Just days after celebrating their 9th anniversary, Amy Poehler and Will Arnett announced that they are separating. Their rep told Us Weekly “It’s very amicable,” but did not elaborate what went wrong.
Besides having shared several movies and TV appearances to remember their relationship, they also have two sons Archie, 3, and Abel, 2 together.
BTW things just got interesting on the CBS Radford lot because her show Parks & Recreation and his show Up All Night both tape on the same small lot. Can you imagine how awkward it will be when they run into each other there? Forget Hot in Cleveland (that also tapes there) it’s Hot in Studio City!!!
Before Nelly was singing Hot In Here by himself, he was singing Gimme What U Got with the St Lunatics. How cute was the 22 year old in that 1997 video?
Nelly is one of the four big named mentors along with Joe Jonas, John Rich and Gloria Estefan on The CW’s The Next that airs Thursdays at 9p and being a mentor and not a judge is why he signed on to do this singing competition show. I recently attended a press day with him and here what he said about that, “One of the things I like about it, is that we are not judging. I think that is the biggest thing for me. I do not feel comfortable saying, ‘you should be star’ and ‘you shouldn’t be a star’. I wouldn’t have liked that if someone told me that. I think the fact that we are trying to help artists that have already laid ground for themselves. I think that is the biggest thing.” He then added, “I wish I would’ve had that opportunity sometimes. Maybe things would’ve been a little different. But I am cool with who I am.”
The contestants on this show get 72 hours alone with the musicians and they get to ask their mentors anything they want. Nelly shared with us his advice to anyone who wants to be a singer who will not be able to spend three days alone with him. He said, “You have to love this game first and foremost. You see I don’t think a lot of people love this game as much as they think they love it. I think they love the idea of being in it. I think they love the idea of what comes along with entertainment and the business, but I don’t think they truly love the music. Because if you do then you would continuously do it whether you have made it or not.” He takes his advice to hearty because he added, “That is something I would do whether I got a deal or not. I would still do music. It may not be on such a grand scale, but I would still be involved in music.”
So what has he learned in the almost 13 years since he got his start. He said, “I learned it’s a hard road. I learned that hard work is inevitable. There’s no way of getting around it without the hard work. That is why I like this show because a lot of these people have already laid the hard work down.”
So what has The Next done for him personally, he said “You rekindle what it was for you when you were trying to get on. You reflect back to, wow I was in that position. I was asking those questions. I felt the same way.” He then added, “It makes you reflect, you know what, I was in that position. Damn, I was living in a small apartment like this and I was working at UPS.” He then shared, “It is also an appreciation of the love the people have for this game that you are in and makes you appreciate everything you have done and being here.”
So what is up for him next? His seventh album M.O. is due out this fall and the first single Marry Go Round is already climbing the charts.
Can’t wait for M.O. to come out then you can watch him every Thursday on Next at 9p on The CW!
Toddlers & Tiaras has gone to Vegas and you know what that means, we get a female impersonator judging the competition. I don’t know why that doesn’t happen more often on the TLC show because if you think about the toddlers are basically Drag Queens. They put on dresses they would never ever wear in their daily lives. They wear more makeup than the average woman who is going out on a first date. Plus they strut around and put on a show for an audience. So basically these little girls are Drag Queens without one thing. So again I ask why doesn’t this happen all the time???
Jack and Grace, I mean Sean Hayes and Debra Messing are working together on a NBC show for the first time in 6 years and I am confused by what show it is for after seeing these pictures of their reunion. Hayes is the Executive Producer of Grimm who is guest starring on Messing’s show Smash, but the way she going after his neck it looks like she should be on his show instead of the other way around. Unless Smash is taking a much different direction this season since Vampires are so much hotter than singing shows on TV this year? Maybe they are modernizing Marilyn and we find out she really didn’t die in 1962 but instead was turned into a Vampire who works as her own impersonator who kills off her competition by bleeding them dry? Of course it is still a musical because you can’t go too far away from the original plot of the show. I’m in, are you?
