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Jeremy Rosado Sent Home On ‘American Idol’

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As the bottom two contestants, the wild-card pick squares off against Elise Testone. By James Dinh Jeremy Rosado on “American Idol” Photo: FOX Capping a week of tunes from music greats Stevie Wonder and the late Whitney Houston , Jeremy Rosado was sent packing during the “American Idol” results show Thursday night (March 8), marking the first Top 13 farewell. Before the elimination was announced, the episode kicked things off on a lighter note as host Ryan Seacrest welcomed the contestants to perform Wonder’s 1977 hit “As.” And after all the introductions, usual Ford product placement and recapping, it was time to get down to business. First up on the chopping block were the female contestants, who were eventually narrowed down to the bottom three: Elise Testone, Erika Van Pelt and Shannon Magrane. The trio of male contestants included Jermaine Jones, Jeremy Rosado and Joshua Ledet. Seacrest’s “after the commercial break” intensity ended with Rosado and Testone as the finalists with the lowest votes after Wednesday night’s episode. Leaving the deliberation up to judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, it was Rosado (originally a wild-card choice) who was announced as this week’s eliminated contestant. Asked what he would miss about “Idol,” Rosado simply told Seacrest, “Just the whole experience.” “This was awesome. … Thank you guys for everything,” he said. As a special guest mentor on this week’s episode, Mary J. Blige also took to the “Idol” stage to perform her new single “Why.” Additionally, “Idol” welcomed back season 10 runner-up Lauren Alaina, who offered some Southern charm with a performance of her single “Georgia Peaches.” What did you think of Jeremy’s elimination? Share your thoughts below! Get your “Idol” fix on MTV News’ “American Idol” page , where you’ll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.

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Andre 3000 Denies Outkast Breakup

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‘I’m going to be in Outkast forever in some kind of way,’ Andre tells Fader. By Rob Markman Andre 3000 Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images Andre 3000 is economical with his words. It’s not often that the ATLien raps or even grants an interview, and when he does, die-hards hang onto every syllable, even if they sometimes misconstrue his sentiment. In a new interview with Fader magazine, 3 Stacks sets the record straight and denies the persistent rumors of an Outkast breakup. “So I think when I hear things on the Internet that Outkast is over, I think, that’s a shame. Because I don’t have the power to stop Outkast, you know? I didn’t start Outkast by myself. I don’t have the power to stop Outkast,” Andre said in the interview, which can be found on Fader ‘s website. Andre and bandmate Big Boi dropped their debut LP, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, back in 1994, and they have since become an iconic act in hip-hop and music as a whole. In 2000 they dropped their fourth album, Stankonia, which they followed three years later with the double disc Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below. Though packaged as an Outkast album, each disc served as solo expression for the two MCs: Big Boi commandeered the Speakerboxxx portion and 3000 helmed The Love Below disc. In 2006, they released the “Idlewild” soundtrack together, but despite the constant rumors, there has been no group project since. There may never be another ‘Kast album, 3 Stacks says. “We’re not on the roster or on a schedule with a label to put out an Outkast album. I can’t say if or when we will, but I’m going to be in Outkast forever in some kind of way,” he said. There is an Andre solo LP on the horizon, but of course there is no date. “I’m at a place now where my deadline is my own self. I’m looking at it like, OK, I don’t want to be like 40 years old and to haven’t done this album,” Dre said. “And I don’t have a sense of time. When people say, Man, we haven’t heard from you in like five years, or seen you, to me, it feels like a year. I don’t have a good sense of time, but I do know I’m not a spring chicken anymore.” What’s your favorite Outkast album? Tell us in the comments! Related Artists OutKast Andre 3000

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The Wanted Plot Next Move With Debut U.S. Album

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U.K. boy-banders drop album April 24, following their appearance at mtvU’s Spring Break later this month. By Jocelyn Vena The Wanted Photo: Steve Thorne/ Redferns The Wanted are proving that they are “Glad You Came” with the news that they will release their debut U.S. album on April 24. According to the band, further details about the release are still in the works, but they couldn’t hold back their enthusiasm when they made the emoticon-filled announcement on Twitter . The band released their album Battleground, featuring their current single “Glad You Came,” back in their native U.K. in 2011. “Great news, America: We are thrilled to announce we will be releasing our first US album on April 24!! Stay tuned for details.” They also shared that they are back in the studio for the release, writing, “Just recorded our next single … #expecttheunexpected.” Before they release the album, the guys have been tapped to join rapper Young Jeezy and MTV Artist to Watch Dev at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for mtvU’s Spring Break festivities. It’ll all go down March 20 to 22. “Glad You Came” was recently covered on “Glee,” and Wanted bandmember Tom Parker spoke to MTV News about all the Stateside attention his band’s getting. “Things have gone absolutely crazy. I can’t believe it,” Parker said of their meteoric rise to fame in America. “We always wanted that aim to go and do it in America. We did under the radar [in the U.K.] and it’s kind of going back to the old traditional way that boy bands and bands used to do it, I suppose. It feels good and we’re doing it old school.” Related Artists The Wanted

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Snooki’s Engagement Ring: All The Details!

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The New Jersey-area jewelry store owner talks to MTV News about the $55,000 ring that Jionni LaValle designed. By Jocelyn Vena Snooki’s $55,000, 3.02-carat engagement ring Photo: Hall/Pena, PacificCoastNews.com When Jionni LaValle wanted to ask his lady love, ” Jersey Shore ” star Snooki , to marry him , he knew exactly where he wanted to go. “She was here a couple months ago, about three months ago. She was here for her birthday, actually, and she was looking for bangles and she was giving him some hints like certain types of stuff that she would like. So, Jionni came in about a couple months ago; he came in looking at engagement rings. He basically came up with certain design that she liked in some of the rings,” Ben Bekdas, the owner of the New Jersey jewelry store, B&B Jewelers, told MTV News. Check out exclusive photos of Snooki and her brand-new bling. Jionni then took it upon himself to pick a ring that he knew Snooki would love. “He designed it. He came a couple weeks ago he finalized it, he loved it,” he added about the ring, which includes 3.02-carat princess-cut diamond in the center of a custom-built band with 2 carats of diamonds around it. It is reportedly worth about $55,000. “She was totally surprised. She had no clue what it was going to look like,” Bekdas said. “She had never seen it put together and he came and totally surprised her.” Now that there couple has a baby on the way and a wedding to plan, Bekdas said they have already started talking about designs for their wedding bands. “I spoke to them yesterday. They’re doing fabulous,” he added. “They’re doing great. He told me he was going to do it at the W Hotel in Hoboken and he was going to do it on the balcony. That he was going to get down on his knees.” Bekdas even gave us some insight into what they are like when the cameras aren’t rolling. “They were talking about [marriage for a while]. They were making comments. Jionni was saying ‘We’ll be getting married.’ I didn’t know that she was pregnant until a few weeks ago but I didn’t say nothing,” he said. “Honestly they’re incredible. They’re very down-to-earth, very well-spoken people, very humble. Nice. They’re amazing people.” Share your well-wishes for Snooki and Jionni in the comments below or on our Facebook page! Don’t miss “Jersey Shore” every Thursday at 10 p.m. ET on MTV. For continuing “Shore” coverage, be sure to check in with MTV’s Remote Control blog. Related Photos Snooki’s Brand-New Bling

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Ashley Olsen Quits Acting

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‘I don’t like to be the center of attention anymore,’ she tells Elle U.K. By Jocelyn Vena Ashley Olsen on the April issue of Elle U.K. Photo: Elle UK/Alexei Hay While her little sister Elizabeth Olsen is currently Hollywood’s “It” girl, one half of the Olsen twins, Ashley, has announced that she no longer has plans to act. “We worked non-stop until we were 18,” the fashion mogul said in an interview with Elle U.K. “Then we decided to take a break and go to school — and that was when we decided to question whether we would carry on in entertainment. It was time to step behind the process. I wanted to work on other things. It doesn’t mean I’m not interested in Hollywood, I like the way it operates and the people who are involved and the sense of possibility. But if I ever do get back in, it’s not going to be as an actress. It just felt right to move away.” It seems her focus will be on her three fashion lines with Mary-Kate, and perhaps a move behind the camera. “I don’t have to be a pretty face,” she said, reports E! News . “I’ve done that, but now it’s important and liberating to be on the other side of the lens. I don’t like to be the center of attention anymore. “We are perfectionists,” she added about her work as a fashion designer. “We’ve always wanted to be closely involved with everything, totally hands on — that’s why it works. If we step away, it stops working. I know it sounds controlling, but that’s how it has to be.” At the end of the day, MK and Ash still seem to share a similar work ethic. “We’re attracted to different things, but we arrive at the same place,” she said. “I think we’re probably unaware of how intuitive it might seem from the outside. It’s basically one thought process shared between two people.” What do you think of Ashley Olsen’s decision to quit acting? Leave your comment below!

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George Clooney, Brad Pitt Team Up For Prop 8 Play

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One-off presentation of ‘8,’ directed by Rob Reiner, will be streamed live March 3. By Jocelyn Vena George Clooney Photo: Getty Images If you thought the George Clooney / Brad Pitt bromance was only reserved for “Ocean’s Eleven”” movies, the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards , well, think again. Pitt has just signed on to join his longtime pal for the West Coast production of “8,” a play based on the landmark Proposition 8 trial in California. According to E! News , Pitt will play Prop 8 opposer U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, and Clooney will play David Boies, an attorney who sought to overturn the highly publicized ban. Written by Oscar-winning “Milk” screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, the play has a star-studded cast that includes Martin Sheen, Christine Lahti, Jamie Lee Curtis, Matthew Morrison, Matt Bomer, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, John C. Reilly, Campbell Brown, Chris Colfer, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cleve Jones, Rory O’Malley, George Takei, Yeardley Smith, Vanessa Garcia, Jansen Panetierre, James Pickens Jr. and Bridger Zadina, according to CNN . “8” follows the legal process behind the overturning of Proposition 8, the California law that outlawed gay marriage. The play already ran on Broadway last September and will go on tour through 2012, with different actors taking on roles along the way. The one-show-only Clooney-Pitt production takes place on March 3 and will be streamed live on YouTube, according to the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact. Rob Reiner is directing. Clooney recently made headlines when he addressed long-standing gay rumors about himself in The Advocate . “My private life is private, and I’m very happy in it. Who does it hurt if someone thinks I’m gay? I’ll be long dead and there will still be people who say I was gay. I don’t give a sh–.” As for his friendship with Pitt, Clooney said, “People think Brad and I hang out all the time, but the truth is that we see each other very rarely, maybe a couple times a year. I do think we’ve set the bar very high [for other actor duos] … I’m very proud to call him my friend.” Related Videos Oscars 2012: Red Carpet Highlights

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Demi Lovato Teases ‘Punk’d’ Appearance, New Music Video

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‘I’m basically trying to convince a guy that I didn’t break his heart, and we get into a fight …,’ Lovato says of upcoming clip. By Jocelyn Vena Demi Lovato Photo: Scott Gries Demi Lovato opened up about her life post-treatment during her deeply personal MTV documentary “Stay Strong.” Her life these days includes a bustling music career, and as 2012 crawls along, Lovato shared that she’s got some big plans in store for the coming months. During the “Stay Strong” “After Show,” Demi teased that she has plans to tour and release a music video for her second Unbroken single, “Give Your Heart a Break.” In an interview with MTV News days before the special aired, Lovato shed more light on her forthcoming projects. “The new music video, I’m basically trying to convince a guy that I didn’t break his heart, and we get into a fight and I try to win him over again,” she explained about the recently shot clip. “So I do something special for him at the end of the song.” While shooting the video, Lovato joked on Twitter about having to get intimate with her co-star, whom she had met not long before cameras started rolling. “It’s kind of funny. It’s part of the job though. You just try to get through it, but it is kind of awkward at first when you have to act like a couple with someone that you don’t know,” she said. “He was really sweet, really sweet and really cute.” This is hardly the end of the Unbroken era for Lovato, who confirmed that she will tour to support the album at some point this year. “I’m definitely going to hit the road again this year,” she said. “I’m planning on doing, like, kind of a little tour and seeing where I end up and just getting out there to see my fans again.” And it seems that until she fully begins to get comfortable with herself again, as she explained during the “After Show,” her acting career has been put on hold. “But when the right project comes along, I’ll definitely consider it,” she promised. Fans won’t have to wait much longer, however, to see Lovato’s “Punk’d” episode, which airs when the new season kicks off on March 29. “My two friends, Jack [Gaskarth] and Alex [Barakat from All Time Low], they Punk’d me,” she said. The guys got some help from Nick Cannon, and in photos teased during the special, Demi is seen looking surprised by whatever it is the guys tried to pull on her. While she kept the details vague, she did share this with us: “I’m a sucker for, like, ghosts and aliens and stuff like that, so they got me pretty good.” Related Videos ‘Demi Lovato: Stay Strong’ — The After Show ‘Demi Lovato: Stay Strong’ Related Photos ‘Demi Lovato: Stay Strong’ After Show

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Ke$ha Out For Vengeance In Musical March Madness

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‘I’m getting ready as we speak,’ she tells MTV News of this year’s tournament, tipping off Monday. By James Montgomery Ke$ha Photo: Getty Images Last year, based mainly on her attitude, the fact that she plays an AK-47 shaped guitar and the presence of photos like this , Ke$ha was given an 11 seed in MTV’s Musical March Madness tournament — and promptly lost by a huge margin to U2 in the opening round. Of course, she’s spent the past 12 months fuming over that early exit, and now, she’s going to get her shot at redemption. Not only is Ke$ha back in the 2012 MMM tournament — which kicks off Monday — but she’s beefed up her rock credentials: working with the likes of Alice Cooper , channeling the “sexiness” of ’70s rock on her new album, recording a (genuinely pretty great) cover of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” and spending time snorting Tums with Wayne Coyne. So, yeah, this year, she’s ready to knock off the field of 63 other acts gunning for the MMM trophy — a brimming bracket that includes defending champions Green Day , upstarts Fun. and good pals the Black Keys , to name just a few — and reign supreme. But just in case all that rock-and-roll prep work isn’t enough to put her over the top, well, Ke$ha has another secret weapon at the ready: an incredibly toned pelvic floor. “I’m getting ready as we speak. I’m doing Kegels,” she told MTV News, while throwing phantom punches at an unsuspecting cameraman. “Vote for me!” MTV’s 2012 Musical March Madness tournament begins Monday, March 12, when we’ll unveil the full field of 64 bands that will battle for this year’s championship. Winners are determined by fan votes, so if your favorite act made the cut, it will be up to you to guide them to glory. You can rally the troops on Twitter using the hashtag #MMM — but get ready, it’s gonna be a war.

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Jonas Brothers Promise ‘Anything Goes’ On New Album

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‘We’re saying, ‘Let’s just vibe out, write a million songs and see what we’re feeling most,’ Nick Jonas tells MTV News. By Jocelyn Vena Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas and Kevin Jonas of Jonas Brothers Photo: El Universal It’s on! The Jonas Brothers promised they’d be hitting the studio very soon, and it seems they are men of their word. This week big bro Kevin tweeted out some footage of Joe and Nick in the studio whipping up some musical ear candy that will surely delight their fans. While there’s no certainty that the teased track will make their next studio release, the song certainly does blend the guys’ love for mixing genres, touching on soul, rock and disco. When Nick dropped by the MTV News offices recently, he said that when this next album drops, all bets are off as to what it will sound like. “We have spoken about it, and the thing we’re doing which is different to any record we’ve made in the past is we’re saying, ‘Anything goes, let’s just vibe out, listen to a million songs, write a million songs and see what we’re feeling most.’ Our statement, as a band, for this record has to be really strong. We feel like we want to deliver the best record we can.” Individually, the guys have been busy churning out albums, but there hasn’t been a proper JB album since 2009, when they dropped Lines, Vines and Trying Times. The guys are well aware that the music scene is vastly different three years later. “We pay attention to it, definitely,” Nick said. “That’s part of your job as an artist, too, is to be aware of what other people are doing. … We pay attention and have been paying attention just to see where we want to fall. But first we just want to write great songs, and as far as how it sounds, that’ll come second.” There has yet to be a release date for the album, but the Jonas Brothers have teased that it may drop before the end of the year. The hashtag #JonasBrothers2012 attached to the studio video may be the best hint so far. “We don’t know how long it’s going to take us to write this record,” Nick warned. “It may take a couple weeks, it may take months, it could take years, but we’re ready to go on that journey. It’s been a while and there has been a lot of growth as individuals and musically as well. We’ve all gone on our journeys musically. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of that.” What are you hoping to see on the Jonas Brothers’ next album? Leave your comment below! Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Nick Jonas Related Artists Jonas Brothers Joe Jonas

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Jonas Brothers Promise ‘Anything Goes’ On New Album

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‘We’re saying, ‘Let’s just vibe out, write a million songs and see what we’re feeling most,’ Nick Jonas tells MTV News. By Jocelyn Vena Nick Jonas, Joe Jonas and Kevin Jonas of Jonas Brothers Photo: El Universal It’s on! The Jonas Brothers promised they’d be hitting the studio very soon, and it seems they are men of their word. This week big bro Kevin tweeted out some footage of Joe and Nick in the studio whipping up some musical ear candy that will surely delight their fans. While there’s no certainty that the teased track will make their next studio release, the song certainly does blend the guys’ love for mixing genres, touching on soul, rock and disco. When Nick dropped by the MTV News offices recently, he said that when this next album drops, all bets are off as to what it will sound like. “We have spoken about it, and the thing we’re doing which is different to any record we’ve made in the past is we’re saying, ‘Anything goes, let’s just vibe out, listen to a million songs, write a million songs and see what we’re feeling most.’ Our statement, as a band, for this record has to be really strong. We feel like we want to deliver the best record we can.” Individually, the guys have been busy churning out albums, but there hasn’t been a proper JB album since 2009, when they dropped Lines, Vines and Trying Times. The guys are well aware that the music scene is vastly different three years later. “We pay attention to it, definitely,” Nick said. “That’s part of your job as an artist, too, is to be aware of what other people are doing. … We pay attention and have been paying attention just to see where we want to fall. But first we just want to write great songs, and as far as how it sounds, that’ll come second.” There has yet to be a release date for the album, but the Jonas Brothers have teased that it may drop before the end of the year. The hashtag #JonasBrothers2012 attached to the studio video may be the best hint so far. “We don’t know how long it’s going to take us to write this record,” Nick warned. “It may take a couple weeks, it may take months, it could take years, but we’re ready to go on that journey. It’s been a while and there has been a lot of growth as individuals and musically as well. We’ve all gone on our journeys musically. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of that.” What are you hoping to see on the Jonas Brothers’ next album? Leave your comment below! Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Nick Jonas Related Artists Jonas Brothers Joe Jonas

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