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There’s still one seat on The Voice’s judging panel left to fill, and that judge may be the most intriguing of all: Christina Aguilera remains in talks to join the show.

Damn, Mr. Schue!

The Oscars are over, but this is still a question worth discussing—especially since our writer thinks the category’s eventual winner, The Social Network, was leagues better than its source material, The Accidental Billionaires.

Get ready for red carpet coverage the likes of which have never been seen.

You’ve been playing yourself quite a bit lately. What’s your method for becoming James Van Der Beek?
It starts with hours of preparation. [Laughs] It’s just one of those things that started happening. It wasn’t really by design, necessarily. You’re kind of lucky enough when you’re part of something that hits or catches on in popular culture, and all of a sudden people are asking you to play “You.” I try not to take myself too seriously. Maybe I’m the only idiot who gets these things suggested to him.

On this TV pilot [Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23], it’s one of the writers from American Dad, and one of the producers from How I Met Your Mother and Family Guy, and the director from Modern Family, just a great group of people. They said, “We could have you play an actor who’s [the main character’s] friend, but if you play yourself, then we get to make Dawson’s Creek jokes.” And I thought, “Well, that could be fun.”

What’s your role in the pilot? What level of yourself is appearing in the show?
I called the writer and said, “Listen, don’t be worried about insulting me at all. Let’s just go for whatever’s funniest.” It’s kind of wide open. We’re still re-writing it. And when I say “we,” I mean “she.” I’m the main character’s best friend. We had a relationship before, but it didn’t work out for reasons which you’ll see in the pilot. So now she calls me her “straight gay best friend.” I’ll be single in New York, using the fact that I was once a teen idol to get laid. In real life, I’m happily married and I just had a baby.

So you’re living vicariously through yourself right now.
I think you just blew my mind.

Sorry that we just made you all feel so gross.

Shall we ignore this news and, instead, just remember better days?

It’s set to open August 11 at New World Stages; original director Michael Grief is back on board, and casting starts in March. That annoying girl who played The Narrator in your high school production of Joseph is definitely planning on trying out.

Con: your bathroom break just got shorter.

What does the “O” stand for? Good question — MTV is purposefully leaving that up for interpretation. Here’s what we do know: The inaugural O Music Awards will take place April 28. Their purpose is to “honor the migration of music to the digital space, and celebrate the art, artistry, and technology of digital music” through an nontraditional awards show that will be heavily interactive, incorporating television, social media, and mobile technology. The network will soon announce a hub for the show, as well as what its categories will be; Billboard speculates that they may include “things like best app and best Kanye West tweet.”

prettybooks:

Harry Potter creator’s rags-to-riches journey to be dramatised in forthcoming TV biopic Strange Magic. The life story is to be made into a TV film in the US, with an Australian actor in the lead role and Canada doubling as Scotland for the setting. 

Our reaction to this can only be expressed in punctuation: !!???!!!

abcnewsradio:

(NEW YORK) — Ever since Madonna planted that wet kiss on Britney Spears in front of millions of television viewers at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, women have been loosening up sexually with other women.

These so-called flexisexuals say that although they are not gay or even bisexual, they enjoy flirting and kissing girls — but they still enjoy having sex with men…

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1. “Ever since Madonna planted that wet kiss on Britney Spears” in 2003? Women didn’t kiss other women before then?

2. Something that always irks when people bring this up: She kissed Christina Aguilera too! Why doesn’t anyone ever remember that part?