LOS ANGELES – Miley Cyrus says she feels more at ease heading out on an international tour now that things are fine on the home front.
Earlier this year, her parents, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus, were getting a divorce, and her father was critical of his daughter’s behavior. But the Cyruses recently called off their divorce and the family is spending time together.
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“I think it’s good, especially when you go on the road. You have to make sure everyone is happy before you start traveling, you’re away. My family is good. They are stoked for the tour. As long as I’m happy, they are happy,” Cyrus said in an interview Thursday.
The former “Hannah Montana” star is leaving for South America and Australia on April 27 for her Gypsy Heart Tour. It will be the first time Cyrus has gone to South America, and she’s excited — even though she won’t be able to communicate with her fans in their language.
Right now, she has no plans to tour in the United States.
“I just think right now America has gotten to a place where I don’t know if they want me to tour or not. Right now I just want to go to the places where I am getting the most love, and Australia and South America have done that for me,” she said. “Kind of going to the places where I get the most love. Don’t want to go anywhere where I don’t feel completely comfortable with it.”
New Simon Cowell show to hold open auditions
MASHANTUCKET, Conn. – Hundreds of would-be stars are expected to travel to Foxwoods Resort Casino this week to try out for a new singing competition TV show that will star former “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell.
“The X Factor,” which premieres on Fox in the fall, will hold auditions at Foxwoods on Thursday. Producers will choose about 95 artists at random to audition at the open call. Of those, two will be chosen to fly to Dallas to audition again in front of the “X Factor” producers later this summer.
Cowell, who won’t be at the Foxwoods auditions, will be one of four judges on the new show, which will feature both solo artists and singing groups with contestants as young as 12.
Van Morrison linked to promoter’s baby boy
DUBLIN – Newspapers have published evidence they say proves that singer Van Morrison fathered a child out of wedlock with one of his U.S. tour promoters.
Morrison flatly denied knowing the Texas mother, GiGi Lee, when his website published an announcement on Dec. 29, 2009, of the birth of “little Van.”
The 65-year-old singer instructed his Irish publicist to say he didn’t even know the purported mother, identified incorrectly as “his wife GiGi.” Then he won a court injunction barring two British newspapers that had identified her from publishing any of their evidence.
That injunction was overturned last week. The two Sunday newspapers, The Mail on Sunday and News of the World, published front-page exposes detailing Morrison’s connections to Lee and the baby boy.
Actor filming in Asia again
SHANGHAI – After traveling to Japan for a dream-reading assignment in “Inception,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt has taken on another sci-fi picture that brings him to Asia — the China-set action-thriller “Looper.”
Promoting the movie in Shanghai on Sunday, the 30-year-old American actor said, “I feel now, doing ‘Looper,’ is the result of what happened with ‘Inception.’ It is something I have been working for my whole life.”
Directed by Rian Johnson, “Looper” also co-stars Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and Chinese actress Xu Qing.
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