Fergie and her fiance, Josh Duhamel, have set a wedding date for Jan. 10, People magazine reports. The pop star, 33, and the actor, 36, got engaged a little more than a year ago. The wedding guest list, so far, includes Kate Hudson and Nicole Kidman, who were Fergie’s co-stars in “Nine” the movie adaptation of the musical that Fergie just finished filming in Europe.Fergie didn’t have good taste in men back when she was in high school. The singer’s prom date, Vincent Deal Malicek, was convicted of armed bank robbery and faces 98 months in jail, TMZ.com reported. Malicek was busted in September after a surveillance camera caught him robbing a Wells Fargo bank in Santa Ana, Calif., with a silver handgun.
Real’ change in store for MTV
MTV is serving up 16 new, unscripted, reality series over the next four months in an effort to hold on to its dwindling audience. The cable network’s recent ratings decline has been severe, with a 23 percent drop in its core group of 12- to 34-year-olds, Variety reported. As a result, MTV will be overhauling its programming and looking for new ways to get new viewers.
The network’s proposed lineup of reality shows will be created and produced by entertainment big names such as rap impresario Sean Combs, “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, real estate developer Donald Trump and former “98 Degrees” band member Nick Lachey .
MTV isn’t selling out, however. It was the first major network to develop reality television, with 1992’s “Real World” - a show that focuses on the lives of seven strangers who audition to live in a house together for several months and be recorded.
“Our new shows will feature themes of affirmation and accomplishment,” said Brian Graden, entertainment president at MTV Networks music channels and president of Logo.
“Our shows are going to focus less on loud and silly hooks and more on young people proving themselves.”
One of the new shows, titled “College Life,” will feature film shot by college students themselves. Producers gave University of Wisconsin freshmen camcorders and then turned them loose to shoot their own lives on film.
Another reality series, produced by Lachey, will focus and follow the lives of students at Cincinnati’s School for Creative & Performing Arts .
Meanwhile, Trump’s show, “Girls of Hedsor Hall,” will follow a dozen hard-partying young women as they are sent to an English finishing school.
“You get an intense sense of reality that you haven’t seen on television before,” Graden said. “These are (techniques) that are interesting that I don’t see anyone else doing.”
The network has seen its fair share of hard times. With the end of “Total Request Live” and fewer program launches, MTV has felt the bite. “This has been a six-month period with fewer launches than I can remember,” Graden said. “And I wish there wasn’t, but there has been a cost to ratings because of that - probably more than we expected.”
Even the network’s hit show “The Hills” hasn’t been immune to the ratings drop, with a 26 percent drop in viewers between the ages of 12 and 34, compared with the same period last year.
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