What do you get when we add together someone coming clean, someone saying goodbye, and someone saying “Um no…guess again.”? The correct answer, this week’s pop culture news stories, of course!
Former home run king Mark McGwire on Tuesday came clean to America that he in fact did use steroids during his career, including the 1998 season when he broke the single season Major League Baseball home run record. McGwire was forced to come clean as he assumes his new position as hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. But lets move on because “I’m not here to talk about the past.”
Simon Cowell, American Idol’s favorite judge to hate, is officially calling it quits after this season. Cowell is wasting no time though, as he is making plans with FOX to bring his other mega-Bristish hit The X Factor to the States. In asked why he is leaving Cowell stated, “I want to leave ‘Idol’ this year bigger and better than it was in the past”. While his answer does not provide much substance, we all know the real reason; he just really misses Paula. Even if things don’t pan out with X and he needs a new gig, I hear there might be an opening at NBC…
…And speaking of NBC, the late night three-ring circus continues!! After NBC proposed a plan of moving The Jay Leno Show to 11:35PM, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien to 12:05 AM (wait…does’t that make it The Tomorrow Show???) and then Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to 1:05 AM, someone now is a little cranky.
Tuesday afternoon Conan O’Brien shocked the world (so much it caused CNN to call it ‘breaking news’) and released a statement saying he would not follow the proposed plan. “My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of ‘The Tonight Show.’ But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction,” O’Brien said in his statement.
Of course the one I feel the most for, is poor ole Carson Daily. But hey, maybe he can host an N*SYNC reunion when Total Request Live becomes popular again. Although, I do like NBC’s new idea for its next show…
