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Wrigley Drops Chris Brown

Vanessa Baker — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:03:02 +0000

Wrigley Gum has formally terminated their contract with Chris Brown, reports Perez Hilton. The company suspended its advertising campaign featuring the singer after an incident in February where Brown was accused of beating then-girlfriend Rihanna.

At the time, the company said it believed “Mr. Brown should be afforded the same due process as any citizen.”

Following Brown’s guilty plea to a felony assault, the Doublemint gum-maker has ended its relationship with the star.

Paula Abdul To Negotiate Contract For American Idol Season 9

Ilan Mester — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:50:45 +0000

Paula Abdul’s “American Idol “ contract may have expired last season, but that doesn’t mean she’ll be leaving the singing competition any time soon.

“I’ve been invited to stay the duration of the show, however long it lasts,” Abdul told the Associated Press. She continued by saying the invitation to come back on the show is subject to agreement.

As usual, it seems like one guy knew the chances of Abdul returning to “Idol” were great. Back in May, Simon Cowell told Ellen Degeneres, “Everyone’s going to be back. Absolutely.”

However, he didn’t seem too happy that adding a fourth judge would give him less time to speak. “One week, literally, we couldn’t talk, so 10 minutes before the show started, they said, ‘Oh, by the way, you can’t talk for half the show. It’s rather like saying in a singing competition to the singers, ‘Half of you can’t sing.’ It was just crazy.”

Elisha Cuthbert Will Return to ‘24′

andPOP Staff — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:15:41 +0000

Elisha Cuthbert has signed on to reprise her role as Jack Bauer’s daughter on the new season of 24.

According to TV Guide’s Ask Ausiello, Cuthbert’s character Kim will have a child. However, Kim’s ex-boyfriend, played by C. Thomas Howell, will not return.

Cuthbert will next be seen on the big screen in “The Six Wives of Henry Lefay,” where she will play a grieving daughter who must deal with her deceased father’s ex-wives.

Gary ‘Warrick’ Dourdan Leaving ‘CSI’

andPOP Staff — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:47:35 +0000

The CSI lab is about to get a little less crowded.

TV Guide is reporting that cast member Gary Dourdan will be leaving CSI: Crime Scene Investigation when his contract expires next month. Although they could not pinpoint the episode when the character Warrick will make his grande exit, they estimate that it will be the season finale on May 15.

William Petersen, who plays Grissom, has renewed his contract with the show. Castmates Marg Helgenberger and George Eads are expected to do the same.

According to the TV Guide’s “Ask Ausiello,” the show’s producers are now looking for a new actor “in his late twenties to early thirties to play Ray Santoro, a ‘handsome, smart and athletic’ CSI who transfers from Henderson to join the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas crime lab.”