KATIE Holmes is desperately hoping that people tune in to her new TV show The Kennedys — the miniseries that airs Sundays on ReelzChannel.
In the show — which was scrapped by The History Channel in January — Holmes plays Jackie Kennedy opposite Greg Kinnear as JFK.
And the actress — who’s married to Tom Cruise – is keen for the project to be a success.
During a recent interview, Hows described the eight-part miniseries as “like a Greek tragedy” and said she admired Jackie’s devotion as a mother.
“I hope people find it and watch it,” Holmes said.
The show premiered this past weekend.
Meanwhile, Katie has revealed how she was left shocked when her daughter accidentally picked up some penis-shaped candy.
The actress was recently pictured treating Suri, three, to a trip to an ice cream parlor, where the little girl was seen grasping the rude candy, and insists she thought they were a type of US confectionery called Swedish Fish.
“Recently, I took her to get ice cream in New York at this place called Serendipity that we go to all the time. It’s for kids,” Katie said.
However, the brunette beauty was horrified when she realized her tot was holding a comedy packet of sweets shaped like male genitalia.
Spelling out the word, an embarrassed Katie said, “P-e-n-i-s gummies. I said, ‘Oh wow those aren’t Swedish Fish!’
“They are called p-e-n-i-s gummies and they look like it. She was holding the box and I was like, ‘OK, wow, we don’t need that right now.’ “
The former Dawson’s Creek star was then left with a dilemma with how to take the offensive sweets away from Suri in case she asked what they were.
“I thought if I said, ‘Put that back!’ then she’s going to say, ‘What is this?’ and I really didn’t want to have that conversation,” she said.
The 32-year-old actress is still surprised a family-orientated establishment would sell such a lewd product.
“I was like, ‘Why are they selling these here? This is for kids’,” she said.
KATE Gosselin is missing her ex-husband.
Sources say the reality TV star — who raises eight kids with Jon Gosselin, whom she split from in 2009 — is pining for her former spouse and feels lost without him.
“He was her whipping boy, but also her best friend,” a source said. “Yes, things were very toxic between them, but there was at least some sort of camaraderie.
“His departure made the show less interesting to people and left a very real hole in her life.
“She pretends to be made of steel, but underneath, she is very sensitive.”
Gosselin is was reportedly to be back in the dating game.
The reality TV star — whose divorce from Jon was finalized last year — recently headed to 230 Fifth in search of romance and she had a film crew in tow, according to New York Post gossip column Page Six.
“It was supposed to be Kate’s 36th birthday celebration, but it was all about meeting men,” a source said.
“She was all dolled up in a black cocktail dress, brought a camera crew and was chatting up a lot of guys. It wasn’t clear if they were actors or not.”
Kate recently confirmed she’s back on the dating scene.
“I’ve been on a few little dates here and there but I have eight kids already,” she said.
“I don’t need nine.”
Katy Perry admits the beat for ‘E.T’ was written for hip hop group Three 6 Mafia.
Katy Perry admits the beat for ‘E.T’ was written for a rap group.
The ‘Teenage Dream’ singer said the idea for the song came from her producers “accidentally” playing her a beat they had designed for southern US hip hop group Three 6 Mafia.
She explained: “I remember writing with Max Martin and Dr. Luke, and they were just showing me different samples of songs or tracks or beats, and they accidentally pulled up this beat, and it was for Three 6 Mafia.
“I heard it and I always knew I wanted to write this futuristic, alienistic song, and I was like, 'Wait, I can wrap my head around this. I know this seems like a long shot, but I think I have the perfect material to put on top of this sound.' And I did, and it really worked out perfectly (sic).”
The single version of ‘E.T.’ – which stands for Extra Terrestrial – features rapper Kanye West, and Katy admits he helped bring out the track’s “urban feel”.
She added: "It's kind of a bit harder, it does have that urban feel underneath it. I think that's why Kanye added even another layer on top of it.
"And it has amazing sonics — I mean, there's so much to it, there's a lot in the song if you really put your headphones on and sink into the song."
JAMIE Lynn Spears is planning to take on the music charts.
Sources say the former Zoey 101 star wants to follow in footsteps of her singer sister Britney Spears by releasing an album.
It’s claimed Jamie has been “putting together a country-pop album with some of music’s biggest names” and that she has quietly recorded a demo track in Nashville.
“Jamie Lynn’s management team are trying to get her a record deal,” a source said.
The former child star announced this week that she will retire from acting—at age 24. But recent erratic behavior has some wondering if the choice was hers at all—and The Daily Beast has learned she was fired from her last movie, Hall Pass.
With more and more Americans holding out on retirement, it’s getting to the point where people are frequently working well into their 70s. Not so for Amanda Bynes, who announced on Sunday via Twitter that she was ending her acting career at the ripe old age of 24. “Being an actress isn’t as fun as it may seem,” she tweeted. “If I don’t love something, I stop doing it. I don’t love acting anymore, so I’ve stopped doing it.”
That was her version, at least.
Her struggle is one many child actors face as they get older and discover that they have to reconnect with audiences all over again.
The other version is that Hollywood had mostly broken up with her—that after a highly successful run as a child actress on Nickelodeon, her career began to sputter. She was fired this spring from the Farrelly brothers’ film Hall Pass, according to a person familiar with the project. That seems to have coincided with a break within her that Bynes is now enacting in public. Her Twitter feed has become a place for what seems like compulsive oversharing, not just about retiring, but other random topics as well—for example, her interest in trying magic mushrooms and her sexual attraction to black men. (She has been linked on and off with rapper Kid Cudi, and has tweeted about him obliquely for months.)
Though sources say her CAA agents had a please-get-help talk with her this year, Bynes has so far resisted. And her parents, whom she has supported for years, have not been able to get the actress back on track. Her friends are concerned about her behavior.
Reps for Bynes did not respond to a request for comment about her retirement. But her personal publicist, Melissa Raubvogel, denied Bynes had been fired, and said no such event had happened with CAA.
Though Bynes was clearly talented, with a charming turn as Tracy Turnblad’s sidekick in the hit remake of Hairspray, a slew of projects featuring her more prominently simply didn’t do as well.
Her struggle is one many child actors face as they get older and discover that they have to reconnect with audiences all over again. For every Drew Barrymore, there’s a Molly Ringwald, for every Josh Brolin, there’s a Corey Feldman.
Bynes had never really been a major screen star, but her run on the small screen was nothing to sneeze at. After being discovered at a comedy camp at the age of 7 or 8, she was cast in All That, a sketch-comedy show on the MTV-owned network, which The New York Times described as a kind of “pint size Saturday Night Live.”
Then came The Amanda Show, where she played a variety of characters, one of whom was based on Judge Judy. After that, she went right into the WB sitcom, What I Like About You, in which Bynes and Jennie Garth played sisters. Though a modest hit by network standards, the comedy had a loyal audience of young fans, and solidified Bynes' base as a teen star.
At 15, Universal released her first big movie, Big Fat Liar, a teenage comedy co-starring Frankie Muniz of Malcolm in the Middle. It did well, grossing nearly $50 million off a budget believed to be under $20 million.
But after that, her record was spottier.
Aside from her appearance in Hairspray, Bynes had the leading role in She’s the Man, a romantic comedy about a young girl who dresses in drag so that she can play on her school soccer team. It grossed a tepid $33.7 million. Then came SydneyWhite, ”a modern day update of Snow White. It topped out at $13.6 million, and made it harder for her to get lead roles. “Often, what makes an actor appealing as a child simply doesn’t work for them as an adult,” says someone who’s worked with Bynes, adding that the comedy acting she excelled at as a child didn't translate into dramatic films.
Still, Bynes was famous enough to get a clothing line with Steve & Barry’s, the discount chain that produced wares for Sarah Jessica Parker’s brand, Bitten. She also landed a cover with Maxim. But after a burst of success, the retail giant imploded, the victim of the credit crunch and excessive discounting that made turning a profit nearly impossible.
Meanwhile, rumors began to surface that Bynes could be “difficult.” In 2007, she was invited to the Turks and Caicos Film Festival, where she was being honored with a rising star award. And things reportedly didn’t go well.
Shortly after the festival was done, a nasty item appeared on the New York Post's Page Six alleging that for the event, Bynes demanded two first-class plane tickets, two double hotel suites, and then “failed” to show up at any of the scheduled events she’d committed to. “I literally didn't see her for days after she arrived at the hotel,” an “organizer” told the gossip column. “Everyone was wondering where she was. She was off jet-skiing, treating it like a vacation.”
Jennifer Nettles - Sugarland songstress Jennifer Nettles is looking forward to her on stage duet with pop star Rihanna.
Rihanna and Jennifer Nettles will perform at the Academy of Country Music Awards 46th annual show, airing April 3 at 8 p.m. on CBS.
Jennifer says of her impending performance,
“It’s the first time that Lady Ri and I have ever sung together and the first time that this song will be performed live so we are thrilled,” Nettles said,
“We’re just big fans of each other. We wanted to do something that was fun and different and fresh, and I reached out to her and said, ‘Hey, anything you want to do?’ and she said, ‘I have this song that I specifically would love to do,’ and I said, ‘Yes ma’am, we will do it.’”
“It is such a moment. And I think what it shows us is that good music is good and good performance is good, and as long as you like it, who cares what you call it. Get out there and have fun with each other.
“I am planning on having a diamond-encrusted crotch.” *Interesting*
What do you expect from Rihanna and Jennifer Nettles' duet?
