Mary J. Blige sparkled in all black while performing “Stronger” on “The Late Show with David Letterman” on Wednesday. The ballad can be found on the More Than a Game soundtrack, as well as MJB’s forthcoming album.

Amerie and an army of Lady Gaga look-a-likes get busy in the futuristic, post-apocalyptic video for “Heard ‘Em All,” the second single from her new album In Love & War. Director Anthony Mandler (“Disturbia,” “Run This Town”) applies his golden touch.

Here is Kanye West & Amber Rose out last night in L.A. @ Capitol Sports Bar. She always looks good I must say. I'm talking about Amber kidz, you guys are a mess...... and I love it!!!

So Rick Ross allegedly got jacked for his jewels…again. But this time by some strippers. Check out this video of him in a Nashville hotel lobby after a performance looking like he’s about to go get it in with these women of class:

After crushing Elvis in his blue suede shoes last week, Jay-Z retains the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 with The Blueprint 3. This week also features notable debuts from Kid Cudi and Drake.


Jay’s 11th studio album The Blueprint 3 moved 298,000 copies (down 37% from 476,000) in its second week, propelled by high-profile appearances on the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards and “The Jay Leno Show.”

Whitney Houston held strong and did not crumble as her comeback album I Look to You rose one spot to No. 2 with a healthy 156,000, up 77% from the week before. She can thank her much-publicized appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” for the boost. I Look to You has sold 548,000 copies to date.

Not even Kanye West’s VMA tantrum could deter fans from picking up ’Ye’s protégé Kid Cudi’s debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, which lands at No. 4 with 104,000 units.

Buzz so big, he could even repackage and sell a mixtape. Drake’s seven-song EP, So Far Gone, makes its way in at No. 6 with 73,000, setting the bar high for his full-length debut Thank Me Later, due in early 2010.

Kid Cudi fans probably noticed that the rapper’s Twitter page mysteriously disappeared shortly before his album release. Mr. Solo Dolo shed some light on what may have led to the deletion.


Cudi’s desire for more privacy contributed to the dismantling of his Twitter account and blog. “I always have strange numbers calling my phone, and e-mails too,” he tells Rap-Up.com. “My last e-mail got hacked. However, I hate the fact that you can have on one device about eight different ways for someone to contact you. If you think about it, it’s kinda creepy.”

“I have an iPhone and I don’t even utilize all of the applications on it. Just alone on an iPhone you can have multiple e-mails—I have two e-mails—text messaging, some people have AIM on there, MySpace, Facebook—and I don’t even have those things.”

All the technology was getting too much for the “Day ‘N’ Nite” hitmaker. “With Twitter, my two e-mails, text messaging, and my phone ringing, that’s just overwhelming. And you gotta think of it like this, what did they do before there were cell phones? Use a pay phone or write a letter. Or you catch ’em at the crib.”

The 25-year-old MC wants to go back to the old-school days when it was harder to reach people. “I think I want to take it back to that. Sometimes it just shouldn’t be that easy for you to get in contact with me.”

Janet Jackson, in an indigo jumpsuit, touched down at Malpensa Airport in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. She is there to chair amfAR’s inaugural benefit for AIDS research held in conjunction with Milan Fashion Week on September 28.

“We are profoundly grateful to Janet Jackson for joining amfAR as a chair of its first event in Milan,” said amfAR’s CEO Kevin Robert Frost. “She brings incomparable grace and a history of dedication to the fight against AIDS.”

How many Beckys can you count in the video for Plies’ first single off his fourth album in a little over two years, Goon Affiliated?

Kid Cudi performed “Day ‘N’ Nite” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday. His debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 with over 100,000 copies.

Despite injuring her hand a couple days earlier, Mya made her “Dancing with the Stars” debut on Tuesday, dancing the Viennese Waltz to the tune of Mariah Carey’s “Vision of Love.” She and partner Dmitry Chaplin received mixed reviews from the judges, but later won the relay competition.

How far do you think Miss Mya will go? Watch her performance below.

Rihanna stepped out in NYC today rocking the new perforated thigh high boots by Stella McCartney that folks have been drooling over for fall. She and her vampy lipstick showed off the extra blonde streaks in her hair and an interesting gray dress. Ri-Ri can't ever do any wrong!!

Let the catfighting begin!

Heather Locklear is reprising her most famous role, ad exec Amanda Woodward, as she returns to Melrose Place on an episode scheduled to air Nov. 17, the CW announced on Tuesday.

“We’re ecstatic to have the chance to bring Amanda Woodward back to Melrose Place,” executive producers Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer said in a press release. “Heather’s involvement in the show is something we’ve been working on for some time as we couldn’t imagine creating and producing this show without the iconic character’s inclusion.”
DIDNTINVITEME first reported last month that the actress, 47, was in talks to appear on the show. Locklear joined the original Melrose Place during its first season, and remained until it went off the air in 1999.

There’s no word on how long Locklear’s stint on the show will last. Other stars from the original series who will be returning to the CW re-vamp include Laura Leighton, Thomas Calabro, Josie Bissett and Daphne Zuniga.

Kevin Federline is about to slim down.

The father of four, who was married to Britney Spears, is joining the cast of Celebrity Fit Club, a rep for VH1 confirms to DIDNTINVITEME

Also appearing on the seventh season of the show will be Federline's ex-girlfriend (and the mother of two of his kids) Shar Jackson, according to a source.

Federline, a former backup dancer, has been lambasted in the press for putting on weight since his split from Spears three years ago.

The newest season of Celebrity Fit Club premieres on VH1 Feb. 14, 2010.

Sarah Michelle Prinze and husband Freddie Prinze Jr. are parents, DIDNTINVITEME has learned exclusively.

The couple "welcomed their daughter Charlotte Grace Prinze on Saturday, Sept. 19," says a rep for the actress. "The family is over the moon."

This is the first child for the couple, who revealed that they were expecting back in April.

Freddie Prinze Jr. will star on the upcoming season of 24. Sarah Michelle recently changed her last name from Gellar to Prinze.

Here's some good footage of Bey performing a couple of her hits at the Summer Sonic '09 event in Japan. Check it out and make sure you catch the video of her moving moment with a young girl with cancer that she spotted in the audience and invited up on stage for the last song!

Amerie inhabits a dark, post-apocalyptic world in the video for “Heard ’Em All,” the second single off In Love & War (Nov. 3) directed by Anthony Mandler (“Run This Town”).

“I didn’t want to do in-the-jungle tribal ’cause I did that with ‘Touch’ before,” she told DINTINVITEME of the concept. “We did post-apocalyptic tribalism, that kind of society and human digression. It’s very cinematic.”

One of the most anticipated R&B albums of the year is only a few months away, but details have remained scarce until now. Singer-songwriter Ester Dean is dropping a few hints from her recording sessions with Usher.


The “Drop It Low” hitmaker was called in to write with the R&B superstar for his new album Monster. She spent a couple days with him in a Las Vegas studio over the summer. “Lots of food, lots of fun music,” she tells Rap-Up.com about the experience. “And he’s cute!”

Dean discovered that she and Usher had a lot in common. “I knew Usher wrote songs, but we wrote just alike. It was so smooth,” she says. “I was like, ‘Dang! This is cool.’”

From what she heard, Ursh is returning to a sound reminiscent of his 2004 Confessions album. “He sound like he going back to the ‘Burn’ [records]—those good, great songs that he do.”

Usher’s sixth studio album Monster is expected for release in December.

Ellen DeGeneres already has her first fan as an American Idol judge – Kara DioGuardi.

"I think it's a genius decision," DioGuardi, the judge who joined the top-rated FOX show last season, said at the Entertainment Tonight/PEOPLE Emmy after-party. "I wish I had thought of it."

Mostly, DioGuardi said she's looking forward to the new dynamic on the show now that DeGeneres is replacing the recently departed Paula Abdul as the show's "nice" judge.


"I know a little bit about Ellen from watching her show and I would say she would probably be somebody who would be fair in her criticism and will try to be as supportive as she possibly could," said DioGuardi, 38. "I think it's going to be a lot of fun."

And don't expect the occasional angry clashes Abdul had with, say, Simon Cowell – DioGuardi doesn't.

"[Ellen will get along with everyone] 100 percent," she said. "I was on her show once and she's lovely, generous, very kind. I think it's going to be great."

DioGuardi's even saving DeGeneres a seat – when asked where the new judge would be placed, she answered: "Hopefully, next to me."

The onscreen brother is always the last to know.

Speaking at the Entertainment Tonight/PEOPLE Emmy party after Sunday's big event, Ryan Kwanten – the hottie who plays dumb-as-a-rock but well-meaning Bon Temps good ol' boy Jason Stackhouse on HBO's True Blood – said he may have been the only person not to have figured out that his costars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer were in a relationship.

"I'm always the last to know. My ear is not very close to the ground," he said. "Stephen actually had to come up to me and tell me. He said, 'Ryan I know you're not really up with the gossip side of things. but before you hear from anyone else, we've been dating for the last 10 months.' "

But Kwanten, 32, said it made perfect sense once he did know.

"They just know who they are," he said. "There are no facades or egos. They are just down-to-earth people."


On the show, Kwanten's character is the brother of Paquin's character, one who often tries (and fails) to act as a caring older brother. Kwanten said feels like a friend more than a brother to Paquin in real life, but that he's confident Moyer will make a fine husband.


"You look out for them and make sure that anyone who is the close circle has their best interest at heart, and Stephen does," he said.

He's even already got the perfect wedding gift picked out.

"I guess [I'd give them] privacy," he said. "I'd just wave my magic wand."

No, the Twilight sequel isn't out for weeks yet, but you can still drool like a werewolf over news photos from the set of New Moon at the Los Angeles Times' Hollywood Backlot. Photographer David Strick shot the members of the onscreen love triangle – Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner – on a chilly night in a forest outside Vancouver, as they filmed scenes with director Chris Weitz into the wee hours.

Although Spanish may be her language of choice as of late, Nelly Furtado hasn’t forgotten about her English-speaking fans. The “Promiscuous” singer has reunited with Timbaland for her next English album.


While promoting her Spanish record Mi Plan, the Canadian songstress revealed that she has been back in the studio with her partner in rhyme Timbaland, recording material for the follow-up to 2006’s multi-platinum Loose.

Furtado and the super-producer knocked out several songs earlier this year. “Timbaland and I hooked up over spring break and we wrote about 10 songs together and we had a blast,” she told The Associated Press.

Even though it’s been over three years, the chemistry is still there. “The magic’s still there between us,” she said. “We love each other so much. We fight some times, but we really always come back to that special musical friendship that we have.”

Nelly Furtado’s first Spanish album Mi Plan is available now, while her fourth English album is expected next year.

Talk about bad timing!

Mya, who is set to compete tomorrow night with Dmitri Chaplin on Dancing With the Stars, injured her hand late Sunday night and has a “deep cut,” a source tells DIDNTINVITEME.

In a message on her Twitter page, the singer wrote, “Went2the hospital late last night2get stitches . Deep cut from glass. Only caught 2hours of sleep but feel great. Must be adrenaline.”

“She went to grab a glass for something to drink late last night and it just broke and shattered in her hand,” the source says. “She went right to the hospital and got stitches and got it taken care of.”
As for how she’s doing — “She feels great, she’s doing fine,” the source says. “She’s excited for the show and this will not affect her performance in the show.”

Her rep confirms the incident but has no other details.
Season 9 of Dancing with the Stars premieres tonight on ABC, but the female stars won’t perform until Tuesday’s show

Looks like Khloe Kardashian may be running down the aisle.

The reality star plans to marry her NBA player beau Lamar Odom this Sunday in the Los Angeles area, multiple sources confirm to DIDNTINVITEME. The ceremony is being thrown together so quickly that guests are being notified by phone that formal invitations will arrive this week, the sources add.

Confirming details first reported by E!, the sources say the couple went ring shopping over the weekend – and found a sparkler that Kardashian liked.

The couple have only been dating for about a month – but their whirlwind romance is going well. "They're very, very happy," older sister Kim told PEOPLE earlier this month. "Khloe thinks he's amazing and makes her laugh and smile constantly."

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From the dancing to the costumes to the final show. Watch all the blood, sweat, and tears that went into making Janet Jackson’s tribute performance to Michael at the 2009 MTV VMAs, featuring renowned choreographers Tina Landon, Cris Judd, Laurie Ann Gibson, Wade Robson, and more.... Janet says it's nice to dance with Tina, it feels like old times. MMMMMM I really hope she takes that and run with it!!