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High School Musical Reality Show on ABC

High School Musical, which has smashed records since its Disney Channel release and been one of the key factors behind the resurgence of Disney, will be making its way to network TV, reports Variety. A new reality show with a High School Musical concept, will feature a nationwide talent hunt followed by a group of contestants studying at a music conservatory. The series is expected to air this summer on ABC.

Contestants will be eliminated each week until a final winner is chosen. The show will include High School Musical-themed moments, with appearances by the cast of High School Musical likely.

Big Brother 9 Episode 9

The house unanimously decided to get rid of Alex & Amanda in Big Brother 9 Episode 8. Following that, Joshuah & Sharon won HOH.

Allison wanted to target Alex & Amanda, though they edited it to make it look like she was the one who was targeting Matt & Natalie, so Joshuah is upset with Allison and wants her gone. Allison is disappointed that Josh is such a sore winner, which he carries on by throwing insults at her like they’re in third grade. Ultimately, he does draw it back to the fact that she faked being a lesbian. He’s got a valid reason for being upset by that, which as I said was a stupid idea from the beginning… but he’s approaching it completely the wrong way. Like the prior HOH’s, he’s failing to realize he only has HOH for one week. The good news for him is that nobody else in the house really likes Allison either.

Allison lashes out against Matt and Ryan for not having stuck up against her. As if the guilt trip is going to make her any happier.

Big Brother plays a prank on Sharon, bringing in a picture of her and Jacob. Joshuah gets a princess tiara… except this isn’t a prank. He’s thrilled by his tiara.

Despite the fact that Sheila pretended to be a lesbian and also was the one who was reluctant to tell the truth, Joshuah is cool with her. He just hates Allison, who at this point seems to be in a state of not caring less.

Natalie’s trying to get Matt to fall for her, but he just keeps pushing her away and does not want to get emotionally attached.

Remember last week when two people went to the hospital with food-related problems? You know that means. It’s time for another food challenge. The girls dress in asparagus unitards for the challenge. Teams must load asparagus into crates that matches the amount of weight of their partners, within 10 pounds. Everybody’s working together. Matt & Natalie are unable to win the carbs and feast, but they win everything else, so hopefully it will be enough to keep the ambulance away for this week.

Allison decides to provoke Joshuah into another fight. They have a battle of wits, but neither is particularly well armed. Since she’s fighting back, he’s not as interested in fighting, though. He wants peace in the house. Huh? Then he calls a house meeting with the exclusion of Ryan & Allison. The rest of the house wants Allison gone. I’m surprised she’s even survived this long. Ryan’s not impressed with her either, but he’s stuck with her.

Allison goes upstairs to talk to Joshuah because she believes she can patch things up. She apologizes. He tells her to win or go home.

Everybody’s concerned about being the pawn.

Nominations
Adam & Sheila-Safe
James & Chelsia-Safe

Ryan & Allison and Matt & Natalie have been nominated for eviction. Matt’s pissed. Again.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Big Brother 9 Episode 10, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on CBS.

Big Brother 9 Spoilers

The Celebrity Apprentice UK

Following on the heels of the success of last year’s Comic Relief Does The Apprentice and also this year’s US version, a UK version of The Celebrity Apprentice, Sports Relief Does The Apprentice, will air Wednesday March 12 and Friday March 14 on BBC One to raise money for Sports Relief. Sir Alan Sugar and his aides Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford will all be back. Teams will be divided into boys and girls and will need to stock their shops to earn the highest profit.

The girls team consists of Clare Balding, Lisa Snowdon, Jacqueline Gold, Kirstie Allsopp, and Louise Redknapp. The boys team consists of Phil Tufnell, Lembit Opik MP, Kelvin MacKenzie, Hardeep Singh Kohli, and Nick Hancock.

As with last year, it is anticipated that The Apprentice UK Series 4 will premiere shortly after the celebrity version ends.

Big Brother 9 Adam Was Busted for Marijuana Possession

The punches just keep coming for this season’s Big Brother cast. Adam Jasinski earlier in the season caused a stir for calling autistic people “retards.” Since that time, he has been fired from his job following a campaign by Autism United, a group that has used the situation to boost the visibility of its cause and demanded that CBS cancel Big Brother 8 (I think they mean Big Brother 9, although I wouldn’t have been entirely opposed to BB8 being cancelled considering the train wreck it was).

Now, Star Magazine has uncovered some more dirt on Adam. He was arrested and convicted after being charged with possession of more than 20 pounds of marijuana. He was first busted at his E 33rd St. apartment in Manhattan on February 10, 2004, when they found a package containing more than 10 pounds of pot. The next day, an additional 10 pound package was found.

Adam certainly isn’t alone amongst the Big Brother alumni. Multiple others have records. Probably the most famous case of a rap sheet is Janelle Pierzina from Big Brother 6 and 7. In 2000, she was arrested for DWI, failed to appear for her arraignment but pled guilty a year later, failed to complete the alcohol education course, failed to show up for court for that as well, but finally it all came to an end 4 years after the fact when she showed up and was reassigned to alcohol education and probation. During that time frame, she was also busted for petty theft from Macy’s, this time ignoring two bench warrants for her arrest before finally cooperating with the third one just before heading into the Big Brother house.

American Idol 7 Episode 15

I know. I’m out of order again. I blame Fox. But you can check out this week’s results here.

Carly Smithson works at an Irish bar (she kinda sorta has an Irish accent to show she fits right in) and loves her home. She sings Crazy on You.

Randy-Good towards the end.
Paula-Takes a fine singer to sing those big notes.
Simon-Much better performance than last week. Doesn’t think yet she’s connected with the right song. Thinks she’s an incredible singer who’s the girl to beat if she picks the right song.

Syesha Mercado has done some acting. She sings Me and Mr. Jones.

Randy-Not a great song choice because it’s too soft.
Paula-Agrees she tends to go off pitch on the softer notes, but Paula likes it.
Simon-Indulgent. Silly singing a song originally entitled Me and Mrs. Jones. Not really designed for her voice.

Brooke White went to beauty school, but while there, she discovered music half way through the program. She’s playing her guitar and sings You’re So Vain, an example of a good song choice. Even if she may not have the strongest voice, she has the total package it takes to go far in this competition.

Randy-Great song choice. Was she looking at Simon and singing this song to him?
Paula-Perfect song choice.
Simon-Absolutely loved it.

Ramiele Malubay used to Polynesian dance when she was little. We might see her dancing on stage at some point. Maybe. She sings Don’t Leave Me This Way.

Randy-A little rough. Just okay. Weird song choice.

Kristy Lee Cook likes to be a tomboy and does outdoorsy stuff. She sings You’re No Good, another good song choice.

Randy-100% improvement over last week but not quite a breakout performance.
Paula-Kristy’s back. Good song choice.
Simon-Huge improvement but doesn’t know how to label her. Thinks she’ll be better if she goes down more of a country route.

Amanda Overmyer tends to be a bookworm. She sings Carry on My Wayward Son. When she’s rocking it works for the most part, but the lower notes really don’t.

Randy-Wasn’t the right song choice for her. Way too much melody and instrumental breaks.
Paula-Gotta do what fits right.
Simon-Everything felt contrived. None of it felt natural. Ugly song.

Alaina Whitaker doesn’t like the food on her plate to touch each other. A very Kelly Pickler kind of story. She sings Hopelessly Devoted.

Randy-Didn’t think it was the right song. Too restrained.
Paula-Real good job.
Simon-Almost as if her grandmother prepared her for the audition, but she’s one of the dark horses in the competition.
Ryan-Heels and blue dresses aren’t my thing.

Alexandrea Lushington sings If You Leave Me Now.

Randy-So safe. Boring.
Paula-Did make it her own.
Simon-Was a big fan in the early stages. Song is stuck in its time period. Inconsistent performance. Boring.

Kady Malloy can also sing opera, not just Britney Spears. Tonight she’s singing Magic Man, whatever that’s about.

Randy-Very interesting song choices tonight. Never quite found the notes.
Paula-Sounded great on the powered notes. Not quite sure who she is.
Simon-Fantastic on film. Didn’t go anywhere on stage.

Asia’h Epperson was a cheerleader through middle and high school. She sings All By Myself, a song that could easily go either way.

Randy-Really good job considering the difficulty
Paula-Tada. Problems in the low notes but the ending brought it home.
Simon-Not a good enough singer to pull it off. Shouldn’t have attempted it. Silly decision.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol 7 episode 17, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

Moment of Truth Lauren Cleri Ends Marriage, Loses Anyway

When Moment of Truth first premiered, we knew something like this was bound to happen. The show was cancelled in Colombia because a woman admitted to putting a hit out on her husband. This week’s episode is the one that pushed the envelope, though I suspect it will only get worse.

Lauren Cleri’s ex-boyfriend Frank came on the show to ask her a question “If I wanted to get back together with you, would you leave your husband?” Her friend didn’t want to hear it, even if her husband (also Frank) stupidly did (or perhaps not so stupidly since it gives him an excuse to get out). Since her friend Monica didn’t want to hear it, though, she pressed the button to interrupt it. So they replaced it with another question, still asked by her ex-boyfriend. “Do you believe I am the man you should be married to?” No way to get out of hearing this. She says yes. That answer is true. This is enough to bring her to the $100,000 mark. Her husband tells her to just keep going since it’s not like she can upset him any more. He admits he’s sometimes unhappy with the marriage, not that anybody’s surprised. Her mom wants her to stop now and take the money.

Her next question is “Since you’ve been married, have you ever had sexual relations with someone other than your husband?” She says yes. That answer is true.

She continues forward. Question 17 is “Do you think you’re a good person?” Despite what’s been learned about her thus far (earlier in the show, she also admitted to stealing from work), she answers yes. That answer is false. Game over.

Following the show, the couple told the New York Post that the marriage is “Kind of up in the air right now.” Frank says he knew that the marriage was going nowhere before but that he wasn’t prepared for what has happened since the show. He doesn’t want to get back together, although Lauren still does.

The video clip of this part of the episode is after the jump.

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The Celebrity Apprentice Episode 9

Marilu Henner threw herself in front of a bus for her friend Carol Alt in The Celebrity Apprentice Episode 8, and Marilu ended up getting fired, even though they probably failed because Carol, who worked for QVC for 5 years, supposedly didn’t know that QVC had a payment plan option. Lennox Lewis, meanwhile, took some heat for being “sleepy boy.”

Stephen Baldwin’s got another check for his mother’s charity for $20,000, which he got as last week’s winning project manager.

Dial Soap is doing an ad campaign for Redbook magazine. They will create a 4 page ad for a new product from Dial, a body wash. The task will be judged on creativity, innovation of the brand, and overall message and content.

Tito Ortiz is project manager for Empresario. Carol Alt is the project manager for Hydra because she doesn’t want to be a chicken (unlike Omarosa, who makes sure she’s not elected as PM).

Teams first meet with the executives. Piers Morgan wants to know how racy they can be before they cross a line because he wants at least one of the photos to be pure sex. They find out that the target market is women in their mid-30s, and they decide to appeal to those women and every aspect of their lives.

Empresario is next. Redbook definitely knows Trace Adkins, and they say they appeal to the middle of the country, much like him. Baldwin wants to use Trace again.

Piers wants to use Carol for the ads because he believes she’s closer to the target age than the models, who are in their early 20s. She’s afraid that will put too many hats on her head. Piers eventually gets his way, and she reluctantly agrees to model.

Stephen wants to push clean country cowboys, and he directs the photo shoot.

Omarosa wants to film Trace alongside some young models and get him to take his shirt off. Trace agrees, but he’s not happy about it. Baldwin doesn’t want to push sex quite so much.

The other team decides to focus entirely on Carol Alt, though they drag in a male model to spice things up for the final suggestive shot.

Piers is able to give a good presentation, but on the other side, Tito struggles to present. Piers did push his sexy angle (Trump wonders if the model was biting Carol). Omarosa, however, did not get her way with the shirtless picture of Trace. The Redbook executive likes the Hydra campaign, but the Dial exec is unsure that the provocative nature of their last picture was necessary. Empresario’s campaign gets praise for good pictures, but that’s about it.

Despite much debate over which ad is better, Hydra not surprisingly wins this task.

Trump questions why a woman wasn’t the project manager. Omarosa lies and says she stepped up immediately. George is also circling around Omarosa, who has already lost twice as PM.

Omarosa blames Tito and Stephen and says that Stephen taking charge was a bad thing. Ultimately, she wants Tito fired.

Trace sticks up for Omarosa and says Tito is responsible because he let Stephen take charge.

Stephen gets blamed for fighting the shirtless picture. He points out that the picture didn’t matter anyway, and he’s right.

Tito says he believes Omarosa shouldn’t be fired. Fatal error. She could have been an easy target. That said, Trump doesn’t bother continuing forward and fires Tito on the spot.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Celebrity Apprentice Episode 10, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on NBC.

Survivor: Micronesia Episode 4

Cirie, the one nobody could care less about the first week, went on a power trip in Survivor: Micronesia Episode 3. I still haven’t yet figured out what her point was, but she got her way, and the favorites voted out Yau-Man.

The fans are still concerned that Chet’s useless. I don’t know why they didn’t get rid of him when they had the chance.

Eliza’s struggling on her camp and feels really sick. James is pissed off that they got rid of Yau-Man just because Cirie said so. He and Ozzy just go right up to Eliza’s face and tell her they should have gotten rid of her instead.

The challenge is a diving challenge. Teams will dive for coconuts to get ten lettered coconuts, which will then be used to spell out a word. Reward is three egg-laying chickens and a rooster. Chet sits out for the fans. Ozzy’s got a strategy of moving a bunch of coconuts at the same time, which gives the favorites an early lead, which they never look back from. James solves the puzzle (he can’t believe it either), and favorites win reward. Kathy gets sent to exile island again (and again I ask why?), along with Ozzy.

An interesting point is raised. Kathy couldn’t care less about finding the idol (again). Kathy says she appreciates learning from the favorites, though, and wishes she was on their team. Ozzy manages to find the hidden immunity idol, which is apparently not that difficult to find (shocker) and something that Kathy could have easily found by now if she actually tried. Ozzy decides to make a fake idol. Dude, we’ve seen this plot before. More than once.

Eliza approaches Parvati to see if they’ll get rid of Jonathan instead, who we learned during his season was a rat. Parvati knows better than anyone else Jonathan can’t be trusted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean she’ll make a move just yet.

6 people from each team will be locked up and need to find the keys to unlock themselves. Fans sit out Tracy. Favorites are locked up first and get off to a 3-0 lead of people unlocked. Favorites are first to be all unlocked and must from there head to a course, where they will figure out how to maneuver to collect necklaces. Fans finally get unlocked, behind by 4 necklaces. From there, they hand off the necklaces to the two remaining teammates, who will solve a letter puzzle. Favorites win immunity. It’s never even close.

Mikey B wants to work with Joel for now… until such time as he has to stab him in the back. Chet’s closest allies try to talk to him, but it’s obvious he’s already checked out from this game. Tracy’s not willing to give up that easily, though. She’d rather support him, despite the fact that he’s a liability, so that she can have the numbers she needs (not that she has the numbers to begin with, nor will keeping Chet around help her to get them). Chet expects to be booted out tonight, but Tracy tries to convince Joel to get rid of Mikey while he has the chance.

Jeff Probst asks the question at tribal council who hasn’t been pulling their weight in challenges, and Chet raises his hand.

Votes
Chet
Chet
Mikey
Mikey
Chet
Mikey
Mikey
Mikey

Wow. That’s uh. Wow. While it is true he was indeed going to stab someone in the back eventually, I don’t get what purpose Chet serves, particularly since he’s already given up.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Micronesia Episode 5 He’s a Ball of Goo, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.