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I'm looking for all kinds of information on Paula. If you have news or articles from magazines, please >>>send it to me. I will give you full credit and even link to your own website, if you have one. -- Igor MTV's Spring Break Date: 03/16/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Paula Online Here you can see pictures of Paula and Randy Jackson from "MTV's Spring Break 2003- "American Idol" Taping", 3/13/2003. 
New Paula's Pictures Date: 03/09/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Paula Online Here you can see pictures from "The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Activities Committee Presents "American Idol Live" - Arrivals", 3/8/2003. 
Soul Train Music Awards 2003 Pictures Date: 03/02/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Paula Online 
Soul Train Music Awards 2003 Date: 03/01/03 Submitted: Will Source: >>>Paula Online Paula Abdul will be presenting an award at the 17th Annual Soul Train Music Awards, which will be broadcast live in first-run national syndication on March 1, 2003 from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California at 8:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time). Tamyra Gray and Randy Jackson will also be presenting awards during the evening, but it is not known if they will present together or individually. Los Angeles Real Estate Date: 02/19/03 Submitted: Joey Source: >>>Paula Online The Travel Channel recently aired a show called, "Los Angeles Real Estate". It featured Paula Abdul's new home and her love of Feng Shui. They showed both the interior and exterior of her home and explained how using the ancient art of "Feng Shui" in decorating her home led to new career success. Oprah After the Show Date: 02/19/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Paula Online Click >>>here to see Paula on Oprah After the Show Real Video. Paula on Oprah Date: 02/15/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Paula Online According to ET, Paula will be on Oprah show next Monday, 2/17/03. 2003 Fashion Show Date: 02/10/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Paula Online Paula Abdul falls 2003 Fashion Show during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. Bryant Park. New York City. 
Not Cut Out for Reality Date: 01/28/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Daily-Journal With the wide selection of reality shows on television today, almost anyone can become a television star. All a want-to-be-a-reality-show-star has to do is audition and win the affection of the judges. With this in mind, and with the selection of shows available, I have to admit that I am having a hard time deciding what reality show I should audition for. "Survivor''? I would enjoy being on a beautiful island without any worries except whether or not I was going to win a lot of money; but, I don't think I could drink the blood of an animal or eat bugs. To do something like that it would have to be for something more important to me -- not for money. "The Bachelor'' or "The Bachelorette''? These are definitely out because while I would like to dress up like a princess on national television, I have already found my Prince Charming -- I'm married. MTV's "Real World''? While I wish their version of the real world was my version of the real world, I don't think I'm hip enough for such a show. "Fear Factor''? My worst fear is letting a whole bunch of people I don't know my worst fear. Besides letting strangers know my worst fear, I don't think I want my friends to know my worst fear. After all, a friend today may be an enemy tomorrow; and with all the whackos in the world, I think I'll keep my fears to myself. "The Mole''? An adventure in a foreign land is appealing, but being able to lie well is often difficult. I'm not saying that I don't lie -- I'm just saying that I don't lie well. "Big Brother''? Yikes. The title of the show gives me the creeps. No thanks. "My Life as a Sitcom''? We're getting closer. Real life can be pretty funny but what I consider funny about my life -- others may not; and vice versa -- what I consider unfunny, others may find hysterical. "American Idol''? I think just being in the same room with the mean judge, Simon, would make me cry. Although it would be cool to meet Paula Abdul and maybe get her autograph. Oh, and not to mention -- I can't sing. As I stated earlier about lying -- I'm not saying that I don't sing -- I just don't sing well. So, I guess I'm not cut out for any of these existing reality shows. Bummer. Maybe someday a reality show called "Moms Who Like to Read but Spend Most of Their Time Cleaning the House and Changing Diapers While Trying to Maintain Their Own Identity and Still Believe They Will Become a Famous Ballerina" will be looking for people to audition. If this show ever becomes a reality, it will be the one for me. I'm certain the judges will agree that I am the perfect person for this show. So, look for me if this show appears on television. You'll know me. I'll be the one wearing ballet shoes with a book in one hand and a diaper in the other. It will be evident that I haven't taken a ballet lesson in 20 years and that I haven't read past page two of the book. It will also be evident that I used the diaper to wipe up spilled juice. A mother and former social worker, Meg Shaughnessy is a regular Journal columnist from Monee. She can be contacted through this newspaper. Randy Jackson Comment Date: 01/25/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>MSNBC.com NEWSWEEK: We weren’t surprised to see that Simon is even meaner this time around, but you and Paula seem to have a little more edge, too. Randy Jackson: Yeah. Paula and I have changed a bit, too. We’ve raised the bar and said, “Listen, this is not some show you don’t know anything about.” You’ve seen someone great win this [Kelly Clarkson, “American Idol’s” first winner]. We want the most talented one. There’s a new benchmark. These kids know what it takes. New Album Update Date: 01/23/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>MTV Aside from her judging duties on "American Idol," Paula Abdul is writing songs for Kylie Minogue and other pop stars, and is recording her own comeback album. "My fans want to dance and that's what I want to do," she said. "It's going to be funky, but I'm doing a lot of different things, keeping it fresh." New Pictures Date: 01/22/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Paula Online American Idol judges Randy Jackson, left, Simon Cowell, center, and Paula Abdul pose for this undated photo. Whether to watch Cowell's withering put-downs or discover the next potential star, a record-setting 26.5 million viewers tuned in for the Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2003, return of ``American Idol'' on Fox. 
Paula on HBO Date: 01/22/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>Paula Online Paula will be on “Playing the Field Sex and Sports” airing on HBO, January 25th. Check local listings for time and channel. 'American Idol' Gets Storming Start Date: 01/22/03 Submitted: Igor Source: AP A new edition of "American Idol," the hit reality TV show that teams dreams with screams, got off to a storming start, giving Fox television one of its highest audience ratings ever. The 2003 season premiere of the amateur talent search for the next instant pop star averaged 26.5 million viewers -- the biggest audience for any network show Tuesday night -- according to preliminary figures on Wednesday from Nielsen Media Research. The winning formula of barbed comments from British record executive and judge Simon Cowell ("Go back to your vocal coach and demand a refund") and the hopes of thousands of young wannabe stars grabbed a 30 percent share of viewers younger than 50, the key demographic most prized by advertisers. Delighted Fox executives said Tuesday evening's 90-minute show gave the News Corp. Ltd. -owned network its highest-rated night ever, excluding sports telecasts. The first edition of "American Idol" proved an unexpected hit last summer and made household names of its eventual winner, former cocktail waitress Kelly Clarkson (news), and runner-up Justin Guarini. Clarkson won an instant contract with RCA Records and scored a No. 1 hit single with "A Moment Like This," the song she performed on the show. The second series enters a prime-time landscape bustling with new "reality" favorites, including ABC's "The Bachelorette," which features a bevy of young males vying for the attention of a leggy, blond cheerleader, and Fox's own reality dating show "Joe Millionaire." Cowell, dubbed "Mr. Nasty" by the American media last year, returned to the judging panel for the second edition along with music industry executive Randy Jackson and singer-choreographer Paula Abdul. Tens of thousands of singers in six U.S. cities auditioned for the second series, with many of them getting the sharp end of Cowell's tongue for their efforts. "This says you went to the Fame high school," Cowell told one nervous contestant. "Did you get thrown out?" "If you lived 2,000 years ago and sang like that, I think they would have stoned you," he told another. The season finale, in which the winner will be announced, will be broadcast in May. 'American Idol' Returns for Second Round Date: 01/19/03 Submitted: Igor Source: AP LOS ANGELES - More Simon Cowell barbs, more sponsor plugs and maybe the worst singer ever given national exposure will be part of "American Idol" when it returns Tuesday. The Fox TV series isn't tinkering with the formula that made it a smash hit last summer, its producers say. Can it withstand the pressure of regular-season competition? "The show is what the show is. The show runs by virtue of which contestant walks through that door," said co-executive producer Ken Warwick. The series scored in America with its fresh take on the talent-search format, including live shows and viewer voting. Nearly 23 million people watched Kelly Clarkson (news) win the first "American Idol" competition last September. Clarkson scored a No. 1 single, "A Moment Like This," but has yet to release her first album. With some 70,000 people auditioning for the second season, compared to 10,000 the first time around, there is a deeper pool of talent vying for the "Idol" title and a record contract, Warwick said. The group has been whittled down to 234 people and will be trimmed to 32 semifinalists in the second week. Viewers will vote on the semifinalists during the Tuesday shows (8 p.m. EST), and the results will be announced live on Wednesdays (8:30 p.m. EST). While contestants face stiffer competition, so does Fox. The relatively clear field of summer has given way to a fall season stuffed with reality shows including ABC's popular "The Bachelorette," which will air against "American Idol" on Wednesday. CBS' new "Star Search" and other talent shows have adopted "Idol"-like elements such as viewer voting. Cowell, singer-dancer Paula Abdul (news) and music industry veteran Randy Jackson are returning as judges. A newcomer, DJ Angie Martinez, dropped out because she was uneasy criticizing contestants. Ryan Seacrest will be the solo host, without Brian Dunkleman. The sponsor plugs contained within the show itself will be back. Some critics called their inclusion jarring. "I think it's fair to say that this show really innovated when it comes to product integration. ... and we were learning as we were going along," said executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz. This time, sponsor AT&T will offer a text-message service that can be used for voting. And viewers will see the Ford Focus room, christened for the car, in which contestants can pour their hearts out for the camera after they've faced the judges. Cowell is sharpening his tongue. The British import says he pulled punches as the field narrowed to the singer who would earn the record deal. It was a mistake he won't repeat, Cowell told reporters Saturday. "I sat there and I bit my tongue on the last two or three shows because I thought, 'I'm going to work with these people. Maybe I should be nice to them.' I will never, ever do that again." If it seems Cowell couldn't hurl more painful insults, consider his assessment of a male contestant who gets the hook in the new "American Idol" after performing Madonna (news - web sites)'s "Like a Virgin." "There was a guy in Atlanta — I'm not exaggerating here — I thought was the worst singer in the world. I cannot believe anyone on this earth can sing as bad as him," he said. Idol Time Date: 01/17/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>USA Today For the second American Idol, competition will be tougher, judgment will be harsher and there will be pressure to avoid looking like a fluke. That goes for the contestants, too. Just four months after anointing Kelly Clarkson (news) an idol before nearly 23 million viewers, the Fox summer smash returns Tuesday (8 p.m. ET/PT), bent on proving it's more than just a one-hit wonder. Fans sound excited, but Idol faces new challenges, including: * Heavier competition from first-run shows, especially during the February and May sweeps, and another reality hit with youth appeal, ABC's The Bachelorette. The two go head to head for 90 minutes Wednesday and Jan. 29 (8:30 p.m. ET/PT). * A barrage of talent competitions spurred by Idol's success, including CBS' revival of Star Search, which has adopted some Idol traits: live performances and viewer voting. * The fact that the show hasn't yet accomplished a stated goal: producing a lasting star. Clarkson's star rose with a No. 1 single, but the new Idol will start before she puts out her album, considered a better test of staying power. ''I believe the show will do nicely, but we have no expectation that it will exceed what it did last summer,'' Fox entertainment chief Gail Berman says. The stakes were made clear last month during competition for 32 semifinalist spots in Glendale, Calif., as some male singers, favoring partying over practice, couldn't remember, let alone sing, their lines. Judge Simon Cowell, famed for ripping poor performances, read the riot act to the casual crooners. ''You're making fools of yourselves and a mockery of the competition. I do not want to give $3 million of my company's money to someone who doesn't take this seriously,'' Cowell said, referring to the amount to be invested in launching the winner's career. That kind of conflict, likely to be part of next week's broadcasts, helped make the first Idol a hit. With a winning formula, the show has undergone only a minor makeover. The three judges -- Cowell, Paula Abdul (news) and Randy Jackson -- return, with the latter two sporting harder-edged talent assessments, though nothing approaching the brutal Cowell. (A fourth judge, DJ and hip-hop performer Angie Martinez, quit after just three days and wasn't replaced.) Host Ryan Seacrest is back without Brian Dunkleman, while Kristin Holt, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who made Idol's top 30 last summer, joins as a correspondent. Highlights (and lowlights) from early road auditions, which first revealed the wrath of Cowell last summer, will be expanded and the weekly voting results shows will feature more performances. Coca-Cola and Ford will be joined as product-placement sponsors by AT&T Wireless, which will offer a text-message service that can be used for Idol voting. What won't change is the gamesmanship and bickering among judges. ''It's just as lovable and spiteful as ever,'' Abdul laughs. With auditions by 50,000 across the country -- five times the number trying out the first time -- the new Idol field is better than its predecessor, the judges say. It also reflects a more diverse array of musical backgrounds, which could result in fewer boy-band wannabes among the finalists. ''I think the talent's five times better,'' Jackson says. The semifinalist field selected by the judges should, depending on viewer voting, yield a more wide-open competition among the final 10, those involved with the show say. And they might not be as buddy-buddy as the first group after seeing the opportunity afforded Clarkson. ''I wouldn't be shocked if they bump heads a little more,'' Seacrest says. Of course, bad singers will provide plenty of fodder for the sharp-edged Cowell, whose dissection of weak performances put the first Idol on viewers' radar. ''One guy, I believe, is the worst singer on Earth,'' he says. The judges say it was easy to spot people deliberately performing poorly to increase their chances of getting on TV. Others have such ''unbelievably healthy egos'' they don't hear how bad they sound, Abdul says. ''We just happened to have a lot of terrible singers who think they're brilliant,'' Cowell says. As the summer's top-rated show with the young adults sought by advertisers, Idol immediately became a candidate for the regular season. Idol could help shore up an 8% drop in young-adult viewers for Fox, which didn't have any new fall hits (though dating reality show Joe Millionaire has performed strongly in two outings), and give a lead-in boost to 24 and Bernie Mac (news). Magic's still there SMG Entertainment analyst Laura Caraccioli says the second Idol will draw strong ratings but isn't likely to match the numbers from the less competitive summer run. ''I think this will still shine. The magic hasn't been tarnished yet,'' she says, adding that could change with future editions as viewers become more used to the format and a flock of competing talent shows arrives. ''There's going to be so many of these we might just kill (the talent search) the way we did with the game show (genre),'' she says. She says Idol, a genre trendsetter like Survivor, has the best chance of long-term success. But the quick TV turnaround means new superstar candidates will be in the spotlight before Clarkson and finalists Justin Guarini and Tamyra Gray, all under contract to the management company affiliated with Idol producer 19 Television, release their albums this spring. Albums can take a few months to a few years to produce. Clarkson impressed industry observers last fall with her fast-rising No. 1-selling single, A Moment Like This. But they say her album will determine her status as a star. A Moment Like This ''came and went in 12 weeks. It was certainly a real hit record, but it also, in certain ways, performed like a novelty record,'' says Sean Ross, editor in chief of Airplay Monitor, which follows the radio industry. ''Any (album) they release will get a fair listen, but it won't be an automatic the way A Moment Like This was.'' Clarkson's album, scheduled first for last November and now for April, has been delayed by a successful Idol concert tour, which filled arenas to 83% of capacity, and by a film that started shooting last week in Miami, From Justin to Kelly: The Rise of Two American Idols. The movie, scheduled for release in April, has a tight schedule, but that's not unusual for 19 Entertainment chief Simon Fuller, who turned out the Spice Girls (news - web sites)' movie quickly. (An Idol compilation CD last fall barely went gold, selling 560,000 copies). ''Ideally, we would have had (Clarkson's) album out before this,'' says Cowell, pointing to a busy schedule as the only culprit. But Clarkson will get every opportunity to prove herself musically at RCA, with the added bonus of oversight from renowned executive Clive Davis, who was recently named to manage the label. Experts say it's more important to take the time to produce a high-quality album than rush out a weaker offering that might hurt the franchise's image. ''The top writers and producers in America are queuing up'' to take part, Cowell says. ''And the timing on it will work well,'' with Clarkson's album scheduled to come out, along with the movie, during the second show's run. Fellow judge Abdul says the focus should be on recording, the goal of the show's search and of the performers themselves. ''These kids need to have their albums out,'' Abdul says. ''They need to take advantage of the power of the first show, but they also have to do what they set out to do as artists.'' Some music experts say interest in the first Idols will dissipate as time elapses between top-rated finale, concert tour and compilation CD and the release of individual albums. ''It's out of sight, out of mind. People will be focused on the new contestants,'' says Scott Shannon, morning host and program director at New York's WPLJ-FM. How the first Idol's stars fare shouldn't dilute the show's main appeal, Shannon says. ''The process of (choosing) the star is more important than the career of the star afterward,'' he says. Others believe the program's awesome promotional power should help Clarkson, Guarini and company with their albums. ''With all the momentum they had, there's some air out of the balloon. But they can blow it back up,'' music consultant Tom Vickers says. The fans stay loyal American TV is ''so quick off the mark'' to repeat success compared with its counterpart in England, where Pop Idol, which preceded and became a model for the American version, hasn't yet started its second edition, American Idol co-executive producer Ken Warwick says. The winner and finalists there have had numerous No. 1 singles and two have released albums that reached 1 million in sales. New versions are thriving in Germany and the Netherlands, with every one of the dozen international editions performing well, says executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz of FremantleMedia. French, Pan-Arab and Canadian Idols are on tap this year. Idol fans don't seem to mind any album delays, pledging loyalty to both Clarkson and the new edition of the series. ''People are still into (Idol). I'm ready for the next one,'' says Tiffany Bertha, 21, of Denver, who caught the finalists' tour when it was in town. ''I'm looking forward to Kelly's album whenever she comes out with it.'' American Music Awards 2003 Date: 01/07/03 Submitted: Igor Source: >>>LAUNCH Nickelback and the "other" Osbourne offspring, Aimee Osbourne, have been added to the telecast of ABC's 30th Annual American Music Awards, which airs Monday (January 13). The Osbournes are hosting the show, and Aimee will be teamed up with Justin Timberlake as a presenter. Nickelback, R&B quartet B2K and rapper Ja Rule were recent adds as performers. They join Christina Aguilera, Kenny Chesney, Matchbox Twenty, Elton John & Tim McGraw, Toby Keith & Willie Nelson, Shania Twain, and Kelly Osbourne. Previously announced presenters include 3 Doors Down, Paula Abdul, Pat Boone, *NSYNC's JC Chasez, Kellie Coffey, Common, Sheryl Crow, Carmen Electra, Josh Groban, Darryl Hall & John Oates, Patricia Heaton, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Lonestar, George Lopez, Martina McBride, Jo Dee Messina, Mya, Nelly, Mekhi Phifer, Shaggy, Tyrese, and Lee Ann Womack. Martina McBride will present Alabama with the Award Of Merit. 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