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Fergie

2011-02-08T00:55:00.000-08:00

Stacy Ann Ferguson (born March 27, 1975), better known by her stage name Fergie, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, fashion designer and actress. She was a member of the children's television series Kids Incorporated, and the girl group Wild Orchid. She is the female vocalist for the hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas with whom she has attained charting success worldwide. Her own debut album spawned four Billboard Hot 100 top five singles, three of which went to number one.

Having left Wild Orchid in 2001, Ferguson joined The Black Eyed Peas. With The Black Eyed Peas, she enjoyed a series of hits and albums before releasing her debut album, The Dutchess, in September 2006 to similar success. The Black Eyed Peas enjoyed further success with the release of their third album with Ferguson; they attained their first string of Billboard Hot 100 number one songs. As Ferguson's five solo singles and six singles with the Black Eyed Peas have reached two million downloads in the United States, Ferguson is the artist with most two-million sellers as of January 2011.

Ferguson married actor Josh Duhamel in early 2009 after a five year relationship.

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Cameron Diaz

2011-02-03T07:35:00.000-08:00

Cameron Michelle Diaz (born August 30, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She gained fame in the 1990s with roles in the blockbuster films The Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding, and There's Something About Mary. Other notable film credits include Charlie's Angels, and voicing Princess Fiona in the Shrek series. Diaz received Golden Globe nominations for her performances in There's Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Vanilla Sky, and Gangs of New York.

Diaz was born in San Diego, California, the daughter of Billie (née Early), an import-export agent, and Emilio Diaz (1949-2008), who worked for the California oil company UNOCAL for more than 20 years as a field gauger. Her father, who was born in Los Angeles County, was a Cuban American whose family came from Spain via Cuba (her paternal grandparents settled in Tampa's Ybor City).[3] Her mother is of English, German, and Cherokee descent. She has two older siblings: Chimene and Michael. She attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School, where she was in the theater program for one year.

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Sandra Bullock

2011-01-22T10:44:00.000-08:00

Sandra Annette Bullock (pronounced /ˈbʊlək/; born July 26, 1964) is an American actress who rose to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as Speed and While You Were Sleeping. She has since established her career with films such as Miss Congeniality and Crash, which received critical acclaim. In 2007, she was ranked as the 14th richest female celebrity with an estimated fortune of $85 million. In 2009, Bullock starred in the most financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side. Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side.

Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Helga D. Meyer (1942–2000), a German opera singer and voice teacher, and John W. Bullock (born 1925), an Army official and part time-voice coach from Birmingham, Alabama. Bullock's maternal grandfather was a rocket scientist from Nuremberg, Germany. John Bullock, then over the Army's Military Postal Service in Europe, was stationed in Nuremberg when he met Helga Meyer.

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Britney Jean Spears

2011-01-21T12:05:00.000-08:00

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Born in McComb, Mississippi and raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album ...Baby One More Time in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks "...Baby One More Time" and "Oops!... I Did It Again" became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.

In 2001, she released her third studio album Britney and expanded her brand, playing the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, In the Zone released in 2003, which yielded chart-topping singles "Me Against the Music", "Toxic" and "Everytime". After the release of two compilation albums, Spears experienced personal struggles and her career went under hiatus. Her fifth studio album, Blackout, was released in 2007 and despite receiving little promotion, it spawned hits "Gimme More" and "Piece of Me". In 2008, her erratic behaviour and hospitalizations caused her to be placed in a conservatorship. The same year, her sixth studio album Circus was released, with the global chart-topping lead single "Womanizer". After embarking on The Circus Starring Britney Spears, she released greatest hits The Singles Collection, which featured U.S. and Canadian number-one single "3".

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

2011-01-04T09:25:00.000-08:00

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979) is an American actress, television director, voice actress, singer-songwriter, author, and film and television producer. Hewitt began her acting career as a child by appearing in television commercials and the Disney Channel series Kids Incorporated. She rose to fame in teenage popular culture in her roles in the Fox series Party of Five, as Sarah Reeves, and films I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James.

As a singer, Hewitt has been signed by Atlantic Records and Jive Records. She is primaarily known for her recordings in the pop genre. Her most successful single on the Billboard Hot 100 is the 1999 release "How Do I Deal", which peaked at No. 59. In addition, she has contributed music to the promotion or soundtracks of acting projects.

Hewitt's appearance has been the subject of media attention throughout her career. She has been lauded as one of the most attractive women in the entertainment industry by publications such as Maxim, in which she was named the sexiest woman in the world in 1999, and TV Guide, which named her the sexiest woman on television in 2008. In 2007, paparazzi photos of Hewitt on a beach led to a much-publicized matter in which she defended her weight, and was supported by other celebrities. These incidents received coverage from People magazine.

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Gayle King

2010-11-28T05:39:00.000-08:00

Gayle King (born December 28, 1954) is editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine and is the best friend of Oprah Winfrey. She has previously worked as a television news anchor and talk show host. King was also instrumental in the planning and creation of the Legends Weekend.

Personal Information

Born c. 1955, in Chevy Chase, MD; daughter of Scott (an electronics engineer) and Peggy (a homemaker) King; married Bill Bumpus (an attorney), 1982 (divorced, 1993); children: Kirby (daughter), William.
Education: Received degree from University of Maryland, c. 1977.

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Career:
Worked at WTOP-TV, Washington, DC, c. 1975; WJZ-TV, Baltimore, MD, production assistant, 1976; WDAF-TV, Kansas City, MO, 1978-81; WFSB- TV, Hartford, CT, news anchor, 1982--. Host of NBC daytime program, Cover to Cover, 1991; host of own syndicated half-hour show for Eyemark Entertainment, The Gayle King Show, 1997-98.

Life's Work

Gayle King is the well-regarded best friend of one of the most popular and financially successful personalities in television history. The Connecticut newscaster has been close pals with Oprah Winfrey since their humble beginnings at a Baltimore television station, and Winfrey often recounts "Gayle" anecdotes to her viewing audience, which numbers in the millions daily. In contrast to Winfrey, King has led a far more sedate life as a news anchor at a Hartford CBS affiliate since the early 1980s, and is a divorced mother of two. In 1997, she hosted her own half-hour nationally syndicated talk show that enjoyed a year-long run. King, the envy of many, has occasionally found herself on the receiving end of Winfrey's well-publicized generosity. As she told Jim Calio in a 1998 Redbook interview, "Who wouldn't want to be her best friend?"

King was the first of four daughters born to Scott and Peggy King. She spent several years as a child in Ankara, Turkey, where her father was stationed; he later became an electrical engineer and King enjoyed a comfortable, middle-class upbringing in Maryland. As a college student at the University of Maryland in the mid-1970s, King obtained her first job in television at WTOP-TV in Washington, DC. Though she was studying psychology at the time, she decided to pursue a career in media instead. In 1976, she was working at Baltimore's WJZ-TV as a $12,000-a-year production assistant. At the station, one of the news anchors was an unknown just a year older than King named Oprah Winfrey. King was still living at home at the time, and during a particularly bad snowstorm one evening, she faced a long and slow drive home. Winfrey invited King to bunk at her place nearby instead.

The pair gossiped about co-workers for hours that night, and became fast friends. King recalled being shocked when they went shopping together and Winfrey was able to afford two sweaters at the mall. Even though their career paths soon took them separate ways, they remained close. Each remember spending Friday nights in the late 1970s on the phone, long-distance, watching the popular nighttime soap opera Dallas simultaneously. King had been hired in 1978 by WDAF-TV in Kansas City as a news anchor. She eventually began dating a local police officer, Bill Bumpus, and the pair were wed in 1982.

King was then hired for the news team at WFSB-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, and has made the city her home since. With her husband-- who earned a law degree from nearby Yale University--she had two children in the late 1980s. King and her husband asked Winfrey to become godmother to both. By then an extremely successful talk-show host, Winfrey also helped out by contributing generously to a "nanny fund" she set up for King upon the birth of her second child. King has said that it is only because she has been able to hire a good caretaker for her children that she has successfully balanced both career and motherhood.

Since 1982 King has been co-anchor on the local news of Hartford's CBS affiliate, and has become a popular, Emmy-award winning television personality. Yet she has also achieved a more national celebrity because of Oprah: millions tune into the Oprah show daily, and the popular, personable host and the details of her life are well known to viewers. On the air, Winfrey speaks often of King as her best friend, and sometimes recounts the practical jokes she and King play upon one another. "Gayle is the reason I don't need therapy," Winfrey told People writer Samantha Miller. "People come up to me, introducing their friends to me all the time, saying 'She's my Gayle.' I wish everybody had a Gayle in their life."

There is also a downside to King's fame. "A lot of people come up to me and I know they have an agenda," King told Calio in Redbook. "They have a movie script or they need some bills paid or they need a loan." Yet network executives also saw potential in King: if she was remarkable enough to share a confidential friendship with the divine Oprah, then the viewing public might also love her. King began to be courted by production companies interested in giving her a show of her own. In 1991, she hosted a short-lived NBC newsmagazine called Cover to Cover, and in 1997, after much negotiation, found herself with her own half-hour syndicated show bearing her name.

King had it written into her contract that the show would never appear in the same time slot as Winfrey's show in any of its 200-plus markets around the country. Eyemark Entertainment, connected with the CBS network, also believed so fervently in King's drawing power they built a studio next door to WFSB in Hartford so that maintaining two jobs would be easier for her. Most daytime shows are based out of New York or Los Angeles, but King, divorced in 1993, refused to relocate because of her children, who still spend a great deal of time with their father.

The Gayle King Show debuted in September of 1997. Winfrey, not surprisingly, was a big help to King on a number of matters, advising her about her on-screen wardrobe and even offering critical assessments of the set furniture and theme song. When Winfrey told King that some publicity shots were unacceptable, King heeded her advice and had them redone. But when Winfrey told her to get rid of one particular chair and confessed she hated King's theme music, King had the chair shipped out to Winfrey in Chicago with a computer chip in its seat so that when Winfrey sat on it, the theme music played. Winfrey also helped King and her show in other ways. After a month on the air, Winfrey and Graham, a notoriously reclusive romantic pair, allowed themselves to be jointly interviewed by King on the air. Graham came to the Hartford studio, while Winfrey appeared via a satellite hookup. The satellite linking made television history as the first instance when two daytime talk shows had gone on the air together.

The Gayle King Show enjoyed a year-long run, but suffered the fate of many personality-driven chat shows that glutted the airwaves in the mid-1990s, and its cancellation was announced in the spring of 1998. Though it was picked up for renewal by 85 percent of the affiliates, ratings had remained too low. King still appears on the 5:30 p.m. newscast on WFSB. Though Winfrey once offered her friend a seven- figure sum to come and work for her thriving production company in Chicago, King turned it down--again, because of her children.

For fun, King regularly visits Winfrey in Chicago or at the star's digs in Florida, all expenses paid; as the best friend of the richest woman in the entertainment industry (with an estimated wealth of $550 million in 1997, according to the Forbes 400 list), King is no longer astonished that Winfrey can buy what she wants at the mall. "People always amaze me by asking, 'Aren't you jealous of Oprah?'" King told Ladies Home Journal writer Audrey Edwards. "I say, 'Why would I be?' I'm happy with my own life, and I'm so thrilled for her. When I visit Oprah I'm wined and dined and chauffeured around in a limo. And when I come home and can't remember where I parked the car at the airport or trip over the kids' toys, I think the visit was great, but I really like my life, too."

Awards

Emmy Award for newscasting.

Jane Lynch

2010-11-27T05:23:00.000-08:00

Jane Lynch (born July 14, 1960) is an American comedian, actress and singer. She is known for her roles in comedies such as Best in Show, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Role Models, as well as for her recurring roles as lawyer Joyce Wischina in The L Word, Dr. Linda Freeman, Charlie's sarcastic therapist on Two and a Half Men and as Spencer Reid's mother Diana Reid on Criminal Minds. She was also a regular on the comedy-drama series Party Down as Constance Carmell; the role garnered her positive critical response. Since 2009 she played Sue Sylvester in the Fox musical-comedy series Glee for which she has won an Emmy Award.

Early life:

Lynch was born and raised in Dolton, Illinois, the daughter of a homemaker mother and a banker father. She was raised in an Irish Catholic family and attended Thornridge High School.[3] She received her bachelor's degree in theatre from Illinois State University and her MFA in theatre from Cornell University. She lived in Chelsea for a year and a half.

Personal life:

Lynch, who is openly lesbian, married clinical psychologist Dr. Lara Embry on May 31, 2010 at the Blue Heron Restaurant in Sunderland, Massachusetts. Embry herself received much publicity surrounding a custody battle over two children with her former partner

Meghan McCain

2010-11-26T19:47:00.000-08:00

Meghan Marguerite McCain (born October 23, 1984) is an American columnist, author, and blogger. She is the daughter of U.S. Senator John McCain and Cindy Hensley McCain. McCain first received media attention in 2007 for her blog, McCain Blogette, on which she documented life on the campaign trail and mused about fashion, music, and pop culture. In January 2009, she became a contributing author for The Daily Beast.

Meghan McCain arrives at Perez Hilton's 'OMFB' 31st Birthday Party held at The Viper Room on March 28, 2009 in West Hollywood, California.

Meghan McCain writes a weekly column for the website/blog THE DAILY BEAST. Prior to joining THE DAILY BEAST McCain worked on her father's 2008 Presidential campaign where she created the website McCainblogette.com which provided a very personal inside look at daily life on the campaign trail. Over the course of 2 years, she traveled with her father to every one of the 48 continental United States. McCain has previously written for Newsweek Magazine and during college worked at Saturday Night Live. She is a New York Times best selling children's book author for "My Father: John McCain". McCain is a 2007 graduate of Columbia University and currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona.

LeAnn Rimes

2010-11-25T11:48:00.000-08:00

LeAnn Rimes (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her work in country music. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to country music singer Patsy Cline, and her rise to fame at the age of 13, becoming the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972.

Rimes made her breakthrough into country music in 1996. Her debut album, Blue, reached Number 1 on the Top Country Albums chart and was certified "multi-platinum" in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album's lead single of the same name (originally intended to be recorded by Patsy Cline in the early 1960s) became a Top 10 hit. With immediate success, Rimes attained widespread national acclaim for her similarities to Cline's vocal style. When Rimes released her sophomore studio effort in 1997, You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs, Rimes went more towards country pop material, which would set the trend for a string of albums that would be released into the next decade.

Since her debut, Rimes has won many major industry awards, which include two Grammys, three ACMs, one CMA, twelve Billboard Music Awards, and one American Music award.[4] In addition, Rimes has also released ten studio albums and four compilation albums through her record label of 13 years, Asylum-Curb, and placed over 40 singles on American and international charts since 1996. She has sold over 50 million albums worldwide.*

Music career:

* 1996: Blue
* 1997-2001: Pop crossover and Worldwide Success
* 2002-2004: I Need You, Twisted Angel, Greatest Hits
* 2005-2006: Return to country; This Woman
* 2007-2009: Family
* 2010-present: Lady And Gentlemen

Musicianship:

* Vocal ability and musical stylings
* Influences

Discography:

Independent albums

    * 1991: Everybody's Sweetheart
    * 1992: From My Heart to Yours
    * 1994: All That

Studio albums

    * 1996: Blue
    * 1997: Unchained Melody: The Early Years
    * 1997: You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs
    * 1998: Sittin' on Top of the World
    * 1999: LeAnn Rimes
    * 2001: I Need You
    * 2002: Twisted Angel
    * 2005: This Woman
    * 2006: Whatever We Wanna
    * 2007: Family
    * 2010: Lady and Gentlemen

Compilation albums

    * 2001: God Bless America
    * 2003: Greatest Hits
    * 2004: The Best of LeAnn Rimes
    * 2004: What a Wonderful World

Filmography:

1997 - Holiday in Your Heart
1998 - Days of Our Lives
2000 - Coyote Ugly
2003 - American Dreams
2004 - Extreme Makeover Home Edition
2006 - Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes
2008 - Good Intentions
2009 - Northern Lights
2009 - I Get That a Lot

Heidi Montag

2010-11-18T09:28:00.000-08:00

Heidi Blair Montag (born September 15, 1986) is an American reality television personality. She is known for starring on the former MTV reality series The Hills. At one point, the series, which aired from May 2006 through July 2010, followed the life of her former friend and housemate, Lauren Conrad, then later followed Kristin Cavallari, another friend to Montag.

Growing up in Crested Butte, Colorado, population 1635, Heidi Montag is a story-book example of the small town girl making it big and living the “American Dream” in Hollywood.

Born Heidi Blair Montag on September 15, 1986, Montag attended one semester at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where she met MTV’s “Laguna Beach” star Lauren Conrad. It was Conrad who brought her onto the reality TV scene in 2005 during Season 2 of popular reality show when she accompanied Conrad back to Orange County. Her friendship with Conrad and further studies at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) led to a featured role in the spin-off reality show, “The Hills.”

After leaving FDIM in the fall of 2005, Montag began working at event production company, Bolthouse Productions. Over the course of two years, she was promoted to event planner, met the love of her life, Spencer Pratt, and got fired and re-hired – all of which was caught on camera. Montag recently completed her sixth season of “The Hills.”

In addition to her career in television, Montag is a musician, fashion designer, aspiring actress. In April 2009, Montag debuted her fashion line, Heidiwood, at the Hollywood and Highland shopping center fashion show in Hollywood, California. She collaborated with producer David Foster on her first single “Body Language” which was featured on her debut LP titled “Superficial” release January 15, 2010.

During The Hills, Montag began dating then-cast member Spencer Pratt. In November 2008, the couple eloped in Mexico, though they later married in the United States in April 2009. In July 2010, Montag filed for divorce, after fifteen months of marriage to Pratt. However, the couple later called off the divorce.

Starting in 2007, she engaged in a financially unsuccessful music career.

Career:

* 2005–2010: Beginnings on The Hills
* 2007–2010: Early music career and fashion line
* 2010–present: Continued music career, post-Hills career and bankruptcy

Early life and family:

Pacquiao vs Margarito

2010-11-15T23:31:00.000-08:00

MANNY PACQUIAO		ANTONIO MARGARITO
31 years 11 months	Age Fight Night	32 Years 8 Months
5-6 ½	Height	5-11
67 ½ inches	Reach	73 inches
38 inches	Chest Normal	40 inches
41 inches	Chest Expanded	42 inches
13 inches	Biceps	14 inches
12 inches	Forearm	11 ½ inches
28 inches	Waist	32 ½ inches
28 inches	Thigh	32 ½ inches
15 inches	Calf	14 ½ inches
16 inches	Neck	16 inches
8 inches	Wrist	7 ½ inches
10 inches	Fist	11 inches
Southpaw	Stance	Orthodox
51-3-2	Record	38-6-0
38	Knockouts	27

Manny Pacquiao faces Antonio Margarito Jr. on November 13 at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas in a 12-round Junior Middleweight title match. Philippine Congressman Pacquiao is perhaps the most exciting fighter of his time. He has beaten some of the big names in his ascent to boxing superstardom but he should not take his upcoming match with Margarito lightly.

The disgraced boxer who is also known as ‘the Tijuana Tornado’ is the hungrier one and can present unique challenges to Pacquiao. Margarito is known for his unrelenting attack which Pacquiao may not have experienced in recent fights. Joshua Clottey is one classic example of a fighter who fought not to lose and just survive the rounds. Unlike the virtual punching bag Clottey, Margarito will be redy to mix it up and trade punches with the much smaller Pacquiao.

After more than a year of ring inactivity due to a suspension for illegal hand wraps, Margarito is aching to get back in the ring to redeem himself. His size and power advantage can be put to use if Margarito executes a good game plan.

Margarito will surely not go down with a single knockout punch like Ricky Hatton. It will take more than a haymaker from Pacquiao to chop down the taller Margarito.

Pacquiao has not faced an opponent this hungry and this big. Yet trainer Freddie Roach and promoter Bob Arum are saying that this has not been the best training camp for the Filipino boxing icon because of so many distractions.

Manny Pacquiao would still be a betting favorite on fight night but Antonio Margarito is no pushover. This could very well be the Filipino Congressman’s last fight. A fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. may be what we want to see next but it may take a miracle for Floyd to sign up.

Source: http://www.sportsnewscaster.com/

For the '8th'

Arum said Pacquiao will face Margarito for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight championship in Las Vegas if the Mexican is able to get a license to fight in Nevada.

Should Pacquiao beat Margarito, he will become the 1st boxer to win 8 world titles in 8 divisions.

Margarito, a former world welterweight champion, was suspended last year by the California State Athletic Commission after he was caught with a plaster-like substance in his hand wraps prior to his bout against Shane Mosley on January 2009.

“Putting aside the controversy about the wraps, the one thing you know for sure with a Margarito fight is that it will be a hell of a fight for however long it lasts,” said Arum.

“Margarito knows only one way to fight and that’s coming forward. They’re going to get in there and fight. That’s what people want to see,” he added.

If Margarito fails to get a license in Nevada, the fight will be held in Monterrey, Mexico.

The bout will be offered on HBO pay-per-view (PPV).

Willing to face Margarito
Pacquiao earlier said he is very much willing to face Margarito, despite the Mexican champ’s height advantage.

Margarito, who stands 5-foot-11, enjoys a 6-inch reach advantage over the 5-foot-6 Filipino boxer.

“Maganda ‘yun (That's good),” Pacquiao told ABS-CBN correspondent Dyan Castillejo when asked about his possible clash with Margarito.

He added that he has no qualms about climbing weight to face the Mexican.
Antonio Margarito being interviewed by ABS-CBN's Dyan Castillejo during the Pacquiao-Clottey fight last March.

“[Lalabanan ko siya sa] 150-147 pounds. Mga ganoon (I'll probably fight him at 150-147 pounds. Around that weight),” he said.

The Fighter of the Decade added that he is also open to the possibility that he might slug it out with Margarito in Mexico, should the Mexican fail to secure a boxing license in Nevada.

“Walang problema. Excited din ako lumaban sa Mexico, first time ako lalaban doon (No problem. I'm excited to fight in Mexico, it will be the first time I'd fight there),” said Pacquiao.

Finalizing the deal
In a separate report by SI.com (Sports Illustrated), Arum said he plans on finalizing the deal with Pacquiao next week.

Arum said Pacquiao's Canadian adviser Michael Koncz will lay out the terms of deal to the Filipino.

"Making a deal won't be a problem," said Arum. "We'll get it done."

Bristol Palin

2010-11-14T10:39:00.000-08:00

Bristol Sheeran Marie Palin (born October 18, 1990) is the second child and eldest daughter of the 11th Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd. After Bristol became a teenage single parent, she began to publicly advocate sexual abstinence for unmarried teens, is now a paid speaker on the subject of teen pregnancy and joined the Fall 2010 season of Dancing with the Stars.

Bristol Palin is the daughter of former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Bristol Palin is 18 and a mother.

The announcement of a pregnant Bristol Palin came the same week as the September 2008 RNC. Great PR.

Bristol's father is Todd Palin and she has four siblings: Willow, Piper, Trig and Track Palin. The name of her baby's daddy has also now been revealed: He's an 18-year-old high school hockey player and self-proclaimed redneck named Levi Johnston.

The couple, who got engaged on more than one occasion and are now broken up, is the proud parents to Tripp Johnston. Bristol has admitted that being a teenage mom isn't ideal - but as Sarah Palin has said about the situation, "hey, life happens."

This is especially true when you don't teach your kids about contraception. Just sayin.

Bristol has proven to love attention almost as much as her mother: she's exploited her pregnancy for fame and fortune, actually competing, for example, on season 11 of Dancing with the Stars. We'll still awaiting word on what makes her a star.

Music video

In 2010, Palin was featured in the Alaskan rock band Static Cycle's music video "Inside This World of Mine", wearing a matching mink coat and hat with a glass encased rose

Bret Michaels

2010-11-10T07:49:00.000-08:00

Bret Michaels is, if nothing else, a true survivor. He has survived a lifelong battle as an insulin dependent diabetic, a well publicized near fatal car crash in 1994 and the countless musical trends and fads of the last two decades.

"As soon as I ever start to just go through the motions I'll quit," confessed the 45 year old singer, songwriter, producer, director and actor in a recent interview. But there's little chance he'll even slow down let alone quit anytime soon. In fact, after more than 20 years in the business this award winning, multi platinum superstar's career continues to move at warp speed.

As front man for the legendary rock band Poison, Michaels has sold 25 million records and scored an amazing 15 chartbusting Top 40 singles including "Talk Dirty to Me," "Something to Believe In," "Nothing But a Good Time" and the timeless #1 smash "Every Rose Has its Thorn."

And in the new millennium Poison's music has been featured in such big screen flicks as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "Grandma's Boy" and "Deuce Bigelow-European Gigolo." They continue to be one of the industry's top grossing concert attractions and their 2006 "20 Years of Rock" CD was a bona fide Top 20 gold smash. Poison's most recent CD is 2007's "Poison'D" an album of cover songs that have influenced the band members over the years.

Michaels has also produced and written material for other artists including Stevie Nicks. He wrote and produced the song "Love's a Hard Game to Play" which appeared on Nicks' platinum album "Timespace: The Best Of Stevie Nicks." More recently Michaels could be heard providing background vocals along with Phil Vassar on the Kenny Chesney/Uncle Kracker duet single "Last Night Again."

In the mid-90s Michaels formed a film production company with actor Charlie Sheen. The partnership ultimately led to Michaels writing, directing and starring in several films including "A Letter From Death Row" which he executive co-produced with Sheen.

As an actor, Michaels has made regular appearances on such hit television shows as "Yes Dear," "Martial Law," and "The Chris Isaak Show." And he has also co-hosted "Access Hollywood" and been a judge on the wildly popular "Nashville Star" program. Recently, Michaels has played for charity on "Don't Forget the Lyrics" winning $250,000 for St. Jude's Children's Hospital and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Setting his musical sights beyond Poison, Michaels released his debut solo album "Songs of Life" in 2003 followed by the rootsy, Americana flavored sophomore record "Freedom of Sound" in 2005. The current release, "Rock My World" was released in June 2008 and features a collection of Bret Michaels' solo songs that have been featured on the "Rock Of Love" television series.

"Rock of Love with Bret Michaels" has been a enormous ratings winner for Vh1. The series has became the highest rated series on Vh1 and consistently won its time slot when aired, including multiple airings. Michaels is currently filming a third installment of the series aptly titled "Rock of Love Bus with Bret Michaels" as the singer is taking the show on the road this time.

"I would play music whether I made it or not," Michaels told a journalist in 2002 and it's that commitment to his art that continues to keep him at the forefront of the entertainment industry.

Fast Facts

* 25 Million Albums Sold
* Lead Singer / Songwriter with Poison for 22 Years
* Diabetic since Age 6
* Won a 2008 BMI Award for "Go That Far"
* Had Highest Rated Series on Vh1 with Rock of Love
* 15 Top 40 Hits
* Also an Actor, Director, Screen Writer, Producer
* Father of two daughters