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Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter in the film series, says Lady Gaga's gay rights advocacy is more 'flamboyant' than his own. The barely legal 21-year-old actor's support for the LGBT teen suicide hotline The Trevor Project has earned him a Hero Award from the group. During an interview with MTV News, Radcliffe praised the Born This Way singer for her gay rights advocacy. “She's very outspoken as well, and it's just about being who you were born as,” Radcliffe said. “It's w...

Lindsay Lohan's gangster days appear to be over, on screen at least. The actress is no longer in contention to play a real-life mob wife in an independent movie about crime boss John Gotti, its producer said on Wednesday. Lohan, whose promising career has been derailed by drug and criminal problems, was touted as a possibility to play Victoria Gotti, the wife of Gotti's namesake son. She even showed up at a news conference announcing the project last week. But the producer of "Gotti: T...

Congrats to the cast and crew of iCarly! Nickelodeon has ordered 13 new episodes of the series which will begin production in 2012 for the new season, Deadline reports. The series, which was created by Dan Schneider, stars Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Noah Munck, Jerry Trainor and Nathan Kress. The latest episode, iOMG, drew an audience of 7.4 million last weekend, making it the most watched basic cable program last week and ranks as basic cable’s top kids’ telecast this year...

The women ended their losing streak on "American Idol" on Thursday as Paul McDonald became the first male contestant this season to be eliminated from the top 13 of the top-rated TV talent show. McDonald's rendition of Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll" during movie-themed week proved the raspy-voiced singer's undoing, despite the judges' positive comments about his performance. The 26-year-old Huntsville, Alabama singer, whose elimination was predicted by a number of bloggers, exited by...

Can a teen idol get a break from the paparazzi when he visits holy sites? Evidently not, as Justin Bieber is finding out on his visit to Israel, where he is scheduled to play a concert in Tel Aviv on Thursday. The Canadian pop star sent out a series of angry Twitter messages on Tuesday, complaining that aggressive photographers had forced him to spend the rest of his trip holed up in his hotel room. "You would think paparazzi would have some respect in holy places," wrote 17 year-old Bi...

Pop sensation Justin Bieber, Grammy Award winner Arcade Fire and the Angry Birds mobile game are among the nominees for the Webby Awards, the leading international honor for web content. Bieber was nominated for the video "Justin Bieber Takes Over Funny Or Die", while Arcade Fire were noted for the video "We Used to Wait" for the 15th annual awards where nominees were revealed on Tuesday. The winners will be announced May 3 and honored at a gala on June 13 in New York. Other celebrities...

Darren Criss, who plays out-and-proud student Blaine Anderson on the Fox musical-comedy Glee, says he was “touched” by NewNowNext Award. James Van Der Beek played host at Thursday's fourth annual show, which took place at the Avalon in Hollywood, California and will premiere on all-gay cabler Logo on Monday, April 11. At the show, Criss won the Brink of Fame: Actor award. True Blood's Joe Manganiello was presented with the Because You're Hot award, while Lady Gaga took home the Always ...

Pia Toscano was sent packing from "American Idol" on Thursday in an elimination that drew booing from the audience and visibly angered the judges. Toscano's surprising elimination after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-themed week mentored by will.i.am left eight finalists fighting it out to win season 10 of the hit TV talent show. A clearly upset judge Jennifer Lopez buried her face in her hands and said "I have no idea what just happened here. I'm shocked. I'm angry." Veteran judge Rand...

Katy Perry's "E.T.," featuring Kanye West, spent a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on Thursday, bolstered by the premiere of its effects-heavy video a week ago. Rihanna's "S&M" was also unchanged, at No. 2, while the Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough" rose two to No. 3. Cee Lo Green's "F**k You (Forget You)" at No. 4 and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" at No. 5 each slipped one place. Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now," featuring Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes, rose o...

Taylor Swift took the top prize at the Academy of Country Music Awards for the first time on Sunday after being overshadowed at the Las Vegas ceremony by multiple winners Miranda Lambert and Lady Antebellum. The 21-year-old starlet was named entertainer of the year and was clearly stunned to hear her name called for the final award at the 46th annual event. Leading nominee Lambert had already won four prizes and seemed poised to add a fifth to her collection. But entertainer of the year is...

Family film "Hop," about a music-loving teenage rabbit, jumped to No. 1 on North American box office charts with a strong $38 million ticket sales even as theaters continued seeing sluggish overall demand, according to studio estimates on Sunday. The movie, which combines live-action with animation and features comedian Russell Brand in the voice of a young rabbit who will one day become the Easter Bunny, outdistanced the No. 2 film, thriller "Source Code," which collected $15 million. R...

They came, they saw, they got slimed! From start to finish, the gooey green stuff poured onto fans in the front rows of the Nickelodeon television network's Kids' Choice Awards Saturday as stars ranging from Miley Cyrus to the Black Eyed Peas came away winners. The Kids' Choice Awards annually draws some of Hollywood's biggest stars of music, movies and TV shows who are promoting upcoming films, TV shows or music to young fans. The 2011 ceremony got off to a monstrous start as host J...

Singer Rihanna has told Rolling Stone magazine she agreed a judge could ease a stay away order against her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown over a violent altercation two years ago because she didn't want to hurt his career. The 23-year-old told the music magazine it was "my decision" not to object to a Los Angeles judge's decision in February to downgrade a restraining order keeping Brown, 21, 50 yards away from Rihanna -- 10 yards at music industry events. "It doesn't mean we're gonna make up ...

Britney Spears is being sued for more than $10 million by a licensing firm that helped the pop singer launch a fragrance line marketed by Elizabeth Arden Inc. Brand Sense Partners filed its breach of contract lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, also naming her father, Jamie Spears, who is the conservator of her estate. A spokesman for Spears could not immediately be reached. According to the complaint, Brand Sense brokered Spears' deal with Elizabeth Arden in 2004, and...

R&B singer Chris Brown, dogged in recent years by a domestic violence conviction, scored his first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop chart Wednesday with one of the best sales weeks of his career. Brown sold 270,000 copies of "F.A.M.E." during the week ended March 27, according to Nielsen SoundScan. His previous album, "Graffiti," released in the wake of a physical confrontation with then-girlfriend Rihanna, debuted at a disappointing No. 7 in December 2009 with 102,000 units. Only his 2007 al...