In an ongoing quest to insult every act that mattered at the turn of the century, the boy band the Wanted is now ripping Britney Spears.
Not long after slamming "The Voice" judge Christina Aguilera, the British-Irish group is talking about its time as an opening act for Britney Spears during her recent tour.
According to the New York Daily News, band member Siva Kaneswaran said in an interview with New York's Fresh 102.7 radio station that a member of the pop diva's security detail approached him and the band's tour manager in a hallway and told them to avert their eyes when Spears walked by.
Depending on how she was dressed, they might have done so anyway.
"We faced the wall for about 10 seconds until she got really far away," Kaneswaran told the station.
The comments came just a few days after the Wanted called Aguilera a "total (rhymes with rich)" during an interview with another New York radio station, 92.3 NOW FM.
"She's a bit scary, to be honest," Max George told host Sarah Lee, after being asked why he didn't hop offstage to give Aguilera a kiss as he did to Jennifer Lopez when the Wanted performed on "American Idol."
"She's a total (expletive)," Tom Parker, another bandmember added. "She might not be a (expletive) in real life, but to us, she was a (expletive). She just sat there and didn't speak to us. Wouldn't even look at us."
Spears' rep made an interesting
point."What's even more interesting than the false allegations they made up is the fact that they have claimed to be picked on by two female pop stars in just a few days," the rep said in a statement to US Weekly. "Look out Lady Gaga -- there are still three days left this week."
LEONARD NIMOY MAY RETURN AS SPOCK: Spock lied.
Leonard Nimoy may again play Spock in the upcoming "Star Trek" sequel, after saying previously his turn in the 2009 reboot would be his last go-round as the pointy-eared Vulcan.
That film starred Zachary Quinto as the younger version of Spock. Nimoy appeared in the blockbuster as an older version of the character, and a year later he claimed he was retiring from acting letting Quinto take the ears permanently.
Not so fast.
New reports indicate he'll appear in the next film as well. When asked by CNN whether he would appear in the follow-up, Nimoy replied, "We're talking. We're talking." Editors at movie website Ain't It Cool News reported they have "compelling independent confirmation that Nimoy is absolutely in the new film."
Sounds like someone was offered a chest full of space ducats.
The "Star Trek" sequel will hit theaters in 2013.
'GLEE' STAR COLLAPSES ON RED CARPET: "Glee" star Amber Riley collapsed Tuesday night on the red carpet at screening of "Glee" at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in Hollywood.
The 26-year-old singer and actress, who plays Mercedes on the show, told fans after the incident that all is well.
"Hey guys, I'm okay :)," she tweeted. "I got a little dizzy from all the photog flashes! You'd think I's be used to it by now, still a red carpet amateur I guess. Gonna get checked out but I feel fine. Thank you for all the concern and well wishes."
Riley said she was grateful to red carpet photographers for not capturing her collapse.
"I'd also like to thank the photographers for being so professional and not taking photos of me on the ground. I truly truly appreciate it. Could have been super embarrassing."
Maybe all their cameras malfunctioned at the same time.
Her castmates Lea Michele, Matthew Morrison, Heather Morris, Cory Monteith, Darren Criss, Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch also attended Tuesday's event, which also featured a Q&A session.
TYLER PERRY'S STUDIO BURNS: Investigators were trying Wednesday to find the cause of a fire that ripped through a simulated streetscape at Tyler Perry's Atlanta studios, sending flames soaring into the night sky.
The Associated Press reported there were no injuries from the blaze that began shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday and burned through the exterior facade of a large building, Atlanta Fire Capt. Jolyon Bundrige said.
"It was all in flames," Dorothy Ware, who lives in a high-rise apartment next door to the studio complex, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Has anyone question local film critics?
Flames shot as high as nearby trees, which are about as high as a six-story building, Ware said.
"The building started popping," Ware said. "Whatever the fire was hitting, was blowing up. There were plenty of sparks coming over here where we are."
More than 100 firefighters responded to the four-alarm blaze.
The studio said Perry thanked Atlanta firefighters for their quick response and limiting the damage.
"We are grateful that there were no injuries, and that 99 percent of the damage is limited to the back lot facade," the statement said.
The fire never reached inside the building because of its concrete masonry construction behind the facade. However, there was some water damage inside, Bundrige told The Associated Press Wednesday morning.
Perry -- whose films include "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," "Why Did I Get Married?" and "Daddy's Little Girls" -- was at the complex Tuesday night and spoke with Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran. A spokesman for the filmmaker didn't immediately comment Tuesday evening.
The studio complex includes a 200,000-square-foot studio, five sound stages and a 400-seat theater in southwest Atlanta, according to its website.
TOM CRUISE TO STAR IN NEW 'VAN HELSING': Tom Cruise will help reboot "Van Helsing."
Universal announced this week that Cruise will play the title role in a reboot of the film that orginally starred Hugh Jackman as the vampire hunter, according to E! Online.
This time around, to ensure that Cruise's incarnation fares better than Jackman's, the gothic reimagining is bringing some big guns when it comes to successful film franchises.
The reboot came about as a result of a two-year production deal Universal signed with writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the writing team responsible for the upcoming "Star Trek 2," "Transformers" and "Mission Impossible: III," where they previously teamed with Cruise.
In other words, when his thetan starts acting up and the furniture jumping starts, they won't bat an eye.
The pair was recently brought in by Sony to give a once-over to the script for the sequel to "The Amazing Spider-Man."
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MAY 3 IN HISTORY
Thursday is May 3, the 124th day of 2012. There are 242 days left in the year.
1791: Poland adopted a national constitution.
1802: Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
1911: Wisconsin Gov. Francis E. McGovern signed the first U.S. workers' compensation law to withstand constitutional review.
1916: Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
1933: Nellie T. Ross became the first female director of the U.S. Mint.
1937: Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, "Gone With the Wind."
1948: The Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
1952: The Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time on CBS; the winner was Hill Gail. 1960: The Harvey Schmidt-Tom Jones musical "The Fantasticks" began a nearly 42-year run at New York's Sullivan Street Playhouse.
1971: The National Public Radio program "All Things Considered" made its debut.
1979: Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher was chosen to become Britain's first female prime minister as the Tories ousted the incumbent Labor government in parliamentary elections.
1986: In NASA's first post-Challenger launch, an unmanned Delta rocket lost power in its main engine shortly after liftoff, forcing safety officers to destroy it by remote control.
1987: The Miami Herald said its reporters had observed a young woman spending "Friday night and most of Saturday" at a Washington townhouse belonging to Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart. (The woman was later identified as Donna Rice; the scandal torpedoed Hart's presidential bid.)
2002: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston backed out of a settlement with 86 people who had accused defrocked priest John Geoghan of child molestation, saying the deal was becoming too expensive. (The archdiocese later agreed to a $10 million settlement; Geoghan was murdered by a fellow prison inmate in August 2003.)
2007: British girl Madeleine McCann vanished during a family vacation in Portugal days before her fourth birthday; her disappearance remains unsolved. Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Virginia for the commemoration of Jamestown's 400th anniversary.
2011: The White House said that Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs burst into his room at his Pakistan compound and shot him to death, a change in the official account that raised questions about whether the U.S. ever planned to capture the terrorist leader alive. Chicago's Derrick Rose became at age 22 the NBA's youngest MVP.
BIRTHDAYS
Folk singer Pete Seeger (93), actress Ann B. Davis (86), singer Frankie Valli (78), sports announcer Greg Gumbel (66), singer Christopher Cross (61), rock musician David Ball (Soft Cell) (53), country musician John Hopkins (Zac Brown Band) (41), country-rock musician John Neff (Drive-By Truckers) (41), country singer Brad Martin (39), actor Dule Hill (37), dancer Cheryl Burke (TV: "Dancing with the Stars") (28), actress Jill Berard (22).
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