NEWS: Jennifer Hudson Wants to Return to American Idol For Final Season

Jennifer Hudson may not have won American Idol, but she is arguably one of the most successful contestants to ever appear on the show.

She'd love to make an appearance during Idol's upcoming final season.
"I hope to return!" she told me at the opening of her Broadway debut, The Color Purple, adding, "I hope to be a part of the Idol finale, the final show. I'm kind of sad to see it go because it's been a part of our homes. Each of us in America, you know what I mean? So it's going to be sad to see it go but I hope to be a part of the farewell."
Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe was among the bold-faced names that attended The Color Purple opening.

"Some of the Idol family was in the audience tonight," JHud said. "Nigel was there. I was like, Oh my God, there's so many people that helped build my career sitting in this audience tonight, which was kind of creepy and overwhelming but I was like, 'Ahh—I don't want to look at the audience.'"
Ryan Seacrest revealed to E! News last month that all of the show's former judges, including Paula Abdul, Randy Jackson and event Simon Cowell will return at some point during the Fox series' last hurrah. "We will have the former judges back," he said. "The plan is to have all of them back. They've all considered it and I think are enthusiastic about coming back and saluting the show."

Carrie Underwood also told me last month that she's hoping to make an appearance. "I'm sure I will at some point," she said. "I definitely would like to be there for the finale. There's always a lot to work out. I'll be in the middle of touring, so we'll see."

Courtesy: E! Online

NEWS: Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato at 2015 Billboard Women in Music Event

Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato both turned heads on Friday at the 2015 Billboard Women in Music event where they were both honored.
The event took place at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Gomez, 23, wore a cleavage-baring sparkling, embroidered and feathered asymmetrical Rodarte fall 2015 ready-to-wear flapper mini dress, paired with black stockings and black and silver peep toe platform pump.

Lovato, 23, lived up to the name of her new album, Confident, and sported a black tux pantsuit, forgoing the use of a top and opting to bare even more cleavage than her fellow pop star and former Disney Channel actress. Both she and Gomez wore silver chokers.

Gomez later changed into a strapless Monse spring/summer 2016 ready-to-wear gown, made up of a silver beaded bodice and ivory ruffled skirt. (pictured below) 

During the show, Gomez performed her new single "Same Old Love," while Lovato sang hers, "Stone Cold." Paul Rudd, 46, presented Gomez with the award for Chart-Topper. The singer posted a cute selfie of the two on her Instagram page.
Gomez and Rudd worked together on the drama film The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, which is set for release on Jan. 31.

"Thank you for supporting me not just with this record but all the time," Gomez, who two months ago released her new album Revival, said in her speech, according to Billboard. "This album in particular was such a transition for me. I have so much more to prove."

Fifth Harmony was on hand to present Lovato with the inaugural "Rulebreaker" award.
"It's not intentional and that's what's awesome—people see it," Billboard quoted Lovato as saying. "I'm excited to show people you can be yourself and people will appreciate it."
Other honorees included the members of Fifth Harmony themselves, who won Group of the Year, as well as Lady Gaga, 29, who took home the top honor—for Woman of the Year.
 

The Billboard Women in Music event will air on Lifetime on Dec. 18 at 8/c.

Taylor Kinney and Lady Gaga Reflects on Their Relationship

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Taylor Kinney and Lady Gaga might be engaged now, but when they first met it was anything but love. The Chicago Fire star appeared on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live Wednesday and revealed that he and Mother Monster - Lady Gaga had a rough start when they first worked together on her music video for "Yoü and I."
"I remember I went up, and we're rolling, and I kissed her and she didn't expect it," Kinney explained. "They cut, and she slapped me. And then it was just awkward. And then the next take, I just did it again and then she didn't slap me. She didn't slap me then."
"We had a good time. I think there was chemistry," he continued. "I remember it was a late shoot. We were shooting until 4 or 5 in the morning or something like that. We exchanged information. A few weeks went by and we kept in touch, and then that's that."

And now they're getting married! Although he proposed on Valentine's Day earlier this year, Kinney and the "Bad Romance" singer haven't set a date for the big day yet, telling host Andy Cohen that the reason for that it is because of their busy schedules.
"We've been engaged for less than a year," he said. "So, we've been talking about whether it's New York, Los Angeles, destination place so we don't have an exact date yet."

Lady Gaga announced her exciting engagement news two days after the romantic holiday, taking to Instagram to post a perfect photo of her gorgeous heart-shaped rock. "He gave me his heart on Valentine's Day, and I said YES!" she wrote alongside the black-and-white image.
The 29-year-old pop star and her 34-year-old fiancé kept their relationship very private since the beginning, making very few public appearances. But during this year's Oscars weekend, she couldn't help but gush about getting married.
"We're just so excited to be engaged," Gaga told E! News.

Though their experience on "Yoü and I" had its awkward moments, Kinney would jump at the chance to work with his other half again. "I would love doing something with her," he told E! News this week. "I met working with her. I don't know that we've done anything work-wise since. I wouldn't put that out of the realm of possibilities."

Source: E! News

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Oprah Winfrey Gives Details About OWN's Belief

Opray Winfrey, the TV titan turned out for the series premiere screening in New York City Wednesday night, where she opened up about OWN's seven-night documentary series that examines the nature of faith and belief in cultures around the world.

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"If you can't stick to the belief when things are on shaky ground, then it's not a belief. It's just an idea. So, a true belief is that for which you are rooted and know to be true for yourself," Winfrey told E! News on the red carpet. "I will tell you that there is nobody who gets to be a human being who isn't going to have a dark hour. There's nobody who gets to walk the human path who is not going to have, at some point in your life, something that looks like failure. Belief lets you know that because it looks like failure, it is just a detour. It's not the end of the road, it's just a detour saying, 'Move in another direction.'"

Winfrey, who has been spiritual for as long as she can remember, said she realized the importance of belief "somewhere in my 20s" when she was building The Oprah Winfrey Show. "Every day you got a problem: things are falling apart, things don't work, this doesn't work. Soon you figure out everything passes. Good things pass. Bad things pass. When you really get it, that the whole human condition is about duality, darkness and light, things look like they fail, look like it's not gonna work, but it always changes," she said. "That's what this planet is about."

 Oprah Winfrey believes in the power of Belief

The first installment of Belief premieres Sunday at 8 p.m. on OWN and tells the stories of a 19-year-old evangelical Christian girl who tries to reconnect with her in Alabama; a 30-year-old woman who makes a pilgrimage to the Kumbh Mela bathing ritual along the Ganges River in India; a 13-year-old boy who prepares for his Bar Mitzvah in a tiny Jewish community in Budapest; and a dying Aboriginal elder who must pass down ancient traditions to his 11-year-old grandson.

Winfrey was pitched an idea for series in early 2012, and it was in line with one she had already envisioned. "I was going through a challenging time with launching and building a network. Whenever you are challenged, most people go out—I go in. Whenever you are challenged, you need to go back and ask yourself, 'What is it you really believe? What do you really want? What is it you're here to do?'" she said. "Telling these kinds of stories was what I created a network to do. So, I thought, 'Regardless of what else I have to do, whatever demands are on my time, whatever else is going on, this is what I want to do. This is the kind of stories I want to tell.'"

The first installment, "The Seekers," airs Sunday, Oct. 18.
New installments of Belief air nightly at 8 p.m. through Oct. 24 on OWN.

Source: E! News