Madonna: Still No Ring on Friday Night
Madonna: Still No Ring on Friday Night
She sparked rumors earlier this week when she stopped wearing her wedding ring, and last night on her way to a Kabbalah service, Madonna was still without her left ring finger adornment.
And it was a flurry of Madonna offspring outside the New York City Kabbalah center, as Carlos Leon brought his daughter Lourdes (Madonna’s eldest) to meet up with the “Like a Virgin” singer.
Madge also had her son (with Guy Ritchie) Rocco and adopted son David Banda in tow as she was spotted heading back to her Manhattan home.
According to industry insider Jess Cagle, the dissolution of Madonna and Guy’s marriage has certainly gone beyond the rumor stage. “More telling than media reports is the fact that the Madonna camp is issuing a ‘no comment.’ I think, if it wasn’t true, or if something wasn’t going on, they would have issued a denial.”
There are also reports that the “Music” songstress has already held preliminary meetings with the same lawyer who represented Paul McCartney in his recent divorce case, Fiona Shackleton.
Britney and the Boys Have a Sleepover
While Kevin Federline partied in Miami Beach this weekend, Britney Spears stayed at home…with the kids!
E! News can confirm that Britney had a 12-hour overnight visit with her two sons Saturday night at her Los Angeles?home.
“The kids were picked up before noon on Sunday,” says a source.
It was Britney’s first overnight visit since Spears lost visitation with her kids following her infamous visit to the UCLA psych ward in January. Commissioner Scott Gordon, after being presented evidence that Britney’s mental health has improved, modified the terms of her visitation last week to allow overnight visits.
Meanwhile, K-Fed picked up where he left off in Las Vegas two weeks ago and partied at Miami nightclub Mansion on Friday night. Federline, who’s reportedly working on a new song tentatively titled, “Daddy’s Home,” was scheduled to return home to LA on Sunday.
Disney Rolls to Rock Sequel
Camp Rock, well, rocked. And now Disney is ready to roll on a sequel.
Just days after the Jonas Brothers-starring TV movie debuted on the kid-friendly cable net, Disney has gone to work crafting a follow-up for the camera-friendly musical trio.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, production on the second small-screen installment will kick off in late spring or summer of 2009 with all three tween heartthrobsJoe, Kevin and Nick Jonasset to return.
The TV movie, made in the same mold as the High School Musicals, averaged 8.9 million viewers Friday night, besting the ratings received by the original HSM to become the most-watched nonsequel film the channel’s ever aired. (The unqualified title holder is HSM 2, which pulled in 17.2 million viewers in its first airing.)
Better start looking over your shoulder, Troy boy.
No surprise there: Disney working on a Camp Rock sequel
What should come as no surprise to anybody: Disney is now hard at work to the sequel of its High School Musical trilogy follow-up, Camp Rock. The Disney Channel is hoping to broadcast the sequel in spring or summer of 2009.
The first Camp Rock debuted to 8.9 million viewers on Friday night, the second highest viewership ever for the network (but still far below the 17.2 million they got for High School Musical 2).The movie stars the Jonas Brothers (Joe, Kevin and Nick), who had a following before the movie was released. With that in mind, shouldn’t the ratings have been even higher? Maybe it’s just that they’re no Zac Efron.
With the High School Musical phenomenon moving to theaters, Disney does have to do something to pick up the slack. Admittedly, I am not the target demographic for this genre, but it was once described to me as “this generation’s Grease”, which seemed pretty accurate. Although, to my knowledge, Grease didn’t spawn these sort of copycat milk-it-till-it’s-dead follow-ups.