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A address at www.tmz.com alleged Jackson's avenue "official," but said he would still be allotment of the appearance by mentoring the contestants. Meanwhile, a adventure at www.eonline.com played it safer, adage alone that Jackson's approaching is "still up in the air" and abacus that his role would not be absitively until the blow of the lath are in place.
So far, alone Mariah Carey has clearly active on for the 12th division of the show, which begins in January. But several names accept been befuddled into the rumor comminute as accessible judges. Among them: Kevin Jonas, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West and Enrique Iglesias.
TMZ has been advertisement that Nicki Minaj's accord to be a adjudicator is 99% done, and it appear Friday that Keith Urban is in "final agreement stages" to ample the third anticipation slot.
Simon to the rescue
In added "American Idol" news, above adjudicator Simon Cowell, accepted for his bluntness and abridgement of sentimentality, displayed a softer ancillary Wednesday.
According to a address at www.gossipcop.com, the "X Factor" adjudicator and his above girlfriend, Sinitta, heard a ache alarm from a biconcave baiter while sailing in St. Tropez.
"35ft baiter sinking. Simon has beatific us to advice and accomplishment 9 bodies on board!," Sinitta tweeted during the incident.
"Everyone ok, no one hurt. Captain won't let baiter bore ...," she continued.
Rimes sues Twitter followers
It's been a active anniversary for LeAnn Rimes.
The country accompanist acclaimed her 30th altogether Tuesday, entered analysis for all-overs and accent Wednesday and filed a accusation adjoin two of her Twitter followers Thursday.
According to www.usmagazine.com, Rimes is accusing Kimberly and Lexi Smiley of recording an Aug. 19 buzz chat after the singer's consent. Excerpts from this chat hit the Web on Thursday and, according to Rimes's advocate Larry Stein, "caused her affecting distress."
Stein said his applicant has been a victim of cyber blowing and said that the Smileys -- who reportedly are admirers of Brandi Granville, ex-wife of Rimes' husband, Eddie Cibrian -- accept been "merciless" and "vitriolic in their attacks."
In acknowledgment to the lawsuit, Kimberly Smiley, a California teacher, told Radar Online, "I'm the one who is actuality bullied." She said she planned to booty acknowledged activity adjoin Rimes.
Briefly
• Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott accustomed addition adolescent Thursday. The boy, Finn Davey, joins ancestors Jack, 13, McDermott's son from his aboriginal alliance to Mary Jo Eustace; Liam, 5; Stella, 4, and Hattie, 10 months.
• Country accompanist Miranda Lambert has awash a appearance to NBC. The detective dramedy about parents of teenagers who assignment calm as clandestine lath is based on Lambert's adolescence in Texas. The Grammy champ will aftermath the project.
• Robin Williams is in discussions to acknowledgment to television to brilliant in a David E. Kelley activity on CBS. "The Crazy Ones," a single-camera comedy, would be the Oscar winner's additional television series. He fabricated a name for himself in the ball "Mork and Mindy," which ran from 1978 to 1982.
• A altercation over the will of Sherman Hemsley, who died in July, is befitting the amateur from actuality buried. The above ball brilliant called his "beloved partner" Flora Enchinton, 56, as the sole almsman of his estate, but a man in Philadelphia who says he's Hemsley's brother is battling the will, adage he believes it ability not accept been fabricated by Hemsley. The actor's anatomy is actuality kept at an El Paso, Texas, burial home until a cloister determines whether the will is valid.
COMPILED BY ANGELA LOPEZ, FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
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1. Robin Roberts’ mother dies
Lucimarian Roberts, mother of “Good Morning America” cohost Robin Roberts, died Thursday in Mississippi at the age of 88. According to WABC-TV, she was the aboriginal African-American woman to arch the state’s lath of education.
2. Van Halen delays dates
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