Demi Lovato

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Demi Lovato - Philanthropy

Demi Lovato has partnered with mall proprietor GGP as the face of Shop Til You Rock, a music-inspired series of public events, which kick off at malls around the US in Summer 2010. The combines the season’s hottest fashions & today’s most popular musical guests in a series of interactive events. Lovato is also the spokesperson for anti-bullying organization PACER. Lovato explained to NY Post about becoming a spokesperson agains bullying “Bullying is a very serious thing to me, I’ve witnessed it first hand – I was bullied myself when I was 12, I want to be able to help other girls around [my sister’s] age come into their own with a strong confidence in their skin, their size, who they are and everything about themselves.”

Demi Lovato
is also the spokesperson for the Join the Sourge Campaign! DoSomething.Org and the CLEAN & CLEAR Brand launched Joining the Surge, which is a national campaign that empowers teenagers to take action in their communities.

Demi Lovato is involved in Disney's Friends for Change, an organization which promotes "environmently-friendly behavior", and appears in its public service announcements to raise awareness for the cause on the Disney Channel. Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, and the Jonas Brothers recorded "Send It On", a charity single which serves as the theme song for Disney's Friends for Change in 2009. The song debuted on the Hot 100 at number twenty. Disney's Friends For Change will direct all of its proceeds from "Send it On" to environmental charities to the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund. Lovato and Joe Jonas recored a new song called "Make A Wave", the second charity single which serves as the theme song for Disney's Friends for Change in 2010.

Demi Lovato is also apart of the "A Day Made Better" School Advocacy Campaign.[54] "The campaign is giving a deserving teacher with $1000 in school supplies on behalf of OfficeMax’s “A Day Made Better” school advocacy campaign"

Demi Lovato has also supported the following charities:

* DonateMyDress.org
* Kids Wish Network
* Love Our Children USA
* St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
* City Of Hope

"Selena's been gushing about Justin more with friends. And he’s had a crush on her forever. It’s definitely on!"

Julina? Sustin? Justena? Some of these names could be on the front of magazines everywhere in just a few short weeks! What do you think?

Chelsea Staub, or now Kane, is done with JONAS L.A., making it a great time to get away from the "Disney image" with a name change. Chelsea's full name is Chelsea Kane Staub, and by her family and friends, she is called Chelsea Kane, no Staub. So, she's changing her name officially Chelsea Kane.


Do you like the new name, or are you like us and don't think it matters, as long as she's the same Chelsea!

"They are two of the biggest stars in the States and will make the American X Factor the biggest show in the world. They are more popular than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie with under-30s in America. They’re in huge demand and would have to turn down a lot of work in order to do this."

We really like American Idol, and are planning on watching the US version of The X Factor when it premieres next fall, so we'd love it if Zanessa judged it with Simon! 

Disney has just announced their earning estimates for their new animated princess comedy, Tangled. Compared to the other studios' estimates, Tangled has earned the most money this weekend! This isn't much of a surprise, as it is the holiday season and many families are together, and a lot of them are going to the movies.




Here's how the weekend went down:

1. Tangled: $21.5 million.

2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: $16.7 million.

3 (tie). Burlesque: $6.1 million.

3 (tie). Unstoppable: $6.1 million.

5. Love & Other Drugs: $5.7 million.

6. Megamind: $5 million.

7. Due Date: $4.2 million.

8. Faster: $3.8 million.

9. The Warrior's Way: $3.1 million.

10. The Next Three Days: $2.7 million.

Disney has just announced it's plans to not only make two more sequels to it's hugely popular film series Pirates of Caribbean, but they will be shooting them back-to-back. They had planned on doing this for the up-and-coming fourth, along with the fifth film, but the plans fell through when the film lost it's director.


Shooting films back-to-back is much cheaper, and a guaranteed way to keep cast members, but there is the risk of the first film doing bad at the box-office, and then being stuck with a sequel that is sure to fail. We're really glad that they're making two more movies, but we hope that the first film doesn't bomb so we can see the second one.

Tangled, Disney's 50th animated movie to date, was expected to gross $50 million dollars at the box-office this weekend. Crazy, right? How could a Disney princess movie gross anything over $20 million? Well that's where you're wrong - twice. First, Tangled isn't necessarily a princess movie. Now yes, the main character is a princess, but the main male character, Flynn Ryder, is also a very key role in the movie. Second, the film far exceeded expectations by not only living up to the $50 million that it was expected to earn, but adding almost $20 million onto that for a domestic haul of 69 million dollars in just five days.


However, even though Tangled did do great this week, it was still beaten out by Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1. Now, it is still a great accomplishment, especially by being only $9 million behind the top-grossing film series of all time. So anyways, here's how the rest of this week has gone down since Wednesday: (in millions)


1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1: $78.8
2. Tangled: $69
3. Megamind: $17.6
4. Burlesque: $17.2
5. Unstoppable: $16.2
6. Love and Other Drugs: $14
7. Faster: $12.2
8. Due Date: $10.4
9. The Next Three Days: $6.6
10. Morning Glory: $5.5

Justin Bieber just announced on his Twitter account that today, November 26, his new acoustic album, "My Worlds Acoustic", is available at Walmart stores nationwide. The album features all of his most popular songs, sung acoustically. So, be sure to buy it! That is, if you can get through the line, as today is the most popular shopping day of the year.


Also, while you're there, you can check out Mitchel Musso's new album, "Brainstorm", which is also available only at Walmart.

Pros: Good storyline, several funny jokes, loveable characters, unexpected ending.

Cons: Some scenes with the stepmother are slightly scary.

Conclusion: Young or old, this movie is very entertaining and surprisingly funny.

Lowest Recommended Age: 6 and up.

Rating: 9 out of 10.

For everyone who thought that Disney's latest princess film, like last year's The Princess and The Frog, would flop, you were wrong. Current estimates rank the film at $11.8 million for yesterday alone. It is now estimated to surpass it's $40 million dollar weekend estimate, and actually make $50 million. It is also the highest-grossing opening day for a Thanksgiving weekend release, beating out 2002's Toy Story 2, which grossed $53 million. Sadly, it is not predicted to win the weekend in total haul, as the world's top-grossing wizard, Harry Potter, is expected to gross $90 million over the weekend in the series' latest installment, The Deathly Hallows.


Here's how the weekend is predicted to go down in the box-office:


1. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1: $80 million
2. Tangled: $50 million
3. Burlesque: $18 million
4. Megamind: $12.5 million
5. Love & Other Drugs: $15 million
6. Unstoppable: $11 million
7. Faster: $9.4 million

As of today, November 23, Miley Cyrus is officially 18! Over the years, Miley has gone from guest-starring on some of her father's shows, to having her own TV show on Disney Channel, to headlining several of her own to tours, to starring in several hit movies. Miley is planning on going to the beach with her family, and is hoping that that will bring her parents back together. Currently, Miley is filming a movie with Demi Moore titled "LOL: Laughing Out Loud", preparing to film a new movie titled "So Undercover", and her Disney Channel series, Hannah Montana Forever, is airing it's final episodes. 


Miley is planning on going to the beach with her family, and is hoping that that will bring her parents back together. We hope it works, since they have already filed for divorce.


Also, happy birthday to former "High School Musical" star, Lucas Grabeel!

We like Miley's outfit, it's looks much more appropriate than her latest outfits. What do you think? Tell us in the comments!

Demi Lovato - Treatment center stint

On November 1, 2010, Demi Lovato
's publicist announced that Demi Lovato had left the Jonas Brothers World Tour early during the preceding weekend, in order to enter a treatment center and "seek medical treatment for emotional and physical issues she has dealt with for some time". The publicist stated that although Demi Lovato had "decided to take personal responsibility for her actions and seek help" and "regrets not being able to finish her tour", she plans to get "back to work in the near future." The following day, a Disney spokesperson told People that "we support Demi's decision to put her health first and we send her our best wishes".

Demi Lovato's publicist denied persistent media speculation that Lovato's treatment was for substance abuse, stating on November 10, 2010 that Lovato "is not in treatment for drug or alcohol addiction...As we have said since she entered treatment last week, Demi decided to seek help for emotional and physical issues she has battled throughout her life. She has taken this step in order to get her life in order."

The Disney Channel plans to revamp Sonny with a Chance around Demi Lovato's absence, temporarily restructuring it to focus on the show-within-a-show, "So Random!". The move will allow the show to resume filming in January 2011, even if Demi Lovato is unavailable.

"This allows her the time she needs to get well, without distraction or pressure," a Disney Channel spokeswoman said. "Again, we extend our ongoing support to Demi and her family as she works to overcome personal issues.

You may have noticed that we did not post anything at seven on Tuesday, this was because... we didn't get any emails or Twitter messages. So we decided to just wait and see who the first person to send us an email or message would be.

Disney has just released this video to their YouTube page, the new trailer for their upcoming film with Pixar, "Cars 2"!

If anyone was the 5,000th person and has a picture to prove it, you must send us an email or private message on Twitter by 5:00 tonight. But if you have a picture close to 5,000 (must be above 5,000), you can send that in up until 6:00, and at 7:00 we will announce the winner, whether they were the 5,000th visitor or not.

“When I was traveling around the world, doing publicity for Cars,” says the film’s director (and the studios’ chief creative officer) John Lasseter, 53, “I couldn’t help but laugh thinking of [tow truck] Mater lost in the maze of Tokyo streets, driving on the wrong side of the road in England or navigating the gigantic roundabouts in Paris.”


Sounds like fun! We can't wait to see the new movie next summer!

At the time of this post, we are at our 5,005th visitor, meaning we've passed 5,000! So, who will it be? If you were the winner, you can check out the rules here. And congrats to whoever won!

"This allows her the time she needs to get well, without distraction or pressure. Again, we extend our ongoing support to Demi and her family as she works to overcome personal issues."

Disney just announced a new singing series, Madison High, and now they're announcing a new one! A.N.T. Farm is about a girl named Chyna (played by China McClain) who has skipped several grades due to her amazing singing skills, and gets into mischief with the other A.N.T.'s! A.N.T. stands for Accelerated Natural Talent, a gifted program at the local high school.

Reports are currently flying around from several close sources that Demi has done cocaine and drinks a ton. The source also said that she was snorting cocaine heavily at a party last December with a rumored boyfriend, who later died in a water sport accident.


Now, we don't have any proof that this is true. We don't think it's true, and really hope it's not true, for Demi's safety. Plus, according to the source, Demi has been doing drugs and drinking for a long time. Why would they wait until now to say it? Attention.


Whether she's in g=big trouble or not, please be praying for the Lovato family.

Since 'Wizards' is nearing it's end, and the current opening credits were shot about four years ago, Disney has made a new opening sequence for their hit television series.


Even though the sound quality is poor, you can sneak a peak at some new footage of the cast from season four. Even though Gregg Sulkin was rumored to be added to the main cast, no one has been added or taken away from the credits.