NBC says it has partnered with popular health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels for a new program called “Losing It With Jillian.” Also collaborating on the alternative series are Giancarlo Chersich from Empowered Media, as well as “The Biggest Loser” producers Mark Koops and Howard T. Owens of Reveille, and former “The Oprah Winfrey” executive producer Ellen Rakieten. ”In the series, Michaels invades a different family every week to give them her own characteristic brand of tough love,” NBC said in a news release. “She will get to the bottom of the issues each family member faces — ones that affect their health and happiness — and will arm them with the tools necessary to make life-altering changes.” The series will also feature celebrity chef Curtis Stone, who will rid the family’s kitchen of all unhealthy foods and educate them on proper nutrition, healthy ingredients, cooking tips and recipes, the network said. The announcement was made Tuesday by Paul Telegdy, executive vice president of alternative programming for NBC and Universal Media Studios. ”Jillian is the world’s leading lifestyle expert with a signature style all her own,” Telegdy said in a statement. “Increasing numbers of families seem to need a motivational boost, and we know that Jillian is an awesome force of nature who will help them transform their lives from the inside out.” I mean well anyone can lose weight when all your meals are made for you, you have a personal trainer and you don’t have to punch a clock.
British singer and TV personality Kelly Osbourne was taken to California’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after injuring her foot on “Dancing with the Stars.” E! News said the buckle of Osbourne’s shoe was pushed into her foot as she performed a paso doble with her professional partner, Louis van Amstel, on Monday’s edition of the show. When Osbourne later took part in a group number, she was barefoot. ”She is at the hospital right now to take an X-ray and an MRI to make sure she will be OK to dance. Kelly will keep me updated on her prognosis,” van Amstel told E! News Monday night. Well another has been drops out of the show this season.
Rocker Joel Madden is denying rumors claiming he married his longtime girlfriend, Nicole Richie. He and Richie have two young children together. ”I keep getting e-mails from old friends and family asking about a wedding,” Madden, 30, wrote Wednesday on the Web site of his band Good Charlotte. “NO we didn’t get married.” Richie, the 28-year-old daughter of singer Lionel Richie, is a former reality television personality. Oh I do love celebrity babies out of wedlock.
Beyonce has postponed a planned concert in Malaysia after the nation’s opposition Islamist party raised concerns about her performance, citing moral issues, concert organizers said. Foreign acts often draw protests by the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party, whose youth wing forced Beyonce to cancel her 2007 concert in the mainly Muslim nation of 27 million people. Malaysian entertainment company Marctensia said in a statement on its website that the Beyonce “I am…” concert, planned for October 25 as part of her world tour, would be postponed to a date yet to be announced. Maybe my watch is broken, but I think it is 2009.
The fantatsic Britney Spears has settled a lawsuit with a photographer who claimed she ran over his foot in 2007. On Monday, a notice of settlement was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, and while the terms of the agreement have not been released, the photographer, Ricardo Mendoza, had originally sought more than $200,000. The Oct. 2007 incident occurred as Spears was driving her white Mercedes out of a Beverly Hills parking garage. It was an especially bad day for the singer: Earlier, a judge had taken away her rights to see her sons Preston, now 4, and Jayden, now 3. Good job Britney, you have good people around you. IT is like the guy at the circus who walks behind the elephant with the giant pooper scooper.
At least last season’s Big Brother winner, Adam Jasinski, is used to being locked in a big house and under constant surveillance. Because it looks like there’s a good chance he’ll be spending a lot of time in a similar place in the future. Jasinski, 31, was arrested Saturday for using his $500,000 in prize winnings to buy thousands of pills of the controlled painkiller Oxycodone, which he then attempted to resell, authorities said. The Del Ray, Fla., resident reportedly confessed after trying to sell 2,000 of the pills to an undercover cop in Massachusetts. Good job doing a background test CBS. Shady.
And finally, Wilmer Valderrama is going to the dogs. The former star of That ’70s Show will star in a half-hour sitcom based on the escapades of Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan now being developed for FOX, reports Variety. Cesar’s Way author Millan, who has re-trained some of the worst-behaved dogs ever to appear onscreen, has been involved in many, er, hairy adventures that will presumably be fodder for the new show. Good job making smart career choices Fez.
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