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Swift’s New Single On ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

Taylor Swift’s new single ‘White Horse‘ will debut on Thursday night’s fifth season premiere of ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘.

The 18-year-old singer can’t be happier, because the ABC hit show is one of her favorite.  She told Us Weekly, “Finding out I have a song in Grey’s Anatomy was one of the very few times in my life I’ve broken down crying out of happiness.”

Swift added, “That show is my biggest obsession- and my longest relationship to date. Ha! I’m so happy, I don’t even know what to do with myself.”

Taylor’s second album ‘Fearless‘, which also inculdes single ‘White Horse’, will be available November 11.

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FHM’s Hottest TV Stars List

FHM Magazine has lined up 2008 most attractive women on the small screen and Leighton Meester from ‘Gossip Girl’ is at the top of the list.

FHM Fall TV’s Hottest Stars 2008

1. Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl)

2. Hayden Panettiere (Heroes)

3. Madeline Zima (Californication)

4. Deanna Russo (Knight Rider)

5. Jamie Lynn Sigler (Entourage)

6. Jaime King (Gary Unmarried)

7. Summer Glau (The Sarah Connor Chronicles)

8. Kaley Cuoco (Big Bang Theory)

9. Dania Ramirez (Heroes)

10. Eva Longoria-Parker (Desperate Housewives)

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Kardashian Talking About ‘Dancing With The Stars’

Kim Kardashian has claimed that she’s been working hard to learn the dances for the show and is eager to show what she has learn.

The socialite wrote on her MySpace:

My Dancing With the Stars Journey

On Monday August 18, I was in production for the third season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and as usual, I was at my Mom and Bruce’s house having breakfast. The only difference was, today I would be meeting my partner for Dancing With the Stars for the first time. Everyone was nervous and excited, we’d all been guessing over the last few weeks who the person might be, and everyone had their own thoughts and ideas and jokes about it all. All I could think was, I would be spending weeks and weeks and weeks, hours upon hours with this person, so I hoped we’d just get along to start! Since I’ve never taken a dance class in my life, I wasn’t a tiny, 5 year-old ballerina girl or a jazz dance high school girl, the second thing I thought of was, could I really do this? I am super focused and when I put my mind to something or have a goal I want to accomplish, I always get it done. But this was different. It was really exciting too. So that morning, with everyone running around, I got to meet Mark. I can’t tell you what happened, or where, because that gets revealed on Monday night, September 22, the first night of Season 7 of Dancing With the Stars! But I can tell you this: I was really happy when I saw it was Mark!

From that day forward, we rehearsed every day, at least 5 hours a day. For the first week our locations had to be top secret, since the official cast and lineup hadn’t been announced, so no one could talk about the show if I was doing it or not. That was kind of fun and since before or after rehearsal, I would do 5 or more hours of shooting for Keeping Up With the Kardashians, often times the secret locations would be more convenient.

We knew we would have to learn two dances because for the first time, there will be two dances in the first week of the new season and two couples will be voted off the first week. The pressure is on! So Mark explained the two dances we would have to learn, which I can’t tell you now, but you will see, and then we started talking about music. We had to pick two songs that were the right tempo and cadence for the specific dances we’re doing – it has to match and has to work – but we also wanted things that worked for our personalities – plus we wanted things that we thought the crowd would like. Mark is really good at picking music, his ear is very in tune to the beat and rhythm because he has been dancing his whole life and knows music so well. But I also love music, so I think our coming together with thoughts and ideas worked really well. I am excited to see what everyone thinks!

So once we pick our songs, we can start working on our dances. Mark breaks things down in small sections so I learn the routine in pieces before we put it all together. It’s very hard work. We work in a big dance studio with mirrors all around so we can watch each other, and ourselves. At first, I just try to imitate what Mark does, but after a while and with his guidance, I know the dance steps myself and not that is gets easy, but it gets less confusing and we can actually dance together and that is really, really exciting. Of course I have my moments where I lose my balance or I lose my place, and some days are better than others. Some days I am at my limit, I am so tired that my brain cannot soak in any more, and that is usually when we stop.

Now, with all the rehearsals comes makeup tests, wardrobe fittings, interviews, photo shoots. So I will start with my favorite: wardrobe. This team blows my mind. Every costume is hand made. Every sequin, every bead, is painstakingly and lovingly applied and sewn by hand. Mark and I meet with the team to go over our thoughts and ideas first, the team knows our song and we all collaborate to come up with costumes that really pop. Once we talk about them and make a decision, the team starts working. Costumes have to look great and you have to be able to dance and move in them. The team has to make costumes fit for the style of the dance as well as the bodies of the people wearing them. It’s a huge job and they are a mind-blowing team. I can’t wait for my first two costumes!! Hair and makeup is much the same. Ballroom is very dramatic, very heavy, very over the top – lots of eyelashes and glitter and rhinestones. I love makeup but even this was a lot for me to get used to. It’s really fun and the hair and makeup team are so great.

I’ve done a ton of interviews as well, behind-the-scenes for the show which will air in the first week – we’ve done lots of fun stuff! Oh and I forgot to mention my toe! That was really scary! We had just started rehearsals when I went to New York to have an interview with David Letterman and do a bunch of really fun press in support of Disaster Movie, when I cut my toe really badly on a desk at the hotel where I was staying. I had to go to the emergency room, it was bleeding so much that we couldn’t see how big or bad or deep the cut was. It was really scary and all I kept thinking about was that I had just started my rehearsals! Thankfully, we were able to work around it, we cut straps off dance shoes and I took really good care of my toe and it’s really healing well. It’s not back to normal, but I now don’t have to wrap it every day.

Mark and I continue to rehearse every single day, still make each other laugh, and are getting more and more excited to show everyone what we’ve been working so hard for!! Just a few more days!!! And a quick thanks to the teams that make it all happen and to everyone who’s rooting for us now and will continue to!!!

Xoxo,

Kim

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Vanessa: Lindsay Did A Good Job

Vanessa Williams has admitted that it was a pleasure working with Lindsay Lohan.

At the ‘Ugly Betty’ premiere party at Highbar in NYC on Tuesday night the actress told OK! magazine, “I think she was shocked by all the hours we work. In TV, with all the setups and characters we have, it’s not a cushy job.”

She added, “I think she not only rose to the ocassion but did a really good job. I think people will be pleased. She makes a great transition from Kimmie, who is working a Flushing Burger, to working for me at Mode, and I think people will enjoy seeing her progress.”

Lindsay also enjoyed working with the ‘Ugly Betty’ crew. She wrote on her MySpace yesterday,”2 days left of my shoot on Ugly Betty-I am quite sad to have to leave the wonderful cast and crew behind. it’s always sad to leave people that you get close to..it’s been such a delight to be a part of this show!!”

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Paris Hilton Looks For A Best Friend In U.K.

How well Paris Hilton travels is about to be put to the test, as the American hotel heiress is taking her act to British TV, reports People.

“Everyone knows I love L.A. But London, watch out – I’m coming to town and bringing my fast-paced life with me,” Hilton, 27, said in a statement to trumpet the U.K. version of her still-yet-to-air U.S. MTV series in which she searches for a new BFF.

“I’m in the U.K. all the time, but of course I can’t bring all my friends, so I’ve decided to look for a new BFF across the pond,” Hilton is quoted as saying on the Web site of ITV, whose ITV2 will air her show.

“I need a best friend who is hot, who can keep up with me, and most of all, who is real and won’t be a backstabber. I’m not leaving London until I find that amazing girl or guy who can meet the challenges of being my British bestie!”

In March, Hilton and MTV announced that the hotel heiress would star in its new reality series to be titled I Wanna Be Paris’s New Best Friend!, to begin production in May and to air in the final quarter of this year.

More than 85,000 BFF wannabes reportedly sought to apply to the MTV show.

Asks the promo for the British version, titled, simply, Paris Hilton’s New Best Friend: “Will the contestants have the energy to keep up with Paris’s dizzying schedule? Will they have the looks and style to effortlessly accompany La Hilton down the red carpet, or will they be hopelessly out of their depth? Who could resist tuning in to find out?”

U.K. applicants, who are to be between ages 18 and 28, have until Sept. 1 to submit their photos and forms.

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Blair: ‘Americans Are Deluded’

Actress Selma Blair thinks that fellow Americans are too obsessed with celebrity lifestyle and people in her native country spend too much time idolising those in the public eye, such as actress Lindsay Lohan and her family.

Speaking about the forthcoming American version of the Australian TV show Kath + Kim - in which she plays spoilt daughter Kim Craig - Blair says, “You don’t think there are some deluded Americans? Hey, how about all of us!

“Everyone here is obsessed with tabloid celebrities and their lives and wanting to be like that, just like Kim.

“In America you have the people who watch the Lohans’ reality show and want to be like Dina and Ali Lohan and live in a house with a throne in it. Everywhere! They’re just everywhere!”

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And The Emmy Nominees Are…

The nominees for the 60th Emmy Award were announced in Hollywood on Thursday.

The Emmy Awards air on 21 September and the nominees are:

Outstanding Comedy Series

• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Entourage
• The Office
• 30 Rock
• Two and a Half Men

Outstanding Drama Series

• Boston Legal
• Damages
• Dexter
• House
• Lost
• Mad Men

Lead Actor in a Comedy

• Tony Shalhoub, Monk
• Steve Carell, The Office
• Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Lead Actor in a Drama

• James Spader, Boston Legal
• Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
• Michael C. Hall, Dexter
• Hugh Laurie, House
• Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment
• Jon Hamm, Mad Men

Lead Actress in a Comedy

• Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
• Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
• Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Lead Actress in a Drama

• Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
• Glenn Close, Damages
• Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Holly Hunter, Saving Grace

Supporting Actor in a Comedy

• Jeremy Piven, Entourage
• Kevin Dillon, Entourage
• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• Rainn Wilson, The Office
• Jon Cryer, Two And A Half Men

Supporting Actor in a Drama

• William Shatner, Boston Legal
• Ted Danson, Damages
• Zeljko Ivanek, Damages
• Michael Emerson, Lost
• John Slattery, Mad Men

Supporting Actress in a Comedy

• Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
• Jean Smart, Samantha Who?
• Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live
• Holland Taylor, Two and a Half Men
• Vanessa Williams, Ugly Betty

Supporting Actress in a Drama

• Candice Bergen, Boston Legal
• Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters
• Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy
• Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy
• Dianne Wiest, In Treatment

Host For a Reality or Reality-Competition

• Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
• Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars
• Howie Mandel, Deal or No Deal
• Heidi Klum, Project Runway
• Jeff Probst, Survivor

Outstanding Miniseries

• The Andromeda Strain
• Cranford
• John Adams
• Tin Man People.com published the stars first reaction:

Christina Applegate, “I am incredibly grateful and honored. But I am over the moon for Jean Smart, who is such a sublime talent.”

Alec Baldwin, “I’m flattered to be nominated. Congratulations to Tina [Fey] and everyone at 30 Rock. The writers do a wonderful job, and I hope we have some success in September.”

Charlie Sheen, “I’m extremely proud of our show … I am more excited for my fellow Two and a Half Men nominees.”

Tom Bergeron, “Want to see … the glamorous life of an Emmy nominee: When we’re done talking, I’m getting in my 1978 Volkswagen beetle convertible and driving to the garage so they can install a windshield [part]. Nothing like show business!”

Howie Mandel, “I was in bed and I watched [the announcement]. I’ve never been this excited with no pants on and my wife still sleeping!”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “I’m not going to start drinking. I’m going to start exercising so I can fit into my Emmy dress. By the way, I’m not kidding. I’m actually going to go and have a massive workout this morning.”

Kyra Sedgwick, “I’m thrilled. It’s fantastic, it’s wonderful. It’s funny because this morning I woke up at 5:20 L.A. time, and I sort of was half – I mean, actually, that’s a lie – I was wholly waiting for the phone to ring.”

Sally Field, “I’m very honored. It never gets old. I do, but it doesn’t.”

Jean Smart, “I’m really happy, incredibly flattered and surprised! I am working out of state right now and forgot they were being announced this morning! I’m especially excited that Christina [Applegate] and I can go dress-hunting together.”

America Ferrera, “It’s exciting. You kind of just mentally prepare yourself for either way, like if it happens, great, if it doesn’t. … But in the moment, that kind of all goes out the window and you hope it does.”

Will Arnett, “My parents always told me it was important to be a good guest, so I feel like they deserve the credit,”

Amy Poehler, “I’m so excited, thrilled. It was an awesome year for Saturday Night Live. I continue to be honored to be on that show. I think the people I work with are the funniest people I television.”

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David Cook Winner of American Idol Season 7

David Cook was declared the winner of the Season 7 of American Idol on Wednesday after receiving 56% of the votes casted.

Cook was tending bar and playing in a band before he auditioned for Idol and after his winning, Cook’s single “The Time of My Life” went on sale on iTunes and immediately shot up to #1 spot, follow by his three other songs that he sang on this week’s finale.

Cook tells Reuters that his next record will likely to be a rock record.

“It’ll probably be a rock record. I just want to make a record that’s going to make the hair on your neck stand up. Even if it doesn’t do well commercially, as long as I can put out a record I am proud of — that’s the goal right now. And hopefully the success will follow.”

David Archuleta who comes in as first runner-up thinks Cook deserves winning the Idol competition.

“To the people who’ve been supporting me so much, I just want to thank them. It means more than anything to know that people are appreciating the hard work that we put into this. I want them to know that I’m feeling great about it. The fact that Cook won, I think he deserved it so much. He just proved it week after week. He deserves to be the American Idol! He’s such a great guy too. My main priority wasn’t to win the competition; it was just to do my best. You can suck and people can vote enough for you to win, but that wouldn’t feel very good. [Laughs.] We both gave it all. We just poured it all onto that stage on Tuesday night. And we both feel really great about it. I don’t think I could have done anything better or change anything to make me feel any better about what I did.

Do you think if David Cook will be as successful as Daughtry?

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