards versus mustaches, a lot of plaid, had to be like ‘West Side Story’ — to some she-devils. Everything we could ever sort of think of for a video that was impractical is in this one. “And the whole thing is floating on a through-line of a man walking through his day, experiencing every random encounter from every random walk of life,” he continued. “And at the very end, there’s a big parade with Wayne Newton.” And Ritter’s not exaggerating either. Because the “Beekeeper’s” video — which premiered Friday (February 3) — is most certainly jam-packed with every one of his notions and then some. It’s a big, buzzy clip, brimming with dancing she-devils, cheerleaders, cops, ticker tape, a mariachi band and Mr. Newton (to name just a few). And while everything in the video elicits a thrill, it’s Newton’s cameo that takes the cake. “Yeah, I think [Tyson’s] email ended with, ‘Oh, and Wayne Newton.’ And I thought that was to sum up that this video needs to have all kinds of outrageousness,” guitarist Nick Wheeler laughed. “But two days before, we got this phone call: ‘Hey, Wayne Newton’s going to be in the video.’ I have his business card in my wallet.” Speaking of business, now that the “Beekeeper’s Daughter” video has been released, there remains one rather sweet sponsorship deal AAR are very interested in securing — one that’s a lot tougher to land than you’d imagine. “This song was dubbed ‘Beekeeper’s Daughter’ because that was the brand of honey that we had in the cabin in the Sequoia Grove National Forest when we first wrote it,” Wheeler said. “It’s really just our desperate attempt at a honey sponsorship.” “And those are not easy to get,” Ritter laughed. “We still haven’t gotten any of that honey.” What do you think of the “Beekeeper’s Daughter” video? Share your reviews in the comments! Related Artists The All-American Rejects
