All My Children & One Life To Live Canceled, AGAIN!

As a long-time fan of General Hospital, it pains me to report this news to fellow ABC soap-lovin’ fans:

Despite news in July that the ABC canceled shows All My Children and One Life to Live were getting a second life online by Prospect Park, there is now sad news that the online attempt is being canned as well.

So, looks like the sun has permanently set in Llanview and Pine Valley.
Prospect Park announced Wednesday that it has called it quits on its plan to keep the two soaps alive past their cancellation dates on ABC.
Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz of Prospect Park said in a statement to E! News:“After five months of negotiations with various guilds, hundreds of presentations to potential financial and technology partners, and a hope that we could pioneer a new network for the future, it is with great disappointment that we are suspending our aspirations to revive One Life to Live and All My Children via online distribution.” 

The X Factor 11/23 Elimination: Live Results!


The X Factor USA will hold its top 9 elimination results show tonight. Sadly, there will be two contestants who will be eliminated but we don’t know why two people have to go home tonight – it was not explained to the viewers by the show.

Who did America vote for and who got voted off November 23, 2011?

Below are real time, live blogging spoiler results from the east coast feed of who is safe and who is eliminated off of the Top 9.

Click here to videos of last night’s performances.


Live Update:

8:00 PM The results show starts, Steve Jones explains two acts will be heading home.
8:01 PM Kelly Clarkson performs Stronger
8:04 PM Recap of last night’s show airs
8:08 PM Commercial break
8:13 PM Top 9 perform Raise Your Glass and So What by Pink!
8:17 Lakoda Rayne gets eliminated for having the lowest number of votes last night! There is no judges’ save or singing for their life for the first elimination of the night. The next two with lowest votes get to sing for survival. One will be safe and one will be sent home.
8:20 PM Commercial
8:25 PM Mentors meeting backstage with remaining contestants
8:26 PM Bruno Mars performs It Will Rain
8:30 PM Judges and remaining 8 contestants come on stage for second round of eliminations – SEE BELOW:

SAFE AND IN THE TOP FINAL 7:

Drew
Chris Rene
Rachel Crow
Josh Crajcik
Melanie Amaro
Astro

BOTTOM TWO (AFTER LAKODA RAYNE GOT ELIMINATED):

LeRoy Bell
Marcus Canty

Marcus Canty sings first for survival. He does a rendition of Christina Aguilera’s You Lost Me.
LeRoy Bell sings Don’t Let Me Down by The Beatles.

ELIMINATED / VOTED OFF: 
1. Lakoda Rayne
2. LeRoy Bell


VOTING:
-L.A. Reid said Marcus has been consistent all season and so he saved his own mentee, Marcus. He also urged the other judges to remember how good Marcus has been all season (probably since LeRoy killed Marcus in the ‘sing for survival’ round).
-Nicole saved her mentee LeRoy, but said there is no doubt in her mind that Marcus is a star.
-Paula told Marcus that he is one of her favorites but he didn’t deliver tonight (I agree). She chose to send home Marcus because LeRoy sang for his life better (he did – he was electrifying).
-Simon said he likes them both. In the competition, he said, Marcus is nodging ahead of LeRoy but also said that LeRoy sang better for survival. So, Simon chose to save Marcus to tie things up 2-2. Because of the tie with the judges’ votes, we had to resort to fan votes. The person with the lowest number of fan votes was LeRoy Bell so he was eliminated.

Jennifer Hudson Speaks On Her Family’s Murders & Says She Was Supposed To Be There Too

Jennifer Hudson experienced an extremely horrific event in 2008 when her mother, nephew and brother were shot to death in her mother’s house in Chicago.

The singer just revealed to Ebony magazine for the first time ever that she was supposed to be in the same house at the same time as the shootings.

Lucky for Hudson, right before the day of the shootings, her fiance, David Otunga, called her and asked her to fly to Florida instead of going to see her family in Chicago. “That’s one of the things that saved my life. Because I could have been home with my mom then,” Hudson explains.

The singer adds: “[David] wanted me to come out to Florida with him instead of going to Chicago. I flew out to see him; that’s why I’m still here.” Hudson continues, I’ve never said that before, and I can’t believe I just said that now. But I didn’t know. He was just like, ‘I’m going to this wrestling thing, and it’s in Tampa. I’m going out there now, so you can come out there and see me versus going home.'”

Regarding the massacre of her family, the Oscar winner says the entire event remains a “surreal blur.” William Balfour, the estranged husband of Jennifer’s sister, was charged with the murder of Hudson’s family. “For almost two weeks straight . . . [I was] inside one room with just family and friends coming in and out,” Hudson says. “I prayed when I’d get up in the morning and prayed before I laid down at night.”

Survivor South Pacific 11/23 Show Results

Survivor South Pacific November 23, 2011 episode will not have an elimination – but instead, CBS will be airing never-before-seen clips of weeks already past.

We don’t have any spoilers for you and will have to pick up next week to see what happens to the three inhabitants of Redemption Island (Ozzy, Whitney and Dawn) and the seven remaining castaways in the game. We won’t know what will happen yet since the new episode will be available next week. Come back next week! Happy Thanksgiving!

Survivor South Pacific 11/23 Show Results

Survivor South Pacific November 23, 2011 episode will not have an elimination – but instead, CBS will be airing never-before-seen clips of weeks already past.

We don’t have any spoilers for you and will have to pick up next week to see what happens to the three inhabitants of Redemption Island (Ozzy, Whitney and Dawn) and the seven remaining castaways in the game. We won’t know what will happen yet since the new episode will be available next week. Come back next week! Happy Thanksgiving!

VIDEO: A New Dancing With The Stars Winner Is Crowned

On Dancing with the Stars finale November 22, 2011, J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff beat out Rob Kardashian and Cheryl Burke and won the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy, making this the first time Karina has won.

Watch the final seconds right before JR is announced the winner:

Here is a photo of JR holding the mirror ball trophy:

Angelina Jolie: I’m Lucky I Didn’t Die Young

Angelina Jolie is now a devoted mother of six, married to Brad Pitt and a generous humanitarian.

But it wasn’t too long ago that she raised a lot of eyebrows when she carried around a vial of Billy Bob Thornton’s blood around her neck. Oh, and kissing her brother on the mouth on national TV.

On this Sunday’s edition of 60 Minutes, the actress opens up about those wilder days. “I went through heavy, darker times and I survived them,” she admits. “I didn’t die young, so I’m very lucky.” She reflects, “There are other artists and people who didn’t survive certain things.”

Jolie would not go into detail about those things but said, “I think people can imagine that I did the most dangerous and I did the worst – and for many reasons I shouldn’t be here.”
Jolie also admits that she is not completely over her dangerous side. “I’m still a bad girl,” she says. “I still have that side of me…it belongs to Brad. Or…our adventures.”

VIDEO: Is Melanie Amaro ‘The World’s Greatest’?

On tonight’s (Nov. 22) ‘thanks giving’ episode of X Factor, Melanie Amaro showed us her vulnerable, authentic self after she put on an amazing performance of R. Kelly’s The World’s Greatest.

Before her performance, Melanie gave thanks to God for all he has given her. She said everyone else has let her down at some point in life, including her parents with whom she did not always live. So, she learned to rely on God. 
After her performance, Melanie started speaking with a British Virgin Islands accent where she was born to show the fans who she really is. The judges gave her a standing ovation and Nicole asked to give her a hug for showing her vulnerability.
Watch Melanie’s performance below:

VIDEO: Astro Shows Us What He’s Got – Says Wont Let Hip Hop Down Again

On tonight’s (Nov. 22) ‘thanks giving’ episode of X Factor, teen rapper Astro explained his temper tantrum of last week and promised his fans not to let them down again. The 15 year old rapper from Brooklyn explained in a pre-packaged video that he “didn’t know how to control my emotions” last week when he found himself in the bottom two and he “could have handled it better.”

For tonight’s performance, Astro set his original lyrics to Jay-Z’s Show Me What You Got and rapped, “Got my head in the right place and I’m back to win.”

After he finished performing, he said, “To Team Astro and all the AstroNauts across the world, but mostly hip-hop, I’ll never let you down again.”

Simon Cowell said, “The music business needs unpredictability. As long as you keep a good head on your shoulders and always do your very best, you’ll be fine.”

Watch Astro’s performance below: 

VIDEO: Josh Krajcik Delivers A Heartfelt Rendition Of Wild Horses For Daughter

On tonight’s (Nov. 22) ‘thanks giving’ episode of X Factor, Josh Krajcik dedicated a soulful and heartfelt rendition of the Rolling Stones‘ Wild Horses to his daughter.

Krajcik said he had his daughter, Rowan, when he was only 17 years old. After he lost Rowan’s mother, he was in utter despair. Rowan was the only reason he was inspired to go on and pursue his music. “The whole reason I’m here [on ‘X Factor’] is for her,” Josh said. “I hope that she watches and says ‘Wow, that’s my dad.’”

Krajcik sat alone at a piano and without any gimmicks delivered a heart stopping rendition of the Stones’ 1971 classic. The audience gave him a standing ovation when he was finished and mentor Nicole Scherzinger said, “I strongly believe that your music can change the world.”

Watch Josh’s rendition of Wild Horses Below: