Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
There is another innocent victim in the debacle that is Randy and Evi Quaid’s life – their dog Doji.
After their arrest in Vancouver last week, Doji was impounded by the local animal shelter reports TMZ. However as per the rules of the shelter, if the dog is not claimed within 72 hours, the dog then becomes city property. At which time, the shelter is given the right to “destroy, or sell by auction or private sale, an impounded dog.”
They say that good things happen to good people, and that seems to be the case when it comes to A.J. Buckley’s story. Although the actor was born in Ireland, he was raised in Vancouver and is just as nice as any other Canadian.
Acting seems to be Buckley’s calling and after getting a start with appearances in television series like The Odyssey and X-Files and a recurring guest part on Supernatural, he landed the role of Adam Ross on CSI: NY, the scientific genius who runs the tests and delivers the facts.
Talking about his high-school science teachers, “I think they just passed me to pass me,” Buckley said, but also made it clear that it was actually his lack of real-life scientific abilities that helped him to shape his character in the early days.
He told us that from “the anxiety that I would get from the big words came this character who kind of was nervous … ‘cause in real life when I first started the show I was terrified of what I had to say and I didn’t want to lose my job.” The nervousness translated into humour and provided a bit of comic relief for the show, which the producers liked.
“I’ve been really blessed that I’ve got to have the career that I’ve had thus far, it seems like things are just getting better,” says Buckley. He’s humble about his success, but also made it clear that to be successful and do something that you love, you just have to go for it.
Buckley emphasized that he’s doing what he’s most passionate about in life. “If there’s anything that you need to be, is be fearless, you have to be fearless and you have to be able to risk it all and throw it into the wind… ‘cause if it’s what you love, it’s what you have to do,” he told us.
Acting isn’t just a job for him, it’s everything. “Since I understood what the word ‘actor’ was that’s all I wanted to do,” he said.
We also asked Buckley the most important question that needed to be answered: Who would win in a staring contest between Mac Taylor and Horatio Caine? Buckley chose his character’s boss, saying “Mac. Without a doubt,” adding that Horatio’s manhood would be taken away in the battle.
If you want to check out A.J. Buckley, tune into the premiere of the seventh season of CSI: NY, which airs on September 24th on CTV.
It’s been announced by Summit Entertainment that “Twilight’s” “Breaking Dawn” shooting will take place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Vancouver, British Columbia.
E! Online reports that shooting for parts one and two of the final ‘Twilight” saga begins in the fall.
Locals better get ready for a lot of paparazzi moving into their town!
Wait, wait… Chad Kroeger has a girlfriend?
Sorry, enough jokes. Here’s the scoop.
As CHARTattack.com reports, Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger has made headlines recently for firing his housekeeper, Arlene Morris.
The firing took place just a few days before Nickelback’s Vancouver concert on June 3. Morris says that Kroeger had promised her tickets to the show for her five songs, but took the offer back after she was fired.
To add insult to injury, Morris’ 11-year-old son was so sad over the events that he wrote a letter to the Vancouver Sun newspaper.
“[Eight] months were waiting and the day is just about here when my mom gets a call,” Morris’ son wrote. “Oh wow how hard that was, she tells us the tickets were cancelled guys im sorry and not only that he fires her too.”
“Well mr CHAD KRUGER WE dont think your cool and we took your stupid picture off our rockstar wall cause you dont deserve to sit up there with john lennon, mick jagger or bob dylan,” the letter continued.
Jonathan Simkin, Nickelback’s manager, told the Vancouver Province newspaper that Morris was fired for taking Kroeger’s girlfriend’s discarded clothes - an act that Morris denies. Simkin also said that Morris was not directly employed by Kroeger, but had actually been hired by a fellow employee. That same employee was apparently the one who decided to fire her.
andPOP’s Side B is pleased to offer fans the chance to see Plants and Animals in Victoria and Vancouver for free! You can win yourself two tickets to either their May 4th show at Sugar Nightclub in Victoria or their May 5th show at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. P&A are touring their second LP, “La La Land”, selling out dates all across North America. This is a band you don’t want to miss.
How to enter? Easy. Follow andPOPsideB on twitter, and tweet @ us! The winners will be randomly selected, but the shows are coming up quickly – get your entry in right away!
Not sure who Plants and Animals are? Check out our interview!:
We hope the top brass at NBC aren’t planning on a bonus this year – because they sure do not deserve it. First they have Conan debacle which cost them a boat load of money. Now the VancouverOlympics have officially cost them even more money.
PerezHilton reports that the 2010 Vancouver Olympics cost NBC $800 Million in TV and Online rights. However at the end of the day they lost $223 Million on the entire deal.
You can thank extraordinary production costs and less than expected ad revenue for the loss. However ratings were up from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Conan O’Brien took an unexpected visit to a Vancouver, British Columbia hospital yesterday, reports TMZ.
Conan’s tour manager had to be taken to the hospital after showing “symptoms” (what kind of symptoms we don’t know).
Luckily the new TBS host was in a joking mood with the cameramen, and couldn’t help but comment about the free Canadian healthcare system. “I think they’re gonna take his American Express card … because we’re American.”
While it’s easy for any up-and-coming band to dream of the day they become so famous that they sell out back-to-back shows at the Air Canada Centre, the three guys of Kelowna, BC’s We Are The City have a smaller goal in mind: the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver.
Seating a modest 2,688 people, the Orpheum is one of Vancouver’s most beautiful theatres, and also a definition of success for We Are The City’s Cayne McKenzie, Andy Huculiak and David Menzel.
“That would be crazy,” Andy, the band’s drummer, told andPOP at the prospect of playing the Orpheum.
“If I get to play there I will quit the band right after the show because it can’t get any better,” said Cayne, lead singer and pianist.
At this, Andy started to laugh.
Cayne turned to him and said, “You’re laughing because you think I’m joking, but…”
“No, I agree, I’ll quit the band too,” Andy interjected.
The band’s guitarist, David, agreed with a, “Me too!”
The search for Growing Pains star Andrew Koenig ended today after he was discovered dead in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.
Koenig, who suffered from depression, reportedly took his own life.
The actor’s father, Walter Koenig, best known for his role as Pavel Chekov on Star Trek, made a public announcement today in a Vancouver press conference.
TMZ is reporting that actor Andrew Koeing from “Growing Pains” is missing. Koeing played Boner on the ABC sitcom.
Koening was last seen a week ago when he was supposed to be on a flight back to the United States. However he did not make the flight and nobody has any information of his whereabouts.
Anybody with information should contact Detective Raymond Payette of the Vancouver Police Department at 604-717-2534.
Popularity hurts.
It only took ten seconds last night for the Olympic Alexisonfire concert in Vancouver to get shut down by chaotic fans, reports the Vancouver Sun.
The concert held in Yaletown LiveCity was brought to a fast halt after fans knocked down a barricade separating the crowd from the stage. The crowd then surged forward toward the band, injuring 20 crowd members and hospitalizing nine.
Kid Cudi has left Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball early, according to rollingstone.com.
He vacates his opening-act slot on Lady Gaga’s current tour just five days after punching a fan during a solo performance in Vancouver. According to an official statement, the Grammy-nominated rapper took “an early leave of absence from Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball tour, in order to balance his schedule surrounding the recording of his next album and acting commitments.” Cudi will also now embark on his own solo tour, which kicked off in Reno, Nevada last night.
In addition to opening for Gaga, Cudi was performing his own shows during the Monster Ball’s off-days and after-hours. Cudi’s punching incident at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on Dec. 12 was his fifth show in three days in the city. Video of the incident shows Cudi catching a wallet that was thrown at him during his performance and then throwing it back into the crowd. The audience member who caught the wallet was not the owner, so he threw it back at Cudi, who then lashed out with punches at the fan.
The hilarious late night television show, The Colbert Report featuring Stephen Colbert, has a new take on the issue referred to as “Canadian Groin Kickers.” This epidemic is featured as part of the Don’t Be an Ice-Hole campaign and the ThreatDown segment.
According to The Comedy Network, Colbert has expressed a sentiment of fear after hearing about the woman in Langley, B.C. who seems to have a fond habit of randomly kicking men in the groin. With an upcoming trip to Vancouver, it seems as though Colbert may be in the danger zone of this inexplicable hate crime.
In order to protect Colbert’s package, the Comedy Network has created and sent Colbert the “Maple Member Minder” (MMM), a described “beaver fur-lined jockstrap.” This jockstrap will ensure the safety of Colbert and his groin in Canada. In order for the product to work efficiently, the network believes the best approach for Colbert would be to test out the goods, on air.
Where do Toronto Film Fest buffs, WWE RAW fanatics, free concert goers, and Maple Leaf hopefuls converge at 11:59PM on a Monday? Why Future Shop at Yonge and Dundas in down town Toronto for the midnight release of EA Sports’ NHL 10, hosted by Xbox Canada of course!
AndPOP was in tow to witness the launch of what may very well be this year’s best hockey title. In a town that loves their hockey hundreds lined up early, a pick-up street hockey game was going on across the street, and anticipation was high for the clock to strike midnight. (more…)
Fugitive Ryan Jenkins was found hanged in a hotel in Hope, B.C. early this morning, according to CBC News. Jenkins, a former reality-TV contestant on Megan Wants a Millionaire, was on the run from murder charges for killing his ex-wife swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore in the United States earlier this month.
Fiore’s mutilated body was found stuffed in a garbage bin in a park outside Los Angeles on Aug. 15 and was only identifiable by serial numbers on her breast implants.
The now-infamous cast of Eclipse, the Twilight sequel have been spotted throughout Vancouver where the third installment of the series is currently filming. It will be a prime time for some snooping too, as rumours have been flying about romances between a number of duos on the set.
Lead actors Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson arrived just days ago, Stewart still clad with a mullet from her title role in the Joan Jett biopic Runaways. They were sited a few nights ago getting cozy at a Kings of Leon concert in Vancouver Aug. 15, with photos of them practically making out appearing on RadarOnline.com and Just Jared. This comes after the two attended Comic-Con, an international and now celebrity hot spot comic book convention in San Diego, where they were practically joined at the hip according to the Los Angeles Times.
As Spears makes her way across Canada with her Circus tour, there is only one trick that can make Britney disappear from the stage; the smell of smoke.
It seems that during her show at Vancouver’s General Motors Place last week, Spears stormed off stage because the air was too smoky, according to chartattack.com. The brief pause in Spears’ set was approximately 15-20 minutes in length after which she returned to finish the show.
Thursday, Vancouver punk icons D.O.A. performed at the Horsehoe Tavern, and made their views on Canadian politics crystal clear.
According to the review on chartattack.com, frontman Joey Shithead was in favour of president-elect Barack Obama (“it’s about time”), and called Prime Minster Stephen Harper a “fuckin’ asshole.”
Otherwise, it was business as usual, with slamdancing, moshing, and favourite tracks to honour the band’s 30 years on the road.
Oasis is extending their stay in Canada this fall with three other performances.
The band is scheduled to headling the Virgin Festival in Toronto in September. Now, pairing up with Ryan Adams, the band will play Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary in August, just before the festival.
According to their web site, advance tickets to the special shows can be purchased at ticketmaster using the password OASISINET.
Oasis will play in Seattle before flying North. It will be their first live performance together in over two years.
George Stroumboulopoulos is taking his “Hour” to the West coast.
From Monday to Thursday next week, Stroumboulopoulos will air live from The Roundhouse in Yaletown, Vancouver. Rocker Matt Good, former-Miss Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam, and wildlife painter Robert Bateman are among the guests who will chat with him on these special dates.
Stroumboulopoulos will follow up his trip to the West with a Holiday Musical Special, airing Christmas Eve. Paul Potts (winner of “Britain’s Got Talent”), Jully Black, crooner George Canyon, Diana Krall and Elvis Costello will all perform their unique versions of seasonal tunes. More fantastic guests are yet to be confirmed.
The Hour airs weeknights at 11 p.m. on CBC Television, 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBC Newsworld.
