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Buxom pop star turned country singer Jessica Simpson is reportedly in talks about a judging role on American Idol, but fresh reports claim singer and actress Jennifer Lopez will being her talents to the US reality TV show. Rumors and reports are fast and furious.

Let's explore. Will it be Jessica's cleavage on Idol? The 30-year-old is rumored to have had talks with producers on the show about coming on board when it returns for another season in January 2011.  
A source on the show said to EW: "I'm not sure whether her people approached Idol, or if it was the other way around." However the insider added that Simpson was just one of 'dozens' who have been considered for a role.

J Lo - American Idol Style? Some are claiming that Jennifer Lopez will replace Ellen DeGeneres on the judging table for American Idol.
Lopez's manager Benny Medina is said to have sat down with television producers a month ago for negotiations, and allegedly they sealed the deal earlier this week, Deadline reports.
The daytime talk-show host's resignation follows ongoing speculation surrounding who will take Simon Cowell's place when he leaves the talent program.  
Both ladies have unique talents - who would be the best American idol judge?
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Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler are to replace Kara DioGuardi and Ellen DeGeneres as judges on "American Idol," TMZ said.

DioGuardi was fired from the post and DeGeneres announced Thursday she had quit, the Web site said.

The casting changes mean the show is going back to a three-judge format and Randy Jackson will be the only holdover from the cast when the singing competition series returns for a 10th season.

Simon Cowell was the fourth judge, but left at the end of Season 9 to executive-produce and eventually star in another talent show, "The X Factor."

A hotel in Northern Cyprus has threatened Jennifer Lopez with a $40 million lawsuit for pulling out of a concert.  Lopez was earlier criticized for agreeing to a $3 million gig in Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus.

J-Lo was due to perform at the opening of a luxury hotel in the breakaway state on July 24, her 41st birthday.  However she pulled out after intense criticism. 
Thousands of Greek Cypriots flooded the star’s Facebook page with messages protesting against the New York-born star’s planned concert.

Her rep released a statement saying:
"Jennifer Lopez would never knowingly support any state, country, institution or regime that was associated with any form of human rights abuse. After a full review of the relevant circumstances in Cyprus, it was the decision of management to withdraw from the appearance. This was a team decision that reflects our sensitivity to the political realities of the region."

However she is now facing a lawsuit if she does not show. 
"The contract has not been terminated. If she does not show up for the concert, we will begin a procedure in the courts to claim 35-40 million dollars in damages," warned Murat Bozoglu, speaking from the company's headquarters in Istanbul.
"The cancellation....is not covered by any clause in the contract she signed with us," said Bozoglu.
What now for J-Lo?
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Jennifer Lopez has called off a controversial birthday show and officially "withdrawn" from a concert in a European territory currently under military occupation claiming she had no idea the area was politically sensitive, reports OK! Magazine.

Lopez was criticized for agreeing to a $3 million gig in Turkish-occupied Northern Cyprus.   

J-Lo was due to perform at the opening of a luxury hotel in the breakaway state on July 24, her 41st birthday.  Thousands of Greek Cypriots flooded the star’s Facebook page with messages protesting against the New York-born star’s planned concert.
A rep for J.Lo confirmed the pull out and tells celebrity justice and gossip website TMZ, “Jennifer Lopez would never knowingly support any state, country, institution or regime that was associated with any form of human rights abuse.”
The rep added, “After a full review of the relevant circumstances in Cyprus, it was the decision of management to withdraw from the appearance. This was a team decision that reflects our sensitivity to the political realities of the region.”
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Jennifer Lopez has entered a diplomatic minefield on ethnically split Cyprus after agreeing to perform in its Turkish-held north, stirring anger among thousands of Greek Cypriots.

Lopez is scheduled to perform at the opening of a luxury hotel in north Cyprus on July 24, triggering fury from Greek Cypriots who say it's a slap in the face to people forced to flee from northern Cyprus during a Turkish invasion in 1974.

Greek Cypriots have flooded a facebook site with angry demands the Latina star cancel her trip while organizers of the event say the show will go on.

"We have a signed agreement with her and it is active," said Murat Bozoglu, a director of the $220 million Cratos Premium hotel in northern Cyprus.

Lopez's publicists were not immediately available for comment. Local newspapers reported she was being paid $3 million for her one-off performance.

Cyprus was split in a Turkish invasion which followed a short-lived Greek Cypriot coup engineered by the military junta ruling Greece in 1974. Its division and subsequent years of estrangement is one of the longest serving items on the U.N. peacekeeping agenda.

North Cyprus is a breakaway state recognized only by Ankara.

About a fifth of the island's population, who are in their majority Greek Cypriots, are internally displaced.

By Wednesday, a facebook page campaigning against the Lopez visit had topped 14,000 members. They were in the vast majority Greeks, with the rate of increase up by about 2,000 per day since its launch last week.

"She has obviously fallen on to hard financial times. Shame on her ... if only she knew how many people were killed and the inhumane savagery committed there," wrote one campaigner.

Lopez was due to jet in to northern Cyprus, a breakaway statelet recognized only by Ankara, accompanied by her husband, singer Marc Antony, and her twin children. The performance on July 24 coincides with her 41st birthday.

"We are pleased to be able to share her 41st birthday with her and her family," Bozoglu said, acknowledging that Lopez had received "thousands" of emails to prevent her trip.

"These have made her nervous about coming. But we are doing everything in our hands to make this happen."

(Reporting by Simon Bahceli and Sarah Ktisti, writing by Michele Kambas, editing by Paul Casciato)

"You can perfectly watch the evolution of celebrity for an actress in relation to her handbag." So says Aussie style maven and media personality Kathryn Eisman, who claims she has put two years of dedicated study into her unique psychological profiling approach.

For instance: "Katie Holmes is a perfect example. She started off looking, well, quite homely on the red carpet -- the one-strap shoulder bag girl next door, the bag probably nobody styled. Along comes Tom Cruise, and we saw her transformed with an Hermes bag that captured the imagination, the ultimate power player French luxury bag."
Make that a $40,000 French luxury bag, according to Eisman. She adds, "Now she's more the Armani Prive, a little softer, maybe much more in keeping with who she is.
     
"Jennifer Lopez is another fantastic example," says Eisman -- who's heading to the States over the weekend for New York and L.A. promotional chores on behalf of her new "How to Tell a Woman by Her Handbag" book next week. She goes on, "When she was in her Jenny From the Block period, she carried the almost ghetto chic bling bag. She grew up and went into the streamlined, structured, ladylike, elegant bag. Re-entering the spotlight after the birth of her twins, she went back to a little younger and funkier handbag."
    
Rihanna's choice of purse changed from "sweet, girly, sexy bags to hard, even spiky bags after the Chris Brown incident," Eisman found.
    
The pop culture maven does handbag analyses of everyday women in her latest tome, not just those who can afford Hermes. She'll be seen on the "Today" show Tuesday (7/6).
     
THE INDUSTRY EYE: While Robert Pattinson is busy celebrating the box-office bonanza of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," there's also work to be done. He's in the midst of shooting "Water for Elephants" with Reese Witherspoon, which has been located in downtown L.A. the last couple of days with at least some cast members who apparently share Edward Cullen's pasty pallor.
Forces on the film have been seeking proficient Foxtrot dancers who are not only Caucasian, but "very, very pale -- not a suntan at all," who are thin, with no implants and no piercings, according to casting notices. There was also the need for a very pale cigarette girl, and a very pale man with a 32-inch waist.
The pallid faces and thinness have nothing to do with vampires on this movie, of course. Based on Sara Gruen's acclaimed novel, it is set in the 1930s Great Depression and, as notices remind, "nobody's doing well."
     
MORE THAN A PARTY: Happy Independence Day to one and all, and a thoughtful note from Jimmy Smits, who is hosting the 30th Annual "A Capitol Fourth" event being carried on PBS from the nation's Capitol. After performances from the likes of David Archuleta, Reba McEntire and Gladys Knight, the show ends with a phantasmagoria of fireworks.
"To have this fireworks display in Washington, D.C., is so moving because of the backdrops of the national monuments," notes Smits.
"Being that we're in a time of conflict and having young people serving and protecting us, to me, it kind of focuses what it is that the fireworks represent for the country."

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise love “showing each other their dance moves” wherever possible.  The couple stunned the audience when they performed a raunchy routine at a charity benefit in America in May.

Then earlier this month, Tom took to the stage alongside Jennifer Lopez at the MTV Movie Awards. He was dressed as his character Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder, and his performance drew rapturous applause from Katie.
She has now revealed both she and Tom pride themselves on their rhythm, and can often be found throwing some shapes at home. “Oh, all the time,” she said. “We’re constantly showing each other our moves, and we break out into a dance occasionally if a good song comes on.”
Katie’s love of dance inspired her work with her foundation Dizzy Feet. The organisation aims to inspire young people to dance, something she says was of pivotal importance when she was growing up.
“We’ve provided scholarships to a lot of kids, and we want to keep doing that,” she explained. “Dance made a huge difference to me when I was growing up – it’s inspiring! – and I want that for everyone.”
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Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony were forced to take a golf cart at a  parade after their luxury limo broke down. The singer accompanied Anthony to the 53rd annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, where he had been brought in to be the event's ceremonial king at the last minute.

The pair started the route of the New York party sitting in the back of a chauffeur-driven convertible Chevy Impala. But the battery died - so the pair hopped into a golf buggy and Anthony drove to the start of the parade.

"Marc and Jennifer were not fazed at all," Rafael Dominguez, a member of the parade's board of directors, said. "What was so funny was how Marc handled it and how easily he drove the cart. This is a man who must love golf."
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Jennifer Lopez celebrated her Puerto Rican heritage in New York yesterday (13.06.10).

The singer-and-actress joined husband Marc Anthony to lead the 53rd Puerto Rican Day Parade through the streets of the US city, sitting on the back of a cream-coloured Chevy convertible and waving Puerto Rica's national flag.

Jennifer - who was born to Puerto Rican parents but raised in New York - said: "It always makes me feel incredibly proud to be Puerto Rican... It's an amazing day."

Thousands of onlookers turned out on the streets to watch the parade, which the couple led as Marc had been crowned the International Godfather.

Jennifer Lopez has gushed about working with Tom Cruise, describing the experience as “amazing". “I'm such a hard worker, and I'm kind of intense about my job. It's great to work with someone who is just as intense and passionate and crazy about getting everything right," the singer and actress said.

"[Tom] called me a month before and said, 'I have this idea. I'm doing this thing for the MTV Movie Awards, and I want it to be a surprise'," Extra reports Lopez revealing.

Discussing the dance routine the 40-year-old star and Cruise’s Tropic Thunder character Les Grossman performed, she said: “The thing with that routine is that it is one of the hardest routines. But he did it. He really, really did it. And he did a great job. I was really proud of him."
Lopez also denied reports that she and husband Marc Anthony had renewed their wedding vows. "We didn't. This is an absolute lie," The Back-Up Plan star said. "We just had our anniversary and had some people over to the house. "Maybe we will one day ..."
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