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Taylor Swift gave fans more of a show than she had planned for during her Saturday Speak Now tour stop in St. Louis. She was in the middle of performing, “You Belong With Me,” when she walked too close to a wind machine and the flouncy skirt of her dress blew completely up, exposing the underwear she was fortunately wearing that night!
Being the pro that she is, Taylor carried on without missing a beat. She heads to Canada later this week for shows on Thursday and Friday in Edmonton, Alberta.
Despite the endless internet ridicule, Rebecca Black’s single “Friday” has cracked the iTunes Top 100. As of Thursday afternoon, the single was sitting at number 54 on the chart and has about 16 million hits on Youtube. The 13-year-old’s swift ascent to fame began after Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 blog posted the video under the title, “Songwriting Isn’t For Everyone.” The mocking stems from lyrics like, “Tomorrow is Saturday/And Sunday comes afterwards.”
Charlie Sheen will reportedly pocket $300,000 from the first two shows of his tour alone. The Hollywood Reporter revealed that the Detroit and Chicago gigs are paying off so well because he chose mid-range venues and didn’t have to pay marketing costs. The shows sold out in 18 minutes.
Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way” has been censored in Malaysia because its lyrics promote acceptance of gay people. The mostly Muslim nation has censored the line, “No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I’m on the right track baby.”
AMP Radio Networks, Malaysia’s top private radio company, explains that those words could be considered offensive in Malaysian society. The Network said, “The issue of being gay, lesbian or bisexual is still considered as a taboo by general Malaysians.”
Taylor Swift will voice a character in the upcoming 3D animated Dr. Seuss movie The Lorax. Taylor will play Audrey, the dream girl of a young boy named Ted, voiced by Zac Efron. Other famous voices cast in The Lorax are Danny DeVito, Betty White, Ed Helms and Rob Riggle. The film is set for release in March of 2012.
Charlie Sheen is anxious to get back to work on Two and a Half Men — and he’s angry that the show isn’t ready to start back up quite yet. When asked about widespread reports that the show is on hiatus due to his addiction treatment, Charlie told a radio host, “No, we’re on forced hiatus. They said you get ready, we’ll get ready. And I got ready and went back and nobody’s there.”
Charlie admitted that the show went dark so that he could recover, but he said, “They didn’t think it was going to happen this fast. I heal really quickly, but I also unravel pretty quickly, so get me right now, guys. Get me right now!”
Lindsay Lohan says that she was too busy to return the necklace in question before it prompted a felony grand theft 
charge. Lindsay admits to walking off with a $2,500 necklace from a California jewelry store, but says the whole situation was a misunderstanding. According to the police report, Lindsay’s assistant told cops, “Ms. Lohan was in possession of the necklace and wanted to give the necklace back to the store the day after she took it from the store, but she was very busy.”
Lady Gaga has been named the highest-earning pop star of 2010. Gaga topped Billboard’s Money Makers list, with earnings of more than $30.5 million last year. Bon Jovi was second in the rundown with $30.4 million, while Pink Floyd star Roger Waters is third with $24.4 million. The Dave Matthews Band is the fourth biggest-grossing act of 2010, with $23.9 million, and Justin Bieber is fifth with $22.4 million. The top 10 is rounded out by Taylor Swift $20.7 million, Michael Buble $19.8 million, the Eagles $18.3 million, the Black Eyed Peas $16.8 million, and Sir Paul McCartney $14.1 million.
Jessica Simpson is gracing the cover of this week’s New York Magazine because of her growing fame as a fashion 
mogul. We’ve all seen her playing up her silliness in commercials for Macy’s but The Jessica Simpson Collection is serious business — reportedly on track to make $1 billion in sales this year. Simpson’s manager explained, “A girl could go to the shopping mall with her mother and she’d have a great new outfit and still have some money left for lunch at McDonald’s. She can look like Jessica Simpson, smell like Jessica Simpson, and she can afford it.”
Oprah Winfrey is set to reveal a huge personal secret on her daytime talk show today. On Thursday she told viewers that she will have her own reunion on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She didn’t say with whom, but it involves something she’s learned about recently and is known to only a few people close to her. She says she’s known about this family secret for months and today you’re going to hear it from her.. many are speculating she has found her biological father while others claim it may be a half-sister who was given up for adoption.
Jason Mraz and singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman got engaged last month, but when it comes to getting married, they’re waiting for something big to happen: gay marriage to become legal. Mraz says, “they can’t get married until [gay] marriage is legal and equal. I think giving people the right to marry will be a huge movement in civil rights.”
Taylor Swift has done some growing up in the last couple years. She developed a reputation for taking aim at her exes in songs, but these days things are different. Take, for example, Taylor’s current hit, “Back To December.” It’s Taylor’s I-did-you-wrong, please-forgive-me message to one of her exes — reportedly Taylor Lautner — whom she dumped.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The romantic comedy No Strings Attached, the weekend’s only new wide release, debuted at the top of the box office. It stars Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman as friends who begin a sexual relationship and vow to keep feelings out of it, but discover it’s harder than they thought as they start to fall in love.
Last week’s top movie, The Green Hornet, fell to second place.
1. No Strings Attached, $20.3 million
2. The Green Hornet, $18.1 million
3. The Dilemma, $9.7 million
4. The King’s Speech, $9.2 million
5. True Grit, $8 million
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