Looks like Casper Smart‘s life is turning up Jennifer Lopez…er, roses.

After being promoted from dancer to choreographer on Lopez’s world tour, Smart just had Lopez sell a reality show based on his life to the Oxygen network…and it’s already been picked up as a full series!

The show will follow Smart whipping dancers into shape for Lopez’s tour…and, Lopez and Smart’s relationship will be portrayed as purely professional, says the New York Post. 

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Still no word on whether or not Jennifer Lopez will be back for a third season of ‘American Idol’. Looks like the final decision will be up to J.Lo herself, as executive producer Nigel Lythgoe announces she “needs to make up her mind”.

Lopez has said she is not sure about renewing her contract saying she is “just too busy.” Some are speculating that Lopez’s delayed decision is a negotiation ploy.

Lythgoe told reporters on a conference call Friday that all three “Idol” judges, Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson  have other things going on, but that he would like to have them all back for next season.

“She (Jennifer) has had a wonderful resurgence – world’s most beautiful woman (for People magazine), two No. 1 records – she is doing brilliantly. She is going to have to balance everthing up, as is Steven Tyler, too. It’s not just Jennifer,” Lythgoe said in the Reuters report.

Lopez took to Twitter to tell fans she hasn’t quite made up her mind.

“There is no truth to reports that say I am definitely leaving ‘Idol’,” the pop singer tweeted on Thursday. “All I said was I haven’t decided what I am doing next year.”

This season’s “American Idol” is down to two finalists and the two-part finale will be broadcast on Fox on May 22 and 23.

Would you like to see Jennifer return for another season of ‘American Idol’?

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Jennifer Lopez is signing off as a judge on ‘American Idol’ after she’s appeared with the talent-show for two years. It’s not clear why she’s leaving – or if she left by choice, or was asked to leave. Rumor has it producers weren’t impressed with American Idol’s ratings over the last two years, but honestly I doubt she’s been fired. Ratings have been poor because of Simon and Paula leaving. To be honest, I never really watched AI since Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler signed on. I just don’t really care anymore.

Jennifer Lopez may have just been named by Forbes magazine today as the most powerful celebrity, but her reign at American Idol is coming to an end. While J.Lo has publicly said she has yet to make a decision about her future on Idol, sources exclusively tell me that she she’s planning on calling it quits.

“She’s just too busy,” one source said. That’s so very true.

She’s about to launch a mega concert tour with Enrique Iglesias that kicks off this summer in Latin America and the U.S. She plans to go worldwide in the fall. I’m told Lopez will be on the road, at the very least, through the end of the year. The next round of Idol auditions will begin while she’s overseas.

The superstar apparently wants to free up her schedule next year, possibly taking a little hiatus from work to be with her kids.

“It is just like any working mom’s dilemma,” Lopez told us at Monday’s premiere of What to Expect When You’re Expecting. “It’s tough. It’s a balancing act. You put them first and then you have all these other things that you have to do, that you have to give your time to as well, and you have to make sure that they’re OK in the process.”

Fox declined to comment on Lopez’s future with the show. Meanwhile, a source close to the production tells E! News that “Fox does not want to let her go. They love her.”

Lopez has been on Idol for two seasons with one-year contracts for both. Now the question is, will Fox try to change Lopez’s mind with a much bigger payday?

Wonder who AI will find to fill her judging seat? Will she be better? Worse? Who do you think would be a good judge?

Here are some new photos of Jennifer Lopez modeling swimsuits  in Vogue magazine. The pictures were shot by Mario Testino for the June issue.

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Jennifer Lopez and Cameron Diaz of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” will appear on  “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” this afternoon. Jennifer and Cameron clear up the rumors that they didn’t get along on set. Plus, Ellen asks Jennifer if she will return to “American Idol.” And, Jennifer sets the record straight about her feelings on adoption and having depression after having her babies.

Jennifer on Cameron on getting along…

Cameron: They made (rumors) up about us on this movie. The fact that we wouldn’t talk to each other and there were all these cat fights…

Jennifer: I was like, I haven’t even seen her yet…give us a chance to get in the room…

Ellen: …That’s what I was going to say, there were all these rumors that you didn’t get along.

Cameron: It’s always like that. They want woman to be cat fighting. We live in such a misogynistic, chauvinistic, especially the media it self.. Alwayspinning woman against one another..

Ellen: They don’t say that about men.

Cameron: It’s like sword fighting. Doesn’t happen.

Tune in today to watch the interview!

Here are some new pictures of Jennifer Lopez at last night’s Los Angeles premiere of ‘What to Expect When You’re Expecting’.

Jennifer wore this nude-colored Maria Lucia Hohan dress, with a neckline plunging to her waist.  I’m really unsure what I think about this dress. My gut tells me I don’t like it – but if I try to pick a reason why, I’m coming up empty handed. I think it’s too big? Too matronly looking? I don’t know.

E! caught up with Jennifer on the red carpet, and she opened up about everything from her current boyfriend, Casper Smart, to her ex-husband Marc Anthony, and some advice she has for Britney Spears and Demi Lovato (who were announced yesterday as judges on The X Factor).

So, how do Lopez and her dancer beau decide how to work the carpet at big events like this one?

“He just does what he wants to do,” Lopez said. “He knows I’m working, and we just play it by ear. We don’t try to plan it too much. It’s a special occasion.”

And speaking of working, Lopez dished on trying to find balance when it comes to work and family.

“It is just like any working mom’s dilemma,” the 42-year-old thesp said. “It’s tough. It’s a balancing act. You put them first and then you have all these other things that you have to do, that you have to give your time to as well, and you have to make sure that they’re OK in the process.”

One thing Lopez has appeared to find balance with is her relationship with her ex-husband Marc Anthony, with whom she cohosts the Spanish reality competition show, Q’Viva.

“[Marc and I] are gonna be performing together in Las Vegas with our whole Q’Viva crew,” Lopez said. “Marc and I were friends for 10 years before we got married. We got married, we had two beautiful children, and we’re still friends. Things disappointingly don’t work out the way that you dream them in your mind sometimes. That’s life. But, that doesn’t mean that the caring goes away or the friendship or the things that brought you together disappear. They haven’t for us, so we just want to be great parents and great friends and just try to do things well for them.”

And before stepping away into the premiere, the American Idol judge offered a little bit of advice for new X Factor judges Britney Spears and Demi Lovato.

“Be yourself,” Lopez said. “That’s what I think every time I’m out there. Treat people how I want to be treated.”

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Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Brooklyn Decker, Anna Kendrick and Elizabeth Banks grace the cover of June’s Redbook Magazine, in promotion of their upcoming film “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”.

The film hits theaters on May 18th, and in the new magazine, the actresses opened up about their own families.

Here are some tidbits from the interview!

Cameron Diaz on feeling pressured to have kids:

“I’m sure a lot of people would expect that I would have had a child by my age. But it’s not what I’ve wanted out of my life thus far. We still live in a largely chauvinistic world. There’s a box people put themselves in, and when you [live] outside of it, that makes them uncomfortable–they have to look at themselves and question their own choices.”

Elizabeth Banks on whether or not there’s a “right” time to get pregnant:

“I definitely don’t think [you have to wait for] a right time. I mean: Why wait? The Chinese believe that if you have a baby, what you want comes together even better. You just do it, and make it work.”

Jennifer Lopez on making it work, day to day:

“My sanctuary is my bathtub. That’s really the only time I get to myself. It’s usually around 15 or 20 minutes, but for me, those minutes are like heaven on earth. Sometimes I even say a little prayer while I’m in there. I’m like, ‘Lord, help me get through this day!’”

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Jennifer Lopez reveals her issues with baby blues after the birth of Max and Emma to Redbook. Jennifer and the rest of the “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” Cast were featured in the June 2012 issue of Redbook.

From the Interview:

With a successful career as an singer, actress and American Idol judge, life always seems to be going smoothly for Jennifer Lopez. But the 42-year-old actress has confessed she suffered from ‘baby blues’ after giving birth to twins Max and Emme back in 2008 at age 38 by her then-husband Marc Anthony.

‘I remember after the babies were born, about seven to 10 days in, I was like, “What is going on with me?”‘  Jennifer said she got the ‘baby blues’ shortly after their birth ’I felt sad and depressed and thought the babies didn’t love me,’ she says. ‘I actually remember picking up the book [What to Expect When You're Expecting] to try to see what was happening to me, and it said how you have this huge hormonal drop about seven to 10 days after you give birth. ’It’s called the “baby blues.” But I just thought they didn’t like me!’

Lopez plays Holly – a woman who adopts a baby from abroad – in the new film, which is adapted from the pregnancy guide book by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel. Lopez shares the cover of Redbook with the movie’s colourfully dressed co-stars Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Banks, Brooklyn Decker and Anna Kendrick

 Check out the rest of the article at Redbook.com

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