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Justin Bieber Performance and Christmas Music Video Premiere

Elisheva Baer — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:16:54 +0000

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It has been a day of huge Bieber surprises – and it’s not even Christmas yet!

Fans waited in line for days through the cold and rain in the Rockefeller Plaza in anticipation of the big surprise Justin Bieber promised via Twitter for his performance on the Today Show on Wednesday.

“Im bringing a BIG SURPRISE with me to the @todayhow performance this morning. I want to make this great for the fans. they deserve it,” Bieber tweeted earlier today. Boy, did he ever deliver with an outstanding performance of his song “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),” with none other than his friend and mentor Usher.

“so blessed! thank you to all the fans who camped out for days for the @todayshow this morning!! Had to bring out big bro @UsherRaymondIV!!” Bieber tweeted moments after getting off stage, adding ”Im not done with my SPECIAL GUESTS!! Watch @theviewtv today because Im bringing out another major surprise! #Mistletoe!

So who did Bieber surprise the View audience with? Mary J. Blige! Bet you didn’t see that one coming! Blige came out during Bieber’s performance of his single, “Mistletoe,” to loud screams of excitement. Check out the video below.

But the surprises didn’t stop there! Bieber took to his Twitter once again, after the performance, saying ”today just keeps getting better..now my NEW MUSIC VIDEO with@boyzIImen for #FALALA is OUT!!”

Two outstanding performances with amazing musical guests, and a music video?! It doesn’t get better than that. Does this kid ever stop? It’s not even December yet and he’s full of so much holiday cheer. Without further ado, here’s Bieber’s new Christmas video:

Billy Ray Cyrus Doesn’t Want a Divorce

RM Franks — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:09:26 +0000

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The lamest TV dad in the world (sorry Danny Tanner), Billy Ray Cyrus, has decided that he and Miley’s mother, Tish, should try and work things out.

Billy Ray appeared on The View this morning and told the clucking hen club about how the past few weeks have really changed his view on things, especially his relationship with his wife Tish. Somewhat surprising considering “the past few weeks” when he went on a public rant about how the Hannah Montana show ruined his life, his marriage and his family.

Nevertheless, Billy said the following on the show this morning:

“I’ve dropped the divorce. I want to put my family back together … Things are the best they’ve ever been. I feel like I got my Miley back in a way. I feel like we are the daddy and daughter that we were before Hannah Montana happened.”

Really, Billy? And you decided to announce this on a show that airs at noon? For the housewife demographic?

I give him two years before he’s sitting beside Snooki on Celebrity Rehab. Just sayin.

President Obama Has Pop Culture Quiz on ‘The View’

andPOP Staff — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:11:45 +0000

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President Barack Obama appeared on “The View” today where he was quizzed on a variety of topics, including pop culture.

Quizzed by Joy Behar in a “lightening” round, Obama was asked if he knew if Lohan is in jail. “I actually know that, yes,” the President responded.

However, Obama is not a fan of “Jersey Shore” it turns out. “Should Snooki run as mayor of Wasilla?” Behar asked. Obama, laughing, responded, “I gotta admit, I don’t know who Snooki is.”

Obama also discussed that he was up to date on the legal problems of Lindsay Lohan, but did not offer any views about Mel Gibson and whether he needs anger management.

“I … I …,” the President stuttered and then joked, “Let me answer the Afghanistan question!” He informed the panel he “hadn’t seen the tapes.”

Barack Obama Coming Back To ABC’s ‘The View’

andPOP Staff — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:08:21 +0000

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Daytime TV will make history on Tuesday with President Barack Obama appearing as a guest on ABC’s “The View.”

PopEater reports this is a landmark event as its the first time a sitting U.S. President has appeared on a daytime talk show. Barbara Walters announced that the topics will include jobs, the economy, the Gulf oil spill and family life inside the White House.

The last time Obama appeared on the show was in March 2008 as a U.S. Senator. Obama will be interviewed by Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd.

Barbara Walters Ready for Her Recovery Following Heart Surgery

Jacob Morris — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:30:10 +0000

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A rep for Barbara Walters says that the daytime talk-show co-host is “recovering as expected” following her heart surgery, reports People.com.

The 80-year-old host of The View underwent surgery to replace a faulty heart valve on Friday.

“[Her] surgery went well and the doctors are very pleased with the outcome.”

Walters made an announcement on The View on Monday, saying that she has “known of this condition for a while now,” but wanted to keep the surgery a secret. Walters said, “I thought it best not to talk about it too far in advance.”

Walters is ready for some time off, she says. “Since the summer is coming up, I can take a nice vacation.” Her recovery is expected to last between one and three months.

Justin Bieber Appearing Live On The View

andPOP Staff — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:35:48 +0000

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As if we haven’t seen enough Justin Bieber, here is one more opportunity to see the pop sensation. The teen idol will be performing live on ABC’s The View today (Monday March 22nd) and also Tuesday (March 23)!

Expect girls in the audience to collapse in excitement as Bieber performs tracks from his latest album “My World 2.0.” Although we don’t know what he will be singing or performing, expect the music prodigy to perform an awesome show as always!

Rosie O’Donnell to Fill Oprah’s Spot

Angelina Irinici — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:12:31 +0000

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Oprah fans: no need to fret! Network executives have found you a possible replacement: Rosie O’Donnell. After the legendary talk show host announced that she was pulling her show in 2011, network executives have been scrambling to fill the spot on the daytime talk show circuit, reports E! Online.

O’Donnell, now 47, hasn’t been up to much recently, after leaving The View in May 2007, unless you’ve seen her guest spots on shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Nip/Tuck and Drop Dead Diva. She also launched the daily show, Rosie Radio on Sirius XM, which she hosts in New York in a custom-built home studio.

If all goes as planned, the comedian has big shoes to fill, but based on her previous success, she may be a hit. The Rosie O’Donnell Show for a while, as she won 25 Daytime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Talk Show every year between 1998 and 2002.

West-Gaga Tour Cancelled

Sara Harowitz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:35:12 +0000

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Kanye West and Lady Gaga’s co-headlining tour “Fame Kills” has been cancelled, according to MTV News.

No reason for the cancellation has been given. The tour’s promoter, Live Nation, issued a press release that stated ticket refunds are available at the place of purchase, and tickets bought online or over the phone will be automatically refunded.

While the tour has been generating hype, rumors of its cancellation have been surfacing for days. A large amount of the negativity has stemmed from West’s interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at last month’s MTV Video Music Awards.

The tour, which West announced unexpectedly at an appearance on The View last June, and was scheduled to kick off in Phoenix on Nov. 10, was not confirmed by either of the artists’ reps until mid-September.

The cancellation still comes somewhat abruptly, especially since Gaga spent last week promoting the tour during interviews with Las Vegas radio station KLUC and San Diego’s Star 94.

“We’re on each end of the stage, and I want to get to where Kanye is, which is ‘the fame,’” she said in one of the interviews. “He wants to get where I am, which is home and humble beginnings. For the whole show, we are battling each other [for our positions]. It’s been a really incredible creative experience.”

Gaga added that her and West “didn’t do this tour for each other. We did this tour for everybody else. We wanted our fans to feel like we were doing something special and we wanted to merge two groups of fans — two different [groups of] music lovers into one room.”

However, despite the cancellation of this tour, Gaga has a busy and exciting year ahead. She revealed in the interview that she would be embarking on her own headlining tour just weeks after “Fame Kills” wraps up.

And while many West and Gaga fans are sure to be upset by the cancellation, at least one thing can be taken away from this whole experience: while fame may or may not kill, a big mouth certainly will.

West And Gaga Release Provocative ‘Fame Kills’ Promo

Sara Harowitz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:16:42 +0000

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While Kanye West may have claimed to Jay Leno to be keeping a low profile on things after his Taylor Swift-MTV Video Music Awards debacle, the new video clip he posted on his blog begs to differ.

The promo video released on Wednesday, Sept. 23 for his new “Fame Kills” tour with Lady Gaga is anything but low profile, according to MTV News.

The video clip, posted by West under the headline, “What Happened to All the Rock Stars? Fame Killed Them!” is a slow motion film featuring a topless Gaga covering herself and wrapped in the arms of a black man while soft, moody music plays in the background. When 30 seconds of this pass, the name of the tour appears on the screen along with a voice that says, “Fame Kills!” and then “West + Gaga” flashes across.

West first made an announcement about the tour earlier this summer at an appearance on “The View,” but it wasn’t a sealed deal until last week. The “Fame Kills” tour is set to begin on Nov. 10 in Phoenix and wrap up Jan. 24 in Dallas.

Other than the video clip, however, West has managed to keep out of the direct spotlight. He even had his lawyer push back a court date that was scheduled for this month. The pre-trial hearing for West’s 2008 airport scuffle with a photographer has now been pushed back to Oct. 23. Lawyer Blair Berk reportedly went to the judge in the case and requested for the trial to be pushed back.

The scuffle took place on Sept. 11, 2008 at the Los Angeles International Airport. West and his road manager, Don C. Crowley, allegedly wrestled a camera out of the hands of a TMZ photographer who was trying to take the rapper’s picture. Crowley is then said to have thrown the photographer’s $10,000 camera to the ground and West is said to have smashed the flash. The debacle ended in an arrest. West has pleaded not guilty to three misdemeanor counts of vandalism, theft, and battery.

However, the pushed-back date still allows West lots of time to work on the new tour with Gaga. And no matter how you look at it, Gaga and West are sure to blow the top off this one.

Fame Kills from kwest on Vimeo.

Kanye West and Lady Gaga To Team Up For Tour

Ilan Mester — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:49:31 +0000

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During his appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Wednesday (June 10), rapper Kanye West announced a co-headlining tour with Lady Gaga.

“She’s talented and so incredible that she’s not an opening act,” he said of Lady Gaga on “The View”. “We’re doing it together, with no opening act.”

West also took the opportunity to talk about “American Idol” winner Kris Allen’s cover of “Heartless,” and admit that there are artists who can sing the song better than the rapper himself.

“Everybody who sings the song, sings better than me,” he said jokingly to the hosts of “The View.” “The Fray are one of my favorite rock bands, they covered it [too] and that song got played on ‘American Idol’ twice.”

However, West credits his song-writing abilities and the melodies of his music as the reason a wide range of artists are able to cover his songs. “I always felt like I made melodies that were [like] country or Broadway melodies,” he told the ladies of “The View”.

Goldberg Gets A New View

andPOP Staff — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:13:10 +0000

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG has been confirmed as the new co-host of popular U.S. magazine show THE VIEW.

The comedienne/actress-turned-radio presenter has been hired to replace outspoken Rosie O’Donnell on the morning show, where a panel of women discuss the latest topics and interview celebrities.

Goldberg has made a series of guest appearances on the show during its 10 year run, and producers insist she was always a top choice.

O’Donnell quit the show at the beginning of the summer (07) following a series of rows with co-hosts and producers.

Rosie O’Donnell Takes Her Seat on The View

andPOP Staff — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:25:19 +0000

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Rosie O’Donnell took “the Meredith chair,” as she called it, on talk show The View today.

Walking onto the stage arm-in-arm with Barbara Walters, O’Donnell complimented her co-hosts, Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and assured the audience that she was “taking my medication and everything will be fine.”

She also assured Walters that she’d notify her when blogging on Rosie.com after Walters was reportedly upset about some of the comments O’Donnell made on her blog about sharing the limelight on The View.

O’Donnell wasn’t all sugar, though. “She talked about having conversations in the bath with her daughter about pubic hair,” the Post Chronicle reports, “looked ready to spar when Joy bizarrely ascribed a Japanese accent to Rosie’s son Blake, and expressed great joy at the USTA National Tennis Center naming itself after lesbian icon Billie Jean King.”

Throwing back to her days as a solo host, however, O’Donnell joked about flowers from former crush Tom Cruise and The View gave out two day cruises to the audience.

Vieira Clarifies ‘Joke’ Comment

andPOP Staff — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:02:06 +0000

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Meredith Vieira may have put “The View” behind her, but it looks as though she doesn’t believe in burning any bridges.

E! Online is reporting that Vieira has issued an apology to Barbara Walters, after she was quoted in Time magazine as saying “The View” was a “joke.”

The comments were made in response to questions asking is she had watched the show since her exit, and what she thought of Star Jones-Reynolds’ departure.

“I didn’t watch at all. I needed to think ahead. But I have to admit, the day after Star made her announcement, I watched. I feel very sad for everything that’s happened and for everybody involved. I’m proud of the work we did there, but it’s not a good time in the history of that show. It’s hard to watch. It sort of became a joke,” Vieira was quoted as saying.

Vieira said that her remarks were taken out of context, and that the “joke” she referred to was the media’s frenzy after Jones-Reynolds’ departure.

“In those days following Star’s departure, in particular, it became a feeding frenzy, and I felt the media was turning the show into a joke…that it was becoming fodder for lots of mean-spirited articles. I found that hurtful. There was lots of ridicule, which I felt was unfair to lots of wonderful people there. I did call Barbara because I was very upset, and she was upset, too. She said [the 'joke' remark] ‘doesn’t sound like you, but if it was you, I’ll have to hurt your husband,’ ” Vieira told the New York Post.

Jones ‘Forced Out’ Of The View?

andPOP Staff — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:08:23 +0000

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Star Jones will be exiting “The View,” People.com reports.

Jones made the official announcement on Tuesday’s show, ending the speculation that has graced the tabloids ever since Rosie O?Donnell was announced as the replacement for Meredith Vieira who left “The View” to replace Katie Couric at NBC’s “Today Show.” O’Donnell has made public her criticism for Jones, particularily in Jones’ recent weight loss.

“Something’s been on my heart for a little bit, and after much prayer and counsel I feel like this is the right time to tell you that the show is moving in another direction for its tenth season and I will not be returning as co-host next year,” Jones said on the air, which prompted shocked looks and comments from her co-hosts.

Jones told People the reason she left “The View” was not because of O’Donnell’s arrival, but because her contract was not renewed by the show for the 10th season.

“What you don’t know is that my contract was not renewed for the tenth season. I feel like I was fired,” she tells People magazine, adding she was told her contract would not be renewed just days before O’Donnell was named Vieira?s replacement.