American Idol's second place winner, David Archuleta, has signed a record deal with 19 Recordings and Jive Records, the same label to which Idol winner David Cook is signed.
"Signing a record contract with 19 Recordings/Jive Records is truly a dream come true. I’m really excited to start working on everything,"
David Archuleta said in a statement.
Simon Fuller, The creator of the hugely popular American Idol and chief executive of 19 Recordings says Archuleta
"has a great future ahead of him."
CelebsTV predicts David Archuleta's first CD will sell like hotcakes!
One of the mothers of former heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield's nine children says Holyfield has missed two child-support payments. Toi Irvin, mother of Holyfield's 10-year-old son, has filed a petition for contempt in the Fayette County Superior Court in Fayetteville, Georgia. She was told, by Holyfield's representatives, not to expect the $6,000 in payments for May and June.
According to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution newspaper, Holyfield appears to be in serious financial trouble. His palatial estate in Fayette County, worth an estimated $10 million, is set to be auctioned July 1, 2008. Also, it has been reported that Holyfield is being sued by a company in Utah for approximately $500,000 in landscaping fees.
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UPDATE: JURY FINDS R. KELLY NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS Surprise witness, Lisa Van Allen, took the stand Monday at the criminal trial of R & B's sensation R. Kelly. His trial is being held at the Mammoth Cook County Criminal Courthouse, near downtown Chicago. R. Kelly is charged with 14 counts of child pornography due to contents from a 10 year old VHS tape. R. Kelly has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
The alleged victim, 13 at the time, now a woman ten years later, has consistently denied being on the tape. She says this is a criminal case without a victim. However, Lisa Van Allen, the now 27 year old woman, testified that she had several 3-way encounters with R. Kelly and the alleged "underage" victim in the R. Kelly child pornography trial.
Lisa Van Allen said that she met R. Kelly while they were taping a music video in Georgia 10 years ago. She appeared in several of his music videos, including one for the song I Wish in which she braids the singer's hair.
Lindsay Lohan's best friend forever (BFF) Samantha Roson supposedly is her new lover according to rumors circulating in the blogosphere. OK! magazine has offered Lindsay Lohan a huge $1 Million just to admit that she is lesbian.
Lohan's rep told Pagesix.com,
They sent offers and we passed.
These rumors started after Lindsay and Samantha were photographed on P Diddy's yacht during the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this year. They were inseparable, kissing and holding hands. Samantha Ronson is a DJ/musician and has a been a close friend of Lindsay's since they were kids. Lindsay Lohan's parents have stated that Lindsay is not a lesbian. I guess everyone will find out in time.
Meanwhile, is there any word of Lindsay Lohan coming out with a decent movie?
Legendary rock 'n roll guitarist, Bo Diddley, died Monday at age 79 of a heart attack in his Florida home.
Diddley had a great influence over today's leading rock stars. The Bo Diddley beat, has earned him the title of being one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Diddley was an inspiration to other guitarists such as the late Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, and Bruce Springsteen.
In 1986, Diddley was named to the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.
In 1996, Bo Diddley received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Diddley received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.
One of his famous songs is Who Do You Love? (1956).
Tatum O'Neal, 44, was arrested last night, in Manhattan, while buying crack cocaine a few blocks from her Lower East Side apartment. The time of her arrest was at 7:30pm by detectives from Manhattan South Narcotics unit on Clinton Street between East Broadway and Grand Street, the NY Post reports quoting sources.
According to one source, Tatum O'Neal said this to cops:
You know who I am, right? I'm researching a part. I'm doing this for a part as a junkie.
Cops found a clean crack pipe on O'Neal, at which point the actress started begging detectives:
Can't we just forget about this?
O'Neal told police that this was her first relapse incident in years and begged the cops to let her go, but they arrested her anyway. They hauled O'Neal and her suspected drug dealer, Alan Garcia, 33, into the 7th Precinct.
Daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal and actress Joanna Cook Moore, Tatum O'Neil remains the youngest actor, at the age of 10, to win an Oscar for her performance in Paper Moon.
Tatum O'Neil married tennis superstar John McEnroe in 1986. The couple had three children: Kevin, Sean, and Emily. The couple divorced in 1992. John McEnroe obtained full custody of their kids in 1998.
Check out these famous scenes from Paper Moon where Tatum O'Neal smokes cigarettes as a nine-year-old girl in this academy award winning role, co-starring with her dad, Ryan O'Neal. It's too bad she smoked in that role. But, as you can see she was a brilliant child actor.
Sources say the couple, Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer are very much in love, and they “only had eyes for each other” while spotted having dinner in Polo Lounge.
Insiders claim 39-year-old Aniston and 30-year-old Mayer are planning to get matching “J” tattoos. A reliable source says,
John had the idea that they should both have a ‘J’ tattooed in a secret place as that is both their first initial. Jennifer is really keen on the idea but is going to wait a few months
Well... these two aren't waiting on the world to change. Check out John Mayer's acoustic performance, below. Awesome!:
