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Singer MICHAEL BOLTON has demanded U.S. TV judge BRUNO TONIOLI publicly apologise for harsh comments he made about the crooner on Monday night’s (27Sep10) DANCING WITH THE STARS show.
The choreographer ripped into the When a Man Loves a Woman singer after his performance with professional dance partner Chelsie Hightower, insisting it was the "worst jive" he had seen in 11 seasons of the hit programme.
Bolton was visibly shaken up by the criticism and didn’t even hang around to speak to the press after he was voted off the show on Tuesday night (28Sep10).
And now he’s demanding Tonioli apologises to him and Hightower.
He says, "To me, he let everybody down. I think he should apologise publicly and he should be reprimanded.
"My mom was there, she flew in, she’s 90 and she came to see a show and I thought she was really gonna enjoy it and I just didn’t expect that level of disrespect from him." But the show’s producers insist they’re not pressuring the judge to say sorry.
A statement reads, "Bruno’s role as a judge is to give his honest opinions on the quality of the dances he’s judging, which is what he did in this case. While we respect the feelings of our celebrities and our dancers, we don’t feel Bruno should be expected to apologize for doing his job."

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Superproducer QUINCY JONES is leading tributes to S.O.L.A.R. Records founder RICHARD ‘DICK’ GRIFFEY, who died on Friday (24Sep10), aged 71.
The music pioneer, who created the R&B label in the 1970s, passed away at a rehabilitation centre in Canoga Park, Los Angeles after suffering complications from quadruple-bypass heart surgery.
Griffey promoted Stevie Wonder and the Jacksons.
In a statement Jones says, "Dick Griffey was one of the great pioneering executives in the music business, whose fingerprints were on some of the biggest R&B hits of the ’80s." Grammy-winning singer/producer Kenneth ‘Babyface’ Edmonds has also marked Griffey’s death, insisting he was responsible for creating the R&B scene 30 years ago.
He says, "His legacy isn’t as known because they don’t know the guy behind it all. I think he got frustrated with the music business, and it wasn’t as important to him. At some point, when it relates to your legacy, you have to fight to remember. And at some point, I don’t think he cared anymore. But I, for one, wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t sing the praises for the talent he was."

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LIZA MINNELLI has cancelled a concert in Maine after falling ill.
The Cabaret legend was due to perform at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium on Wednesday night (29Sep10), where she was expected to be handed the key to the city by the local mayor after the gig.
But the 64 year old became sick before her afternoon soundcheck and was unable to go ahead with the show, according to the Portland Press Herald.
Promoters refused to reveal the details of Minnelli’s illness but confirm the gig is off and the singer is "on her way back to New York City".
The star’s representative insists she isn’t seriously ill and will resume performing next month (Oct10).

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HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE star FREDDIE STROMA is hoping to kickstart the pantomime culture in Los Angeles this Christmas (10) when he plays PRINCE CHARMING in a new production of CINDERELLA.
American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe is the brains behind the show, which will also feature Leave it to Beaver child star Jerry Mathers and Broadway sensation Jennifer Leigh Warren, and Dancing with the Stars professional Mark Ballas will choreograph.
The lead has yet to be announced. After months of searching California, the producers have selected 30 hopefuls who will attempt to impress celebrity judges Stroma, who plays Cormac McLaggen in the last two Potter films, and Neil Patrick Harris next week (05Oct10).
Their pick will play Cinderella when the show opens at the historic El Portal Theatre in the San Fernando Valley at the end of November (10).

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THE WEST WING creator AARON SORKIN has a bizarre method to writing his Emmy-winning scripts - he showers up to eight times a day to keep himself "energised" in between drafts.
The screenwriter, producer and playwright - who also turned Tom Cruise’s A Few Good Men from a stage play to a movie classic - strips down and scrubs his skin clean whenever he has writer’s block.
And he’s convinced his obsession with personal hygiene is key to his success.
He explains, "I’m very clean. I take six our eight showers a day because it’s a writing thing. They re-energise me if I get off to a bad start.
"We don’t have typewriters anymore, you don’t have the satisfaction of ripping the paper out of the typewriter and throwing it in the garbage, so I take a shower and I put on different clothes and I get a do-over."

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Disney star DEMI LOVATO has moved on swiftly after her failed relationship with JOE JONAS, she’s reportedly romancing KIM KARDASHIAN’s brother ROB.
Just months after tourmates Lovato and Jonas called time on their brief romance, the actress/singer has been spotted cosying up to the reality TV star.
The pair spent time together at Nick Jonas’ recent birthday party and were captured on camera arm-in-arm on a bowling date in California last week (23Sep10).
Kardashian isn’t the first showbiz sibling Lovato has dated - last year (09) she was linked to pal Miley Cyrus’ rocker brother Trace.

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LEONARD COHEN has cancelled his upcoming Hawaii concert due to "insurmountable logistical issues".
The Hallelujah singer was planning to kick off a planned five-date North American tour with a show in Honolulu, Oahu on 4 December (10).
Instead he has now added two shows in Oakland, California and Vancouver, British Columbia.
The dates will be the last of his ongoing world tour.
Cohen will wrap up the pre-Christmas gigs with two concerts at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on 10 and 11 December (10).

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Rapper JUELZ SANTANA has become a father for the second time - his model girlfriend has given birth to a baby boy.
The hip-hop star and video vixen Kimbella welcomed their first child together on 6 September (10) but the couple has only recently gone public with the news, with the proud dad posting a photo of his newborn son on his blog earlier this week (begs27Sep10).
And Santana, who also has a son from a previous relationship, won’t be the only famous member of the tot’s family - rap star Lil Kim has been named as the kid’s godmother, according to Hip-Hop Weekly.

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Rapper FLO RIDA turned into a diva at a music festival in Singapore over the weekend (23-25Sep10) when he refused to leave his hotel room for his concert start time and then extended his set.
The Low hitmaker was supposed to hit the stage at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Center for a midnight performance as part of the two-day Avalon At Large GO! event, which was staged around the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix.
But he kept organisers waiting for over an hour when he refused to leave his hotel room.
A source says, "No one had any idea why he was delaying his performance. His DJ showed up on time and in the end he had to play Flo Rida hits to keep the crowd happy.
"When Flo Rida did eventually show up, no one could get him off the stage and he performed for over an hour.
"DJ Steve Aoki, who was headlining the show, had to wait for 90 minutes before he could go onstage and, instead of closing the first night of the festival at 5am, it went on until 7am." But the festival, held to launch Singapore’s new floating Avalon nightclub which will open to the public this coming winter, was a huge success with rapper Chingy and the Chemical Brothers among the highlights.
Chingy, who showed up to watch the Chemical Brothers perform, was so impressed by the crowd he asked to be added to the bill and performed after the dance duo’s set.
Sir Richard Branson and Miss New Zealand 2009, Katie Taylor, were surprise guests during the British dance music duo’s set - the odd couple took to the stage to dance to the band’s Block Rockin’ Beats.

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COURTNEY LOVE has been turned into a new cartoon character in a new film by animator MICHAEL MOURIS.
The filmmaker has covered Love’s rise from grunge rocker to often classy fashion icon in a six-minute movie called The Dark Night of the Soul.
Love is thrilled with the end result, especially the parts of the film featuring cartoon cameos from designer Karl Lagerfeld and fashion guru Andre Leon Talley.
She says, "I don’t know if Karl has seen this, but it’s about him in so many ways." Mouris made his movie after Love granted him access to her personal photo albums and he hired an actress to play her, based on what he saw in the images.
He explains, "My process is called pixilation, which is animated with stop-motion, but uses real people instead of puppets.
"All of the images come from photographs. I hire actors to play the parts, photograph them in stop-motion and then I collage the photographs." Love adds, "One of the stills was photographed after I had the best sex of my entire life."

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Flamboyant pop icons CHER and LADY GAGA are plotting a cross-generational music collaboration after bonding at the MTV Video Music Awards.
The pair met for the first time at the awards ceremony in Los Angeles earlier this month (Sep10), when Cher, 64, presented Gaga, 24, with the Video of the Year prize, and sources claim they became firm friends immediately.
Author Mark Bego, who has written two books about Cher, tells the National Enquirer, "They are now like mother and daughter.
"They both take their outlandish fashion sense dead seriously, both have a sense of humour about themselves, and they are both staunch gay rights activists." The two singers are even planning to hit the studio together, according to the Enquirer’s sources. An insider reveals, "They’ve talked about performing in concert together - and perhaps even recording a duet."

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Former THE HILLS star LAUREN CONRAD is stepping back in front of the camera for a new MTV reality show.
Conrad shot to fame in 2006 after MTV crews documented her move from Laguna Beach, California to Los Angeles as she pursued her dreams of stardom.
She quit The Hills last year (09) and has since forged a career for herself as an actress, fashion designer and author.
But the 24 year old is returning to TV screens later this year for a new, as-yet-untitled project, focusing on her new business empire.
She tells Us Weekly magazine, "I set up guidelines. At this point, I’m not having them film in my apartment. But the show is covering my different projects. The first day of shooting, they’ll catch my book tour. I also still have my Kohl’s (clothing store) line and have two new books out."

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Actress MINKA KELLY became a Los Angeles nurse so she could pay her bills while she was chasing her modelling dreams.
The caring star didn’t want to waste time waiting tables while she went for talent auditions and so she spent a year working at a hospital.
She says, "I was a receptionist at this doctor’s office and I became friends with this scrub nurse there because I was fascinated by the surgery and I wasn’t squeamish. I got fired from that job… and I learned that going to school to be a scrub nurse was just over a year.
"I became a surgical technician, a scrub nurse… I worked a six-month externship at California Hospital."

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Hellraising rocker OZZY OSBOURNE was once banned from his daughter KELLY’s school in England after farting and falling asleep in the middle of a parent/teacher conference.
The reality TV star was horrified when her dad decided to join mum Sharon for a meeting with school officials about her grades - because the rocker is known for passing gas and dozing off in public.
And his smelly habit got him banned from the school for good.
She remembers, "In England, my dad was banned from my school because he fell asleep at the parent teacher conference (and) because he has this thing where he doesn’t realise, farting in public is usually not acceptable.
"It was me, my mum, my dad, my teacher at the table. All he kept doing is lifting his (butt) cheek (from the chair), and then he fell asleep!"

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Rocker RONNIE WOOD has set his sights on conquering Hollywood when he finally retires from the ROLLING STONES.
The guitarist was offered a role on U.S. TV hit CSI after admitting to producers he’s a huge fan of the show, but had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.
And he admits he’d love to try his hand at acting, when he’s not so busy rocking.
Wood tells WENN, "Acting’s something I haven’t even scratched on. I nearly played a safecracker on CSI. They offered me the role, but I was too busy.
"But it’s something I have up my sleeve.
"I’d love to do a movie. Maybe I could direct! I’ve always had these mad plans, but I’m going to wait until it happens."

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Latin singer OLGA TANON is desperately searching for a doctor who can diagnose the cause of her teenage daughter’s mental disorder, after years of trying to learn more about her rare condition.
The Puerto Rican star’s 14-year-old child Gabriella, from Tanon’s short marriage to former baseball star Juan ‘Igor’ Gonzalez, is mentally challenged - but the cause of her condition has yet to be determined.
And Tanon has turned to the media to help raise awareness about her search for mental health experts, in the hopes of finding better care for her daughter.
She tells the New York Daily News, "We are looking for a doctor, a haematologist, that’s interested in taking a case like Gabriella’s, that’s why it’s important, because a lot of people read your paper… Gabriella at this moment is the only such case in the world." Tanon also has two sons, ages six and three, with her music producer husband, Billy Denizard.

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Grammy-nominated jazz musician BUDDY COLLETTE has died, aged 89.
Collette passed away at a Los Angeles hospital on 19 September (10) following a respiratory ailment, his daughter Cheryl Collette-White tells the New York Times.
The star, a skilled saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist and bandleader, played with a long list of jazz greats, including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
He made his own mark playing for a string of jazz groups and big bands featured on film and television in the U.S., and broke a racial barrier when he became the only African-American in the band for the Groucho Marx show, You Bet Your Life.
Collette was also a leader in the struggle to eliminate segregation in the American Federation of Musicians, and in 1953, the black and white Los Angeles-based union members finally merged the organisation.
In 2001, his recording Live From the Nation’s Capital was nominated for a Grammy.
In addition to his daughter Cheryl, Collette is survived by two other daughters, Veda and Crystal; a son, Zan; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

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Rapper DRAKE finally got the chance to perform a full concert for his fans in New York on Tuesday (28Sep10) after his previous two attempts to hit the stage were cancelled at the last minute.
The Canadian hitmaker was due to headline a free show at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport in June (10), but police shut down the gig due to overcrowding after 25,000 devotees descended on the area.
A second free set in Central Park had to be scrapped in July (10) when officials at the Big Apple’s Parks Department were unable to provide the level of security demanded by authorities amid fears of a repeat riot.
But Drake was able to reward fans for their loyalty when he took to the stage at the famed Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday night for the first of two sold-out shows at the venue as part of his solo Light Dreams & Nightmares U.S. tour.
He delighted fans with renditions of tracks like Fireworks, Best I Ever Had, Successful and Forever, and was joined by special guests J.Cole and Young Jeezy for Unforgettable, while a red-headed Rihanna was spotted in the audience singing along to every song.
The Bajan beauty later met up with Drake to celebrate his tour success with an afterparty at hotspot Greenhouse, which also served as a birthday bash for former Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton.

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