Dancing with the Stars is hooking up one hot guest for its finale on May 20. While the news has yet to be confirmed by ABC, the TV Fanatic has learned that singing sensation Usher is slated to appear on the show's final episode, where this season's winner will be crowned!

Usher's number will feature three of  DWTS' professional female ballroom dancers, including the recently ousted Karina Smirnoff. “Usher asked her personally to be in the production,” one of my DWTS spies tell me. Just say yeah, yeah, yeah! 

 

30 Rock rolls out its season finale tonight! You gotta feel sorry for Jack. After seeing what life is like on the 12th floor last week, I could totally understand why he practically jumped at that job offer in D.C.

But life on the hill isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and Jack winds up teaming with another government employee, Cooter (guest star Matthew Broderick) to get himself fired. Hey, got to figure out a way to earn those unemployment checks! Jack enlists the help of his former love interest C.C., (guest star Edie Falco) to put his plan into motion.

TGS headwriter Liz Lemon has a pregnancy scare that brings deadbeat ex-boyfriend Dennis (Dean Winters) back into her life. When did she and the subway hero get it on? While he was scheming to toss her on the tracks?

Slightly insane actor Tracy Jordan is in the final stages of creating his legacy, a porn video game that they said could never be done. Hey, with Grand Theft Auto IV making $500 million its first week, I’d be willing to figure it out!

 

So how does 30 Rock keep scoring such killa guest stars? Star Scott Adsit reveals the show’s secret. "For $500 you can be a guest star, which is why we keep seeing Jason Sudeikis pop up on the show." You know I’m so overdrawing my bank account so I can get some screen time.

30 Rock, season finale, airs Thursday, May 8 at 9:30 p.m on NBC.

Every reality show has got to have a villain. Jesse Blaze Snider found himself in just that role while competing on MTV's Rock the Cradle. But the son of Twisted Sister front man Dee Snider decided to use it in his favor and push himself into the final three. Of course, after conversing with me on the eve of the show’s big night, I realized out that he's just a big softie.

Why do you think you made it to the final three?

I’ve said from the beginning that I was either going to fall flat on my face and people wasn’t going to get what I was doing, or they’d understand what I was about and I'd win this thing.

You’ve been characterized as the biggest showman of the competition.

I can sing, but that’s not really my strength. I knew that going in. My strategy is putting on a performance with costumes and doing something memorable. I'm just staying true of what I did in clubs with my band before, and it’s worked out for me.

The judges were tough on you during the competition.

The only thing I have struggled with is how they were portraying me on the show. It was easy to make me into the bad guy and that’s what they did. It’s been really annoying because I work really hard to be a good person and that’s what I think I really am.

Do you think you got pushed into that role?

Unfortunately, no matter what kind of good person you are ,everyone has a few bad qualities. You may have a thousand good qualities and all they’re going to show are your bad ones and they’ve really shown me in a nasty light. They make Crosby Loggins look like an angel and me as a douchebag (laughs). I was really frustrated and I didn’t know how to handle it. This past week I came in terms with it and tried to make it work for me. I kind of turned it around, and I think I came out looking a lot better than the other episodes.

You didn’t go in with mindset that I'm going to be the bad guy.

No, but I think everyone was shocked and surprised because they expected nothing from me because I'm the son of Dee Snider. They say, “Who the hell is he?” What they don’t know is that he is sharp as a tack and was going to steal the show with his one-liners in the parent booth.

How would you describe yourself?

I'm a very cocky person but I don’t thing there’s anything wrong with that. It just makes you think you’re good, and if people don’t think they’re good then they should change that. I’ve struggled for a while with people thinking I was better than everyone because I'm a child of a rock star. My life has been a constant battle in proving to people that my life was a lot different than what everyone thought it was.

You seem very proud of your dad.

My dad is one of the greatest performers who ever lived. Twisted Sister had some hit songs, but they weren’t Queen or Aerosmith. I think he is above and beyond those performers. He has more charisma and charm on stage then anyone else. No one can hold the candle to him. If I can pick up a little bit of that I would be good.

If you win, will that justify what you went through?

In episode four I had one of my weakest performances: there was no thrill to it. I looked the worst I did all season – I looked cocky and arrogant and it was terrible. I got voted into the fnal three that episode. Then in episode five I had the two best performances all season, so I feel good.

 

Rock the Cradle, season finale, airs tonight, Thursday May 8, at  10:30 p.m. on MTV.

 

TV Fanatic breaks down our fave show of the night: American Idol!

"Host Ryan Seacrest gets thing rolling by begging us to vote tonight. Worried about ratings there, Seacrest? Don't worry, you'll be employed for a long time! Ike Turner created rock and roll. Don’t remember learning about that in the film What’s Love Got to Do with It.

David Cook starts things off. I’m a huge Duran Duran fan, and he’s chosen to sing "Hungry Like the Wolf." His performance left me kind of… hungry. It was aiirght, but there was nothing truly meaty about it. David admitted as much before his second choice “Baba O’Reilly” by The Who. David’s not at his peak tonight. The second song is better than the first, it’s still not ah-mazing. But Simon tells him he’s back, which is enough to keep him from being the usual fourth place elimination shocker that usually happens on Idol.

Syesha Mercado is desperate to be a soul diva, so she picked Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary,” which she says has been covered “100 times.” Yeah, if you know that, why make it 101, SM? She doesn’t have Tina’s strong vocals on the song at all, but she does have Tina-like legs. Work it out girl! Simon says it’s a bad, shrieky version of the original. Let’s be honest. He was right. Her second song “A Change is Going to Come” by Sam Cooke isn’t very good either until the last note. But if that doesn’t push her to the final three, her heartfelt, tear-stained speech afterwards, along with Simon's praises, might do it.

(Sidenote: Umm, which contestant was the scary head mask Ryan held up?)

 

Jason Castro has actually stated he’s ready to go home. I’m all for giving people what they want. “I Shot the Sheriff” seemed like the perfect song choice for the surfer singer, but the performance, ugh! A little strained and desperate, in the sense that he’s begging us NOT to pick up that phone. And his second song, Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man,” he forgot the words! And copped up to it! Did he do it on purpose? We’ll never know (until he comes to the office next week!).

I hate to say that David Archuleta’s first song, “Stand By Me,” was the best of the night, but hey, right song, good vocals and sheer drive to win equals hot performance. So I gotta. Damn. On his second song, “Love Me Tender,” why did the camera get so close to his face? I don't want to be seduced by a 17-year-old boy! But it was very sweet and nice – a couple of missed notes, but it’s definitely enough to sail him through – the final two. And Simon seals it by telling him that he crushed the night’s competition.

Jason should go home. I can only hope…" – TV Fanatic