Author: Castina

American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi has landed a new gig: She is now the host of her own radio show on Los Angeles-based Top 40s station 104.3 MYfm.

Kara — who has written a bevy of Top 10 hits for artists like Kelly Clarkson, Pink, and Christina Aguilera — has inked a deal to take over the Saturday afternoon timeslot (2:00PM – 6:00PM) at the Clear Channel-owned station.

“Kara is already synonymous with music, behind the scenes writing so many hits, personallyperforming her own material on stage and of course having one of the nation’s most visible opinionson the next breakthrough acts from American Idol, putting her on the air was a logical extension of sharing her natural personality,” bsays Andrew Jeffries, 104.3 MYfm Program Director.

“Radio has been a very important part of my career. I am absolutely thrilled to be on air giving my takeon some of the great music out there through my new relationship with 104.3 MYfm.” Kara remarked in a statement this week. “I’m a big fan of the station.”

Kara hits the airwaves next month. The Idol star isn’t the only member of TV’s most-watched talent series; host Ryan Seacrest fronts his own AM show on LA’s KIIS-FM.

The honeymoon is ovah for two of Hollywood’s hottest newlyweds. Tipsters tell In Touch Weekly that Kevin Jonas, 22, and his bride, former Jersey Girl hairdresser Danielle Deleasa, have been relegated to separate bedrooms over the brunette’s inability to cope with her hubby’s excessive snoring!

“They are still crazy about each other, but the snoring has become a big joke for their friends,” a pal tattles.

In fact, blabbing sources claim Kevin and Danielle rarely sleep in the same room — least more the same bed!

“Kevin and Danielle had never spent the nigtht together until their wedding night so she had no clue that he snores so loudly. She loves her husband, but now she sleeps in a guest room when he gets too noisy.”

Simon Cowell will bid farewell to American Idol on next Wednesday night’s Season 9 finale, and the tough-talkin’ music mogul has good reason for jumping ship on television’s most watched talent show after eight years: It bores him….

“After a while, you start to go on automatic pilot,” Cowell explained in an appearance Oprah on Thursday. “Too many times, I was sitting there [at the judges’ table] bored. The audience deserves more than that … and I can’t hide when I’m bored.”

Of course that doesn’t mean Simon’s done with reality competitions — he’ll launch an American adaptation of his UK hit, The X Factor in 2012.

The eternally-single Kim Kardashian is seeking professional help in her quest to find a new man to hitch her famous caboose to.

At 29, pals squeal that the unlucky-in-love reality stunner has become “desperate” to get hitched again before she hits 30. In typical Kardashian form, Kim’s taken a huge step in obtaining that goal, , if a tabloid scoop featured in the May 31 issue of In Touch Weekly is to be believed.

A celeb-gawker claims: “Kim has hired a professional matchmaker to help her find love. She wants to find a rich, successful businessman to date, but she doesn’t have much time to meet men, so she’s turning to a professional.”

Kim is hoping a Los Angeles-based wingwoman will help her find a “committed-minded, respectful mate.” The star certainly hasn’t had been very successful on that front in recent years. Her first marriage to allegedly abusive music producer Damon Thomas ended in divorce. Then her relationship with R&B crooner Ray J was ripped about by the controversy surrounding their infamous sex tape. More recently, Kim split from Super Bowl champ Reggie Bush — a rumored womanizer.

Bono’s got back trouble. According to his rep, the U2 frontman underwent emergency surgery on his back in a Munich hospital Friday after injuring himself during rehearsals for the next leg of the band’s world tour.

“Bono has today undergone emergency back surgery for an injury sustained during tour preparation training,” the spokesperson said. “He was admitted to a specialist neuro surgery unit in a Munich hospital. Bono will spend the next few days there, before returning home to recuperate. Once his condition has been assessed further, a statement will be made regarding the impact on forthcoming tour dates.”

The Irish rocker had been preparing for the North American leg of U2’s 360 Degree World Tour which is due to kick off in Salt Lake City on June 3.

Cocaine, Blohan, and Butt Cracks — Oh My!

It appears the “perfectly clean and sober” trainwreck formerly known as screen star Lindsay Lohan will have to pull a pretty impressive excuse out of her dime bag to explain newly-released photos, which appear to show LiLo — cut straw in hand — nuzzling beside what looks mysteriously like a plate of blow.

An arrest warrant for Lohan was lifted Thursday after the actress posted $100,000 bail. Earlier on Thursday, a Los Angeles judge issued the warrant when Lohan failed to appear in court for a probation hearing. Lohan claimed she was stuck at the Cannes Film Festival due to her passport being stolen. That’s funny, since TMZ says the star sent the night “stuck” on a party yacht off the French Riviera.

Uh-Huh….

In his first television interview since news broke of his cheating scandal last March, a somber Jesse James tells ABC News‘ Vicki Mabrey what led him to cheat on his Oscar-winning wife Sandra Bullock. The biker enthusiast also opens up about his troubled past and his time in rehab.

“[I] took a pretty amazing life and amazing success and marriage … and threw it away by my own hands…”

Jesse’s interview with Nightline ABC will air Tuesday, May 25 @ 11:35 PM.

Lindsay Lohan has narrowly escaped an extended stay in the Los Angeles County Jail.

Things had looked pretty grim for Lindsay, who went to the Cannes Film Festival this week instead of an important court hearing in LA. The actress missed her mandatory DUI progress hearing Thursday, prompting a cranky judge to respond by issuing a warrant for her immediate arrest when she arrived back in the States. Luckily for the scandal-scarred star, she won’t be taken into custody when she lands at LAX on Friday.

Lohan’s bail is set at $100,000, and TMZ.com has learned that her reps paid the standard 10% to secure the bond. Judge Marsha Revel then recalled the bench warrant.

We’re not sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing….

Does it come as a surprise to anyone that Tareq and Michaele Salahi — the notorious White House party poopers who feigned their way into The Obamas’ first State Dinner– were nabbed near 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. during Wednesday night’s star-studded dinner redux?

A Secret Service spokesman tells CNN.com that a limo with the future reality stars inside was stopped just a couple of blocks from The White House last night after the driver ran a red light. Shortly thereafter, The Salahis were spotted at a restaurant a few blocks from The White House with a group of friends, photographers, and cameramen in tow.

Michaele and Tareq caused an embarrassing security flap at the White House when they finessed their way into the State Dinner for India’s president last November.

Cynthia Nixon — Sex And The City’s resident gay — has a bone to pick with Newsweek over a controversial article that question homosexuals’ ability to play straight characters.

Openly gay columnist Ramin Setoodeh has been under fire from the acting community after he singled out Glee star Jonathan Groff and Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes — currently nominated for a Tony for his performance in Broadway’s Promises, Promises — for portraying straight men in an article published earlier this month.

Nixon, who is engaged to her girlfriend Christine Marinoni, argues that Setoodeh’s “cruel” comments is a step back for gay rights.

“I think it’s horrible, I think it’s so horrible. And I think it’s really, really terrific that there has been such an enormous response and so much back and forth and discussion about it and people trying to explain to this gentleman why they’re so upset about what he wrote,” SATC’s Miranda Hobbs told MTV.com.

“I just feel like it’s hard enough to encourage people to come out of the closet like it’s not going to damage their careers. It’s not even like he’s just negative, he’s making fun of people in a really cruel way. It’s really set us back ten years.”

Two professional celeb-gawkers and want to make Perez Hilton $20 million richer.

The acid-tongued celebrity snitch has been offered the astounding eight-figure deal to part ways with the website that made him more famous than some of the Hollywood notables he regularly torments.

Perez, who also manages a style-centered website and record label, received the offer from Canadian blogger Zack Taylor and TheDirty.com’s head editor Nik Richie earlier this month. The blogging duo has joined forces with Avid Life Media, which owns websites such as HotorNot.com and AshleyMadison.com — the world’s leading cheater’s dating service, in hopes of taking over at PerezHilton.com, Gawker reported Thursday.

According to the May 14 offer letter, the buyers would keep PerezHilton.com going with Zack and Nik taking over daily operations. He would be paid $18 million up front and another $2 million to be put into escrow.

Perez — who reportedly charges advertisers $4,000 per week to run ads on his famous blog — has yet to respond to the offer. A year ago, 24/7 Wall Street estimated PerezHilton.com’s value at $32 million.

Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title after he was caught using performance-enhancing drugs, has admitted to doping and claims revered cycling legend Lance Armstrong did it too.

Floyd finally confessed to doping, steroid use, EPO, and blood transfusions in a series of emails earlier this month. Now that his name is mud on the cycling circuit, Landis has made sure to try to take down every other cyclist in the sport as well, including Lance.

The Wall Street Journal writes: “In one of the emails, dated April 30 and addressed to Stephen Johnson, the president of USA Cycling, Mr. Landis said that Mr. Armstrong’s longtime coach, Johan Bruyneel, introduced Mr. Landis to the use of steroid patches, blood doping and human growth hormone in 2002 and 2003, his first two years on the U.S. Postal Service team. He alleged Mr. Armstrong helped him understand the way the drugs worked. ‘He and I had lengthy discussions about it on our training rides during which time he also explained to me the evolution of EPO testing and how transfusions were now necessary due to the inconvenience of the new test,’ Mr. Landis claimed in the email. He claimed he was instructed by Mr. Bruyneel how to use synthetic EPO and steroids and how to carry out blood transfusions that doping officials wouldn’t be able to detect. Mr. Bruyneel and Mr. Johnson could not be reached for comment.”

The International Cycling Union doesn’t buy Landis’ story. In fact, foundation president Pat McQuaid brands Floyd a bitter f-up manipulating the system to shame his former rivals.

“These guys coming out now with things like this from the past is only damaging the sport. If they’ve any love for the sport they wouldn’t do it. What’s his agenda? The guy is seeking revenge. It’s sad, it’s sad for cycling. It’s obvious he does hold a grudge. He already made those accusations in the past. Armstrong has been accused many times in the past but nothing has been proved against him. And in this case, I have to question the guy’s credibility. There is no proof of what he says. We are speaking about a guy who has been condemned for doping before a court.”

Cinemax After Dark almost killed Bret Michaels.

The rockin’ Celebrity Apprentice finalist — who made a miraculous recovery after suffering a brain aneurysm last month — remembers the exact moment he knew something had gone terribly wrong underneath his trademark bandana, because his hemorrhaging brain rudely interrupted his evening with cable porn!

“I was going back and forth from SportsCenter to Busty Cops 3,” the Poison star, 47, admits. “Maybe that’s what did it!”

Smallville has reached the end road. The long-running Superman drama will enter its 10th and final season this fall, network chiefs confirmed during The CW Upfronts in Beverly Hills Thursday.

Terrence Howard secretly married his girlfriend, Michelle Ghent, a 33-year-old commercial production worker.

The actor/musician spilled the beans to CNN’s Anderson Cooper during an interview promoting his upcoming film, Winnie,at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.

“To come here and be with my wife, it’s the best feeling in the world,” said the the 41-year-old Oscar nominee, who will play civil rights icon Nelson Mandela opposite Jennifer Hudson in the controversial biopic. According to reports, Howard and Ghent tied the knot in a small ceremony in January.

This is the second marriage for Howard, who split from first wife Lori McComma in 2005. The former couple have three children together.

Lady-lovin’ lezzie Lindsay Lohan’s about to come face-to-face with all the labia she can lick: A warrant has been issued for the actress’ arrest. Guess Judge Marsha Revel didn’t buy the old “The Cat Stole My Passport” excuse? With a bang of her gavel, the jurist issued a bench warrant for Lohan’s arrest during a probation hearing in Beverly HIlls on Thursday. Revel was furious when she arrived in court to find Lindsay a no-show. As we celeb-gawkers already know, Lindsay remains stuck in France after losing her passport during a quickie trip to the Cannes Film Festival this week.

Bail has been set at $100,000.

“If she wanted to be here, it looks to the court like she could have been here,” Judge Revel told the court. “There’s really no excuse. She has to take this seriously. I warned her before. At this time I am issuing a warrant by law in a misdemeanor. Her probation is revoked. I am setting the highest amount of bail at $100,000. That should catch her attention. Her actions in the past have not justified me in having faith in saying ‘okay, sure.’”

The judge continued: “If she bails out, court will include of an immediate order that she not drink any alcohol until we have formal hearing. The same day she comes back, an immediate SCRAM device [is to] be put on her. And she will undergo random drug testing at a minimum of once a week. More often would be fine. At the Santa Monica probation office. These are conditions that court place if she bails out.”

The judge explained the stipulations of Lohan’s bail when the star’s attorney pleaded to have the warrant delayed.

“Let you remind you that this isn’t just a DUI case. The original charges there are two DUI’s, two drug charges and under the influence of cocaine. I know she’s missed appearances, she’s been late, she hasn’t shown up and that could be because of drug abuse. So this isn’t just a driving under the influences of alcohol. If that were the case, random drug testing would be not appropriate, but she has two charges of being under the use of cocaine, so I can order random drug testing. When somebody repeatedly has a problem following through, they need to be supervised, for their own good.”

Happening Now: Reporters are on the scene of Lindsay Lohan’s scheduled probation status hearing at the Beverly Hills Courthouse, where the troubled star is expected to be a no-show because she is stuck in France. The “Mean Girl” had been partying and campaigning for new gig at the Cannes Film Festival before her passport mysteriously disappeared.

The judge is expected to issue a warrant for Lindsay’s arrest if she misses the hearing, and as recently as Wednesday, the star was in a desperate race against time to get back to the City of Angels before her 8:30 AM court deadline. According to RadarOnline.com, Lindsay sent out an email begging friends to send her a private plane. Without a passport, that would be the only way for her to travel internationally. Here’s a copy of Lindsay’s cry to pals:

“I need my friends, and people I work with to PLEASE help me get on a private plane tomorrow by at least 5 PM. This is such a horrible thing that’s happened to me and extremely unfortunate. My passports been stolen and the day before my court hearing. I would never ask such a thing, but if there’s anything that I could ever ask of anyone, it would be to help me with this. I must get back on a jet to LA tomorrow. If anyone has planes leaving Nice/Cannes at any time after 11am when I get my passport, please, please, let me know if you can help me. God bless All my love Thank you, Lindsay Lohan….”

At least she’s got a nice tan to match her new orange jumpsuit….

Is Barack Obama taking away everyone who doesn’t have “papers?” This second grader sure seems to think so. Kids say the darndest things! During a visit to a grade school on Wednesday, a young girl asked First Lady Michelle Obama an unexpected question on the controversial Arizona immigration law.

Jersey Shore’s most outspoken guidette has fist-pumped her way into the heart of designer shoe god Steve Madden.

Feast your eyes on “The Snookie,” a Madden-designed multicolored glittery stiletto to all outward appearances created in honor of Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, the heavily-tanned Princess of Poughkeepsie-turned-polarizing reality starlet.

“Snookie’s glittery finish takes the sophisticated design of this platform through the roof! Wear these glamorous stilettos with a little cocktail dress, and you’ll never be a wallflower at the club,” Madden says in a glowing description of the newly-released shoe.

The Snookie, available in Sparkly Gold, Sparkly Black, and Just Plain Sparkly, is available for $109.50 @ SteveMadden.com…

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Has comedian George Lopez joined Tiger, Jesse, and David as the newest cad in The Brigade of Hollywood Dirtbags?

When George’s kidneys failed in 2004, his wife Ana Serrano was first in line to offer up one of hers. Ironically, a pair of Tampa Bay Ladies of the Night claim Lopez repaid his wife’s gift of life with wild weekend of tawdry sex in April 2009, The National Enquirer has learned.

Say it ain’t so, G-Lo!

“I had sex with George Lopez for money, and so did a friend of mine,” a professional escort named “Tiffany” blabbed on the pages of The Enquirer’s May 31 issue.

The busty blonde hooker claims that she and another pro named Samantha arranged a $500 date for sex (You’re fucking a millionaire and you asked for $500?!) with the self-professed “Latin King of Comedy” — host of TBS’ Lopez Tonight – during the annual Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am Charity Golf Tournament, held April 13-16, 2009.

The trio met up at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Tampa after George saw Samantha’s ad on an adult escort website.

“He wanted an outcall. That means the girl comes to him — he doesn’t go to the girl’s place. The fact that he used the term ‘outcall’ tells me he’d done this before,” Tiffany explained.

“Samantha went with George, and I went with his associate. We didn’t have sex, but he paid me anyway. Samantha told me afterward that she had sex with George, and described their sexual encounter in great detail,” she continued. “She told me he was ‘very blessed down there’ and that his taste in sex was pretty basic with nothing kinky….He paid her in cash.”

Tiffany got to see just what the funnyman was working with when she hooked up with George “for about 30 minutes” the following night.

“It was safe sex. Samantha and I insist our clients wear condoms. George did, without complaining….While we were talking, he told me he ’saw other girls in other cities and liked to have regular girls when he travels….After we were finished, he gave me a hug and said he’d be coming back in a year or so and would like to see me again.”

Despite playing the role of a devoted family man and comforting pal Sandra Bullock through the breakup of her marriage –after husband Jesse James cheated on her with a string of women — Tiffany insists George has been texting her on and off all year and even tried to set up a threesome when he hit Tampa for the same golfing tournament last month.

“It’s very strange that George is consoling Sandra Bullock because her husband cheated on her when he’s doing the very same thing,” Tiffany told The Enquirer. “George told me that he was married, but I seriously doubt that his wife has any idea that he hooks up with prostitutes listed on online hooker websites while he’s on the road.”