FameCrawler : Nelly Furtado

Turn Out The Lights And Do It In The Dark

HerBadMother — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:31:00 GMT

Nelly Furtado is going to. In front of thousands of people. Tonight's the night.

You can do it, too.

Tonight at 8pm it will be Earth Hour - an hour during which everyone on the planet will be asked to turn off their lights, please - and Nelly Furtado - who is, in addition to being Canada's favorite semi-skanky pop singer cum single mother, is our ambassador for Earth Hour (not as cool a gig as Angie's humanitarian biz for the UN, but still, you gotta start somewhere) - is going to kick off the hour with a free! concert! in Toronto. ("Turn Out The Lights"? GET IT?)

The partners of Toronto’s Earth Hour today announced that multi-platinum Grammy and Juno Award-winner, and Canada’s own, Nelly Furtado will join Earth Hour as the first Canadian Earth Hour Ambassador. She will also perform a free concert at Nathan Phillips Square on March 29 to celebrate Earth Hour.

As an Earth Hour Ambassador and an advocate for the environment, Nelly Furtado will play an unplugged concert at the Earth Hour community event, starting at 7:30 p.m. The organizers are taking steps to make the event as carbon-neutral as possible - including powering the event with green, renewable energy from Bullfrog Power. People from across the GTA are invited to attend.

That's awesome that they're making it carbon-neutral and unplugged and all, but I still don't get how it's going to be a particularly effective concert with all the lights out. I mean, will there be candles? Isn't that a fire hazard? Or will Nelly just light everything up with the glow of her own fabulousness?

Whatever. Do it for the children.

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VIDEO: Heidi and Spencer Need A "Higher" Dose of Reality

Karen — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:30:00 GMT

Heidi Montag is a delusional wreck if she is serious about this music career. In a music video worse than Paris Hilton's Stars Are Blind (and deaf), Heidi Montag runs around a beach (original!) and sings badly (original!), then cries her eyes out over the internet dubbing this hot mess "the worst music video in history."

It's like the ugly kid at the pageant not being told she's the ugly kid until she gets there. Little Miss Sunshine gone WRONG.

If that wasn't enough, equally stunned Spencer Pratt has come to her defense and I can barely type his quote without laughing:

"When people hear what we have in the bank, it's gonna blow their minds," her manager-beau boasted. "Madonna, eat your heart out. Britney Spears, eat your heart out. I would say we have diamond records coming – they're gonna sell 10-million plus."

People reports: "Pratt, who directed "Higher," said he's handing over the reins to Paul "Coy" Allen, who helmed "Give it to Me" with Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and Nelly Furtado. (Not to worry Pratt fans: He promised he'd also release his own alternate version.)"

Oh it gets better:

"We're financing [the album] ourselves on a shoestring budget," Pratt said. "It's so organic. And this is just the warm-up. We're just heating up the water in the bathtub. It's gonna get hot!"

Oooooo HOT BATHTUB WATER! I can't wait. Maybe it'll even have bonus tub ring and floaty wads of dead skin too! HAWT!

I would take Paris Hilton over these multi-million dollar overgrown brats any day. Don't they have people with brains that they can pay to speak for them?

No word from Madonna - she was probably laughing too hard to speak.

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Whit Honea — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:02:00 GMT

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Nelly Furtado Pregnant!

Sassy Smith — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:03:00 GMT

Singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado is pregnant... according to Star magazine. Plus, look at the dress she wore to the Grammy's....would definately hide a baby bump. Canadian born Furtado is engaged to Demo Castellon, a sound engineer from Miami.

Reports Star: "She's not very far along yet, so she's trying to keep the pregnancy under wraps."

Nelly and her ex boyfriend, DJ Jasper Gahunia have a four-year-old daughter together.

Congrats Nelly!

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Sarah McLachlan Gives Birth To Baby Girl

HerBadMother — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:34:00 GMT

That is, we think so. Celebrity Baby Blog is reporting that Sarah McLachlan gave birth to another baby girl last week, but the birth hasn't been announced by any official representatives.

If she has had the kid, and just isn't saying anything, that is just, like, waaay too traditionally Canadian of her. Laying low and all that. Doesn't she know that pop stars are supposed to share everything but the afterbirth with the media? You just know that if Nelly Furtado gets pregnant again she'll have a press conference in the delivery room and then maybe get Timbaland to do a video with her while she's pushing. And Celine Dion did everything but get the Canadian federal government to issue new stamps when her kid was born. Sarah's gotta get with the program if she wants keep up with the new standard of Canadian fame-whorage.

Then again, maybe there's just no baby yet. Or, maybe - gasp - Sarah's not a fame whore. Could it be possible?

God, this gossip bizness makes one cynical.

(photo from Spinner.com)