Who knew Jewel has such a rockin’ bikini bod? The Alaskan songstress might have grown up in the snowy north, but she definitely knows how to flaunt what she’s got when it comes to dressing for warm weather! Jewel showed off her slim figure on Monday, catching a few bright rays of Miami sunshine and flashing an even brighter smile.
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PHOTOS: Jewel Shows Off Her Bikini Bod on the Beach
November 2nd, 2009 / Author: Mary Beth Quirk
Jewel’s Accused Stalker Claims “Mission From God”
September 22nd, 2009 / Author: Mary Beth Quirk
The Associated Press reports that a man accused of stalking Jewel at her Texas ranch said he was on a mission from God: Authorities said Tuesday that Michael Lawrance Kozelka of Wisconsin was arrested last week after he showed up two days in a row to the Stephenville ranch owned by Jewel’s husband, Ty Murray. Read more »
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June 5th, 2009 / Author: Chris Morran
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DWTS Watch: Shawn Johnson Wins!
May 20th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff
Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson can now add the Dancing with the Stars mirror ball trophy to her trophy case, as the peppy teen beat out hunky French actor Gilles Marini in the closest one-two finish in the ABC show’s history.
Although she’s been strong all season, Shawn’s Tuesday night finale victory was considered an upset by many, as her fellow stars Gilles and Bachelor beauty Melissa Rycroft (who finished third) had long been considered the front-runners. However, as okmagazine.com reported last night, Shawn’s energetic freestyle routine, full of cartwheels and other tricks, blew away the competition.
In their last dances on Tuesday’s results show, all three finalists got perfect 30s for their routines. But judge Carrie Ann Inaba foreshadowed the surprise ending when she told Shawn, “we all underestimated you.”
“I feel amazing. This is the most rewarding experience I’ve ever been through,” the 17-year-old gymnast told OK! after the show. “It’s a dream come true. I’ve loved every second of it. It’s changed my life and made me a better person.
“I was told at the Olympics I couldn’t dance,” she said. “I proved everybody wrong. Look, I can dance!”
Her partner, Mark Ballas, who also won DWTS two seasons ago with another athlete, skater Kristi Yamaguchi, fell to the floor after hearing the results. "I was blown away," He explained to OK!. “I was put on the floor — sorry for my emotional explosion at the end there. But you work so hard; it’s weeks of blood, sweat, and tears and I’ve dedicated my life to dancing and it’s been an honor to take Shawn to the end. I can’t thank the fans enough for voting for us.”
Meanwhile, Sex and the City actor Gilles finished second, less than one percent behind Shawn, according to DWTS host Tom Bergeron. After the show, OK! saw him tenderly kiss his son Georges, 10, and tell him, “it’s not always about winning.”
Later, he said, “Shawn is only seven years older than my son, so I’m very happy for her. For him, he understands one thing — daddy lost — so it’s difficult for him. But I’ll make him understand. I’m thrilled but just emotional for my son — he doesn’t understand why; daddy danced good all season. But It’s part of life.”
Gilles, who has danced with a separated shoulder, told OK! he’ll soon have shoulder surgery: “I need to get that surgery quick because things are going to kick in my life acting wise and I have to be able to move it.” In fact, he’s nabbed a role on the ABC show Brothers & Sisters for next season. “We’re going to start shooting in August. I’m excited because the cast is insanely brilliant and I’m like, what an honor to be there.”
His partner, Cheryl Burke, said she’s taking a two-week vacation to St. Lucia with her boyfriend, model Maxwell Zagorski, and then devoting herself to her dance studios and new clothing line this summer. The dance partners vowed to be friends forever. “I love this girl to death,” Gilles said.
Melissa and partner Tony Dovolani also stayed positive. She said the results were “awesome. Shawn 100 percent deserves it. In 17 years of her life, she’s accomplished more than what most people will accomplish in their entire lives and she’s the sweetest, most genuine girl that I know. I love her so I’m so happy she’s walking away with this.”
She added, ”Going into today, all of us were winners in the sense that we’ve come so far from show number one to now. We’ve all become such good friends and accomplished so much, overcome injuries and hard dances and all the mental strain that comes with it.
“Tony turned me into a performer and got me to perform 12 dances.”
When asked if she’d do another reality show, Melissa, who famously got jilted on the last season of The Bachelor, said, “I don’t know. I’m not pursuing anything, [but] if anything comes my way, I’ll definitely consider it because the world has definitely opened up a little bit.”
Melissa can’t wait to go home to Dallas and see her friends and family. She told OK! about a possible vacation with her boyfriend, Tye Strickland, “We want to, but schedules are busy. He’s working back home.”
Her devoted partner Tony said, “She’s one of the most talented people I’ve ever met. She brought the best out of me. Whenever she puts her heart into it, this woman will always come out on top.” And this time, Melissa’s reality TV experience has been a lot nicer: “I’m happy she gets to go home with a smile on her face,” Tony declared.
The entire Season 8 cast for DWTS came back for the finale, and some weren’t surprised that Shawn took home the trophy.
Competitor and computer wiz Steve Wozniak told OK!, “Shawn had the largest audience support from middle America. I’ve believed for a long time that her numbers were high.” And cowboy Ty Murray, who finished an unexpected fourth, said, “I knew an Olympic gold medalist fan base was going to be hard to overcome.”
By Carole Glines
DWTS Watch: The Final Three Compete
May 18th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff
Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson looked like she was winning the gold medal on Monday night’s Dancing with the Stars season finale, as she turned in the most dynamic dance of the season with a freestyle routine that played to all her strengths and overshadowed rival celeb competitors Gilles Marini and Melissa Rycroft.
Although Shawn’s combined score of 58 for her two dances tied her with Gilles, she was the talk of the night for her high-energy freestyle dance. She earned a perfect 30 from the judges for the routine, which featured cartwheels and other incredible tricks — and had judge Bruno Tonioli on his feet. “It was an explosive performance,” he said in praising the 17-year-old cutie, who dances with pro Mark Ballas.
“I felt amazing!" an excited Shawn told OK! after the show. "The freestyle was by far my favorite dance and I just really let loose and had a great time and held nothing back. I’ve learned I can be more than a gymnast.”
Mark said, “I definitely feel if you watched the whole season from start to finish that Shawn is the most improved. Her little face tonight, her personality — I could just feel it dancing next to her. I’m so proud of her and so grateful to all the fans.”
The final three stars started the night by doing a paso doble face-off, with each couple performing one after the other, and beginning and ending the dance as a group. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba declared, “You’re all incredible.” Gilles earned a perfect 30, Melissa a 29, and Shawn a 28 for the paso.
But it’s always the freestyle routines that the audience looks forward to the most.
Gilles, who received a score of 28 for his freestyle, faced criticism by two of the judges. While Len Goodman said it was “slick” and “high energy,” Carrie Ann called his Flashdance-inspired routine “an odd choice,” because the original movie featured a female dancer, and Bruno thought it lacked content, sighing, “I wanted more actual dancing.”
Backstage, the Sex and the City actor told OK!, “It went really well. We had one perfect score and we did pretty good on the other dance. Having those scores? I love it!”
His partner, two-time DWTS champion Cheryl Burke, said they have no idea what their chances are of taking home the trophy Tuesday night.
Gilles confided even after all this time, “We don’t know what our fan base is. Shawn? American hero, gold medalist, young, cute little thing. Who am I? A French born guy, older. Hopefully we’ve made people happy with what they’ve seen.”
Gilles, who wore a ripped tee shirt that displayed his buff chest for the freestyle, said “my son [Georges] loves it. I have to bring it home. He thinks a tiger was backstage and tore it apart.”
Meanwhile, Melissa Rycroft — who shot to fame after she was jilted on another ABC reality show, The Bachelor — and her partner Tony Dovolani also got some negative judging for their freestyle, which scored a 27. Of the hip-hop routine, Len said, “I don’t get it” and Bruno called it “a bit disjointed.”
Still, although she’s in third place with a cumulative 56, Melissa was characteristically upbeat after the show, telling OK!, “I’m happy. I thought we went out and rapped it. We had a great time out there. The music was fun, the audience was great. We were confident with everything.”
Tony added, “I had a blast. For me, it was an emotional night because I wanted to make sure on her last episode, she had the biggest smile on her face and that’s exactly what we did. We didn’t dance for the judges tonight — We danced for the fans that pulled us through, even with the hurdles we had.”
The dancing pro was referring to Melissa’s fractured ribs three weeks ago, which caused her to be unable to perform live. She was judged on her dress rehearsal and managed to survive elimination and then make it to the finale.
Tony himself suffered an eye injury during a freestyle rehearsal this week when Melissa accidentally hit him.
Melissa said her rib injury is “probably not 100 percent” healed yet. “But it’s the finale. You got to do it.”
Tomorrow night, the competitors perform only for the judges’ scores and then the winner is announced. Who will walk off with the disco ball trophy? It’s anyone’s guess in the most wide-open DWTS contest for the past few seasons.
By Carole Glines
DWTS: Ty Murray Rides Off Into the Sunset
May 13th, 2009
It’s back to the ranch for rodeo champ Ty Murray, as he and partner Chelsie Hightower were eliminated from Dancing with the Stars on Tuesday night.
From the very beginning, it looked like Ty wasn’t going to last long with poor performances and even poorer scores. But the determined cowboy kept plugging away and gradually came to impress the judges and fans on his way to becoming a surprise fourth-place finisher.
“Both me and Chelsie felt like we had an army of people behind us, cheering us on," the unflappable Ty, who is married to platinum-selling singer Jewel, told OK! after being eliminated. "That’s your motivation to keep working at it. I’m not going to lie — I’m tired of learning dances. I’m so glad I don’t have to go learn two more for next week. I really am.”
Monday night, Ty and Chelsie received the lowest scores — 25 for their Viennese waltz; 23 for the samba — among the four remaining pairs. And it looks like the voting audience at home agreed.
So what now? “I got to go to the ranch and get some work buttoned up there," he told OK!. "I got about 500 head of cattle I need to work and as soon as we get done with that, the grass is green and mother nature will take care of them and me and Jewel will take a vacation.”
Chelsie, who is hoping to come back for next season’s DWTS with a new celebrity partner, also told OK! she’s considering a vacation. “It’s not in the works at the moment but it will be soon. I was thinking Mexico but since the whole swine flu thing… I’m thinking somewhere warm.”
Meanwhile, Ty’s exit clears the path to next week’s finale for the three remaining pairs. “This is all we’ve been working for and we made it to the last week,” crowed Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, with partner Mark Ballas by her side.
Former Bachelor star Melissa Rycroft, who dances with Tony Dovolani, said, “It feels incredible. Tony and I sit back and have to remember where we were a few weeks ago and to see where we are right now is something that couldn’t have been scripted. It would seem unrealistic and unbelievable.”
And last but certainly not least, Sex and the City actor Gilles Marini — who is featured in an exclusive photoshoot and interview in the next issue of OK! — promised, “I’m going to do my best. America will choose. I have a lot of work to do — from my footsteps to my arms to my head. I don’t even know what time it is but I give a lot of passion to what I do. Shawn, Melissa, and I are there and it’s going to be pure fun.”
By Carole Glines
DWTS Watch: Gilles Achieves Perfection
May 12th, 2009 / Author: OK! Staff
Gilles Marini got two perfect scores in the semifinals of Dancing with the Stars on Monday night — and he didn’t even take his shirt off!
The French actor, best known for his revealing role in last year’s Sex and the City movie, and his partner Cheryl Burke blew away the competition by earning a 30 for their graceful waltz and a 30 for their energetic salsa. The salsa was so inspired that it had notoriously tough judge Len Goodman saying, “I wish I had an ‘11’ paddle.”
After scoring the highest of the final four, Gilles told OK! “It feels beautiful and amazing. It’s a big struggle, but a big payoff. Cheryl has to kick my butt, otherwise I don’t function. She’s been pushing me.”
Gilles said he knew he was capable of getting perfect scores and added, “I think the judges understand how much work it is and it’s no BS with me — I’ve never danced before the show. It’s pure work and showing them respect and I think they read that.”
The cumulative second place position went to gymnast Shawn Johnson and partner Mark Ballas, who got their first perfect score this season, a 30, for their dramatic Argentine tango. The judges only gave them a 26 for their jive, however, with Carrie Ann Inaba saying the second half of the dance was weak.
But backstage, plucky Shawn was unfazed, telling OK! “I thought it was our best week yet. I thought our jive was amazing even though we didn’t get the best scores. We’ve learned not to put everything into the judging. It’s all about the votes and about how America enjoys it.”
Mark came to her defense, saying he was kind of “bummed out” that the judges said she didn’t do enough jive moves. “If you check the book syllabus, she had an American spin; she had a Pat-a-cake, a changeover from left to right. We were sweating this week to the point that we were like drowned rats!” Mark also revealed their jive caused him an embarrassing problem: “I got a wedgie. The shirt’s really tight!”
Luckily, though, Shawn and Mark did better Monday night than they did during an exhibition at the Wango Tango concert event over the weekend, as she completely forgot her dance steps. “We were performing a dance we did like four weeks ago and I have a short-term memory anyway," she said. "And we figured out I didn’t remember it ten minutes before we went on — so we decided to re-learn it and I got up there and I was like, ‘oh, my God!’ ”
Mark laughed that as he “yanked” Shawn around the floor he told her, “just smile!”
Meanwhile, ex-Bachelor star Melissa Rycroft and her partner Tony Dovolani came in third on Monday night, receiving a 28 for their quickstep and a 27 for their tango. The reality show beauty, who had been the frontrunner most of the season until she fractured her ribs two weeks ago, came in for surprisingly tough criticism from the judges. While last week Carrie Ann fawned over Melissa’s samba, on Monday night, she sternly said she saw “no joy” in the DWTS competitor’s quickstep.
But Melissa said it was tough because, “everybody brought their A game tonight.” Tony said, “After the high of our samba last week, we had to really raise the bar. To be honest with you, I didn’t even hear what the judges said.” Melissa said, “Right before we went out tonight, we set a goal for ourselves to be personally happy and satisfied with our routines because up until now, we hadn’t been. We were nervous going out there. Personally, I was really happy tonight.” Another reason for her happiness? She’s feeling great as her rib injury is about 80 percent healed.
All of the competitors Monday night were treated to a clips package from their hometowns, in which their friends and family members praised them and shared baby pictures. Melissa’s seemed a bit incomplete to OK!, however, as her Texas boyfriend Tye Strickland didn’t appear on camera. “He’s not shy, but it’s a private relationship,“ Melissa explained after the show.
About the night’s leader, she said, “I think Gilles absolutely deserved a perfect score” as Tony gave him a congratulatory pat on the bottom.
Meanwhile, cowboy Ty Murray, the surprise semifinalist of this season after besting Lil Kim last week, has shown America his resilience with partner Chelsie Hightower.
Still, he scored the lowest, getting a 25 for his Viennese waltz and 23 for his samba, which judge Bruno Tonioli said looked uncomfortably like he was walking a tightrope. After the show, the self-deprecating rodeo champ said, “We knew coming into the night that I was the fourth best dancer on the show but we just wanted to do our best. We felt we did pretty close to that. It’s hard for me to tell because after the dances, I can’t tell the difference—which one did you do better? I really have no idea.
“It’s like teaching a blind guy how to paint,” he chuckled. “Chelsie has her work cut out for her. They gave her the block of wood.”
Tune in Tuesday night to see if Ty’s fans save him again as another competitor must go home!
By Carole Glines
Jewel Is a Gem
May 7th, 2009
