Audrina Patridge: Ready For Season 4 of “The Hills”
Audrina Patridge: Ready For Season 4 of “The Hills”
On the rare occasion that she’s not filming her hit MTV series The Hills, Audrina Patridge enjoys taking time away from the television cameras for herself.
The brunette bombshell was spotted enjoying the beautiful summer weather of Beverly Hills yesterday while incessantly chatting on her cell phone and sipping an icy cool beverage.
Miss Patridge looked summertime chic in an embroidered babydoll-style top and a pair of dark stretch jeans along with a pair of open-toed heels and celebrity shades.
And it won’t be too much longer until the new season of The Hills will be debuting. Season 4 will begin airing next month on MTV with a total of 19 episodes filled with drama, romance, and… more drama!
Taylor Swift Takes Over TRL
Taylor Swift Takes Over TRL
The first country artist to co-host the popular MTV series, TRL, Taylor Swift kicked off taping on Monday (June 16) with the series expected to wrap up on Thursday (June 19).
Along with her co-hosting duties, the 18-year-old Pennsylvania native will also be performing some of her hit songs including “Our Song” and “Picture to Burn”.
Taylor’s 4-day appearance on TRL comes just before the release of her new MTV special, Once Upon a Prom, debuting June 21st.
According to station reports, “The one-hour special will feature Swift deciding which dateless teen she will accompany to a high school prom in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.”
Brody, Spencer Rekindle Their Bromance
Brody Jenner and Spencer Pratt are back on as budsand just in time, so it seems.
E! News has exclusively learned that Jenner, a former Prince of Malibu and member of an extended reality-TV family, has signed on to star in his own unscripted MTV series, Bromance, brought to you by Ryan Seacrest Productions.
While it's currently unclear which bros are going to be Jenner's nearest and dearest, a source says it's "possible Spencer could appear on the show."
Hence the rekindling, which began when Pratt called Jenner up and was "basically begging for Brody to bury the hatchet"?
Not that Prattwho along with Heidi Montag wasn't even invited to The Hills' season-finale party last nightwould ever do anything motivated by the notion of more time in the spotlight…
"Spencer had been calling and texting for a long time, begging to make up, but Brody was just blowing him off," the source said. "Spencer was relentless."
But Jenner apparently relented last week, finally picking up the phone to talk to his ex-pal for the first time in nearly a year, and now the two are chatting and "on OK terms."
The camera-friendly twosome had been on the outs since June, supposedly after Pratt told Jenner: It's either L.C. or me. (Meaning, Jenner had to chose whether to stay friends with Montag nemesis Lauren Conrad or Pratt.)
"When Brody said he wasn't going to choose, Spencer refused to be friends with Brody," a source tells News.
Lisa Lopes Biography
Lisa Nicole Lopes (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002), also known under the stage name of “Left Eye”, was a member of the popular R&B and hip hop group TLC. In addition to hit songs like “Waterfalls” with TLC, Lopes also did some solo performing. She was considered by some fans as the creative talent behind TLC and, though she sang infrequently, contributed her own self-written raps to many of TLC’s popular singles, including “Waterfalls” and “No Scrubs”. Lopes was also a self-taught keyboardist and, by way of a Beethoven piano piece, displayed those talents during her solo spot on TLC’s headlining concert performances (immortalized in a pay-per-view broadcast of TLC’s FanMail tour in the spring of 2000). She received the name “Left Eye” because she was known for wearing a pair of glasses with a condom in place of the left eye lens, which was only one of the ways the group promoted safe sex.
After TLC’s third album, Fanmail (1999), Lopes in 2000 became a featured rapper on several singles by other musicians, including former Spice Girl Melanie C’s “Never Be the Same Again”, which went to #1 in 35 countries, including the UK. They performed the song live on “Top of the Pops” the week it went #1, which was Lisa’s sole appearance on the UK show. The song was co-written and produced by Rhett Lawrence. She also was featured on Donell Jones’ debut single, “U Know What’s Up”, sang “Space Cowboy” with *NSYNC, a song from their 2000 album No Strings Attached and was featured on “Gimme Some” by Toni Braxton from her The Heat album published in 2000.
Lopes was also the host of the short-lived MTV series, The Cut, a precursor to American Idol in which a handful of would-be pop stars, rappers, and rock bands competed against each other and were judged. The show’s final winner, which ended up being a male-female rap duo, was promised a record deal and MTV’s funding to produce a music video, which would enter MTV’s heavy rotation. A then-unknown Anastacia finished in third place, but so impressed Lopes and the show’s three judges, that she scored herself a record deal anyway.
Lopes also discovered the R&B trio Blaque and helped them secure a record deal with Columbia Records. Their self-titled debut album was executive-produced by Lopes, who also made a cameo appearance on the album and in one of their music videos, “I Do”. Group member Natina Reed’s rapping style was heavily influenced by Lopes’.
Lopes spent much of her free time after the conclusion of TLC’s first headline tour behind Fanmail recording her first solo album, Supernova. Amongst the album’s 12 tracks was a posthumous duet with Tupac Shakur that was assembled from the large cache of unreleased recordings done prior to his murder in 1996. The unreleased song “Left Pimpin” was sampled for the song “Quickie”, which is featured on TLC’s fourth album, 3D. Initially scheduled for release on a date to coincide with the 10th anniversary of her father’s passing, Supernova was then delayed for two months before her American label chose to shelve the project. The album was released outside of the United States, and hardcore American TLC fans caused a demand for import copies of the album from the UK and Japan. Lopes then severed her solo deal with Arista (she remained contracted with the label as a member of TLC) and signed with Tha Row Records (the former Death Row label), intending to record a second solo album under the pseudonym N.I.N.A (New Identity Not Applicable).
Lopes was often plagued with controversy due to a rumored temper. She was arrested when she burned down the home of her boyfriend, former Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Andre Rison, in 1994, after a major fight. Lopes, who was sentenced to 5 years probation and therapy at a halfway house, never was able to shake that incident from her reputation, and along with Lil’ Kim, became one of hip hop music’s bad girls. Along with her TLC band mates, Lopes filed for bankruptcy that same year claiming that poor royalties and an outstanding debt that was owed to Perri “Pebbles” Reid after she sued the group for breach of contract, caused them to take this action.
Lopes had already started work on both her second solo album and on songs for the fourth TLC album, 3D, when she died in a car crash in Honduras on April 25, 2002. She had been there doing missionary work, which was something she had a passion for. It is said by those close to her that she had been undertaking a spiritual epiphany and had recently ended a month-long fast prior to her death. Her funeral was held at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia. Lopes was interred at Hillandale Cemetery, also in Lithonia.