Lady Gaga has been playing stadiums and arenas around the globe for months and will return to the U.S. on July 1 with her ‘Monster Ball Tour.’ Yesterday, the ‘Poker Face’ singer announced even more North American dates for 2011 — but don’t say she’s working too hard. She addressed rumors her non-stop touring is wearing her out while performing ‘Speechless’ in Sweden.
“You know when people say, ‘Lady Gaga’s really tired, she needs to take a break,’ I just think about all those times I sang in bars when nobody was singing my lyrics. I’ll sleep when I’m dead, okay?” she ranted.
At the 6:30 mark, she begins to ramble even further. “I know that I work really hard and I run myself into the ground, and I also know that alcohol will kill me one day. But I would rather not die on vacation, I’d rather die onstage with all my fans,” she said.
With only three weeks and six episodes left in Simon Cowell’s (above with his fiance) American Idol tenure, don’t be surprised if rumors and speculation about his season 10 replacement begin to intensify. But under the heading of “don’t believe everything you read,” a show source tells EW that Cowell’s successor will not be named until after the May 26 season finale. (That, of course, also means no bombshell announcement at Fox’s May 17 upfronts presentation, when the network will unveil its fall schedule to advertisers.)
The delay in finalizing such a crucial decision makes sense on several levels. For starters, any replacement announcement before month’s end would steal some of the spotlight away from the show’s current crop of contestants, not to mention Cowell’s role in the season 9 finale extravaganza. What’s more, Fox and Idol will score plenty of free publicity as debate over Cowell 2.0 turns into a popular summer sport, one that should keep water cooler buzz alive for the reality juggernaut during its seven-month hiatus from the airwaves. As Fox chariman Peter Rice said back at the network’s TCA presentation in January, “We’re not going to rush into something. We’re not going to try to find a Simon clone who can do what he does because, you know, he’s one of a kind. But the [Idol] format itself, people love.”
Cowell, for his part, is moving on to executive produce and judge a U.S. version of his British hit, The X Factor, slated to debut on Fox in fall 2011.
Britney Spears spends the afternoon today shopping on Robertson Blvd. in Los Angeles. Britney tried on some over sized shirts along with accessories. After finding a fresh new outfit to wear Britney made her way over to a local restaurant for a lunch break. On Mother’s Day Britney spent the day without her boys, Jayden James and Sean Preston, who she sent to Disneyland with a bodyguard and a nanny. That’s kinda sad… (like the pic above!)
Earlier this morning, Courtney Love took to her Twitter page to let her daughter have it – in a 50+ Tweet war of words. You think this is a lot? This is only a THIRD of what she wrote!
last of my twitter relapse, bean i saw you at coachella with isaihia in a pic he looks sweet and like your dad actually.hope alls well
i hope he takes care of you and you look beuatiful even thoiugh you have an angry furrow i think thats called your “lawyer lie” furrow!
sorry to state this publically but i wont stand accused of such implications or tolerate making 3 on worst mothers list. thanks to this, no.
i love you and i will fight for you i though if i bore up and was sxtrong for six mos youd get over it but obviously its just inflamed you,
the last thing i lpok forewArd to in this life is any trial but im a good mother and i wont allow you to believe such nonsense so suit up.
lets try and use judy so i dont have to fucking go on TWITTER. i dont even use this thing and im sure this will be in some bs news feed
i love you soprry to take to the world wide ethernet but i love you and i dont know how to tell you without telling one of the pack , madly.
i really hope that boy is as nice as his sweet face, cos iff not ill get him, your just like me in almost every way and i know you hate it,
theres plenty of fish in the sea lining up for both of us who will treat us like princesses& not like 2nd class citizens, or damaged goods
if he cant suit up and have a balanced perspective and if hes just blindly being a beta male , ick if hes an alpha and hes treating you bad
i will give him one of my very special looks reserved for those whose blood needs to turn to ice, even i have a breaking point and i walk.
and i give the look before i walk they never see it coming, they think im so vulnerable because i am and then after treating me like shitBAM
i know you have that in you, if hes not treating you like the Goddess you are baby , get the hell out, do not settle. do NOT settle.
Ironically this song leaks the same day that Michael Lohan sends a letter to the judge in Lindsay’s DUI case asking that Lindsay be sent to rehab – not jail.
The letter — which appears to be an attempt to keep Lindsay out of jail — acknowledges “… Lindsay may have violated the terms of her probation by missing multiple court-ordered alcohol education classes.”
Bloom says Michael is “gravely concerned” about Lindsay’s “deterioration” and is urging the judge to put LiLo in a private drug rehab facility in New York. Michael also wants family counseling.
But if the judge won’t go for rehab, Bloom and Michael are asking the judge to extend her probation and subject her to “frequent, random, court-ordered drug testing.”
The letter ends with Bloom saying Michael does not want his daughter to become “the next Hollywood statistic.”
Pics: Lindsay Lohan and her younger sister Ali leave the Mercer Hotel and head to an office building on Varick Street holding on tightly to one another.
