Apparently, the talk show host and comedienne never felt comfortable at Fox’s flagship karaoke contest and her rumoured feud with Simon Cowell (they hated each other) didn’t help.  Ellen and her reps supposedly went to the network brass and asked to be let out of her contract one year early, saying she wasn’t happy and “it’s not been fun”.  Yikes.

In a statement posted on her website, Ellen wrote, “A couple months ago, I let FOX and the “American Idol” producers know that this didn’t feel like the right fit for me. I told them I wouldn’t leave them in a bind and that I would hold off on doing anything until they were able to figure out where they wanted to take the panel next. It was a difficult decision to make, but my work schedule became more than I bargained for. I also realized this season that while I love discovering, supporting and nurturing young talent, it was hard for me to judge people and sometimes hurt their feelings. I loved the experience working on “Idol” and I am very grateful for the year I had. I am a huge fan of the show and will continue to be.”

There’s nothing wrong with hurting someone’s feelings if they hurt your ears first.  Just sayin’…

For their part, execs at Fox continue to be all smiles, saying how wonderful it was to work with Ellen, blah blah blah, “fortunate to work with”, blah blah, ”incredible spirit”, blah.

Meanwhile, Deadline Hollywood says that Jennifer Lopez has signed on to replace Ellen in a secret deal that was finalized earlier this week.  J-Lo could use the work and the money, seeing how her career hasn’t exactly been on an upwards trajectory lately.  So far this year, she’s been dropped by her record label and her latest movie, The Back-up Plan flopped.

No word if new producer Nigel Lythgoe plans on making “other” changes on American Idol (cough – Ryan Seacrest, Randy Jackson, Karla Diogardi – cough).  Rumour is that Nigel really wants Elton John to come in to replace Simon Cowell (whom he makes look like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), but Elton supposedly wants too much money and has touring committments he can’t get out of.   Boo.

Stay tuned….

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Pure gold.

You knew given his narcissism and ego, it was only a matter of time before Kanye West, he of the ALL CAPS FORM OF WRITING joined Twitter.

Apparently, the stage rusher joined yesterday and it’s been one Tweet after another since.  Not sure if he’s hawking stuff on the social media network for money (although it wouldn’t surprise me).  Kanye’s new album drops this fall, so he’ll be using Twitter to help promote it.

Here are some instant Kanye classics.  May there be many more.

I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh

Dating models I had to learn to like small dogs and cigarettes

awwwww man this is addictive I might get in trouble on here!!!!

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Thor hits the screens next May and has a lot riding on it. Along with Captain America, it will tie in with other franchises The Hulk and Iron Man to form The Avengers, which will be rleased in 2012 and if successful, permanently change how super-hero movies are seen and made.

Fanboys were getting concerned because released photo stills of Thor (even though by their very nature they’re taken out of context), gave the distinct wiff of fromage.  

That’s all about to change with the release of this trailer via  Trailer Addict, which was shown last weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego.  Clearly an origin story, Thor looks like it’s going to deliver the goods (and one smokin’ hot lead in Chris Hemsworth).

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JT will next be seen on The Social Network, playing Facebook creator Mark Zukenberg, followed by Friends With Benefits which is currently filming in NYC. 

Anyway, JT recently directed a couple of commercials for his 901 Tequila, and they’re really, really, laughingly bad.  Sorry JT, I’ll take Silver Patron over your over-priced and over-hyped panty remover any day.

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Meet Deena Nicole Cortese, a 23 year old from New Eygpt, NJ, and friend of Snooki’s.  Little is known about her, except that she graduated high-school in 2005,  and according to her now cancelled MySpace and Facebook profiles, she is “ADDiCTiVE & ExPENiIV3 LiK3 COCAiNE!” and all that she needs is “Beats, my broads, and booze”.

Is B3 the new GTL?

Undoubtedly, she’ll fit right in with the others.  I give it two weeks before she’s either hooking up with The Situation or fighting with J-Woww.

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The actor,  probably best known for playing the villain Shinzon in Star Trek:Nemesis, and who can now be seen in Inception, was recently interviewed for a magazine and was refreshingly blunt when discussing his previous sex life when the topic came to messing around with other guys.

“As a boy? Of course I have. I’m an actor for f*ck’s sake. I’ve played with everything and everyone. I love the form and the physicality[of men], but now that I’m in my thirties, it doesn’t do it for me. I’m done experimenting but there’s plenty of stuff in a relationship with another man, especially gay men, that I need in my life. A lot of gay men get my thing for shoes. I have definite feminine qualities and a lot of gay men are incredibly masculine. A lot of people say I seem masculine, but I don’t feel it. I feel intrinsically feminine. I’d love to be one of the boys but I always felt a bit on the outside. Maybe my masculine qualities come from overcompensating because I’m not one of the boys.”

Tom doesn’t think he’s that masculine?  He looks like a polished Neanderthal (I think I’m in love).  It should be noted that Tom has a child with an ex-girlfriend and is engaged to be married to actress Charlotte Riley.  Can you imagine a North American star on the verge of leading man status being this candid?  I can’t. 

I look forward to the day when a celebrity can say they had a few same sex experiences without fear of any kind of fall out and the statement doesn’t cause such a splash.

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Apparently, with out anyone knowing it, the folks behind Mega-Shark vs Giant Octopus decided that it would be a great idea to make a sequel of James Cameron’s 1997 smash, Titanic.

Of course, this isn’t about the characters from the first film, that story is told.  This is about the maiden voyage of the Titanic II that launches one hundred years to the day after the original, but ends up running into a tsunami (by 2012, glaciers are going to be few and far between, the way things keep warming up).

Bad acting, bad special effects, and generall badness ensues.  Since it’s pointed out that history is repeating itself in the trailer, I think they should use “History Repeating” by the Propellerheads for the theme song. 

Speaking of history repeating, do you think this will sweep the Academy Awards next year?

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The trailer for Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch packs a whallop, even though I’m not exactly sure what the plot is.  A young woman gets taken to mental institution where she escapes into an un-reality, where she plans to escape and another inmate cryptically tells her they’re dead (shades of LOST maybe?).

Looks like a mish mash of every heavy effect green-screened movie put out in the past few years.  Dragons!  (Lord of the Rings) Warriors! (300) Giant Robots! (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) Guns! (Sin City).  Sadly, no sign of dinosaurs or giant monkeys (King Kong).

If the vid gets yanked from YouTube, you can take a look on  Apple.

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After the Green Lantern panel featuring stars Ryan Reynolds (Hal Jordan/Green Lantern) and Blake Lively (Carol Ferris) made a splash at Comic-Con over the weekend, teaser posters have made their way on line, which also feature Mark Strong (Sinestro) and Peter Sarsgaard (Hector Hammond).

Love the make-up effects (the little that’s shown) for the two baddies.

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Would be contestants of the upcoming X-Factor should take note.

An embittered cast off from Britain’s Got Talentwho’s rendition of “You Raise Me Up” was bad enough to make me take a screw driver and swirl it around in my ears until Simon Cowell thankfully pulled the plug on her, is suing the producer and the show over the way she was treated.

Ema Czikai says that Simon hurt her feelings and disregarded a letter she wrote in which she explained that she suffers from a medical condition that can impair her singing voice, adding “I haven’t got a horrible singing voice when I sing in a fair environment that meets the needs of my particular disabilities.”  Emma says she filed the $3.8 million dollar suit to retain her “self respect and dignity”.

Bitch, please. 

Emma says she plans to give any money she’s awarded to charity.  No doubt. She should invest it in singing lessons instead.  Take a look at the clip below and judge for yourself.

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