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In her latest interview to Access Hollywood, Kara DioGuardi said she was looking forward to Season 10 of ‘American Idol’. Sometime after the interview, a source close to the celebrity confirmed that Kara was thinking about quitting the show this summer.

The breaking news was first reported by E! News and the source close the singer confirmed the story. As of now, the singer has not received any word from FOX or Fremantle regarding her tenure at the show. The panel of judges for the next season “American Idol’ will be announced soon and we will have to wait to see if Kara features in the list.

During the interview to Access Hollywood, Kara said that she was not as excited about the show like before. Kara further added that she still loves her job as the judge of American Idol as it allows her to give talented people a shot at fame and glory. Within a few weeks of that interview, reports started surfacing that Kara might have been chopped off from the Judge panel. Some of the reports even suggested that a number of other celebrities were considered to fill up the empty spot.

American Idol Season 10 starts early September 2010 when the judges will meet contestants from various cities across the U.S.

The popular ‘Beat it’ jacket of Michael Jakson, a shirt worn by Elvis Presley, and Bruce Lee’s ‘Game of Death’ costume will be among the 400 Hollywood artefacts to be auctioned in Macao in October this year.

Organised by the Julien’s Auctions, some 200 of the over 400 items will be exhibited at the Macao’s Ponte 16 Resort from Sep 24 to Oct 8, while the auction will take place Oct 9, Xinhua reported.

A few items displayed during the announcement of the auction Wednesday included Michael Jackson’s Bad Tour.

“Beat It” jacket, black glove and arm brace, Princess Diana’s ball gown, a shirt worn by Elvis Presley, Bruce Lee’s “Game of Death” costume and shoes, etc.

“We are giving full support and participation to bringing this international event to Macao, where visitors from around the world can experience travel with a difference at our Ponte 16 resort,” said Ambrose So, Chairman of Ponte 16.

Ponte 16 and Julien’s Auctions also plan to develop the exhibition and auction into a yearly event for the Resort.

Earlier this year, a Michael Jackson Gallery, the first in Asia, was unveiled at the Ponte 16.

The United States has bred many a superspy, but one can’t deny the contributions that the British have made to the sub-genre. Sure, we’ve got Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne, but we owe a great deal to our friends from across the pond for the high-octane James Bond franchise and one of the coolest serialized shows about the adventurous and often dangerous espionage industry – Spooks.

To the dismay of longtime fans of the BAFTA-winning spy drama, ABC Studios has closed a deal for the rights to Spooks and will adapt for primetime television, reports Deadline. Michael Seitzman, writer of the Oscar nominated North Country and producer of two pilot’s at the network (the ill-fated Empire State and House Rules) has been tapped to write and executive produce the adaptation, which has received a script order from the alphabet. The program follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service’s Thames House headquarters in highly secure offices known as The Grid. Launched in 2002, Spooks has become one of the U.K.’s top series of this decade (a new season is set to debut this fall). Under the title MI-5, it has aired in the U.S. on A&E, BBC America and PBS and has become one of the most recognizable British imports on the tube today.

With any luck (and a lot of praying), Seitzman will honor the source material and give American audiences a taste of what the English has been savoring for the past eight years. Spooks is known for it’s incredibly smart dialogue and hardcore depiction of the lives of spies. Comparisons to Alias and 24 are not welcome – this is a program that shows what the daily hardships and dangerous missions of real intelligence operatives are like. A glamorous, “Americanized” makeover will turn off fans of the original and could sink ABC’s version before it even gets started.

Lauren Froderman had all the right moves on “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Viewer votes awarded the 18-year-old recent high school graduate from Phoenix the title of “America’s Favorite Dancer” and the $250,000 grand prize. Froderman bested 18-year-old runner-up Kent Boyd of Wapakoneta, Ohio, and 19-year-old third-place finisher Robert Roldan of Thousand Oaks, Calif., on the Fox dancing contest’s live finale Thursday.

“I have been working my whole life for something like this,” Froderman said.

The bubbly contemporary jazz dancer was best known for her ability to pick up other styles, effortlessly taking on hip-hop, ballroom and Bollywood routines throughout the seventh season. She also deftly tackled a wardrobe malfunction – a dangly broken dress strap – while performing a Broadway number during the third week of competition.

Before Froderman’s crowning, the finale featured performances from dance troop Quest Crew, 7-year-old tap dancer Luke Spring and a duet between hip-hop dancer Stephen “tWitch” Boss and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. The former “American Idol” judge held her own in the fast-pumping, therapy-themed routine set to “Outta Your Mind” by Lil’ Jon and LMFAO.

“As a joke, I said this would be fun to do,” said DeGeneres.

The seventh season was plagued with injuries that forced a few dancers out of the competition. It also introduced several switch-ups to the format, including narrowing the finalist field from 20 to 11 dancers, adding past contestants as partners and replacing screaming ballroom maestro Mary Murphy on the judging panel with cool choreographer Mia Michaels.

He’s been anticipating the arrival of his child ever since he found out his wife Paula Patton was preggers, and yesterday (April 6) Robin Thicke became a father.
The “Lost Without U” singer and his wife welcomed their first child, Julian Fuego, in Los Angeles.
Earlier in the evening, Thicke canceled his gig with Alicia Keys “for personal reasons,” though Keys congratulated her tourmate from the stage of the Staples Center when she heard the news.
Robin’s rep told press, “Mother, father and son are all doing well.” Months earlier, Robin had expressed his excitement to impart his knowledge to his son- “teaching him how to respect a woman. Teaching him music.”

Michelle "Bombshell" McGee reportedly returned to work at Pure Platinum Strip Club in San Diego on Saturday, just four days after the bombshell reveal of an 11-month affair with Sandra Bullock's husband, Jesse James. jesse james

"He was a nice guy -- most guys who do what he does have an attitude," she told the New York Post. "But he was gentle."

Although McGee tells the Post she's upset James hasn't called to apologize, her main concern is her current custody battle with ex-husband Ronald Shane Modica for their 5-year-old son, Avery.

McGee's ex filed for temporary and legal custody of their son on Friday. He is fearful that Avery may be in danger in light of the allegations. "If she sees Avery, she will bring these curiosity seekers and glory hounds down on herself and Avery, totally confusing him and frankly scaring him," Modica wrote in legal papers.

The judge denied Modica's request for custody.

American Idol got off to a rocky start this week, with the Top 12 contestants rolling out tunes from The Rolling Stones. With some hit-and-miss performances, America voted and decided the first contestant eliminated would be Lacey Brown.

After receiving some lackluster reviews from the judges for her version of “Ruby Tuesday,” Lacey sang for her life in the hopes of receiving the elusive judges' save vote, but it was not to be. “I am trying to be positive,” Lacey said after the news, adding, “someone has to go home every week, and if it’s you, it’s you — it’s out of your hands.”

Following some shows in New York, it’s back to Amarillo, Texas for Lacey, where she’ll chill with her friends and family and then catch a movie or two. Last week's Idol, which also featured performances by Ke$ha and Orianthi, season seven winner David Cook proved himself a winner with a roaring performance of The Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”

This Tuesday, the remaining 11 contestants will battle it out for a place in the coveted Top 10 (ensuring a place on the Idol summer tour) with a Billboard No. 1 Hits-themed week.

Jack Nicholson made his friends urinate in his garden. The Oscar-winning actor was showing a group of male pals around his Hollywood Hills home when he asked them to make sure they relieve themselves outside - to stop wild racoons coming too close to his property. According to the National Enquirer magazine, he said: “Hey, whenever you guys have to go, feel free to come out here and urinate in the yard.” The group thought the 72-year-old screen legend was making a joke and burst out laughing. The veteran movie star isn’t normally so concerned about keeping wild animals away. He recently revealed he was considering being eaten by vultures when he dies. He quipped: “I’ve had several ideas. Once I thought it would be nice to be buried under a large statue that is at least ten metres high. Then I liked the nature of the Indians who haul their bodies up into the trees so that they are eaten by the birds.”

It was an epic showdown: Kevin Bacon vs. Demi Moore. Superstars for doing good, battling it out to gather their fans to vote in support of their chosen causes. In the end, it all came down to social media: Twitter-master Moore was able to rally the votes to beat Bacon in the Pepsi Refresh Celebrity Challenge. What exactly does that mean? Simple: Moore's chosen charity, the New York City-based human trafficking organization, GEMS Girls Educational & Mentoring Services — the nation's largest non-profit organization designed to empower American girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking — will receive $250,000 to bolster their mission. "The Pepsi Refresh Grant will allow GEMS to train 10 former victims as outreach workers and employ them to go back to their community and refresh the lives of thousands of victimized girls," Moore said in a press release announcing the award Monday afternoon. "I believe the work that GEMS is doing is nothing short of heroic!" Moore is a longtime anti-human-trafficking advocate. Along with her husband, Ashton Kutcher, she even formed her own nonprofit, The DNA Foundation, as a way to force sex slavery out into the spotlight and help protect the freedom of the world's most vulnerable citizens. "I am thrilled that GEMS has gained powerful allies in Demi Moore and The DNA Foundation and honored to be the beneficiary of a Pepsi Refresh Grant," GEMS Founder and Executive Director Rachel Lloyd (left) said in the press release. "The grant will support us in the important work of transforming survivors of domestic trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation into future leaders." For his efforts, Bacon won't walk away empty handed: Pepsi will award his SixDegrees.org a $100,000 grant, which the star will use to distribute thousands of $20 SixDegree.org Good Cards — gift cards that individuals can use to support a charity of their choice. Bacon's and Moore's ideas were just two of the thousands of innovative, optimistic ideas for which the Pepsi Refresh Project will award more than $20 million in 2010.

She always has something going on, and yesterday (February 3) Holly Madison was spotted at Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The former “Girls Next Door” babe was accompanied by a pair of pooches as she encountered a smattering of shutterbugs on her way inside. In related news, Holly recently chilled out with a trip to a ski resort in Lee Canyon where she enjoyed some snowboarding and friendly competition. According to a report, Miss Madison got the best of comedian Carrot Top as they tried to outdo each other on the slopes.