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Jedward will take the floor of The X Factor with Wham! – aka George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley – hit songs.

The 1980s medley, which is expected to include I’m Your Man or Wham Rap!, was noted by The Daily Mail to have the potential to “disguise their off-key voices”.

Wham Rap!, the paper claimed, was the perfect track for John and Edward Grimes, who prefer rapping over singing. Leather-jacketed Wham! sent it to number 18 on the charts in 1983.

George Michael is tipped to make a surprise appearance at the Saturday night show, while Mariah Carey and Susan Boyle will perform on Sunday night. Ratings should soar.

Jedward this week drew controversy over an allegation it was rigged by muted sound that was ordered by the show’s bosses and its own revelations of a bullying past at a boarding school in Ireland.

Mariah Carey answered some questions about her album at a press conference at the Grand Intercontinental Hotel on Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea. The 39-year old singer was asked why she titled her album ‘Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel’. She said “Society seems to make people feel bad about not being perfect, especially in the entertainment business. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if that would be the theme of the album and speak to the people who may be growing up, and you feel you’re not good enough…It’s one of those things when the title makes the record.” If you listen to the album, everything she said just didn’t make sense.

There has been a lot of talk about celebrities making a Michael Jackson tribute album and it seems that things are finally moving along. Some of the big performers planning on recording the tribute album include the likes of Madonna, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Robbie Williams, Whitney Houston, Usher, Shaheen Jafargholi, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie. According to The Daily Star, Mariah will sing ‘I’ll Be There’, Shaheen will sing ‘Ben’, Madonna will sing either ‘Beat It’ or ‘Billie Jean’, and Robbie is lined up to sing ‘Man in the Mirror’. The album can prove to either be a success or just one big mess.
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Her album was recently pushed back, all her appearances have been cancelled, and now, it seems that Mariah Carey’s Las Vegas show won’t be going down either. Apparently, the singer’s Sin City gig isn’t stirring up as much buzz as everyone had hoped. Tickets are still available for her opening night at the Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort where her residency was supposed to begin this September. The theater only has a capacity of 2,500. Good seats are still available. I guess Mariah isn’t as popular now as they claim her to be. It looks like her career is on its way out.

As a favor to her husband, Nick Cannon, who just happens to be the host of America’s Got Talent, Mariah Carey performed on the show last week. The curvaceous singer sang her latest single ‘Obsessed’. There was something mighty off about her performance though. Mariah’s performance was very reminiscent on Britney Spears’ VMA 2007 performance – dull, disappointing and all sorts of awful. I can’t say that I’m not surprised. The song she sang is mediocre at best so I can’t really appreciate it if she performs it and I can tell that she’s singing to a backing track. I almost fell asleep watching her.

Mariah Carey’s husband, Nick Cannon, recently spoke to TV’s Extra talking about whether he was going to appear on any of his wife’s upcoming records. The young husband said “I am not worthy of being on a Mariah Carey record. I can’t even step into the studio with that woman. She is incredible.” He has to say that because he’s married to her. If he says good things, I bet he gets some great rewards. Like a new car maybe. I wonder what he really thinks of his wife’s singing. Moreover, I wonder what Mariah thinks of his being out of a job.

Mariah Carey apparently furiously left the Inauguration Ball on Tuesday night when she found out that she would not be sitting at the same table with the Barack Obama family, but that she would be sitting at the VIP lounge with other celebrities… whom she probably considered to be the commoners. A source said: “Mariah was in the VIP area, where every celebrity, like Jon Bon Jovi, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and Bruce Springsteen, was seated. But somehow she thought she’d be up with the Barack Obama family. When she realized she wasn’t, she bailed.” Of course she left, Mariah Carey is too good to sit at the same table with Alicia Keys or Jon Bon Jovi.

A lot of things have been going on around Mariah Carey. Most recently, it is rumored that the diva is actually pregnant. So what of that tour that she had planned? I’m telling you that she is most likely pregnant because the singer has apparently decided to discard plans for a new tour which has sent dancers and costume designers into a tizzy because they were banking on being employed by Mariah. Now, the ship has sailed and have left them stranded. A spokesperson for Mariah said “A tour was discussed, but nothing was confirmed. I have not been told she’s [MC] pregnant.”

Mariah Carey is trying to give back to the less fortunate as the diva has been named the Global Hunger Ambassador for the Yum! Foundation’s World Hunger Relief campaign. The campaign was created to help raise funds for the United Nation’s World Food Programme. Mariah will have her posters up in over 36,000 stores owned by Yum which include Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC, A&W and Long John Silver’s. The ads and the promotion will be seen in over 112 countries. Aside from asking for donations, Mariah will also be encouraging people to pick up a card at any of the Yum chains which will allow people to download her song ‘Love Story’ via the campaign’s website. For every download, Yum will donate money to help the cause.

Some crazy stuff went down at the Fashion Rocks after party at New York’s Rainbow Bar last weekend. According to reports, Justin Timberlake had to dive for cover and dodge punches after his bodyguard tried to grab a mobile phone off a fan who sneaked into the VIP area to snap a picture of the singer. All hell broke loose when the girl’s friends stepped in to help her and glasses flew off tables and shattered everywhere. Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Rihanna and Chris Brown all had to duck for cover as well. The divas were supposedly shrieking in horror as their security teams protected them from the flying debris.

What was Mariah Carey up to this past weekend? The curvaceous diva kicked it with her hubby Nick Carey, I mean Cannon, at the Aura nightclub in the Bahamas. Nick was hired to DJ at the club which was located in the Atlantis resort. Who knew that he can still book gigs? Even if it’s just to be a DJ, that’s still more than what he really does. I bet Mariah was really happy that her young hubby is making some money of his own to treat himself with instead of just mooching off of her the whole time. His money is his money and her money is their money.