Janet Jackson made a dream come true for U.S. TV presenter Sherri Shepherd by making a surprise appearance on her chat show The View.

Shepherd has long been a fan of the singer and recently announced she would be willing to sleep in the street to secure tickets to Jackson’s forthcoming tour.

But the pop star made a surprise guest appearance on the show on Tuesday and presented a delighted Shepherd with seats to one of her autumn concerts.

The TV presenter was overwhelmed, embracing Jackson and telling her, “I’m such a fan of yours. I have every album; I have every poster; I have all of your programme books. Aside from Michael (Jackson), you are my second favorite, girl.”

The Control hitmaker will open her Rock Witchu tour in Vancouver, British Columbia on 7 September.

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Is Jermaine Dupri the jealous type?

Yes, according to longtime gal pal Janet Jackson.

The R&B songstress has a steamy love scene in her new video, “Rock with You,” with a much younger man, 21-year-old choreographer Tony Testa, and she says her beau didn’t really seem to like that plot element.

“He said nothing! Nothing,” she tells Extra. “I said, ‘Okay, I can tell there’s a little bit of jealousy.’”

Jermaine has nothing to worry about though. He and Janet have been together for six years and she only sees a future with him — and possibly one with children.

“At some point in my life I do [want to have kids],” she says. “When I was younger, I used to babysit. I used to babysit my nieces and nephews.”

Janet was, of course, surrounded by kids herself during her childhood, being the youngest of nine children. And how about all those rumors of a Jackson family stage reunion in Las Vegas?

“This is the first I’ve heard that,” she says. “I would love for my brothers to get together.”

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Janet Jackson is to hit the road for the first time since 2001, with Vancouver the launch pad for a new North American tour.

The Rhythm Nation star will tour through North America - including stops in New York and Washington - before her Rock Witchu tour goes worldwide, she explained in an interview with the Associated Press news agency.

“It’s been a while so I really want to make my rounds,” she said. “I haven’t been to Australia in a very long time; I can’t wait to go there. There are a lot of places where I really want to stop off at, and that’s the idea, that’s the goal with this tour.”

The 42-year-old revealed she had planned a series of concerts after the 2006 release of her album 20 Y.O., only for her record label to request that she postpone her plans in order to work on a new CD.

“I was supposed to go on tour with the last album,” she explained.

“We were actually in full-blown tour rehearsals at that point… learning numbers, getting everything together, set designs.

“I had to kind of shut everything down and go into the studio.”

Her most recent album Discipline hit the shelves in February and Jackson promised a dramatic stage show to support her last two releases.

“It will definitely be a big production but it will definitely also be something that I’ve never done before, that people have never seen from me before,” she added.

Tickets for the tour, for which the full itinerary will be announced next week, go on sale on June 7th.

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Janet Jackson has heaped praise on the designer of her infamous nipple-baring Super Bowl costume, branding him a great “love” in her life.

The singer was forced to issue an apology for the 2004 “wardrobe malfunction”, which happened when Justin Timberlake tore off part of her corset during a half-time duet, exposing her breast to millions of unsuspecting viewers of the American football event.

British designer Alexander McQueen confirmed he created the tight black outfit Jackson wore on the night earlier this week, prompting the pop star to come to his defence, insisting she does not hold him responsible for the incident.

She tells Fox News, “I thought maybe only half of the outfit was (his design), but I guess he did all of it.”
She adds, “I don’t blame him; he didn’t rip it. Alexander is so great at what he does - he’s a genius. I’ve loved him for a long time, ever since I saw one of his very first shows 10 years ago in London, which is where we first met.”

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Janet Jackson has revealed that she is going to launch a world tour in support of her new album Discipline on September 11th.

“The next big thing on the agenda is prepping for the tour,” she says. “I’m still promoting the new album [Discipline] right now, but we’ll be getting into rehearsals in about a month and then start touring.”

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Janet Jackson poses in a cage on the cover of US style magazine, BlackBook. The chart star is featured in the April 2008 issue of the publication, in a music special.

Jackson’s new album, ‘Discipline,’ is out now.

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Janet Jackson is taking it easy following her bout with the flu.

The pop star, 41, who paid a visit to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. Monday night after falling ill, has decided to cancel an upcoming Saturday Night Live appearance originally scheduled for Saturday, her rep confirmed.

“The main prescription to get over this flu is rest – and that’s what she has to do,” her rep says. No replacement has been announced yet.

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