Scherzinger, Jones not returning to 'The X Factor'

Los Angeles --- Steve Jones and Nicole Scherzinger, two of the people who helped start “The X Factor” in the United States, will not be sticking around for season two of the singing competition, the Fox network said Monday.

Jones, a British television presenter, called his departure "a shame" twitter, and added that he could not complain, "How I had a great time." He gave no reason why he did notreturn to the contest of singing.

Jones was originally slated to host «X Factor» with Nicole Scherzinger, who replaced the British pop star Cheryl Cole, as a judge, when Simon Cowell executive producer and other producers of second thoughts about Cole to join the series.

Cowell, Paula Abdul and L.A. Reid served as the other judges on the show in the first season.

Despite a consistent audience «X Factor» achieved popularity like «American Idol,»Cowell who left for the import of «X Factor» UK to the U.S.

The network did not make any announcements about replacements, but it has no particular reason to hurry: “The X Factor” is not expected to be back on Fox’s schedule until the fall.

Golden Globes 2012: Kate Winslet and Kelsey Grammer Among Early Winners in TV

Golden Globes 2012: Kate Winslet and Kelsey Grammer Among Early Winners in TV: The 69th Golden Globes have just started on 15 January, at night, but Kate Winslet has already had reason to be happy in this noch.Depicter main character in "Mildred Pierce" snatched the award for best actress in a miniseries or made-for-TV film based on his role in the series HBO.

Kelsey Grammar was another shining star in the prestigious event early, grabbing the best actor in a television drama for his role as Chicago Mayor Tom Kane on "Boss". The role marked his transition from comedy to drama, but the 56-year-old said recently: "its prettymuch the same.”

Winslet and grammar before claimed their victory, Laura Dern, "enlightened" came on stage to get her the best actress in a musical or comedy television kudo. "Downton Abbey," which was nominated in four categories, took the best mini-series or movie kudo, beating his strongest competitor, "Mildred Pierce".

In addition, the "Homeland" said the coveted Best TV Drama gong, pushing aside other well-known series, such as "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones."

More winners in both television and film will be announced at the current Golden Globe.Ricky Gervais is a show that was broadcast live from NBC Hotel Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

Heather Locklear taken to Calif. hospital

Heather Locklear: Thousand Oaks, Calif. - Heather Locklear was taken to hospital of Southern California precautionary reasons Thursday after an emergency call was made from his home, authorities said.

Paramedics and sheriff's deputies responded Thursday afternoon at the home Locklear in Westlake Village, located 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

Locklear was taken to hospital in Los Robles and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, where the press secretary said, KCAL-TV actress was stable and her parents were with her.

"Her parents wanted everyone to know what she's doing well, it's wonderful that she is not in danger, she is healthy," hospital spokeswoman Kris Carraway-Bowman told the station.

Ventura County Sheriff's Captain Mike Aranda said he did not know the state of Locklear, but deputies did not investigate.

Locklear has been hospitalized several times over the years. In 2009, she pleaded no contest to reckless driving after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of prescription drugs.

Publicist’s 50-year-old actress to not return messages seeking comment.

Locklear and "Melrose Place" co-star Jack Wagner recently ended their engagement. She was previously married to Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, and they have a daughter.

Alabama Judge Declares Missing Teen Natalee Holloway Dead

Alabama Judge Declares Missing Teen Natalee Holloway Dead : Alabama judge signed an order Thursday to announce Natalie Holloway died, more than six years after the American teenager disappeared on the Caribbean island of Aruba.

Judge Alan King signed the order at the end of the hearing in a courtroom in Birmingham which was attended by women of divorced parents is absent, David and Beth Holloway.

David Holloway, the judge said in September he believed that his daughter died and he wanted to stop payments to its health insurance and use her $ 2,000 college fund to help his younger brother. Hearing on Thursday was scheduled to question a suspect in the disappearance of Holloway, the Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Peru in 2010 murder of women in Lima.

Natalie Holloway disappeared on a high school graduation trip to Aruba on May 30, 2005.18-year-old was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot early in the day. Her body was never found, and it received close scrutiny of the media and international attention.

The king was acting at the request of David Holloway to the missing 18-year-old pronounced dead.

Mother teenagers, initially objected, but her lawyer, Charlie DeBardeleben, said she changed her mind later when she realized her husband's intentions. Natalie Holloway's parents divorced in 1993, Beth Holloway was sitting in the back row of the courtroom, mostly looking at her hands in her lap in the afternoon hearing on Thursday.

She declined to comment, but her lawyer said: "She is ready to move from that."

Mark White, Attorney Dave Holoway, told the judge before announced his decision that there was no evidence that Holloway was still alive.

"Despite all that there was no evidence has been found Natalie Holloway alive," he told the judge, noting that additional research, the blanket of the international media and even offer rewards have been proved to be something new.

The king ruled in September that Dave Holloway met the legal presumption of his daughter's death, and it was for someone to prove that she did not die at a high school graduation trip. He set a hearing today to a few months for those who come forward.

Dave Holloway said he expected to hear the judge pronounce his daughter is dead, because he had no doubt.

"We have been dealing with her death in the last six and a half years," he said.

He added that the goal judge closes a chapter in a long history, but added: "We still have a long way to achieve justice.

The authorities have long worked with the assumption that the young woman was dead, Aruba, where the case was officially classified as a homicide investigation.

The investigation remains open, although no recent activity, said Solicitor General Taco Stein, an official of the prosecutor's office in the Dutch Caribbean Island.

"The team that operated in that investigation is still functioning as a team, and they come together when there is information or things necessary in the case, or a new tip arrives," Stein said in a telephone interview Thursday.

In Peru, Van der Sloot, 24, pleaded guilty on Wednesday of killing 21-year-old woman, whom he met in the casino in Lima. Stephanie Flores was killed five years to the day after Natalie Holloway, the 18-year-old girl from a wealthy suburb of Birmingham, a mountain stream, disappeared. She was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot.

Shortly after the death of Flores' May 30, 2010, van der Sloot told police he killed a woman in Peru in a fit of rage after she found on his laptop, he has to do with the disappearance of Holloway. Police forensic experts disputed the claim.

Dave Holloway said he hoped van der Sloot gets 30-year sentence sought Peruvian prosecutors.

"Everyone knows his identity. I believe that he is beyond rehabilitation," said Holloway.

The lawyers said both parents said they hope the next stop of van der Sloot is Birmingham; where he faces federal charges accusing him of extorting $ 25,000 from Beth Holloway reveal the whereabouts of her daughter's body. Prosecutors said the money was paid, but nothing was disclosed the whereabouts of missing women.

"I expect to see him in Birmingham," said Dave Holloway.

Three Friday the 13ths, 13 weeks apart, a rarity

Three Friday the 13ths, 13 weeks apart, a rarity: It's a bad year for people who suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia - fear of Friday the 13th.

Why? There are three this year, instead of the usual two. There was one in 2011.

That's not all. For the first time since 1984, these three Friday 13ths - today, April 13 and July 13 - exactly 13 weeks.

Three Friday 13ths to happen every few let.Posledny was in 2009, and further, to 2015. What is special in 2012 - and what does not happen again until 2040 - is that it occurs during a leap year, says Tom Fernsler, University of Delaware professor of mathematics, who sometimes goes by the name of the doctor 13.

It's hard not to feel something on Friday 13th, Fernsler said. "I believe that 95% of people in the world, something superstitious, and the other 5% are liars," he said.

Number 13 and Friday recurring presences in the mythological, spiritual and religious traditions. In Christianity, 13 people attended the Last Supper to "betrayal of Judas and Jesus death on the Norwegian pyatnitsu.Mif warns of adverse consequences for the dining room in groups of up to 13 years. Friday the 13th was the date of the medieval Knights Templar was imprisoned. And although and not as a historical, rapper Tupac Shakur died Friday, September 13, 1996, after a shot on September 7.

For many pagans, 13 is a lucky number because it represents the number of full moons each year, says Ivo Dominguez Jr., owner of Bell, Book and Candle, pagan and occult books and gift store in Dover, Delaware

Although Friday the 13th can feel special, it's not. In the 400-year period, the 13th falls on a Friday than on any other day: 688 times, Fernsler said.

Fernsler made a hobby to find dates and events related to the number 13 and Friday 13 go.Den held several well-known genera, such as Fidel Castro and Butch Cassidy.

Dominguez argues, Friday 13th fears "self-fulfilling prophecy," adding that "there are strong power of the people, convincing himself that something unlucky happens."

Beyonce, Jay-Z born baby girl Blue Ivy Carter

Beyonce, Jay-Z welcome baby girl Blue Ivy Carter: NEW YORK,– Music royalties Beyonce and Jay-Z are the proud parents of baby girl named Ivy Blue, media said on Sunday, breaking the news of one of the biggest celebrity births in recent years.

Pop diva Beyonce, 30, gave birth to caesarean section on Saturday night in a private wing at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan with rapper Jay-Z, real name Shawn Carter, by her side, E! Internet reports.

Initial reports had the child’s name, as Ivy Blue, but those close to the couple confirmed later it was the opposite. Houston Chronicle, his hometown paper Beyonce, was alone in the spelling is Blu Ivy, without the “e”.

Twitterverse was buzzing as celebrities and fans happy at the news of the first child star of the pair.

“Welcome to Blue, We love you already,” Hollywood-lister and a close friend Gwyneth Paltrow has written to clarify the question of title for a second tweet: “This is blue Ivy Carter!”

“The most beautiful girl in the world,” Beyonce Knowles sister Solange tweeted before adding another probable reference to the name confusion “. The information that comes through the telephone, always delivered correctly”

A member of the pop diva Rihanna also weighed in on the important arrival of show business, tweeting: “Welcome to the world of Princess Carter Love Horn’s aunt.”

Beyonce checked into the hospital the Upper East Side of Manhattan on Friday night called “Ingrid Jackson”, letting his entire fourth floor for $ 1.3 million, New York Daily News reported.

People were seen which bags of food and wine in the hospital on Saturday night, apparently for celebrations, as the guards patrolling the perimeter.

Beyonce, who rose to fame in the late 1990s as lead singer R & B girl group Destiny Child, now had 12 top 10 pop singles in the U.S. as a solo artist and has sold over 25 million albums worldwide.

She also received 16 Grammy Awards, three more than the 42-year-old husband Jay-Z, who is considered one of the greatest rappers of all time and has sold nearly 50 million albums.

The pair collaborated wildly popular single Beyonce “Crazy In Love”.

Beyonce memorably revealed that she was pregnant MTV Video Music Awards in August, telling reporters during a solemn chat: “I have a surprise!” How is it the cradle of her swollen belly?

Twitter-users blurted out a record number of tweets per second, which follows the announcement, as well as the popular micro-blogging site went wild again in the news on Sunday.

A source told Houston Chronicle, that “Blue” is a tribute to the favorite color of Jay-Z and very successful “Blueprint” album franchise, while the “Ivy” is the Roman numeral IV for 4.

Beyonce was born September 4, her mother January 4, Jay-Z on December 4, and the couple were married April 4, 2008.

New Hampshire debate

At New Hampshire Debate: CONCORD, NH - Mitt Romney, the Republican candidates made last-ditch effort to relieve their favorite Republican Party on Sunday morning in the main debate, attacking Romney's conservative credentials and his self-description as a political outsider.

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, Romney's two most formidable opponents on the right, accused the former governor of Massachusetts from the beginning.

Two conservative upstarts set the tag team attack on Romney. Santorum accused Romney of "salvation" from a difficult 2006 reelection campaign, when Romney cast as the others of his time outside the office as a selfless choice, Gingrich attacked.

"Can we throw some pious nonsense?" Gingrich asked Romney. "You were running for president, while you were governor ... You then quickly returned to politics. You have lost to McCain, you lost [Ted] Kennedy [in 1994."

Gingrich continued to go: "Only on one level with the American people. You're running with at least the 1990s."

Romney, facing sustained attack on the debate stage for the first time in this cycle, stuck to his version of events.

"I never thought that I was involved in politics," he said, speaking of his race against Kennedy: "I accidentally was wise enough to realize that I had not the slightest chance of beating him."

Three other candidates on the same stage in Concord at the candidate forum hosted by NBC News and Facebook: Rick Perry, Ron Paul and John Hunter.

The tone is markedly different from the debate Saturday night, the candidates seemed to understand that there is no direct confrontation with Romney - who is far ahead in the polls for the primary on Tuesday - it will be well on his way to claiming the Republican presidential nomination.

Even mild-mannered hunter went out of his way to seek time unlike Romney, Romney's comment on education earlier discussions, swatting Hunter that he served in the Obama administration.

"I was criticized yesterday Governor Romney for my country first," Hunter said. "I want to be very clear with the people in this country. I always put my country."

Romney was reacted to the line of attack, reminding the audience that the Republican hunter was once described by President Barack Obama as "a remarkable leader."

"I think that we are serving our country, first by standing for the people who stand for conservative principles," said Romney.