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Contestants Announced for Dancing with the Stars 7

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Dancing with the Stars

The official lineup for was announced earlier today by Tom Bergeron.

And while history has seen rumors proven horribly wrong, parts of this season’s list were accurately predicted long before.

For the show’s seventh installment, we’ll actually start off with an uneven 13 contestants. This will lead to a double-elimination in the reality hit’s very first week. We’ll also see the oldest and youngest performers in the program’s history.

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This Week on TV (8/25-8/31)

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Daytime, Drama, Games, Kids, Music, Prime Time, Reality, ABC, Bravo, Cable, CBS, MTV, NBC, General Hospital

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MONDAY (8/25)

  • General Hospital (ABC, check local listings):  wakes up from her catatonic state. Hurry up and ask her all your questions before she goes back under.
  • High School Musical: Get in the Picture (ABC, 8pm):  “The six finalists attempt to learn TV theme songs from the 1970s and ‘80s.” Should we really allow these teens to butcher classic songs from before they were born?
  • Deal or No Deal (NBC, 8pm):  Season 4 premiere. Could this be the day that someone wins the million? Pleez. Do you think they’d give it up that quickly?
  • America’s Toughest Jobs (NBC, 9pm):  Series premiere. “Average Joes perform dangerous and physically demanding jobs in this competition series. The winner is awarded the annual salary of each job completed.” Aren’t Average Joes the ones already performing these jobs?

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Hannah Montana Movie Comes to Small Screen

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Categories: Kids, Music, Prime Time, Cable

Miley CyrusSorry parents. Who knew when you purchased those IMAX tickets months ago that the 3-D movie would soon be offered for free?

In hopes of giving your kids something to do this summer, the Disney Channel has chosen to dedicate a week in July to teen star Miley Cyrus. Only July 20, the cable channel will air a fresh episode of Hannah Montana. Six days later, a marathon of shows will lead up to the television debut of .

Those unable to see the movie when it originally debuted can still get a bit of that 3-D experience at home. TV Guide will be offering glasses in its July 21 issue.

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Miley Cyrus To Skip Scheduled Disney Appearance

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Categories: Games, Kids, Reality, Sports, ABC, Cable, Editorial, News

Miley CyrusHas the house of mouse grounded star ?

The Associated Press reports that Cyrus will skip a media event Friday to coincide with the end of taping of the Disney Channel Games.

The event would be Cyrus’ first scheduled public appearance since the scandal erupted over pictures the 15-year-old took with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz for the June issue of Vanity Fair.

The photo in question shows a bare-backed and shouldered Cyrus wrapped in a silky swath of fabric suggesting a bed sheet, though flaks for Vanity Fair say it was actually a shawl. The photo has sparked furious debate over whether the picture is too sexually suggestive for a 15-year-old girl, let alone Disney’s most lucrative starlet and the current “It Girl” of the tween set.

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Disney Channel Games To Begin This Week in Orlando

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Categories: Games, Kids, Reality, Sports, Cable, Cable/Satellite, Editorial, News

Disney Channel GamesWalt Disney World’s Wide World of Sports will be the center of the known tween world this week when The Disney Channel Games kick off tomorrow in Orlando.

star Miley Cyrus, the , the Cheetah Girls and the ubiquitous Sprouse brothers from are among Disney stars continental and international who will compete this week with winnings going to charity.

Tuesday and Thursday production will be free and open to the public, albeit in a very limited way. Disney officials told the Orlando Sentinel, “We can’t have regular kids on the field.” That is due in part to the fact that the games aren’t really a sporting event, it’s more like a series of reality TV challenges. Footage shot this week will culminate in five half-hour shows that debut in late July on . 

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Miley Cyrus: Embarrassed By Vanity Fair Photo Spread

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Tween idol and star of Disney’s juggernaut says she is embarrassed by photos taken for the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair.

In a statement issued Sunday through her publicist 15-year-old said, “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.”

The spread, shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, included the above photo of a natural looking Cyrus seemingly naked save for a silky sheet. Cyrus’ statement said she thought the photo shoot was supposed to be artistic but after seeing the photos and reading the accompanying story featuring Miley and her father, singer , she feels “embarrassed”. 

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Miley Cyrus to Conquer All Entertainment

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Categories: Kids, Music, Cable, Gossip

Miley CyrusSuccessful TV series? Check. White-hot recording career? Done. Box-office breaking movie? No sweat. What’s next for ? How about the one aspect of entertainment she’s not yet conquered - the written word?

Here’s yet another classic example of stars who steal jobs - and thunder - from the real writers of the world. The fifteen-year-old channel star plans to pen her memoirs. Go ahead, you can start laughing now.

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Idol Gives Back Tidbits

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Categories: Music, Prime Time, Reality, FOX, American Idol, Gossip, Spoilers

American Idol Though ’s charity extravaganza won’t air until Wednesday, much of the show has been pre-taped…and thus, it’s already happened. Want to know who showed up to sing what? Want to know more about the money the event wants to raise? Want to know what’s going to happen…before it does? Keep reading or turn back now - spoilers to follow.

Last year’s spectacular raised more than $75 million for various charitable organizations and even helped FOX score an honorary Emmy award. The official financial statement for the event will be released in May. This year’s goal is to raise at least $100 million in funds for charity. To kick off the night and begin the event, the Top 8 Idols performed Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music.”

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Six-Year-Old Tricks ‘Hannah Montana’ Star

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Categories: Kids, Music, Cable, Gossip

Miley CyrusA young fan won the contest of a lifetime when she submitted her essay about her father’s tour of duty in Iraq, which culminated in his demise. The six-year-old won four highly coveted tickets to a Miley concert and even got a makeover as part of the package. There’s just one problem: the essay wasn’t true. Okay, so maybe the child’s mother thought is was a creative writing contest. That’s easily confused…right?

When asked by contest officials if the essay was true, the child’s mother admitted outright that it was not. Because of this admission, the six-year-old will no longer attend the concert.  Her award has been withdrawn and will be offered to another contestant.

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‘Hannah Montana’ Star Sued

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Categories: Kids, Music, Cable, News

Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana, 14-year-old daughter to Achy Breaky Billy Ray Cyrus, is being sued by her fans. Yes, even the darling isn’t immune to outrage.

According to the lawsuit, fan club membership was supposed to guarantee concert tickets to the Hannah Montana tour. It didn’t, so now they’re suing. The action was started by a woman in New Jersey who has invited other jilted fans to join the cause.  The suit claims fans were deceived and “lured” into buying memberships to the Miley Cyrus Fan Club, which costs $29.95 annually.

The Hannah Montana star has been selling tickets like hotcakes; many of her engagements have sold out within minutes.

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