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Cee Lo Green's small change to the lyrics to John Lennon's song "Imagine" is causing a very big uproar.
Charged with singing Lennon's famous solo-era tune on NBC's New Year's Eve show shortly before the ball dropped in Times Square , Green changed the lyrics from "Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too" to "Nothing to kill or die for, And all religion's true."
The change didn't go unnoticed, and to preempt criticism, he soon tweeted, "Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys! I was trying to say a world were u could believe what u wanted that's all."
That did little to comfort angered Lennon fans, who lashed out over Twitter. Watch the performance below and then read the angry exchanges over Twitter.
The show will have a different celebrity host each episode, MTV recently revealed and among them are: Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Kellan Lutz, "Jackass" star Bam Margera and "Punk'd" alum Dax Shepard, who currently stars on "Parenthood."
Now that it's 2012, the pranks, MTV claims, are funnier, bigger and better. Plus, viewers will now get to see what goes on behind-the-scenes to pull off a successful "punk," if you will. "There's a new generation of unsuspecting suckers just waiting to be 'Punk'd' by their famous friends, and fans will once again have a front row seat to see the shock on the faces of their favorite celebs," Van Toffler President MTVN Music Group, LOGO and Film, said in a statement.
Watch below to see Cyrus, with the help of her friend Kelly Osbourne, pull one over on Khloe Kardashian. When the middle Kardashian sister come over to Cyrus's house on this "Punk'd" sneak peek, they order in some food and the delivery guy asks to use the bathroom, only to find himself in a bit of a situation.
"He's caught his balls in the zipper of his pants," Kardashian tells 911 when she see's what's up down below. Find out how she handles his very "Something About Mary" predicament!
Still, even the notion of total earthly destruction got us thinking: if we had just one year left, what would we want to have happen in the world of entertainment? We'd sure need some distractions, and there are plenty of things we've either been waiting to see go down for years now, or just find too amusing to not include on a list of things we desperately want to occur.
Here's a sampling of our dream list; add your own in the comments! And Happy New Year!
As promised, CNN's New Year's Eve special with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin proved just as entertaining as years past.
Though Griffin didn't drop the f-bomb or try to undress Cooper on air, she did attempt to humiliate her co-host in other ways.
When the show came back from a commercial break, Griffin appeared on air just in her bra. "Are you kidding me? Are you serious?" Cooper said. Griffin proceeded to dance around in her bra, and professed that she had a crush on CNN pundit David Gergen.
Another highlight of the evening occurred after CNN ran a clip of the Green Goblin from the Broadway show "Spider-Man" "hijacking" the New Year's Eve show and kidnapping Cooper. Cooper failed to reason with the Green Goblin, and was eventually saved by Spider-Man. "They need you back in Times Square," Spider-Man told Cooper after saving him.
The clip came, well, out of nowhere, and Griffin could not contain her obvious bewilderment. "I'm giving you the slow clap," Griffin said after the clip finished. "[Like] at the end of every high school football movie where the guy with one leg comes out and gets a touch down. I don't even know...I'm trying to follow the story line. Have you been abducted by a goblin?"
She added, "If you think you're ever going to live this down-- and don't act like putting you arm around me makes this better."
Watch the video of Cooper getting kidnapped by the Green Goblin and Griffin stripping below:
(via moxnews.com)
While you were pouring one out for 2011 and taking many in for 2012 with friends and family on Saturday night, New York City's Times Square and Hollywood were packed with star-studded performances.
From Justin Bieber's surprising "Let It Be" duet with Carlos Santana to Cee Lo's controversial "Imagine" performance to will.i.am (and his head on many iPads) virtually singing "T.H.E. (The Hardest Thing)," the evening was full of surprising songs and dances to ring in the New Year.
Plus, watch Lady Gaga and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg countdown to 2012 and pucker up to eat other.
Many people wonder who they'll kiss at midnight at New Year's Eve and one New York City cop found himself locking lips with actress Jenny McCarthy when the ball dropped in Times Square.
McCarthy, who was an on-air correspondent for "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest," found herself next to a police officer at the stroke of midnight, and, following the tradition to share a kiss to ring in the new year, she decided to get friendly with one of New York's Finest.
"I just happened to be standing with that hot cop," she later explained to Seacrest about the smooch, which was most definitely captured on camera in the early moments of 2012.
And yes, the police officer rated McCarthy's kiss a "10."
Check out the video of McCarthy's New Year's Eve kiss (via Mediaite) below!
In a true New York City pairing, Lady Gaga and Mayor Michael Bloomberg shared a smooch in front of billions as they brought the New Year's ball down to start 2012. It was a delightful peck that provided the highlight of what was a bizarre sight, with the pop star in her sequined mask and the mayor in a sweater embroidered with the American flag.
It's important to note that the two weren't just randomly thrown together, either; Bloomberg chose Gaga as his ball drop partner a few days earlier, meaning that he must have had some sort of previous friendship. Which, of course, got us wondering: what exactly were they saying to each other up there? Gaga won't tell us; she tweeted, "I cant even quite describe what tonight felt like. Sort of poetic madness. A dream come true. Moments recalling a leather taking the subway."
Well then. Since we'll never know, we decided to come up with some likely conversation ourselves.
Though 2011's "Bridesmaids" brought Wilson Phillips back into the spotlight thanks to their cameo performance, Carnie Wilson still has a lot to look forward to in 2012. With her episode of "Celebrity Wife Swap" airing on Jan. 3, a new reality show set to air in April and upcoming tour dates with Wilson Phillips, the singer has big things planned for the year ahead.
"I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really [a] struggle," she told Fox about trying to keep a healthy lifestlye, adding, "I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision. Am I going to eat healthy today or am I going to make some sh**ty decisions?"
Wilson continued to reveal that her sobriety hasn't helped curb her obsessive and addictive personality.
"I always think I am one of the the millions and millions of people that struggles with an addiction to food," she said. "I don't know how to relax, that's my problem. I can't smoke a joint, I can't have a glass of wine, because I want 10 joints and 10 glasses of wine."
This isn't the first time in recent years that Wilson has commented on her own weight.
"I'm fat as f**k, what can I say?" she told "Naughty But Nice With Rob" host Rob Shuter last year. "You know, after all these years, it's just like we are who we are and it's a struggle for me and sometimes I'm heavier and sometimes I'm thinner."
But it's not just her own weight that Wilson worries about these days. She keeps an eye on her six-year-old daughter, Lola.
"I see Lola loving sugar like all the other children but I also see her pay a little more attention like when there's a birthday party, I see her being the first in line to get the cake. I see me in her," Wilson told Fox, adding, "I think she's going to be alright as long as we're in control of this."
Whether you are vowing to do something better, get thinner or give more in 2012, celebrities can relate.
TV stars have been sharing their New Year's resolutions in recent weeks and many have ones we can identify with: Lea Michele, who plays irritating perfectionist Rachel Berry on "Glee," said she hopes to challenge herself this year, while "Mad Men" sexiest star Christina Hendricks plans to give back in this year.
But, there are a few who are going out of the box with their 2012 vows. From TV producer J.J. Abrams' surprising hope to Rob Kardashian's sock-centric aspirations, see which small screen stars' resolutions make them "just like us" and which are totally Hollywood.
On New Year's Day, So You Think You Can Dance executive producer Nigel Lythgoe (you know, the one who looks like Michael Caine in Austin Powers, but more orange) announced via Twitter that Fox has canceled the results show portion of his reality dance competition show. To be honest, I really couldn't care less about SYTYCD (unless it was The Bachelor), but my predisposition to hate Fox and everything they stand for leads me to be extremely outraged by this news. I mean, sure, I never watch the results show anyway, and I think it's pretty much a waste of an hour of television and an excuse for host Cat Deeley to wear one more ridiculously shiny dress each week, but if Dancing with the Stars and American Idol get to have boring, superfluous results shows, then SYTYCD deserves to have one too. This is especially true when you consider the fact that the SYTYCD results show is actually mildly important because it's where the dancers with the lowest number of votes have to "dance for their lives," after which the judges decide who will be sent home. Take that, Ryan Seacrest and your insufferably dramatic dragging-out of an announcement that could have been made in a telegram!
This is one of the only things that I really like about SYTYCD, because unlike its singing-oriented sister show American Idol, the dancers sent home are ultimately chosen by the judges, who are actually good at what they do, despite often appearing to be rather batty. The viewers still maintain some form of power in that their votes determine who is in the bottom every week, but as we've seen in the past, American can't always be trusted to vote for the right people (see: Taylor Hicks), so it's nice to have judges who actually do something other than make suggestive comments to underage contestants and promote their own upcoming albums. By eliminating the results show, Fox is changing the format of SYTYCD, which could either help or hurt the show's already struggling ratings. However they manage to retool the format of SYTYCD, I hope it still gives the judges the final say on who stays and who goes home.
The new setup might actually be good news for the contestants, who will have one less routine to learn each week, since the results show typically features a group number with all the dancers. On the downside, without the results show, where will we get to watch Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull perform their latest pop/reggaeton crossover hit? (Okay, so I may have actually watched one or two episodes of the results show.)
For the most part, I'm just upset that the only good reality dancing competition show is in danger of being canceled. (Granted, I'm not sure how likely it is that Fox would cancel the show altogether, but it's obviously at risk if they're making such a dramatic change.) SYTYCD is the one show that features talented dancers, well-choreographed routines (it's won four Emmys for Outstanding Choreography), and most importantly, no D-list celebrities trying to do the Cha-Cha.
I'll be interested to see what Fox puts in SYTYCD's time slot instead. At least the SYTYCD results show already had a built-in audience, even if it wasn't a huge one. What are they so sure will perform better on Thursday nights? Unless it's new episodes of Firefly, I'm pretty sure I won't be tuning in.
