Lil Kim, Jewel Prepare To Go “Dancing With The Stars”Photo: Bedder/Getty (Jewel), Nunez/Wireimage (Kim) LiL Kim and Jewel are among the musicians that will go from making albums to ballroom dancing on the next season of ABC’s bizarre hit show Dancing With the Stars. Jewel is no stranger to reality television, having hosted Nashville Star and guest-judged on American Idol. The Queen Bee, who has not released an album since 2005’s The Naked Truth will compete against fellow artists like the Go-Go’s lead singer Belinda Carlisle and country singer Chuck Wicks, according to ESPN, of all sources. All three will battle for the honor of being the C-list celeb who can best pick up dancing, as decided by a home audience and a panel of judges. Jewel will actually be competing against her husband, bull rider Ty Murray, on the show, which will also feature Olympian Shawn Johnson, actress Denise Richards, Blankman star David Alan Grier, Steve-O of Jackass fame, “computer guru” Steve Wozniak and Rock Daily’s personal favorite, New York Giants Hall of Fame linebacker, Lawrence “LT” Taylor. Past musicians that have competed include 98 Degrees’ Drew Lachey, who won Season 2, Wayne Newton, the Spice Girls’ Mel B, Toni Braxton and Master P. In the gossip portion of our post, and we don’t know much about this Wicks guy, but supposedly he’s dating Dancing With The Stars dancer Julianne Hough, who happens to be his dance partner on the upcoming season. An American Idol-like controversy? We’ll find out when the show returns to ABC on March 9th.
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Published: 2009-02-09
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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Reality Show Recap: Not a Boy Band, Not Yet a ‘Man Band’ Misson: Man Band tracks a reality show’s efforts to restore four former boy-banders to their chart-topping glory. Rock Daily’s Reality Show Recaps will track our efforts to be sympathetic to their cause. Here’s our first report: Welcome to Mission: Man Band, VH1’s new half-hour sad-sack fest that gathers the runts of Lou Pearlman’s litter and convinces them to make a new, six-pack-abs-free, over-thirty boy band. One episode in and already we have a mutiny: Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees (the one who wasn’t a Lachey) faces the difficult decision of whether to be involved in the project or go back to living in his parents’ house in Orange County, CA (he picks the band). You know these guys are in trouble when producers misspell their names immediately following the opening credits. Go back and check the TiVo: They spelled the ‘NSYNC member’s name wrong on the first attempt (welcome to “Chris Kirkpatirck’s House” in Orlando, FL). Sadly, this would not be the saddest part of the episode, which is reserved for Bryan Abrams of Color Me Badd, who prays to God that the Man Band works out while he pushes around giant tires at his job in Oklahoma. The last member of our all-star quartet is Rich Cronin of LFO, who sang that song about girls wearing Abercrombie & Fitch and has been battling leukemia (he’s got a regimen of meds that would impress Lindsay Lohan in his bedroom). So far the foursome have a shark of a manager and a renewed will to sing. But will anyone want to hear it? We’ve got a whole season’s worth of episodes to find out …
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Published: 2007-08-08
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News
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