Hilary Duff’s Animal Hospital Visit
Hilary Duff’s Animal Hospital Visit
Wearing tight plaid pants with a white tanktop, Hilary Duff dropped by the California Animal Hospital in Los Angeles on Thursday (July 3).
Accessorizing with a pair of cute blue pumps, sunglasses and a brown leather bag, the “Lizzie McGuire” actress was there on behalf of one of her numerous canine housemates.
Meanwhile, in career related news, Duff is scheduled to record her fifth studio album during the summer months of this year as a follow-up to her first studio album, Metamorphosis, which went triple platinum.
As previously reported by , the 20-year-old former Disney queen is also set to star in the new comedy Stay Cool, in which she plays “a sultry high school senior who tries to seduce an author visiting her school.”
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens: Feeling No Pressure
Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens: Feeling No Pressure
Showing off their contagious smiles, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens giggled amongst one another and their “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” co-stars during a movie press conference held on Friday (May 2).
And Zanessa are taking the third installment of their hit Disney franchise in stride, claiming that they’re not feeling pressure to top the success of the two previous films.
According to press reports, “The franchise debuted in 2006 as a Disney Channel original movie and quickly became an international hit seen by more than 250 million viewers in 100 countries and 20 languages. The sequel’s August 2007 premiere was seen by 18.6 million viewers, becoming the top basic cable telecast of all time. Disney says the DVD release topped all sales records for 2007 and the movie’s soundtrack went triple platinum.”
Unfazed by such grandiose numbers, Efron tells: “I kind of think of it as the third act. This is the third movie. We’re not looking to top anything, just to do it justice.”
Meanwhile, Vanessa said that the only pressure she feels is that the movie hits the big screen rather than going straight to DVD.
Janet Jackson Biography
This black pop diva of the 1980s and 90s is the youngest of the nine members of the Jackson musical dynasty. Janet Jackson enjoyed her first multi-million seller with “Control” in 1986, an album which produced hard-driving, danceable hits including “Nasty” and “What Have You Done for Me Lately?”. She followed up with the even more successful “Rhythm Nation 1814″ in 1989, which produced seven Top Five singles (including “Miss You Much” and “Escapade”), four of which made it to Number 1.
Jackson began performing with her family at age seven (doing a Mae West imitation as part of a Las Vegas stage act), and acted during the 1970s and 80s in recurring or supporting roles on the TV series “Good Times”, “Diff’rent Strokes” and “Fame”. She made her feature acting debut as the sensitive poet Justice in the John Singleton misfire, “Poetic Justice” (1993). Her hit single “Again” (which was also featured on her wildly successful album “janet.”) was prominently featured in the film and earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Song. She returned to the big-screen in the summer of 2000 as the scientist fiancee of Eddie Murphy’s Professor Klump in the comedy “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps”. Once again, a Janet Jackson song (”Doesn’t Really Matter,) was included on the film’s soundtrack album.
Although an effective supporting player and pleasant minor comedienne, Jackson displayed her real passions and talents through her music and dancing. Virgin Records acknowledged this in 1996 when it offered her an $80 million deal that made her the music industry’s highest paid performer. She justified Virgin’s faith by releasing “The Velvet Rope” (1997), a collection of highly personal, very emotional songs that went triple-platinum within a year of its release. The album addressed Jackson’s battle with depression, her own self-image problems, family woes and how she escaped an abusive relationship. The recording also set the rumor mill a-spin when two of her songs hinted at a romantic interest in women. Whether drawn to the album’s honesty or controversy really didn’t matter, Jackson’s fans turned out for her “Velvet Rope” world tour en masse. In addition to her usual energetic singing and tireless dancing, Jackson treated audiences to a show she “created and directed” and which looked more like a splashy Broadway musical than a rock concert with its eight back-up dancers and enormous video screens.
Unlike her siblings Michael and LaToya, Janet Jackson had largely avoided courting controversy throughout her career (minus a long-secret nine-year marriage to Rene Elizondo Jr.), until February 1, 2004. While Jackson was performing a duet with pop star Justin Timberlake during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVIII, Timberlake reached over at the climax of the segment–on the lyric “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song”) and pulled off a breakaway black leather bustier cup on Jackson’s bustier, exposing her right breast (and sunburst-shaped nipple clamp) on live global television. The incident incited a massive media frenzy and much public uproar: broadcaster CBS announced its outrage and disavowed advance knowledge of the stunt, blaming its corporate sibling and halftime producer MTV, which had promised a “shocking” show; Timberlake issued a public apology and called the incident a “wardrobe malfunction,” explaining that a red brassiere cup under the black bustier intended to cover her breast had inadvertantly been torn away as well; and the NFL and FCC launched investigations into the incident. A day after the furor erupted Jackson announced that she had privately concocted the stunt on her own and issued her own public regrets in a videotaped apology.
In the wake of “Boobgate”–which to some seemed suspiciously timed as Jackson had a new album pending after several years of professional inactivity–Jackson was asked to withdraw from an appearance on the Grammys to deliver an award to Luther Vandross, although Timberlake was allowed to perform on the show. It was later revealed that CBS would have allowed her to appear if she issued another apology from the Grammy stage, as Timberlake did. The various broadcast tlelevision networks also had knee-jerk reactions to the stunt, with NBC and ABC adding stricter censoring of partial nudity on series such as “ER” and “NYPD Blue,” and ABC issuing the first-ever five-second broadcast delay on the Academy Awards ceremony.
In 2005 Jackson was at the center of two new scandals which broke within days of one another: first, reports claimed that at age 18 the singer was the mother of a secret daughter born during her brief 1984 marriage to James Debarge and allegedly raised by her sister Rebbie, which Jackson vehemently denied, and a paparazzi video clip showing Jackson sunbathing nude made the rounds of the Internet before the popster’s attorney had it removed, threatening legal action to anyone showing it.
- Also Credited As:
Janet Damita Jo Jackson - Born:
on 05/16/1966 in Gary, Indiana - Job Titles:
Singer, Actor, Dancer, Songwriter
Family
- Brother: Jackie Jackson. born on May 4, 1951; was a member of the Jackson 5
- Brother: Jermaine Jackson. born December 11, 1954; former member of the Jackson 5; has had such solo hits as “Dynamite”
- Brother: Marlon Jackson. born on March 12, 1957; member of the Jackson 5
- Brother: Michael Jackson. born August 29, 1958; began as a member of the Jackson 5; has had many solo hits since the 1970s; played the Scarecrow in “The Wiz” (1978)
- Brother: Randy Jackson. born on October 29, 1961; member of the Jackson 5; sentenced to two years’ probation for beating his wife, Eliza Shaffy Jackson, and their 14-month old daughter, Steveanna in November 1991; admitted to committing bankrupcy fraud in August, 2001
- Brother: Tito Jackson. born on October 15, 1953; was a member of the Jackson 5
- Father: Joseph Walter Jackson.
- Mother: Katherine Esther Jackson.
- Sister: LaToya Jackson. born on May 29, 1956; married manager Jack Gordon in September 1989; wrote “LaToya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family” (1991); has appeared as host of a latenight psychic network infomercial
- Sister: Rebbie Jackson. born on May 29, 1950
Significant Others
- Companion: Justin Timberlake. rumored to have dated in 2002
- Husband: James DeBarge. eloped when Jackson was 18 in 1984; lived at the Jacksons’s Encino ranch for several months before she had the marriage annulled; singer with the family pop group DeBarge; had a serious drug problem according to some reports
- Husband: Rene Elizondo. born c. 1963; together from c. 1985 until they separated in 1999; filed for divorce in May 2000, bringing their nine year secret marriage to light; married on March 31, 1991
- Companion: Jermaine Dupri. announce that he has been dating Janet since 2001
- Companion: Johnny Gill. reportedly dated in spring 1999
- Companion: Justin Timberlake. rumored to have dated in 2002
Milestones
- 1969 Moved with her family from Indiana to California before she was two (date approximate)
- 1974 Began singing in her family’s Las Vegas act when she was seven; became noted for doing an impersonation of Mae West (date approximate)
- 1976 Appeared with her family on the short-lived CBS variety series, “The Jacksons”
- 1977 Played recurring role of Penny Gordon on the popular CBS sitcom, “Good Times”
- 1979 Played JoJo Ashton on the very short-lived ABC sitcom, “A New Kind of Family” (Dec-Jan)
- 1981 Had recurring role of Charlene DuPrey on the NBC sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes”
- 1984 Appeared as Cleo Hewitt on the syndicated series “Fame”
- 1986 Released the album “Control”, which went on to sell over eight million copies and produce five hit singles (date approximate)
- 1989 Released even more successful follow-up album, “Rhythm Nation 1814″, which was the first album in rock history to produce seven Top Five hit singles (four of which made it to Number 1); album also sold over eight million copies, becoming the top pop album of 1990
- 1990 Went on first solo concert tour
- 1992 Was played by actress Maya Nicole Johnson on the ABC-TV biographical miniseries, “The Jacksons: An American Dream”
- 1993 Album “janet.” reached Number 1; spawned Number 1 single, “That’s the Way Love Goes”
- 1993 Made film debut in the title role of John Singleton’s romantic drama, “Poetic Justice”; also co-wrote and performed song “Again”; received Oscar nomination for Best Song
- 1995 Collaborated with brother Michael on the Number One hit “Scream”
- 1997 Released “The Velvet Rope”, a collection of emotionally charged songs that drew on her battles with depression, self-image problems and a past abusive relationship; album went triple platinum
- 2000 Returned to features starring opposite Eddie Murphy in “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps”; played Professor Klump’s scientist fiancee Denise; also wrote and performed original song on the soundtrack
- 2002 Headlined the HBO special “Janet Jackson: Live in Hawaii”
- 2004 Appeared as the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, spoofing her infamous wardrobe malfunction; her first network TV performance since the notorious Super Bowl halftime show
- 2004 Guest-starred on the NBC sitcom “Will and Grace” playing herself (September); making this her first TV acting role in nearly two decades
- 2004 Performed with Justin Timberlake at Superbowl XXXVIII halftime show; resulted in scandle when a bodice-ripping stunt by Timberlake exposed her pierced nipple
- 2004 Received two Grammy nominations for her album “Damita Jo”
Hailey Duff Biography
Hailey Duff hails from Houston, Texas. She discovered acting through ballet when she landed a role in the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company performance of The Nutcracker. By the age of 12, she appeared in the two-part miniseries True Women and in Goldie Hawn’s directorial debut Hope, both filmed in Texas. Haylie was soon out in California pursuing acting full-time.
Duff went on to land roles in such films as Addams Family Reunion, The Newman Shower and Dreams in the Attic, as well as guest-starring roles in the television series Third Watch, Boston Public, The Amanda Show and Chicago Hope. In 2004, she appeared in I Love Your Work, That’s So Raven and recently co-starred as Summer in the cult-hit film Napoleon Dynamite.
This past year was a busy one for Duff with a recurring role in Joan of Arcadia and feature roles including the soon-to-be-released Dishdogz, the animated film Foodfight!, and in Material Girls, co-starring her younger sister Hilary, for Madonna’s Maverick Films.
Also this summer, Duff served as a celebrity judge and spokesperson for the third annual Gillette Venus “Legs of a Goddess” contest - a nationwide search to find the woman with the best legs in America. She is also in nationwide commercials for Mattel’s Barbie and Hershey’s Ice Breakers.
Duff is also a very talented singer/songwriter. She co-wrote two songs on her sister Hilary’s triple platinum solo debut album Metamorphosis. Haylie and Hilary have recorded the Go-Gos’ hit “Our Lips are Sealed” for the A Cinderella Story soundtrack, and will soon record a new version of Madonna’s song “Material Girl” for their soon to be released film Material Girls.
When she is not filming or in a recording studio, she always makes time to spend with her family, friends and of course, her dogs.