Chris Brown Expected in Court Tomorrow

Chris Brown is expected in an L.A. court on Thursday even though authorities have yet to file any charges, reports the Associated Press.

District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison tells the AP that the 19-year-old R&B singer is required to appear based on a date scheduled after his arrest on February 8. Police reportedly presented their case a few weeks ago, but prosecutors are said to have asked for more information.

Brown allegedly attacked his girlfriend Rihanna (although her name has never been released in public by authorities) the night before they were both scheduled to perform at the Grammys. He was booked on suspicion of making criminal threats and released on $50,000 bail.
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Niki Taylor Welcomes Baby!

Supermodel Niki Taylor and her husband, NASCAR driver Burney Lamar, welcomed a baby into the world -- just one day before Niki's birthday!

The couple named their baby girl Ciel Taylor Lamar. The bundle of joy was born at 11:30 a.m. in Nashville and weighed in at 7 pounds, 8 ounces.

This is the first child for the couple -- Niki has twin sons that are 14-years-old.

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Bachelor's Melissa Speaks Up

It's time to stop feeling bad for Melissa Rycroft, the woman Bachelor Jason Mesnick left on national TV for another woman. Despite losing her fiancé to Molly, Melissa is thankful to fans of the show and says she's doing just fine.

In the statement she also explains why she decided not to look for love again on The Bachelorette, saying she's done with reality TV for now.

Read the full statement below:

"Although I could not be here, I want to thank everyone who has been so supportive throughout this process. This has been such an overwhelming experience, and I really do appreciate the support system behind me. This was definitely one of those experiences that changes your life, and makes you so much more aware of who you are and what you want out of life.

Strange as it may sound, I am doing really well. I’m back in Dallas, pursuing the teaching thing, and attempting to get my life back to normal (if it was every really normal to begin with). I still have my same life mottos: Live life with no regrets, and keep smiling no matter what happens.

I’m in such a good place in my life right now, and I really couldn’t be happier. I don’t regret anything that happened over the past few months; because I know I wouldn’t be where I am today had none of it happened. I have, however, decided to move on from my reality television days, and get some sense of normalcy back to my life. As wonderful of an experience as The Bachelorette would be, I think it’s time for me to move on from my television days, and see what my future holds back in Dallas. I have no doubt it will be an amazing experience for whoever assumes the role, and I wish them the best of luck! "

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Holly Madison Is Joining DWTS

Hours after a source exclusively confirmed that Holly Madison is joining the cast of Dancing With the Stars, her Girls Next Door costar, Bridget Marquardt, let the news slip on live TV.

"I'm so excited for her," Marquardt -- who next stars in a Travel Channel show called Bridget's Sexiest Beaches -- told FOX's Strategy Room Wednesday.

"She's wanted to do it for so long," Marquardt added. "It just never worked with her schedule and Hef was always like 'I don't want you to do that,' and now it's her time, so I'm really happy for her."

There is speculation Madison could be replacing Jewel, who has been struggling with knee problems, and blogged last week that tendinitis could force her to drop out.

"Unless there is a miracle healing, Holly is confirmed to be a part of the premiere," a DWTS source reports.

Jewel released a statement last week saying she'd suffered a "minor setback," and added: "Don't count me out, as I am in this for the long run."

A source close to Jewel says she'll still be on the show Monday.

An ABC rep would not comment.

Madison recently split from her magician beau, Criss Angel. The pair hooked up shortly after Madison called it quits last October with Hefner.

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Donald Trump's Youngest Child Is Out With Mom In NYC

Donald Trump's wife Melania took her son Barron (who turns 3 in May!) to the 18th annual Bunny Hop to benefit in NYC Tuesday.

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Jillian Harris Is The New Bachelorette

Jillian Harris -- who finished in third place on the recent controversial installment of The Bachelor -- will headline the new season of The Bachelorette, ABC announced Tuesday night.

"I am so excited," said Harris, 29, an interior designer from Canada.

She jokingly thanked Jason Mesnick for giving her the chance to have 25 men compete for her affections.

"It's a very unorthodox way to find love. but we are living in a world where people are doing things differently," she said.

"It's a great opportunity for me," she added. "I fell in love once before and I know this is a great venue for me to fall in love again."

"Seeing what Jason went through makes you realize there's no guarantees in life," she went on. "I only hope I make the right choice the first time."

Harris also made one promise about the new season: "I don't need my dad to see any more hot tub scenes."

The Bachelor and The Bachelorette host Chris Harrison said Harris "really captured America's heart and the groundswell of support for her to become the new Bachelorette was overwhelming."

The show debuts May 18.
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High School Musical 4 Is In The Works Now

A new High School Musical movie is in the works, but fans shouldn't expect to see Zac Efron, Corbin Bleu and Vanessa Hudgens singing and dancing on the big screen.

High School Musical 4 will bring the franchise back to television, and it's set to debut as a Disney Channel original movie in 2010 with a new cast of characters.

The movie, which involves a classic love triangle set against the cross-town school rivalry between the East High Wildcats and the West High Knights, will begin production later this year.
"The High School Musical trilogy introduced a new generation to the celebrated genre of movie musicals. In crafting this next iteration, we've challenged the entire creative team to raise the bar again -- and create something truly worthy of this extraordinary global phenomenon," Gary Marsh, president of Disney Channels Worldwide, said in a statement.

The screenwriter of the next installment, Peter Barsocchini, wrote each of the first three movies in the franchise.

Disney's Emmy Award-winning High School Musical premiered in January 2006 on Disney Channel in the U.S., and the sequel currently ranks as the No. 1 basic cable telecast of all time.

High School Musical 3: Senior Year debuted in theaters in October 2008. Its premiere weekend box office sales marked the highest debut ever for a musical and for a live-action G-rated film.
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Bachelor Jason Mesnick Says What He Had To Do To Melissa "Kills Him"

He had no choice.

That’s Jason Mesnick’s explanation for publicly dumping his fiancee, Bachelor winner Melissa Rycroft, in favor of runner-up Molly Malaney on Monday night’s finale.

Jason says he would have preferred to have delivered the news to Rycroft off camera.

“There were things I needed to tell her in person and I was not allowed to see her. That was part of the deal. I signed up for it in my contract. Your relationship is — good and bad — in front of everybody,” says Mesnick, who talked exclusively to PEOPLE about the surprising turn of events.

“If I could have, I would have seen Melissa the night before. It killed me. It kills me now.”

The single dad, 32, proposed to an overjoyed Melissa, 25, in the two-hour finale. But on After the Final Rose, which was shot six weeks later, he gave her the boot and confessed he still had feelings for Molly, 24, who agreed to give him another chance.

Mesnick, who was rejected by DeAnna Pappas on The Bacherlotte last year, says he knows what Bachelor viewers must think of him: ” ‘That guy is a jerk.’ But I’m not proud of what I had to do.”

Soon after The Bachelor’s cameras stopped rolling, the euphoria of his engagement to Melissa began to fade. “After we got back into the real world, all of a sudden, we had less to talk about and I didn’t know why. I started thinking wow, what’s happening? Why aren’t we communicating the way we did when the show was going on?” says Jason, who held off on sharing his doubts with Melissa.

“I didn’t say something right away because I wanted to figure out what was going in inside of me,” he says. “There was part of me that wanted things to work out with Melissa so bad. But the whole other piece was I had these crazy feelings for Molly.”

Finally, Jason says, he could not deny the truth: “Melissa and I just have different ways of communicating. We’re not right for each other.”
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Bachelor Producers Say This Season Was NOT Fixed

ABC’s reality series The Bachelor has had its share of surprising endings, but Jason Mesnick’s on-camera breakup with fiancée Melissa Rycroft and subsequent reunion with runner-up Molly Malaney has been by far the most shocking. But online rumors persist: Was the show’s outcome fixed?

As Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss reports, “That’s patently untrue. It was [Jason's] choice in New Zealand who he proposed to.”

But after the show wrapped, Fleiss says, “He was not in love with Melissa anymore and he was in love with Molly and he needed to make a change.”

In fact, no one saw this coming, says Fleiss, who upon returning to the States “was in the process of trying to talk Molly into being the Bachelorette.” “She was finally starting to come around and saying she wanted to do it, and she had spoken to her family,” he says. “I thought she would be a fantastic Bachelorette, so likeable and beautiful and telegenic.”

A week later, Fleiss learned that Jason and Melissa were not getting along, and that he had never stopped thinking about Molly. “My first thought was, ‘Oh, too bad,’” Fleiss says. “My next thought was, ‘Wow, that’s almost too good!’ I knew that was a remarkable twist.“

At that point, the decision was made to bring all three parties into the studio to film After the Final Rose, the most shocking After the Final Rose in Bachelor history,” Fleiss says. “It was never anyone’s plan.”

Host Chris Harrison also says, “We haven’t shown breakups before, but we’ve never had this situation. We couldn’t not show that.”

While Harrison maintains Jason was “head over heels in love with [Melissa],” he adds, “There’s nothing we can change or do about” his eventual change of heart.
Says Harrison: “We just had to show it. We were holding on by the seat of our pants.”
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Dancing Stars Spend Time Together Off The Dance Floor

Steve-O and Lacey Schwimmer bond over shop therapy! The couple took time off from rehearsal to do some shopping before the new season of Dancing With The Stars premieres next week.

But make no mistake about the former Jackass star – he's a "workhorse." When it comes time to rehearsing, says Schwimmer, the daredevil pulls no stunts: "He is here every day, five hours."

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The Last Group Performs On American Idol

Semifinal round No. 3 started off with one of the less visible contestants from earlier weeks...
Von Smith: Not a bad beginning. The 22-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., kicked off the third semifinal round with a rousing twist on Diana Ross' "You're All I Need to Get By," a Clay Aiken-reminiscent performance, according to Simon Cowell. "You look appalling, but actually you sang quite well—actually, very well," the unforgiving Brit said.

Taylor Vaifanua: The Hurricane, Utah, teen didn't exactly storm the stage with Alicia Keys' "If I Ain't Got You." Such a soulful song, and the 16-year-old's performance didn't pick up much steam until about two-thirds of the way through. "What's it like to go shopping with Taylor?" Kara DioGuardi said as an example of how curious she is about Vaifanua and how that song left her wanting more. "I just don't get the shopping thing," Simon commented before labeling the performance "a bit bland."

Alex Wagner-Trugman: The nerdily charming, gangly 19-year-old actually has a bit of soul—and he looked quite comfortable up on that stage—but his vocals didn't measure up. His version of Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" contained far more whispering, growling and showboating than singing. "Definitely was kind of crazy in a buck-wild sort of way," Randy Jackson said.

Arianna Afsar: ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All" isn't going to help Arianna get votes, let alone take it all. Good intentions (the first ABBA song ever performed on Idol) didn't translate into a listenable performance. Shrieky and off-pitch, and the 16-year-old was in way over her head from note one. "There was a certain irony to that lyric," Simon said, saying it all.

Ju'Not Joyner: A very velvety, R&B-tinged slowdown of "Hey There Delilah." The 26-year-old father and business owner definitely deserves to be among the top-three vote-getters tonight with his stripped-down Plain White T's song. "That was actually better than I thought it was going to be," Simon opined.

Kristen McNamara: We weren't nuts about the arrangement, but, contrary to what you might have expected listening to her preshow interview, Kristen's voice came booming out in a very sultry, mellifluous manner and, overall, she really (wo)manhandled Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason." The first female contestant of the night to make us want to hear more in later rounds.

Nathaniel Marshall: Before he said anything, we predicted that Simon would have a major problem with the flamboyant 19-year-old's performance. The vocal, Meatloaf's "I Would Do Anything for Love," had its moments, but there was too much gesticulating and contorting of the facial muscles to make it fun to watch. Sure enough…"Some people will probably quite like that—the minority," Simon said. "The majority, probably like me, thought it was verging on excruciating." "He's the guy I want to go to karaoke with," Kara offered.

Felicia Barton: The 26-year-old mom almost wasn't here, having not been included in the semifinals until after Joanna Pacitti was disqualified. Felicia at least made the most of her second last chance—her take on Alicia Keys' "No One" made absolute arses out of the judges for cutting her in the first place. "Your gift is unbelievable," Paula said.

Scott MacIntyre: In what was one of the most anticipated performances of the competition to date, MacIntyre probably did enough to get a spot in tomorrow's top three. The legally blind musician took on Bruce Hornsby's "Mandolin Rain" and, while he doesn't have one of the strongest voices in this competition, he's had rabid fans from day one, as evidenced by tonight's standing ovation. "I will be amazed if you don't sail through to the next round, young man," said a more reverent than usual Simon.

Kendall Beard: The 24-year-old Texan has a lot of charm, but her Martina McBride impression on "This One's for the Girls" fell short in the vocals department. Proving just how weak it was, Paula gave Kendall the night's prize for Best Outfit. Ouch. But, she has beauty going for her, and the song suited her countrified style, so... Who knows?

Jorge Nuñez: The only Puerto Rican to make it this far this season, Jorge didn't turn in a flawless performance of Elton John's "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," but he's in the running to keep going. "You're a singer," stated the connection-craving Kara. "It comes from right here to us, and we feel it."

Lil Rounds: The single mother of three—looking great in a black and yellow strapless dress— has been a favorite from the get-go. Fittingly, she capped off the evening with Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" and it was one of the more soulful, grown-up, inspiring performances we've heard. But, was it just us, or were the backup singers really distracting on this one? "Brilliant," Simon observed, while Paula charmed with the final remark of the night: "I have a sneaking suspicion we're going to see you for many more lil' rounds."

Another three member's of Idol's Top 12 will be seated on Wednesday's live results show, while the judges will choose which lucky trio of also-rans get to join them on a special Thursday episode.
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Britney's Back!!!!

The Circus Starring Britney Spears kicked off tonight at New Orleans Arena, where her adoring hometown fans—and members of the media—lined up for hours beforehand to get their hands on tour memorabilia and otherwise prove their loyalty to the fiercely comebacking pop star.

Opening act the Pussycat Dolls got things rolling, whetting the audience's appetite for the sexy spectacle that was to follow.

A little more than an hour later, Spears descended from the ceiling and dove into "Circus" and then "Piece of Me," off of 2007's Blackout, making good use of a stripper pole all the while.

The night's 16-song set list included "Radar," "Boys," a "Gimme More" remix, "Everytime," "Me Against the Music" backed by Bollywood-inspired dancers, "Do Somethin'," the more than suggestive "Touch of My Hand" and the pleasantly controversial "If U Seek Amy," made all the more carnivalesque when Britney wielded a big pink hammer and gave her dancers the whack-a-mole treatment.

And, as promised, earlier in the evening Britney was cut in half.

The greatest hits came toward the end, when Brit and her dancers polished of "I'm a Slave 4 U," "Toxic" and "...Baby One More Time" to close the show. "Womanizer" was tonight's encore selection.

Amid a shower of sparks, Britney then thanked the audience and wished them a good night.
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