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Portrait had visitors to their site nominate, and then vote on, their favorite TV relationships from the last year, and the results went up yesterday with the first article from their February issue.

#9. Ally Dawson & Austin Moon [Austin and Ally]

“It’s just that everything is better with you. My singing is better, my dancing is better. My everything is better.”

They say opposites attract and that certainly applies to this duo. When Austin and Ally first met, he was a confident and carefree guy, while she was serious and shy. They didn’t exactly see eye to eye, especially after he stole her song, but sometimes things happen for a reason and there are reasons why certain people come into our lives. Since their initial meeting, Austin and Ally have become good friends and then some. Yes they were temporarily together and then split up, but only because they cared about their relationship too much to mess it up before they were ready to properly be together. Timing is everything for these too and when the time comes, they’ll be ready. For now, they have a strong friendship and inspire each other, which in the end will create a strong foundation for what will inevitably be a solid romantic relationship.

Memorable Shipper Moment: After being separated for weeks, Austin and Ally find their way back to each other, but not before a set of mishaps. By the time, they reunite there’s barely any time before they’re separated again. Austin doesn’t want Ally to leave because he realises that he’s better when she’s around and needs her there, but alas duty calls and Ally leaves...or so we think. Ally returns after realising that she needs Austin too and that she's uninspired without him.

#8.Emma Swan & Captain Killian Jones aka Hook [Once Upon a Time]

“There’s not a day that will go by that I won’t think of you.”

It takes a lot to break down the walls of tough and guarded Emma Swan, but slowly and surely, mysterious bad boy pirate, Captain Killian Jones aka Hook, did that. Well at least until the whole memory wipe thing happened and now we need to wait until the show’s return next month to see how that pans out, but that’s another story. We’re sure that this wasn’t what Hook was expecting either when he began his quest for revenge and ended up finding something else. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing for these two though (but then again, no one writes songs about the ones that come easy). She was wary of his charm and grudgingly worked together with him. Yet along the way their relationship developed into one of affection and respect, having realised that they were kindred spirits who understood each other. She may not remember him now, but given the chemistry we’ve seen between these two, we’ll be keeping our hopes up for these two.

Memorable Shipper Moment: Hook is a charming bad boy pirate, so it’d be easy for him to use that charm and an arsenal of tricks to get him what he wants. Yet he refuses to resort to such tactics and confesses as much to Emma, telling her that he intends to win her heart the honourable way.

#6. Lacey Porter & Danny Desai [Twisted]

“Well it’s worth the risk.”

Lacey and Danny were best friends when they were kids until a horrific incident separated them. Now five years later, Lacey’s the queen bee at school and Danny’s the outcast. At first she tries to distance herself from him, but events seem to keep bringing these two together and she eventually lowers her defences around him. Although Lacey has a boyfriend, Lacey and Danny start hanging out again and it’s not before long that they kiss and Lacey’s left conflicted about what (and who) she wants and whether cost of fighting for it is worth it or not. Sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and the more you try to fight it, the stronger that pull gets and judging by the serious chemistry between these two, we don’t see that connection going away any time soon. Lacey and Danny’s love story has been compared to Romeo and Juliet’s, but here’s hoping that it has a happier ending than theirs!

Memorable Shipper Moment: No matter how much she tries to fight it, Lacey seems to constantly find herself drawn to Danny. This time she finds him at his aunt’s grave in a vulnerable state, thinking about how his past mistakes will go on to haunt him for the rest of his life. Lacey tells Danny for what it’s worth, she believes him. It’s clear that her words mean a lot to Danny and they share their second kiss.

You can check out the full results of the poll and see the whole article @ Portrait Magazine

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Demi tweets about Philip Seymour Hoffman's death.

February 3, 2014, 9:09 am

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Today the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent heroin overdose (A hypodermic needle was stuck on his arm), and here's what Demi had to say about his tragical death:


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Vanessa Hudgens Interviews + Candids and behind the scenes of her BONGO shoot!

February 3, 2014, 4:00 pm

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I haven't seen as much updating on here lately. So, I figured I'd post a bit of a 'wrap up/update' on Vanessa Hudgens.  I haven't seen any of these posted on here.  As I haven't seen a Vanessa Hudgens post in quite some time.











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Worked it out with my girls today! #weak@vanessahudgens@ashleytisdale@lgypsy we see you @moslaughterhaa!


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Meet Alena Rose Jonas!

February 3, 2014, 4:00 pm

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She was born Sunday afternoon! Too precious!! 

Selena went to Sunday brunch and to an audition today!

February 3, 2014, 5:51 pm

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Plus, a sneak peak at her latest Dream Out Loud photoshoot!


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Miley Cyrus for W Magazine

February 3, 2014, 7:16 pm

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My Oh Miley!
America's baddest bad girl doesn't care what you think of her.
by Ronan Farrow

“She’s cool, she’s scandalous,” Kristal, an apple-cheeked 13-year-old, shouts over the din. “I like her hair,” adds Morgan, a 12-year-old standing next to her. “She’s a slut,” declares Kaylee, a sullen 14-year-old with a fading magenta dye job and a mouthful of bubble gum. “I’m here for Ariana Grande.” For all I know, she’s referring to a Microsoft Word font or a new kind of latte. This is not my scene. I am in the oppressive mayhem at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, packed on this December night for the Jingle Ball, a concert series featuring of-the-moment pop artists. Kristal and Morgan are Smilers, as Miley Cyrus diehards call themselves. Some carry a torch for Hannah Montana, the Disney Channel role that made her a star. Others favor the edgier persona introduced with her 2013 album, Bangerz. But all are fiercely devoted, waiting hours for a glimpse of Cyrus. Onstage, the lights dim. Red sequins flash through a smoke-machine haze. Cyrus, in a spangled two-piece ensemble hiked high enough to require intensive bikini waxing, steps out. Behind her, a tall black woman sways in a Christmas tree costume that Cyrus will later overturn, pointing at the women’s rear end and impishly wagging her tongue at the audience. Next to her, a little person prances in a silver leotard with conical foam breasts. Cyrus kneels and squeezes them playfully. Eighteen thousand audience members explode into unhinged jubilation. “Oh, my God,” Kristal shrieks, near tears. “I love her!”


“I don’t love kids,” a tired Cyrus tells me the night before the concert, ashing a cigarette. We’re in her living room, sitting in front of a white stone mid-century-modern fireplace. There are three fireplaces in her mansion in the hills overlooking Los Angeles, which is sequestered behind high gates and monitored by countless security cameras. The fire throws shadows across Cyrus’s languorous form, now draped over an uncomfortable-looking Tulip chair. A black and white striped Chanel T-shirt hangs slack on her thin frame. With pageboy bangs falling over her makeup-free face, the performer looks vulnerable, childlike. Only the word bad in bold red on her right middle finger—one of her 21 tattoos at last count—betrays the puckish impresario she will be onstage the next night. She has just turned 21. I begin to respond, but Cyrus is not listening. “I don’t love them because, I mean, I think I was around too many kids at one point—because I was around a lot of kids.” A conversation with Cyrus plays more like a breakneck stream-of-consciousness soliloquy. She’s Molly Bloom—the character who closes James Joyce’s Ulysses with a chapter of unpunctuated run-on sentences—for the Instagram set. She rarely draws a breath. Cyrus speaks in the language of her generation: She is a human text message.

“They’re so fucking mean,” she continues. “Sometimes I hear kids with their parents, and I want to go over and, like, smack them myself…Like if they meet me, they’ll be like, ‘Mom, don’t you know how to use an iPhone? Like, can you take the picture?’ I’m like, ‘Dude, if I ever talked to my mom like that when I was a kid, I would have had no phone, no computer, no TV, no anything.’ And so, yeah, kids are just mean.” Cyrus gets a lot of mean these days. She has 16.7 million followers on Twitter, and every day her feed is deluged with slurs. (Cyrus: “I. Hate. Packing.” Twitter response: “GET CANCER.”) She is the personification of a new generation of fame. She both courts and bears the costs of an ever more intrusive media; of a public ravenous for that intrusiveness; and of a networked world that has placed all of us, celebrity or not, under the microscope. Cyrus lowers her voice conspiratorially and tells me, “I think with, like, Instagram, Twitter, whatever, everyone is a paparazzi now. How scary is that? Like, you’re never safe.” Even ordinary people, Cyrus says, “just think they can, like, talk about you like they know you. Especially because I grew up in it, and like you grew up in it, too, there’s a sense of entitlement.” She’s not wrong about the parallels: both of us raised by performers, both driven to work in the spotlight on our own terms.

Cyrus thrived in that spotlight early, first as the daughter of the famed country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. Destiny Hope, as Miley was christened, was born in 1992, the year Billy Ray’s “Achy Breaky Heart” topped the charts. On a 500-acre farm in Franklin, Tennessee, she and her five siblings spent long summer days outdoors. “We never were inside, and we never wore shoes,” she recalls. “I think it’s why I like wearing no clothes so much and I’m always naked.” Cyrus is close to her mother, Tish, who manages her career.“I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me,” Cyrus recounts. “My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.” But her parents also served as an example of what not to do, starting with trusting too easily. “My dad, like, he’s the most trusting human in the world,” she says. “He trusts everybody, basically, until they fuck him over. And my mom, too, holds no grudges. She’s really like it’s the—you know, shame on—” Cyrus pauses, a rare occurrence. She furrows her brow. “What is it? ‘Shame on me’?…or whatever.”“Fool me once—?”I offer, but Cyrus is talking again. “She’ll let someone, like, fuck her over twice, and then she’ll let it go, and then she kind of forgets about it. And I used to be like that. And now I just keep it in the back of my mind.”

Other influences from Cyrus’s pre-fame years include her grandfather Ron Cyrus, a Kentucky state legislator who inspired a counterculture streak (“To be a Democrat in a superconservative state, it can be crazy because people look at you like you’re some type of sinner,” she says) and Dolly Parton, Cyrus’s godmother. (“What I love about Dolly is she says hi to the person that’s doing the catering on set before she goes and says hi to the cast.”) By age 9, Cyrus had already won a spotlight of her own, appearing in a bit part in her father’s television program, Doc. Three years later, at 12, she landed the TV role that would make her a star: every girl in America’s best friend, Hannah Montana. Lee Shallat Chemel, who cast Cyrus in that role, recalls that the child actor was green but game. “I didn’t see driven at that point,” she muses. “I did see very open and very willing to go.” And go she did. Cyrus became one of Disney’s most profitable, most merchandized stars. The Hannah Montana franchise earned the company $1 billion over the course of its run from 2006 to 2011. But fame brought increasingly harsh judgment. In 2008, a 15-year-old Cyrus scandalized her audience by wearing what appeared to be nothing but a sheet in photographs shot by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair. (“I feel so embarrassed,” Cyrus said at the time. “I apologize to my fans, who I care so deeply about.”) The following year, a video of her pole dancing at an awards show prompted a collective clutching of pearls.

Not long after, she found herself in the headlines again when a videotape of her taking a hit from a bong made the rounds online. Public interest in Cyrus’s personal image has never faltered; but for a spell, her ability to capitalize on it did. Her 2010 album with Disney, Can’t Be Tamed, proved her least successful. Fitful attempts to kick-start her acting career sputtered. Then 2013 arrived, and with it, a radically reinvented image—no apologies necessary. Gyrating in a flesh-tone latex bikini for her infamous performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, swinging naked on a wrecking ball in her most popular music video, and providing a drip-feed of intimate selfies via social media, Cyrus laid siege to public consciousness. At the close of the year, she was the most Googled person in America. Cyrus also reinvented her music.

She hired a new music manager, Larry Rudolph, famous for orchestrating Britney Spears’s controversy-laden career. She assembled a powerhouse team of producers, including reliable hitmakers Pharrell Williams and Doctor Luke and up-and-comer Mike WiLL Made It. This, too, paid off. Bangerz topped the Billboard 200, and Cyrus has been earning mounting critical respect. “They did a write-up in Rolling Stone—like, the best albums of 2013,” Cyrus says, taking a drag of her cigarette. “And my album was one of them! I printed it out. I give myself things to look at like that.” Cyrus insists that her provocative image is calculated. In part, she tells me, it’s a response to what she sees as a lack of authenticity in her peer group. “I just don’t get what half the girls are wearing. Everyone to me seems like Vanna White. I’m trying to tell girls, like, ‘Fuck that. You don’t have to wear makeup. You don’t have to have long blonde hair and big titties. That’s not what it’s about. It’s, like, personal style.’ I like that I’m associated with sexuality and the kind of punk-rock shit where we just don’t care. Like Madonna or Blondie or Joan Jett—Jett’s the one that I still get a little shaky around. She did what I did in such a crazier way. I mean, girls then weren’t supposed to wear leather pants and, like, fucking rock out. And she did.”

But Jett didn’t grow up in the age of social media. Cyrus is often under fire, and not all of it is senseless Twitter bullying. Recently, she has weathered more-serious claims that she exploits her minority backup dancers, like the black woman in her Jingle Ball show. The Guardian called her use of black dancers and the focus on their rear ends “a minstrel show.” A column on the culture website Jezebel.com, viewed more than 746,000 times, accused Cyrus of “accessorizing with black people.” Amazon Ashley, the burlesque performer who is featured in Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” video and wore the Christmas tree costume, defends the performances. “I say, ‘Bah, humbug’ to that,” she says of critics. “Miley treats me with the utmost respect. Twerking is my act. It’s what I enjoy; it’s who I am.” Cyrus’s use of little people has stirred even deeper rancor. Hollis Jane, who appeared dressed as a teddy bear in Cyrus’s VMA performance, wrote afterward that “standing on that stage, in that costume was one of the most degrading things—I was being looked at as a prop, as something less than human.” Brittney Guzman, the little person who was hired after Jane’s departure and appeared in Cyrus’s Jingle Ball performance, dismisses Jane’s complaints as a ploy for attention. She says Cyrus’s handling of her body comes from a place of sisterly affection. “When she grabs my boobs, we’re just having fun,” she says. “It’s not degrading.” She tells me the routine mimics their offstage rapport. After shows, “sometimes she’ll touch my boob, and she’ll be like, ‘Oh, yeah, I just wanted to grab it’…Or she’ll be like, ‘Next time I’m going to grab your ass…’cause Brittney has the biggest booty.’ ”

When asked about the criticism, Cyrus simply says, “I don’t give a shit. I’m not Disney, where they have, like, an Asian girl, a black girl, and a white girl, to be politically correct, and, like, everyone has bright-colored T-shirts. You know, it’s like, I’m not making any kind of statement. Anyone that hates on you is always below you, because they’re just jealous of what you have.” Cyrus seems to have developed a preternatural ability to tune things out. (“I have a hard time listening,” she concedes.) That goes for both criticism and other people. “I have a lot of people that I could call and hang out with, but I have very few friends, if that makes any sense,” she tells me.“Like, I just don’t tell a lot of people anything. Everyone’s always like, ‘You’re so sketch.’ ”

She admits that her reluctance to trust has made dating fraught since she and the 24-year-old Australian actor Liam Hemsworth ended their one-year engagement last September. “Guys watch too much porn,” she confides, absently prodding a bedazzled iPhone. “Those girls don’t exist. They’re not real girls. And that’s like us watching romance movies. That’s girl porn, because, like, those guys do not exist.” The kind that do exist, she continues, “just try too hard with me, and it’s just like, ‘I don’t need you to impress me. I don’t want you to, like, take me to fancy restaurants.’ I hate sitting down for dinner!” Cyrus’s tone begins to sound accusing, though I’ve taken her to no meals, seated or otherwise.“You don’t have to do that to me! You don’t have to take me on trips! I literally just want to chill here!” She collects herself: “That’s why I’m, like, not trying to jump into a relationship…I love my music so much, and I love what I’m doing so much that that has become my other half—rather than another person. And so, yeah, I feel like I had to be able to be 100 percent—oh, Hi, Maya.” A petite Asian woman has shuffled to Cyrus’s side. “I’m doing a little interview,” Cyrus tells her. “But you can set up right here if you want.” She turns back to me. “This is Maya. She does my nails.”

“I never leave the house,” Cyrus explains. “Why go to a movie? I’ve got a huge-ass TV. We’ve got a chef here that can make you great food. We don’t need to leave. I would just rather be here where I’m completely locked in.” I glance around the room. The sun is setting over Los Angeles, the last shafts of light creeping across the dark-stained oak floor. The modern decor is punctuated by the occasional New Age detail, like the giant Buddha head in the driveway fountain. In the garage are Cyrus’s motorcycle, a white Mercedes S class, a Porsche, and a Maserati—but with the paparazzi outside, Cyrus says, exits require planning.

She betrays a note of yearning when I mention I’m about to depart for an assignment in Kenya. “I want to go to Kenya,” she says. I tell her to come: “No joke. You could do it.” “Kenya’s my dream,” she says. “Kenya is my total dream. I wish I wasn’t going to be in Minneapolis next week, I wish I could be in Kenya.” Her imagination is running riot now. “I want to go to Iceland,” she says. “Yes!” I agree. “I’ve never been.” “Let’s do an Iceland trip…and I want to go to Norway…Someone said the light there is just so beautiful…” If Cyrus makes it to Kenya or Iceland or Norway, it probably won’t be for adventure. And it definitely won’t be soon. This year will be spent crisscrossing America and Europe for her Bangerz tour, which commenced mid-February.“I love being on, like, the road,” she says, brightening. “I just want to make music.” Music is the one context in which I witness Cyrus listening exquisitely, deeply, wholly. When I tell her that I’ve worked as a singer-songwriter, she asks to hear my collaboration with a musician whose material she has covered. She clutches my phone’s tinny speaker to her ear for three and a half minutes. “This chorus is dope,” she says, her head nodding to the beat. “’Cause the verses are more poppy but cool, and the chorus sounds so old-school…” In a few minutes of music, she asks me more questions than she has in hours of conversation: about lyrics, melody, inspirations.

Cyrus’s own influences stand in stark contrast to the hyperproduced pop of Bangerz. Later, we pore over her vinyl collection, dusting off psychedelic rock courtesy of her favorite band, Pink Floyd, and standards by Dolly Parton, Bobby Vinton, and Irma Thomas. In 2012 Cyrus recorded a series of what she refers to as “backyard sessions” with her band, showcasing powerhouse vocals on standards like Parton’s “Jolene.” At the mention of a recent hit by one prominent pop princess, Cyrus wrinkles up her nose. “Oh, God! That’s the worst. I couldn’t imagine you doing an album that sounds like that.” Even as a child, she had a singular creative confidence. She recalls fighting with a producer from her Disney days because she thought he was “selling out.” I was like, ‘Why the fuck are you doing this?’ ” She reduced both of them to tears, fighting “to a point where I’d be shaking. But I’m just intense like that.”

Part of her power, Cyrus feels, lies in having nothing left to prove. At 21, she’s managed to turn herself into a juggernaut twice over. “You know, I’ve made my money. If no one buys my album, cool. It’s fine. I’ve got a house, and I’ve got dogs that I love. I don’t need anything else,” she says. In her view, that’s a luxury that has carried the legends she most admires. “Maybe they succeed because they don’t have anything to prove. They’re just doing it because they love it. I hope I’m like Dolly—where I’m just still going at 75.” Beyond music, Cyrus is expanding her interests. After her breakup, she tells me, she asked Diane Martel, the director responsible for Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop” and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” videos, to “just completely, like, drown me in new movies and books and art. I lived in Nashville, where that shit isn’t accessible.” We flip through a book of photographs by Cindy Sherman. “Check it,” she says as we arrive at Sherman’s Untitled #276, in which the artist poses as a kind of grungy Cinderella.“Lady Gaga completely ripped that off.” Cyrus is finding her taste in movies, too. She tells me she just watched the Tom Cruise 1990 drama Days of Thunder three nights in a row. She’s also newly enamored with the 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire. “I’m Blanche to a T, complete psycho,” she burbles cheerfully. I stare at her. I literally cannot imagine anyone less like Tennessee Williams’s fragile, lost Blanche DuBois. “Every time I watched her,” she goes on, “I was always like, ‘That’s me!’ ” If Cyrus is a Vivien Leigh performance, it’s Scarlett O’Hara in the early scenes of Gone With the Wind. She’s impetuous, beautiful, smarter than many give her credit for, slow to listen, quick to talk, adept at using her sexuality to her own ends.

As for the world beyond the arts, Cyrus is leery. “The news kind of gives me a little bit of anxiety,” she tells me. “So I’m less political.” She’s loath even to join in the national conversation about the legalization of marijuana, though pot has become a centerpiece of her image. “I love weed,” she tells me. “I just love getting stoned.” But she’s less interested in policy than in quality control. “I just want it to be back to where it’s, like, organic, good weed.” Trying to engage her in other current events, I come up empty-handed. When she tells me that at Thanksgiving with the Cyrus clan her brothers “literally got in a fight over, like, aliens,” I ask, “Immigration?” “Yes. So he’s just—” “Where did the family land on that?” I ask. “Well, my older brother is obsessed with all those documentaries that have been banned. My brother’s convinced it’s the government not wanting us to know about aliens because the world would just, like, freak out—” “Oh,” I say, realizing there’s been a misunderstanding. “Literal aliens.”“—and so my younger brother is like, ‘That’s completely bogus.’ ” “Tell your brother I worked for the government and saw no aliens.” “I’m not so sure,” she says, telling me she once saw suspicious lights in the sky in the Bahamas. “My dad told me it was a satellite. But the way it zipped off was really weird.” “I think it was a satellite,” I offer.

Despite her professed lack of interest in politics, Cyrus tells me she wants to have an impact on something. She runs through ideas in earnest. Animal welfare (“Like, all my dogs have been rescued and are amazing”), bullying (“I really want people not to be scared”), water purification (“I think water’s, like, a really important thing”), the environment (“I’m so scared the sky’s not going to be blue anymore. It’s going to be black from all the shit”). If there’s one thing Cyrus has, it’s time to figure out what she stands for. I shut off my recorder and head for the heavy green front door. Its solid wood is sectioned off by four narrow panes of glass, now fogged, obscuring the outside world. I peer out and then open it. As I step into the chilly Los Angeles night, Cyrus calls after me. We had talked about favorite books, and now she asks me for a reading list. “Nothing too heavy,” she adds quickly. “Nothing boring.”









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Nick Jonas' Next Gig: Demi Lovato's Musical and Creative Director

February 4, 2014, 7:09 am

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Former Jonas Brother also shares details about his new solo record

With the Jonas Brothers now a thing of the past, Nick Jonas has accepted a day job: He's the Musical and Creative Director of Demi Lovato's Neon Lights tour, which kicks off February 9th in Vancouver, British Columbia. "I'm overseeing video content, wardrobe, lighting and staging," he tells Rolling Stone. "And then I'm extending into the musical side of things, which includes creating the arrangements for the songs. I'm building what Demi wanted, which is a show without stops and starts."



Jonas began working on the tour a few months ago, right around the same time the Jonas Brothers announced their split. "Demi and I have the same manager," Jonas explains. "I was immediately excited when I was offered the position. The relationship that Demi and I had over eight years really gives me the insight into how to best communicate with her and her team."

The show will feature songs from all four of Lovato's studio albums, going back to 2008's Don't Forget. "I've been in rehearsals with the band for the last two weeks," he says. "The biggest challenge has been just trying to rethink some of the music and see how we could compliment it with lights and video. I sat down with the band and said to them, 'You need to step into this like it's a new gig. None of these arrangements are going to sound like the originals, so you need to have an open mind.'"

Rehearsals were held in Los Angeles over the last few weeks and the whole team is about to head up to Vancouver to prep for opening night. "I won't be at every single show," he says. "I'll get the tour up and running, make sure it's running smoothly, and then check in every few weeks."

Once the tour gets off the ground, Jonas will turn his attention towards his upcoming solo project. "Some of it is done and ready to be released," he says. "I've got a lot of things in the pipeline right now and I'm waiting to release some news about my music and my next steps. It isn't quite locked in yet, but I have started making some music and now it's all about lining up the pieces."

The Jonas Brothers have only officially been apart for four months, but there's no desire to even talk about any sort of future reunion. "At this moment we're all focusing on ourselves and the things we want to accomplish," he says. "That's especially true with Kevin, whose wife just gave birth. That's a major life change for him and a priority. Joe and I are really excited for him as well as the music we're making. I can't say that I know when [we might reunite] because there's lots of excitement about what we're making as individuals."

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"Selena Gomez secretly completed a two-week rehab stint in January, E! News confirms.

The 21-year-old "Come & Get It" singer was admitted to Arizona's Dawn at the Meadows on Jan. 5. Gomez's rep denies reports that the former Disney Channel star was struggling with drugs or alcohol.

"Selena voluntarily spent time at Meadows but not for substance abuse," a rep for Gomez tells E! News.

In December 2013, Gomez shocked fans by cancelling the Australian leg of her Stars Dance tour. "It has become clear to me and those close to me that after many years putting my work first, I need to spend some time on myself in order to be the best person I can be," she said in a statement.

A source told E! News that the pop princess "had been working non-stop for six years. She hit a wall."

"She doesn't like to say no, but she just reached a point where she needs a minute. She is not having a breakdown," the source said. "She wants to be the healthiest that she can be and this means taking a little break. But she is fine. She is OK."

After leaving treatment in January, Gomez hit up the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

She currently graces Seventeen's March 2014 "Power" issue. "If you're able to look yourself in the mirror every day with the decisions that you make, that's where power starts," Gomez tells the magazine.

"And sometimes you'll have moments where you feel weak, but they're supposed to encourage you. They're supposed to push you and motivate you. I feel like that's something that I always try to do is look at myself in the mirror and really what I've done and every day what decision I wanna make.""

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"Selena Gomez went to rehab last month ... and sources connected with the singer say she blames Justin Bieber for her predicament.

We've learned Gomez went to The Meadows in Arizona for 2 weeks of treatment.

Sources say Selena went for a combination of problems, including alcohol, pot and prescription Ambien. She's also addicted to Justin Bieber.

We're told Selena's decision was largely based on "that crazy boy" -- aka Bieber. Selena blames a lot of her problems on the excesses she was exposed to by being around Bieber and his buddies.

Sources close to Gomez tell us ... people in Selena's camp went ballistic when they found out she was hanging out again with Justin ... and saw photos of her joyriding with him on Segways. We're told that was the final straw -- she checked into rehab immediately after that.

The 2-week program at The Meadows is called DAWN ... specifically designed for people between 18 and 26. DAWN specializes in substance dependence, trauma, family dynamics, mental health and relapse prevention.

We're told Selena is not getting outpatient help now nor is she in therapy."


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Demi Lovato Neon Lights Tour Details Revealed + Setlist

February 6, 2014, 10:16 am

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little bit of SPOILERS - if you're going!



+ We don’t know in which order Fifth Harmony and Little Mix/Cher Lloyd will perform on the show.
+ Collins Key will be on stage before Demi’s set.
+ Demi has several outfit changes during the show. One of them is a dress for the encore then she takes off half of + + the dress after Skyscraper and puts on another more studded and a leather jacket.
+ The video footage for Skyscraper/Give Your Heart A Break is very emotional.
+ The video footage in the background was similar to Beyonce’s visual album, even if you got crap seats, it feels like you’re watching a show.
+ Demi will be playing the piano during Nightingale.
+ There’s a speech before Let It Go and before Skyscraper.
+ Demi doesn’t have any choreography, just a few sexy dance moves.
+ There’s a “mini platform” on the stage to reach the audience.
+ Demi will have back up dancers but just for a few songs.
+ Clips of all her old music videos will be playing during the show and Demi narrated it, “This is Baby Demi.”
+ There’s a clip from Camp Rock where Demi is imitating herself being Mitchie.
+ There’s a lot of old songs but with different arrangements/rhythms.

The songs on the set list are: Catch Me, Skyscraper, Fire Starter, Really Don’t Care, Here We Go Again, The Middle, Let It Go, Warrior, Unbroken, Neon Lights, Heart Attack, Made In The USA, Two Pieces, Nightingale, Got Dynamite, and Don’t Forget. (We don’t know the order yet)

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February 7, 2014, 5:28 pm

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1/31 at a cafe in LA (these weren't posted i think)
























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2/7 leaving a dance studio























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More Demi Lovato Neon Lights Tour Details + Rumored Setlist

February 8, 2014, 2:31 am

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In my previous post, I listed one source who attended the tour rehearsal and gave their version of events, but ObsessedWithDemi on Tumblr has what seems like reports from a different source.





Rumored Setlist - in no particular order
In Case, Warrior, Skyscraper, The Middle, Got Dynamite, Unbroken, Catch Me, Nightingale, Don’t Forget, Two Pieces, Made in the USA, Give Your Heart a Break, Heart Attack, Let It Go, Really Don’t Care, Fire Starter, Remember December, Here We Go Again, Something That We’re Not

- "The opening video will kill you, be prepared."

- The Neon Lights tour will take you on an “emotional rollercoaster.”

- The beat at the end of Unbroken leads directly into Neon Lights.

- The entrance/opening song is Heart Attack for the Neon Lights tour.

- Demi Lovato has a platform that makes her shoot down to the floor and then she goes along the aisles to run around the fans.

- Demi Lovato has no dancers with her on the Neon Lights tour.

- Demi Lovato did a speech on how thankful she is for Disney, for getting her here & letting her be part of Frozen before singing Let It Go.

- You can hear Nick Jonas’ influence on Demi Lovato’s rendition of Here We Go Again. It was slow, bluesy & soulful.

- Encore was Skyscraper & Give Your Heart a Break. The clip before had everyone bawling. Clips from GMA, E! etc, showing how far Demi Lovato’s come.

- Demi Lovato’s family was there to support her tonight.

- Demi Lovato did not cover any songs tonight.

- The video footage in the background was similar to Beyonce even if you got crap seats, it feels like you’re watching a show.

- The video that starts off the Neon Lights tour is the one of Demi Lovato swimming underwater.

- Demi Lovato doesn’t have any choreography, just a few dance moves.

- Demi Lovato had a lot of “sexual moves" during the show.

- Demi Lovato fell during rehearsal on her way up to a mini platform but tripped over it instead.

- The Warrior video content was the armor scene that we saw a picture of, “reminds me of Game of Thrones.”

- During ONE of her songs Demi said that she had a guest star who would typically come up but since it’s rehearsal they didn’t get to see.

- Demi Lovato’s voice was a bit raspy at times but she held up VERY WELL.

- Demi Lovato played guitar at the end of Got Dynamite and Catch Me.

- There was only one song where Demi Lovato walked out into the audience.

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Bella Thorne & Zendaya: New York Fashion Week Fall 2014 (Feb. 6-7)

February 8, 2014, 2:31 am

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Go Red For Women - The Heart Truth Red Dress Collection (Feb. 6)









"Fashion show looks from the 'Go Red for Women -The Heart Truth Red Dress Fall 2014 Collection' at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York."

Bella is at the 10:40 mark. Watch her werk.







































Front Row at the Rebecca Minkoff Show (Feb. 7)



































Batiste Dry Shampoo/Charlotte Ronson 2014 Fall/Winter Show (Feb. 7)







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#bangerz tour rehearsal photos from Miley's twitter

February 8, 2014, 6:59 am

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Stefanie Scott is Pretty in Pink + Bella Thorne Keeps it Chic During New York Fashion Week

February 8, 2014, 11:20 pm

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Former Disney gals Stephanie Scott & Bella Thorne put their best [fashion] foot forward during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014. Check out which shows the girls attended below [on different days, respectively].



"Stefanie Scott keeps it chic in black and white on the front row at the Emerson By Jackie Fraser-Swan fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014 held at The Pavilion at Lincoln Center on Friday night (February 7) in New York City.



Wearing a dress by Emerson by Jackie Fraser-Swan with Kate Spade New York earrings, the 17-year-old actress joined DJ Leigh Lezark on the front row for the runway show.





Just a few hours before, Stefanie joined Zendaya and Jamie Chung at the Charlotte Ronson Fall 2014 Presentation during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week held at The Hub at The Hudson Hotel."

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"Bella Thorne shows a little midriff at the Lacoste fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2014 at The Theatre at Lincoln Center on Saturday afternoon (February 8) in New York City. The 16-year-old actress took her seat on the front row alongside Cara Santana, Jesse Metcalfe, Joe Jonas, and Colton Haynes."











Click here for more of Bella during NYFW! :]

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Joe Jonas really wants Selena Gomez to just be happy!

February 10, 2014, 6:32 am

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Selena Gomez has been having a very tough time lately!

The starlet's issues are said to have stemmed from her emotional split from ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. She called time on her Australian tour and most recently did a stint in The Meadows facility in Arizona because it was believed the brunette beauty was burned-out.

Fans are becoming increasingly worried about the young starlet and it appears Joe Jonas is no exception.

The former Jonas Brother star admitted he is a fan of Gomez's in an interview with E! News at the G-Star RAW X Bionic event in New York City, New York, on Saturday. And he really hopes she manages to get her life back on track.

Jonas revealed,"I am! I am! [a fan] I mean, her career been great and she is going to succeed and I want her to succeed and I want her to be happy!''

Jonas has come under fire from his fellow Disney stars lately because of an open letter in which he expresses how he felt that he was just the Disney Channel's puppet. However, there is one former Disney star he still appears to care for and that is the "Come & Get It" hit maker.

The 24-year-old star revealed his advice for Gomez and how she should deal with the fame and all the negativity that has been surrounding her life. Jonas shared his advice, saying, "Something that I heard from someone I looked up to was, 'Watch the people around you and learn from their mistakes so you don't make the same.'"

''I just held on to that and any time I saw a celebrity I really looked up to screw up, I just was like 'all right, I am not going to do that or try my best ability to avoid that,' so it's just a learning tool.''

Although, there have been rumors that Gomez's rehab stint was not just for dealing with her emotional and physical exhaustion — there have been reports circling that she has problems with substance abuse for alcohol and marijuana use.

Whatever Gomez is suffering from, we hope she manages to get it under control and goes on to live a much happier and healthier future.

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Miley Cyrus' Unplugged: Highest Rated MTV Unplugged In A Decade

February 10, 2014, 6:44 am

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The premiere of “Miley Cyrus: MTV Unplugged,” which featured her highly celebrated duet with none other than Madonna (Madonna.MTV.com), became the highest rated “MTV Unplugged” in the past decade and set a new digital record as the best performing “Unplugged” episode in the first 24 hours with more than 1.7 million streams.

The original airing of the music special averaged one million total viewers and scored a 1.0 rating among P12-34. In addition, it ranked as the #1 original entertainment program across all cable with P12-34 from 9pm to 10pm, improving its time period by nearly 90 percent. Among women 18-24, the premiere garnered an even bigger 2.4 rating.

Following Cyrus’ Unforgettable performance, Bangerz album sales spiked by more than 61% percent.

On the social front, the program was the second most social entertainment program of the night and earned six worldwide trending topics, including the #1 trending topic “MileyUnplugged,” along with "Miley and Madonna," “Aunt Dolly,” “Hoedown Throwdown,” "Adore You" and more.

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Demi Lovato Neon Lights Tour Footage feat. Nick Jonas + Official Setlist

February 10, 2014, 7:12 am

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Believe in Me


Heart Attack


Stop the World & Catch Me feat. Nick Jonas


Here We Go Again feat. Nick Jonas


Let It Go


Neon Lights


Skyscraper

Official Setlist (as of now, probably will change a bit)
Heart Attack
Remember December
Fire Starter
The Middle
Really Don’t Care
Stop the World (With Nick Jonas)
Catch Me (With Nick Jonas)
Here We Go Again (With Nick Jonas)
Made In the USA
Nightingale
Two Pieces
Warrior
Let It Go
Don’t Forget/Got Dynamite/This Is Me
Unbroken
Neon Lights
Skyscraper
Give Your Heart a Break

Demi Singing "Warrior" Live

February 12, 2014, 7:30 am

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Here's a HQ video of Demi singing "Warrior" for the second time on the Neon Lights tour. Enjoy!

#NeonLightsTour: Demi Lovato Brings Out Chord Overstreet for "MITUSA" Performance!

February 12, 2014, 3:50 pm

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The second show of the Neon Lights Tour took place in San Jose, CA at the SAP Center (Feb. 11). Check out this fan video of Demi Lovato performing "Made in The U.S.A" with GLEE'S very own, Chord Overstreet (on guitar). Plus, "Fire Starter""The Middle"&"Two Pieces" under the cut!



"Fire Starter"



"The Middle"



"Two Pieces"



Bonus! Lucy Hale from Pretty Little Liars attended the concert! - http://pic.twitter.com/mb78EYwQLw

Backstage at the #NEONLIGHTSTOUR... ❤️ this lady!! @lucyhalepic.twitter.com/mb78EYwQLw

— demetria lovato (@ddlovato) February 12, 2014

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