Why remake Footloose , an iconic film from 1984? For male movie fans around the globe, the answer is easy: Julianne Hough. The beautiful Dancing with the Stars professional takes on her first lead role in this adaption, which comes out on October 14 and also stars Kenny Wormald in the role made famous by Kevin Bacon over 25 years ago. He portrays a city teenager who comes to a small town and helps it rediscover the magic of dancing. Hough plays the daughter of Dennis Quaid’s Reverend Shaw Moore. The first official trailer for Footloose was released today. Check it out now: Footloose Movie Trailer
Competing for Brad Womack’s attention on The Bachelor, Ashley Hebert turned to food to cope with the stress. Soon enough, she’d packed on 10 pounds. For a petite, 5’2″ girl, that’s a fair amount. Fortunately, Ashley changed her diet and exercise habits to lose the weight in time for her upcoming wedding to her dreamy mystery fiance (follow this link for The Bachelorette spoilers if you care to know who that is). Those 10 pounds weren’t the extent of Ashley’s self-esteem battle . Despite the misleading cover above (she was called those things as part of a comedy roast, after all), there’s no question she has legitimate insecurities. The way Bentley Williams messed with her, how could she not? Fortunately, with the show behind her and a bright future ahead, things are looking up. Ashley Hebert is engaged , and mentally and physically, just so healthy! “It’s a new, enlightened me. I’m happy. I’m in such a great place right now!” she says of her new body and her new life with the final rose winner. The Bachelorette finale airs August 1. [Photo: Life & Style]
Sad news today out of the world of country music: Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. The singer and wife Kim opened up about his condition in an interview with People this week, saying Campbell intends to follow through on a series of live performances this fall in promotion of the album “Ghost on the Canvas,” which comes out August 30. Glen Campbell in Concert “Glen is still an awesome guitar player and singer,” says Kim. “But if he flubs a lyric or gets confused on stage, I wouldn’t want people to think, ‘What’s the matter with him? Is he drunk?'” Campbell, 75, is a Grammy winner whose biggest hit, “Rhinestone Cowboy,” topped the charts in 1975. As he plans a farewell tour, he says: “I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I’d like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.”
Sad news today out of the world of country music: Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. The singer and wife Kim opened up about his condition in an interview with People this week, saying Campbell intends to follow through on a series of live performances this fall in promotion of the album “Ghost on the Canvas,” which comes out August 30. Glen Campbell in Concert “Glen is still an awesome guitar player and singer,” says Kim. “But if he flubs a lyric or gets confused on stage, I wouldn’t want people to think, ‘What’s the matter with him? Is he drunk?'” Campbell, 75, is a Grammy winner whose biggest hit, “Rhinestone Cowboy,” topped the charts in 1975. As he plans a farewell tour, he says: “I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I’d like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.”
‘I think that Finn has a lot of struggle left for him,’ he tells MTV News of what fan can expect from season three. By Christina Garibaldi Cory Monteith Photo: MTV News “Glee” fans still have a few more months to go before the kickoff of season three, when it’s been rumored that our favorite characters will graduate from McKinley High. But don’t ask the cast what’s in store for the upcoming season, because creator Ryan Murphy is apparently keeping the plotlines very much a secret. “I don’t know where it’s going to go,” Cory Monteith told MTV News about his character, Finn. “He’s got a big story line with Rachel, obviously, but it should be interesting to see how he develops.” Monteith, who also stars in the upcoming flick “Monte Carlo” with Selena Gomez and Leighton Meester, is hoping things get a bit more complicated for the New Directions singer. “I think the harder it is for him, the better, you know?” Monteith said. “I think Finn has a lot of growing up to do and I think that Finn has a lot of struggle left for him. I think dealing with a lot of his dad stuff, the passing of his father and dealing with the unrequited love all of a sudden from Rachel, I think the more trouble he goes through, the more interesting it is for me as an actor.” For now, Monteith and his TV co-stars are keeping busy on the Glee Live! In Concert! Tour . The cast just wrapped up the northern America leg of the tour and are gearing up to take their act overseas; they’ll play Manchester’s MEN Arena this week before moving on to London for seven shows at the O2 Arena. “It’s an overwhelming experience every night,” Montieth told us. “I suspect that England is going to be incredible as well. We are going over to the U.K., playing England and Ireland, so I think that’s going to be incredible.” Regardless of where Monteith performs, he’s just excited to get out there for all of his fans. “It’s so rare that we get to connect with our audience, which is what we’re doing,” Monteith said of the live shows. “We’re literally touching them, grabbing their hands, so it’s a great experience.” But life on the road must get a bit tiring, so we wondered whether the castmembers ever get sick of one another. “No, it’s like a very well assembled family,” Monteith said. “Like, you can’t choose your family, but it’s like a well-chosen family and we seem to complement each other really well. We are all quite different from one another so we get along really well.” Did you catch the “Glee” cast live on tour? Tell us about it in the comments! Related Videos Musical ‘Glee-Caps’ Of Season Two
Pop star matches theatrics with strong vocal performance for the Nassau Coliseum stop of her California Dreams Tour. By John Mitchell Katy Perry performs in Uniondale, New York on Friday Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage UNIONDALE, New York — Teenage girls and the parents who support them turned out in droves for Katy Perry ‘s California Dreams Tour at the Nassau Coliseum on Friday night. There were plenty of “sexy boys” there too (more on them in a minute). Indeed, the pop star proved just how well she knows her audience when she asked the packed arena if there were any graduates in the house. As she listed off the possibilities (high school, college, etc.) she marveled, “We have more junior high graduates than college graduates. That’s crazy!” Following a “Wizard of Oz”-meets-Candy Land video intro, which mirrored the set design of the stage, Perry got the party started with a surefire crowd-pleaser, “Teenage Dream,” while wearing a dress that came complete with spinning pinwheels. “Welcome to the California Dreams Tour, where everything is so sweet,” she cooed to the legions of screaming fans hanging on her every word. And there were plenty of words for them to latch onto: The singer stopped to talk to the audience at length many times during her near two-hour set. But that was just one of the many charms Perry had in store. From a running gag about the woozy effects of a strange brownie she nibbled on before launching into a robust take on “Peacock” to her admission that when she is feeling low she turns to YouTube for “mama cat hugging baby cat” videos, Perry was all charm and nonstop energy. The show stuck so impressively to its storyline about Perry’s travels through Candy Land in pursuit of “the baker’s boy” that it could almost be a jukebox Broadway musical in the vein of “Rock of Ages” or “Mama Mia.” A human slot machine, an Elvis impersonator and headdress-wearing showgirls joined her onstage for “Waking Up in Vegas.” She floated across the arena on a pink cotton-candy cloud while strumming a bedazzled guitar to “Thinking of You.” But despite the theatrics, Perry was still at her best when playing with the audience. At one point she sought out the “sexy boys” in the arena, and when she found a volunteer that struck her fancy, she called him to the stage — but not before making a diva demand: “If you come on stage, you leave that T-shirt right there.” He did as she asked, and after giving her audience a few minutes to ogle the strapping young man (and not just the screaming girls; more than once, Perry gave her gay male fans a shout-out too), she rewarded him with a kiss on the cheek. When he requested more, she joked, “My husband [Russell Brand] just told me in my ear he’s gonna come out here and kick your ass.” She then launched into a slowed-down, jazzy take on “I Kissed a Girl” that quickly shifted into the party jam we all know and love. Unlike many of her dance-pop contemporaries (think Lady Gaga or Britney Spears), Perry left most of the dancing to her talented backup troupe, who were introduced individually during solos to popular candy-related songs like “Tootsie Roll” and “How Many Licks,” while she prowled the stage. But her lack of heavy choreography might have been in the best interest of the show’s biggest surprise: her voice. She sounded fantastic from start to finish. Not even the green, pink and purple laser show that accompanied “E.T.” could obscure that fact that she sounds better than ever. Her vocals were again showcased when she stripped down the pop bombast for a fun medley of covers — “The playlist for my life right now.” So what is Perry listening to? “Only Girl in the World” by “My girl Ri-Ri”; “Big Pimpin’ ” by Jay-Z, during which she played a jewel-encrusted recorder; “Whip My Hair” by Willow Smith and, since it was the final day of the work week, Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” The audience ate it up. Terrific show-opener Robyn , who had Perry’s fans mimicking her freestyle dance moves despite the thankless task of opening for one of pop’s biggest names, set the tone for the concert’s final act, a dance-heavy medley of Perry’s biggest hits (and one fantastic cover). The songstress put on her signature blue wig to rile up the audience with the one-two punch of “Hot n Cold” and a take on Whitney Houston’s classic “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).” During “Dance,” Perry pulled no less than 20 fans onstage for an impromptu dance party. Before the final two fans would leave the stage, they asked for a picture and the pop star obliged, saying, “New Facebook picture!” She encored with “California Gurls,” but the show’s banner moment came at its official end with “Firework.” With every person in the arena on their feet, Perry said, “I wrote this song for anyone who ever needed a song. To help them, to lift them up.” And then she did exactly that. The Coliseum shook as the near-capacity crowd sang the ubiquitous hit along with her as pyro lit up the stage, raining down like a wall of sparklers. It was colorful, triumphant and the perfect way to end a near-perfect pop show. Have you been to a Katy Perry show recently? Share your experiences in the comments below. Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Katy Perry MTV First: Katy Perry’s ‘E.T.’ Related Artists Katy Perry
My name is Dani and here are all the times that I have seen Justin Bieber. J uly 26, 2009 – S ummer Rush 2009 . November 6th 2009 – Autograph signing at Vaughan Mills and concert at the Kool Haus . December 22 2009 – Live @ Much . June 20 2010 – 2010 MMVA’s . August 21 2010 – My World concert at the ACC (center floor, row 9, seats 19-21) . August 22 2010 – My World concert at the JLC (center floor, row M, seats 8-10) . November 23 2010 – My World concert at the ACC (center floor, row 29, seats 25-28) also the day I met Justin Bieber! And finally February 1 2011 – N.M.L. . Okay now to the part where I met him, it’s actually a funny story . On Tuesday November 23, 2010 I went to Justin Bieber’s concert in Toronto, Ontario and what happened is that my friends and I got to the concert early. Right when we got into the Air Canada Centre we went looking for a bathroom. We had floor seats so we had access to all the V.I.P areas. We saw a line so we stood in it thinking it was for the bathroom. About 2 minutes of waiting and I noticed everyone coming from the way was either screaming of joy, or crying , then I also noticed everyone in the line had on a wristband. At that very second my friends and I had realized we were standing in line to meet JUSTIN BIEBER! We decided to stay in the line and about 5 minutes later security asked us how many people, we said 3. He didn’t check if we had wristbands (we didn’t) and then as we were waiting to go in, we saw Justin with his friends taking a picture. Right after that we were let in! There he was, all cute with his hat on. We took our picture and got scooted out of the room, that whole night we were legit screaming our heads off! Read the original: My name is Dani and here are all the times that I have seen…
Shaquille O’ Neal just retired from basketball after 19 seasons, but the famous center isn’t out the “game” yet. Shaq is allegedly involved in “a criminal case in which 7 gang members allegedly kidnapped, beat up and robbed a man who claimed to have a tape showing Shaq having sex with other women while he was married to Shaunie.” A member of the Main Street Mafia Crip gang tells TMZ.com that Shaq and a band of six entered a man’s home to search for the tape allegedly owned by Robert Ross. TMZ.com reports: Once there, Rowles allegedly pistol whipped Ross and demanded that he turn over the sex tape. Ross said he would get the tape and bring it back to them. The seven men then allegedly took Ross’ Rolex, diamond chain and earrings, along with $15,000 in cash — then let Ross go. The seven men have been arrested and charged with robbery, kidnapping and other crimes. They are currently in the middle of a preliminary hearing and being held in jail. We’ve learned LAPD detectives interviewed Shaq to determine what, if any, involvement he had in the alleged crimes. When the case file went to the D.A. Shaq was not listed as a suspect. Now here’s the interesting backstory. Ross has a history with Shaq. Shaq and his business manager, Mark Stevens, have a record label and allegedly told Ross they would give him a 50% cut in any artists he brought to them. Ross claims he delivered Ray J to Shaq but got cut out of the deal. Shaq & Hoopz Acting Goofy At Taylor Swift Concert [VIDEO] Shaq Anounces Retirement From Basketball After 19 Seasons Hoopz Talks About How She Rescued Shaq [VIDEO]
