Jacko ‘holds audition for tour dancers via video link’

April 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The video of Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle has become the most popular video and set a world record of a staggering 93.5 million hits in just 11 days on YouTube. The 48-year-old had stunned all with her jaw-dropping performance of the Les Misirables song 'I Dreamed a Dream' on the talent show.

April 11th, 2009 LONDON - Got two left feet? Well, then instead of wasting money on dance classes, try to spend a few minutes measuring your ears, suggest researchers. Researchers in Edinburgh have embarked upon a mass experiment which will be see both good and bad dancers.

April 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood heartthrob Robert Pattinson once dressed like a woman to audition for a role as a transsexual prostitute. The Twilight star had donned woman's clothing along with loads of make-up in a bid to impress the casting directors.

April 6th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Pop star Beyonce Knowles will be taking her 'I Am' tour to Australia in September. The Bootylicious singer kicked off her dazzling tour in Canada last week.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - British singer Alesha Dixon is all set to make a world record of the largest number of backing dancers in a performance. The 2007 Strictly Come Dancing winner will be singing her new track 'Let's Get Excited' on Sky1's Guinness World Records Smashed event, reports The Sun.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - King of pop Michael Jackson has decided to enlist the services of magician David Copperfield for his O2 shows, in order to make them more spectacular. Copperfield, 52, who will be masterminding a series of onstage stunts, is said to have held a meeting with Jacko at the magician's Californian HQ.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winner Lionel Richie has advised King of Pop Michael Jackson to focus more on singing rather than dancing during his comeback tour. The 59-year-old popstar insists that dancing will be harder on Jackson as he's 50 years old now, and has therefore urged him to concentrate more on his vocals.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - BBC chiefs are planning to draw a younger audience for Strictly Come Dancing by "sexing up" the show. The British TV show wants to follow the US version of the hit Dancing With The Stars, which has more than 20million viewers in the States, and BBC1 producers even have plans of bringing over more American dancers.

March 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Britney Spears reportedly shared a seven-to-nine minute bathroom romp with a dancer on her Circus tour at an after party in Montreal. According to reports by x17online, as soon as the 'Womaniser' singer's show was over, she and her crew headed to an after-party and one fan saw her kissing and sharing some intimate bathroom moments with one of her dancers.

March 17th, 2009 NEW YORK - Scores of aspiring catwalk queens are pleading 'America's Next Top Model' host Tyra Banks for a second chance, after the recent audition in New York ended in bedlam. Hopeful models had recently gathered outside the Park Central Hotel to audition for The CW show, open to women under 5-feet-7-inches for the first time.

March 15th, 2009 NEW YORK - 'America's Next Top Model' audition in Manhattan took a nasty turn after fears of a bomb placed inside a car left several people injured. Scores of aspiring catwalk queens had gathered outside the Park Central Hotel to audition for The CW show, open to women under 5-feet-7 for the first time.

March 13th, 2009 LONDON - Pop princess Britney Spears has shown that she can be both naughty and nice in the music video of her controversial new song 'If U Seek Amy'. The first half of the song shows Spears doing an eye-popping performance as she dances provocatively with topless male dancers in an underwear scattered hotel room, reports the Sun.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - King of pop Michael Jackson will be renting Brit singer Rod Stewart's Essex mansion as he performs his London comeback tour at The O2 in July. Stewart, 64, has his pad just 31/2miles outside Greater London, it is set among the 180-acre Copped Hall estate, and even has a five-a-side football pitch.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Popstar Britney Spears' comeback tour has reportedly come under fire after three of her back-up dancers were fired for drug use. The back-up dancers in question were caught after Britney's father and manager Jamie Spears' ordered a drug test.

January 10th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise was kicked out of his son Conor's audition for new movie 'Seven Pounds' because he was distracting the teenager. The 16-year-old made his acting debut, playing the son of Will Smith's character in the movie.