Welcome to The Hollywood Gossip’s Week in Review, where we take a look back at the past week in celebrity gossip, entertainment news and rumors.
What was your favorite story of the week? Anything in particular stand out or get you fired up? Some highlights from February 27-March 5 include …
- Crystal Bowersox looks poised for a run on American Idol, as do Aaron Kelly and Michael Lynche. The week’s eliminations were mostly on point.
- Jake Pavelka chose Vienna Girardi on The Bachelor finale. They are engaged. Tenley Molzahn? crushed. Ali Fedotowsky? The Bachelorette.
- Oh, and Jake was somehow named to the Dancing with the Stars cast right afterward. Then accused of cheating on Vienna with Tanya Douglas.
- Kate Gosselin will also be on DWTS this season. Jon Gosselin made news this week too, after Hailey Glassman posted this picture on Twitter.
The Bachelor. Dancing with the Stars. West Hollywood. Jake is everywhere.
- Elin Woods is moving back in with Tiger. Admirable or pathetic?
- Adam Lambert revelations of the week, drug use, bi-curiosity.
- Naomi Campbell needs to chill with the phone attacks.
- Same goes for the Jackson kids and stun guns. Yeesh.
- Erica Mongeon (a.k.a. one of the Ikki Twins) is in a coma.
- Ke$ha called out Britney for lip-synching. She makes a point.
- Ben Roethlisberger is accused (but not charged yet) with sexual assault in Georgia. The story is still developing, It’s the second such Ben story.
- Roseanne Barr is apparently still around, and making headlines for comments about Marie Osmand’s deceased son. Like, WTF kind of comments.
- Close second on the WTF scale, but with a far more lucid reason behind his remarks: Sean Penn saying he hopes his critics get rectal cancer. Wow.
Need a good sound bite? Try Roseanne Barr or Sean Penn.
- Baby news: Christina Milian & The-Dream (girl), Keyshia Cole & Daniel Gibson (boy), Eric Dane & Rebecca Gayheart (girl), Joey Lawrence & wife (girl #2).
- Wedding bells: Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney from The Bachelor married in a monsoon. So did Jared Padalecki and Genevieve Cortese. Well, no monsoon.
- R.I.P.: Michael Blosil, son of Marie Osmond.
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Mar 2, 2010 06:05 PM ET
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Natalie Abrams
Sean Bean
Game of Thrones, a fantasy series based on George R.R. Martin’s novels, has gotten a greenlight from HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Check out photos of Sean Bean
HBO picked up the show, written by David Benioff (Troy, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and D.B. Weiss, for a total of 10 episodes slated to debut next spring.
The series is set in a fictitious land called Westeros and follows Eddard Stark (Sean Bean) as he becomes a king’s right-hand man.
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Mar 1, 2010 02:04 PM ET
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Adam Bryant
Eric Close
Former Without a Trace star Eric Close has joined the cast of the CBS pilot Chaos, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Check out photos of Eric Close
Chaos is an hourlong procedural about a group of rogue CIA operatives who battle bureaucratic gridlock and political infighting. Close will play one of the agents.
The pilot will be directed by Brett Ratner and also stars Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty).
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You might know him as the cranky judge on American Idol, but Simon Cowell has a soft and charitable side.
And it was on full display this week.
The music producer has gathered a slew of artists for a London-based charity single, a cover of R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts.” The version hit British radio this morning and is worth a listen:
Everybody Hurts Rendition
The single
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He’s probably the only American Idol in history to be remembered more for his physical state than his singing voice.
That’s what happens when you audition with two broken wrists.
Indeed, Tyler Grady fell out a tree soon before he tried out for the show in Boston. The result? A memorable rendition of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.” He received approval for Hollywood from all four judges.
Rumored to be one of this season’s 24 semifinalists, Grady is a 19-year old from Nazareth, Pennsylvania.
He’s the lead singer for a rock band called Wailing Waters. It’s actually won a trio of battle of the bands competitions over the year: the Mayfair Festival Band Battle, Croc Rock Band Battlefest and Nazareth Day Battle of the Bands.
Watch Grady’s Idol audition below and grade his chances to become the next champion.
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Jan 30, 2010 01:24 PM ET
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Kate Stanhope
Allison Janney
Four-time Emmy-winner Allison Janney is returning to television to star in the ABC pilot Mr. Sunshine, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Longtime West Wing star Janney will star alongside Friends alum Matthew Perry. Perry stars in the pilot as the manager of a deteriorating San Diego stadium who begins to reevaluate his life after his 40th birthday. Janney will play the stadium’s owner, Crystal, an eccentric pill-popper. Perry helped develop the project, which he will also co-write and executive produce.
Matthew Perry comedy lands at ABC
Sunshine marks the third pairing for Aaron Sorkin grads Janney and Perry. Perry appeared on three episodes of Sorkin’s The West Wing in the show’s fourth and fifth seasons. Janney then played herself on an episode of Sorkin’s failed 2006 late-night drama, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Janney is also set to appear in Wing executive producer John Wells‘ upcoming Showtime project, Shameless, THR reports.
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Jan 29, 2010 11:16 PM ET
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Kate Stanhope
Dana Gould
ABC has ordered two comedy pilots; How to Be a Better American and an untitled project from comedian Dana Gould, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
From Scrubs executive producers Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, How to Be a Better American follows a father who begins a journey to be a better person, much to the chagrin of his family.
The untitled Dana Gould project is about a guidance counselor (Gould) stuck between his father’s traditional parenting beliefs and his wife’s more progressive methods while raising two young children. The Emmy-winning Gould’s credits include writing and producing for The Simpsons and Parks and Recreation.
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Jan 26, 2010 10:44 PM ET
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Natalie Abrams
Conan O’Brien
Conan O’Brien is again in business with NBC. The network has greenlit an hourlong pilot from his production company, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
NBC dumps Conan for $45 million payoff; reinstates Jay as Tonight Show host
Justice follows an ex-Supreme Court justice who quits to open his own practice. The pilot comes from Conaco and UMS production companies.
Part of O’Brien’s $33 million contract states that his NBC-based company would continue to operate until the end of development season.
Conan O’Brien says goodbye to Tonight Show
O’Brien will executive-produce with John Eisendrath, Jedd Ross and David Kissinger.
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Jan 25, 2010 09:56 PM ET
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Natalie Abrams
It’s time to suit up: How I Met Your Mother has been renewed for Season 6, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
How I Met Your Mother creators developing new sitcom
Now that Mother has been picked up, executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas will soon be pulling double duty. On Monday, the network announced that the creators reupped their contract, along with developing a new series for CBS.
After a slow start, Mother’s ratings have grown; it posted a season high in its last outing with 10.52 million viewers.
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Jan 22, 2010 11:00 AM ET
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Joyce Eng
Gene Roddenberry
A pilot by late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry has been picked up — nearly 40 years after it was originally conceived.
Roddenberry’s son, Rod Roddenberry, will team with Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment to develop The Questor Tapes, a Gene Roddenberry sci-fi pilot from the early 1970s that was never ordered to series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, “first lady of Star Trek,” dies at 76
“My father always felt that Questor was the one that got away,” Rod Roddenberry said. “He believed that the show had the potential to be bigger than Star Trek.”
Questor focuses on an android with incomplete memory tapes that searches for its creator and the meaning of its existence. The pilot ultimately aired as a TV movie in 1974.
The final frontier: Roddenberrys’ ashes going into space
Gene Roddenberry, who was posthumously inducted in the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Wednesday, died in 1991 at age 70. Some of Roddenberry’s ashes were shipped into space in 1997, and his remaining ashes will be launched into space this year, along with those of his wife, Majel Barrett Roddenberry.
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