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Danny Gokey sings for hometown crowd WITI TV MILWAUKEE Danny Gokey sings for his hometown for the first time since becoming a national recording artist FOX6News Photo Slideshow Even more photos Johnny Weir calls Adam Lambert an amazing performer contemplates skating to For Your Entertainment Of course the conversation had to turn to Adam Lambert at some point in the night After all it was only a couple weeks ago that we asked the American Idol runner up what he thought of the ice skating phenom I think Adam is an amazing performer said Johnny who also revealed that he watched Idol last season and had a hard time picking

between Adam and Kris Allen But by the end of the competition Johnny noted he was a faithful Adam fan LA Times Kelly Clarkson Takes Pee Break During Concert Kelly was performing in Germany on Friday night when she mysteriously disappeared from the stage during a song The band covered for her for a bit before she finally returned She finished the song and then admitted I m really sorry I had to pee TMZ Idolatry Racial conspiracies new front runners self sabotaging judges and a higher power rock the week in American Idol Idolatry Top 20 Entertainment Weekly More Idol Headlines after the JUMP Gokey returns home charms sellout crowd The American Idol third place finisher was back in his hometown to showcase his debut album My Best Days If Saturday wasn t Gokey s best day it had to be a contender Turner Hall Ballroom wasn t due to open its doors until 5 30 p m Saturday but the fans started gathering as early as 7 30 a m By 5 30 p m the line of fans hoping to get in ran down the street and around the block It was a capacity crowd that cut across generations and Wisconsin geography Lured by Gokey s cuteness and sweet guy charisma 24 year old Ellisha Haeuser of West Bend attended her first concert Kelly Townsend came in from Helenville with her 10 year old daughter Emma for a special mother daughter outing Indeed family groupings were sprinkled through the hall An evening with Danny feels a little like Sunday dinner at the Waltons JSOnline American Idol winner plays Vail benefit VAIL Colorado — The Vail Cascade Resort hosted the American Airlines Celebrity Ski event to benefit cystic fibrosis research this past week The event celebrated 25 years of bringing sponsors celebrities entertainment and skiing together at venerable mountain ski resorts The evening then kicked into high gear with the introduction of the evening s musical entertainment — American Idol winner Kris Allen accompanied by five other stellar musicians Allen encouraged the crowd to sing along and enticed chuckles with his stories of snowboarding in Vail and earning “battle wounds” of bruises in the process Vail Daily Williamsport area teen pursues dream on ‘Idol’ f you’ve been watching the new season of “American Idol” — and judging by the ratings you probably have — you’ve no doubt taken notice of fresh faced teenage contestant Aaron Kelly “His talent is just incredible ” said John Trallo Kelly’s Sonestown guitar teacher “What people have seen of his vocal ability — you haven’t seen it all There’s a lot more there “If he doesn’t win he’s going to at least be in the top three ” Centre Daily Times Song inspires musicians to look to Best Days Green co wrote the song with Kent Blazy at Blazy s house and played it for executives at Sony Music Nashville who immediately took it for Gokey Songs a lot of times they know where to go Green said It didn t even have a chance to go anywhere else My Best Days Are Ahead of Me was inspired by a conversation Blazy overheard while walking at Radnor Lake The songwriter had recently lost his wife and he heard someone say I really think my best days are ahead of me The idea spoke to his desire to try to move on with his life and he presented it to Green during their writing appointment Green said that while the song was motivated by Blazy s grief it is a positive anthem that anyone can relate to Tennessean com Katharine McPhee From House Bunny to Community and Beyond After Katharine McPhee s American Idol fame she branched out into acting and scored ha in more ways than one as a pregnant coed in the popular film comedy The House Bunny With a new music tour coming up in April Katharine is making time for TV as she plays Amber Chevy Chase s stepdaughter in the NBC series Community then goes on to film her own NBC sitcom pilot about single girls in the city called The Pink House We called the Idol alum to catch up on her current career boom Catch the singer actress Thursday March 8th in the Community episode entitled Basic Genealogy Teen Television Celebrities play hoops for charity in Valley No ticket to the Academy Awards ceremony at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre No worries — you can see plenty of celebrities Sunday right here in the Valley The Jack In The Box Celebrity Shootout will bring a host of recording artists television actors and movie stars to town to play basketball for the benefit of local charities The event in its ninth year tips off at 2 p m Sunday at US Airways Center in Phoenix Recording artists Ciara and Jordin Sparks will serve as coaches during a celebrity basketball game and several Phoenix Suns players will preside over various contests and promotions The Suns Gorilla Suns Dancers and Verve Sol Patrol will also entertain spectators East Valley Tribune Inside Chef Art Smith s Private 50th Birthday Party 8 top chefs each contributed a course for this evening and they included Nigella Lawson Stephanie Izard David Burke Ming Tsai Alan Wong Gavin Kaysen Barbara Lynch and Rey Villalobos There was entertainment by Michael Johns and Sara Wasserman His life partner Jesus Salguiero gave a heartfelt speech about Art that brought tears to everyone s eyes and Chef Stephanie Izard put it this way Art keeps getting smaller and smaller in his waist and bigger and bigger in his heart I ll say with his 90 pound weight loss 325 down to 235 he is a shadow of his former self and now truly is the role model he s always hoped to be for the many children he mentors Chicagonow I thought I d never wed and then I met Mez Simon Cowell thought he d never marry because he didn t see himself as a one woman man The 50 year old X Factor guru said he always avoided popping the question because he thought he d get bored of any woman with whom he tied the knot He told ITV s Piers Morgan Life Stories last night I never believed I could be with one person for the rest of my life I thought she d hate me or I d get bored which is what I had a reputation for I thought I had it all I had girlfriends and I thought Why get married Simon who previously dated 80s pop singer Sinitta and TV presenter Terri Seymour and has had relationships with a string of other glamorous women said he hadn t been in love with many of his former girlfriends Mirror co uk Simon Cowell takes on Piers Morgan as both plan summer weddings Daily Mail co uk Producer Lillywhite wants Cowell’s ‘Idol’ seat DETROIT Steve Lillywhite wants to help America find the next Elvis Presley And that s why the Grammy Award winning producer — whose resume includes work with U2 the Dave Matthews Band Jason Mraz Morrissey the Rolling Stones Phish and scores of others — wants to be American Idol s next Simon Cowell The British born New York based Lillywhite has mounted a full scale campaign to be considered for the job Cowell will be vacating after this season of the hit show to helm the U S rollout of his British TV series The X Factor Lillywhite has hired an agent and publicist He also has posted a short clip on YouTube extolling his bona fides and he recently filmed a slightly more professional video that will be out soon Billboard Haverhill s Cooke lands dancing role in tonight s Oscar ceremony HAVERHILL — Since appearing on So You Think You Can Dance last year Channing Cooke has left her hometown behind and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business Cooke a Haverhill native went to a Boston tryout for the FOX reality show So You Think You Can Dance last year She impressed the judges enough to make the cut get invited to Las Vegas for the national competition and stay on the show until Nov 19 where she was one of the bottom three dancers and was voted off Now living in Los Angeles with three roommates Cooke recently auditioned for a dancing role in tonight s Academy Awards ceremony and was given a part Eagle Tribune Adam Shankman Just call him Oscar s choreographer Adam Shankman s love affair with the Oscars began with an act of petty larceny Back when he was a little boy his father an entertainment lawyer and manager attended the Academy Awards He brought home the program from the show and I stole it said Shankman 45 I kept it and would look through that program for years I just thought it was the most glorious thing in the world LA Times