February 03, 2012
Simon Cowell wants Beyonce Knowles to be a judge on X Factor...and word is he's offered her $500 million to do it. He wants a "big name" celebrity to replace axed former judges Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul in order to improve the Fox show's ratings. And yet people in the world starve...
Adam Lambert will front Queen for a tour this summer. Brian May and Roger Taylor performed on the finale of American Idol with him...that led to a gig at the MTV European Music Awards and the rest his history. The tour includes dates at Knebworth in England, where Queen played their final gig with Mercury in 1986, before his death in 1991. Lambert says "There’s no intention in my mind of replacing Freddie. That’s impossible. The way I’m choosing to view it is that it’s a great honour and one I’m in no way going to shirk... Being asked to front Queen is the best thing that can possibly happen."
Gary Glitter won't be profiting from the Super Bowl this weekend after football bosses banned his track from the sporting event. His 1972 hit song Rock and Roll Part II is traditionally played during the game. However, National Football League chiefs have now banned the song from being played. Glitter, real name Paul Gadd, relocated to Vietnam in 1999 after he was found guilty of child pornography possession in his native Britain, but he was later arrested and charged with committing obscene acts with children in 2005 and ordered to serve three years behind bars.
Roseanne Barr is getting serious about politics - she has filed documents to become the Green Party's official candidate for U.S. president. If successful, she'll go up against President Barack Obama and either Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney in the race for the White House in November. You go girl!