The Dishing Diva

Vanessa Hudgen’s is on the cover of the May 2009 issue of Self Magazine. She also has a starring role in a new film named, Bandslam.

Here’s just five of the 25 things in the May 2009 issue of Self Magazine that she shares with her fans.

On one of her fave celebs: “I’m in love with Angelina Jolie. Everything she does, I adore.”

On her favorite animal: “I love snakes. I think they’re sexy. Not in the wild, of course, but pet snakes.”

On where she wants to take her acting career: “I’d like to do an action film where I could kick someone’s ass. I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.”

On the craziest she’s ever eaten: “A fruit bat — specialty in the Seychelles islands. They cooked it in red wine. It was really, really dark, grainy meat. It was quite frightening.”

On what her dad passed down to her: “I have really strong legs. I inherited them from my dad, who has tree stumps for legs, basically. I’ve got big calves that look good. When I wear heels, it looks like I’ve worked out my legs a lot, which is why I love them. I also have a big, big big toe. I call it my goat toe. I can climb anything.”

It’s not profound stuff, then again, what can a 20 year old from California that’s grown up doing Disney movies have to say? She’s young, and I don’t think she has any profound political views yet, though as she matures, it will be interesting to read more of what she has to say. I’m looking forward to her doing action film, I think that would be a great direction for her to go in, especially with her big ‘goat toe’ enabling her to climb anything !!

Vanessa’s on-and-off-screen boyfriend, Zac Efron, is on the May 2009 cover of GQ.

Another American Idol contestant has a new record deal!

Last year’s 4th placed winner Jason Castro, has signed on with Atlantic Records. He’s due to release his debut album later this year.

Castro reached #1 on iTunes last spring with his cover of Over The Rainbow after performing the tune on Idol’s stage.

The album will feature songs written by current AI judge Kara DioGuardi and Grammy award-winning songwriter John Fields as well as several other song writers in the industry.

Congratulations. I love that he is working with such talented writers and producers, and look forward to hearing the collaborative efforts of his new team.

Here is a clip from one of his past performances:

Happy Easter!

Nick Jonas and Miley Cyrus went out for lunch together and unfortunately for Nick… got into a little fender bender accident on the way out. How embarrassing for him. It’s bad enough getting into an accident, worse to have it caught on tape. Watch the dude at the end. He seems serious!

The pap was parked too close to the street corner, and Nick should have stopped to leave his info.
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Seems as if they set up a scenario that could cause an accident and no one even shouted out to the guy that he was going to hit the other car. Waiting for the accident to happen so they can sell their photos.
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The paps lose street cred for that… not that they had any to begin with!

Motley Crue bandmate Nikki Sixx was out and about with LA Ink’s Kat Von D. The couple have been together for a year now and still seem crazy in love. This picture snapped by the paparazzi was taken when they were having coffee together the other day in Malibu.

Just this past February, Nikki apologized for making a female fan cry at one of the band’s concerts, after admitting that the bottle the fan threw back at him was the very same one he threw to the audience.

He introduced the band’s next song on stage and then tossed a plastic water bottle out to the fans. The same bottle was then thrown back at the stage, almost hitting him.

Nikki might be the subject of a cold case that may be re-opened thanks to a recent interview by another of his bandmates.

In a new Hustler magazine interview, drummer Tommy Lee talked about the band’s early days – when they used to hang out at the club Whisky a Go Go. He opened up a 25-year-old mystery that left a police officer’s car soaked with urine.

Lee said:

“There was this unmanned cop car parked in the alley behind the Whisky, and Nikki picked up this stick and smashed in the f—ing window. He took a piss inside the f—ing cop car.”

A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department told WENN:

“It’s not clear whether this is still an open case or whether the officer involved closed it out. If it’s still open, it will be investigated.”

UsWeekly asked Stevie Nicks frontwoman for the band Fleetwood Mac what her thoughts were about Lindsay Lohan playing her in a movie, Stevie said:

“Over my dead body. She needs to stop doing drugs and get a grip. Then maybe we’ll talk.”

Stevie struggled hard to get clean and went through two stays in Betty Ford to kick coke and Klonopin so it makes sense to me why wouldn’t want Lindsay whose behaviour lately has been way too erratic to play her. In fact, the “…Then maybe we’ll talk” is more than reasonable to me.

This friendly twittering went down today between John Mayer and Demi Lovato:

John tweeted, “I have ‘La La Land’ by @ddlovato stuck in my head. Actually, it’s not stuck. I’m choosing to sing it. B section is sophisticated. You’re going to make lots of records, I can tell.”

Demi excitedly responded: “Holy crap. THANK YOU. You’re so awesome. That is quite possibly the best compliment I’ve received in this business. Thank you so, so much….. !!!!!!”

John gave her some friendly advice: “Write one song at a time, never apologize for any of them, ever. From Wonderland to Trio stuff, they’re all my kids.”

She enthusiastically replied: “See, That’s exactly what I needed to hear today. Wow. If that’s not inspiration, then I don’t know what is! You’re incredible.”

Selena posted this:

“JOHN MAYER JUST TWITTERED ABOUT DEMI! SHES IS FREAKING OUT!!!!!!

=) TEAM DEMI & SELENA!!”

Kelly Rowland was apparently kicked from her label Columbia Records (acording to many rumors). I guess her music just isn’t good enough to warrant being apart of the major label and no longer is ‘commercially viable’.

Kelly however tells a different story “Because Columbia Records has been my home base as an artist for more than a decade, the decision to move out on my own required a lot of soul-searching. As a solo artist, I felt the need to explore new directions, new challenges, and new freedoms outside my comfort zone and my friends and family at Columbia have been incredibly understanding about my evolution. I want to thank everyone at Columbia for the love and support they’ve shown and I will never forget how many good times we’ve had over the years.”

Talk about trying to cover up

The buzzing is that Jessica Simpson’s record label has dropped her, since her name is noticeably absent from the rosters of Columbia Nashville and Sony Music Nashville. OK! Magazine has apparently done some investigating and they are now reporting they called the receptionist at Jessica’s label who told them she has “come off the label.”

I remember reading when her country album first came out that it hit #1 on the charts! I was surprised and happy for her. So what the eff is going on? #1 on the charts to getting dropped from the label?

No official statements have been released… yet.

She is earning an income from her shoe, clothing, accessories, etc lines though!

According to the Daily Star (via M&C), Amy was sauntering around the island when she ran into a group of locals smoking banana skins. Ever the open-minded gal that she is, she thought she’d buy what they were selling!

A source said:

“She made sure there wasn’t anything really bad in them because she’s being so good now. They made one in front of her using dried strings from the inside of the peel instead of tobacco and putting it onto a piece of rolling paper. She loved it and has taken to drying her own peel in the sun and smoking it in the evening.”

Back in the 60′s there was a song called “Mellow Yellow” , and the singer was Donovan. The chorus went something like… “and they call it mellow yellow…Quite Right!”. That was Banana leaves supposedly!

She must be a hippie at heart … I Googled this and found the following:

“The high is very very intense, and one can get addicted to it the first time you take a hit…. makes sex the most intense thing ever experienced… orgasms are heightened to the extent that some people are known to have gotten heart attacks…”

Miley Cyrus strikes a pose at the 2009 Academy Of Country Music Awards held at the MGM Grand on tonight in Las Vegas.

She is wearing a stunning Monique Lhullier gown with a jeweled one-shoulder and bustline, Cole Haan sandals and H.Stern jewels.

During the ceremony, Miley performed her hit song “The Climb” from her upcoming film Hannah Montana The Movie, which debuts in theaters this Friday.

Here is a picture of her singing: