8:50: Seacrest jokes that the cast of Kid Nation is powering the "green" Emmys by running on treadmills backstage. Why isn't Larry Sanders hosting this?8:51: Tony Bennett is singing now for some reason with Donatella Versace. Eek! Wait, no, that's Christina Aguilera doing a Paris Hilton impression (except vocally, thankfully).8:52: The dancing looks slick when we can see it. (Hint, hint, cameramen.)8:52:30 Is it really wise for a pregnant lady like Xtina to stand on top of a piano?8:53: Is it really wise for anyone to wear that much bronzer? Easy, Christina. Easy.8:54: Alec Baldwin presents a directing award to the guy who helmed last season's Tony Bennett special, without making any reference to his recent "troubles." This leaves me only to focus on how bloated he looks. At least now I get why Bennett performed.8:55: Kiefer Sutherland and Ali Larter make a cute couple. And red is her color. But is it just me, or does she always seem a little stiff?8:56: Lead Actor in a Miniseries o...
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Christina Aguilera by Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com
Tony Bennett and Christina Aguilera will reprise their duet performance of "Steppin' Out (With My Baby)" at the Sept. 16 Primetime Emmy Awards. But will Xtina step out with a baby belly?.... Carlos Mencia will host the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 8.... ESPN2's telecast of the "Super Classico" contest between David Beckham's L.A. Galaxy and Chivas USA set a new record as the cabler's most-watched MLS game ever.... Oliver Hudson (Rules of Engagement) and wife Erinn Bartlett (How I Met Your Mother) welcomed their first child, a son named Wilder Brooks, on Aug. 23, says People.
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Christina Aguilera by Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com
With just two concerts left to play in Oz, the possibly expectant newlywed once known as Xtina has been ordered to bed, TMZ reports. TMI alert: Docs say she has "a viral upper respiratory tract infection with a high fever and abnormal coughing." It's OK, Mrs. Bratman, take two aspirin and call us when your next CD is done.
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Let's certainly hope there ain't no other man, because Christina Aguilera is supposedly with child, says the New York Post's Page Six. "She has to be three months [along] now, because she's announcing it [to friends]," a source tells the tab. This would be Xtina and hubby Jordan Bratman's first kid.Page Six also hears that Jill Hennessy and her actor-husband Paolo Mastropietro are expecting their second child, though a rep for Crossing's Jordan had no comment.
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Things definitely heated up this week for the Henrickson clan After last weeks slow-moving debut I was excited to see all the cards falling into place for some interesting developments Unfortunately for Bill and the ladies its definitely not all good news Lois once again provided the necessary dose of comic relief as Bill introduced her to the ultramodern technology of caller ID The expression on her face as she looked around the laundromat and then directly into the receiver before hanging up was hysterical A few minutes later caller ID would have come in really handy as Bills incriminating phone call with Joey provided Roman with taped evidence of Wandas guilt and the ensuing cover-up The fallout from that incident was two-fold Joeys position as a pawn in Romans game sent him into a drunken stupor that Wanda mismanaged in her typical style Meanwhile Albys anger at Roman for not acting on the information took him to the state p
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Mariela Arteaga, The Search for the Next Doll
Learning hot dance moves while on a moving bus to perform "Tainted Love" on stage at the Las Vegas Pussycat Doll Lounge? No problem for Mariela Arteaga. Hitting all the notes in Christina Aguilera's "I Turn to You" for the judges, however, proved to be an issue, forcing Mariela to hang up her boa on the CW's Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET). TVGuide.com spoke with the slinky feline dancer to find out how she mastered the moves for her partner dance and what she really thought of her rendition of the X-tina hit.
TVGuide.com: The sexy "partners" dance challenge you won, that dance was hot! What was your inspiration?Mariela Arteaga: Thank you! I didn't have an inspiration
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So the ladies got to go to Vegas this week and perform at the Pussycat Dolls lounge. I’m sure that has to be cool for them, getting to perform on a stage that at least one of them might visit in the future. But did Mikey really have to make them dance on the bus? I suppose it had to be done since they had no time, but nothing like endangering their lives for one song. Melissa’s comment about not getting that memo was pretty funny. Can you picture the bus driver slamming on the breaks for some reason and Chelsea’s high heel going right through Asia’s leg or something stupid like that? Way to go, Mikey. The performance itself was just too quick for me to really judge any of the girls. I do know that the Pussycat Dolls cover of Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” is my least favorite song on their record, so hearing these girls sing the oft-covered song does nothing for me. What I did certainly notice was Mikey saying that once again Chelsea didn’t reall...
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It's no secret to anyone now that my exposure to contemporary music is limited to VH1's Jump Start and Top 20 Countdown, which I watch at the gym on weekend morns. That established, my attention was turned this past Saturday to a pair of vids that had me seeing double, if not triple — not that I'm at all complaining, given the content.First up, there was "Beautiful Liar," featuring what I consider to be the unlikely duet of Beyoncé (whose voice, frankly, I would not recognize in any other crowd of two) and Shakira. But as unexpected of collaborators as they are, the video's concept demonstrated what a fitting pairing they are, at least visually. Starting off in similar yet decidedly different outfits, each occupying their own spaces while crooning the tune, the ladies gradually start looking more and more like each other — Shakira finds a flat iron, Beyoncé bares her belly — until ultimately and rather astonishingly, the two are veritable doppelgangers for e...
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Or Christina Aguilera. Those two lookers, with Rachel McAdams and Heather Graham, represent Jenna Jameson's wish list to portray the on-camera undulator in a film based on her autobiography How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. "This is a role that every girl in Hollywood is going to want to play," Jameson tells the Adult Video News website (which I, um, found under my dad's bed). "It's dramatic and comedic.... It's got all the ingredients of something worthy of Oscar contention." (Or at least a con named Oscar's attention.) Scarlett Johansson's resume, it should be noted, now includes being named Sexiest Woman of the Year by the brand-new issue of Playboy.A producer on the biopic, Jameson says, "I'm really excited," adding, "This is the biggest thing I've ever done" — which, when you think about it, is saying something.
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In a sit-down with Ellen DeGeneres airing Wednesday, Christina Aguilera reveals — and boy, is that putting it mildly — that she and hubby-of-a-year Jordan Bratman wind down their weeks with "naked Sundays." "You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up," shares Aguilera. "We do everything naked. We cook naked." Almost assuredly giving new meaning to "grand-slam breakfast."
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