Trackmaster Jerkins: Britney Still Brings It
After a brief music-biz timeout, Britney Spears is barging back with a vengeance, says record producer Rodney Jerkins in this exclusive video interview with News reporter Jason Kennedy. Touting the pop star’s professionalism and savvy, Jerkins says Brit can still cut a killer track in a fraction of the time it takes other artists.
And she’s no studio diva either, never demanding anything more than Starbucks or Red Bull. For more of this exclusive video, catch News Sunday evening.
No Idle Time for Cook & Caldwell
American Idol David Cook confirmed to News that he and fellow Idol alum Kimberly Caldwell are still an item, and even got the blessing of Fox’s president of entertainment, Kevin Reilly.
“It’s great, he’s a catch and so is she,” Reilly tells E!
Reilly and Cook were attending the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation’s annual Taste for a Cure Benefit in Beverly Hills.
Cook says that his season two Idol contestant squeeze Caldwell is doing well and “doing her thing,” shooting the miniseries Memories of Murder on Catalina Island. But with Cook gearing up for an Idol tour starting July 1, how will they keep the fires of passion burning?
“Email, text, all of that is pretty much going to be my life for the next few months,” he says. Need to know more? Watch the exclusive video above for a bigger dose of Big David.
Reporting by Matt Donnelly
So You Think You Can Dance Exclusive Video: Meet the Top 20 Dancers
The first So You Think You Can Dance competition is tonight (and the first elimination is tomorrow!) but before we get to the dancin’, we did a little talkin’ with this season’s Top 20. Press play above to meet your top 10 girls and top 10 guys and find out why SYTYCD makes them really love their dancin’ shoes.
P.S.: I heart William Wingfield. Got any hearts of your own ready for these dancers? Name your early favorite in the comments!
Ronson’s Other Lindsay Gets Taken Away
E! News has exclusive video of overeager clubgoer Lindsay Burns being escorted out of Chicago nightspot Crimson Lounge and into a waiting police car after she took advantage of Lindsay Lohan's early exit and made a surprise appearance in Samantha Ronson's DJ booth.
The 22-year-old Burns was charged with simple battery for allegedly refusing to go down without a fight when security guards tried to remove her from Ronson's unusually vacant side.
(Don't mistake the silence for an avant-garde experimentthe muffled audio has been removed.)
Reporting by Liz Crokin