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Miley Cyrus To Skip Scheduled Disney Appearance

Posted by Jacci Lewis 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

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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‘American Idol’ Auditions at Walt Disney World

Posted by Jacci Lewis Categories: Prime Time, Reality, ABC, FOX, American Idol

American Idol

The $71 it takes to get into one Walt Disney World theme park for a day could soon buy you a shot at pop superstardom.

Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts in Orlando, Florida is about to launch its own version of the FOX TV hit .

Here’s how it will work: visitors to Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios park (formerly Disney-MGM Studios) will be able to audition at various locations throughout that particular park each day. Those who make it through that initial step will get some vocal coaching and hair and makeup help. Next they’ll perform in front of a real, live audience in Disney’s American Idol soundstage. If they pass muster with the judges and audience, they’ll move onto a preliminary round then to the final round each evening.

Daily winners will get a guaranteed slot in regional auditions for the real American Idol TV show.

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