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NEWCOMER DOMINIC BOWDEN TAPPED TO HOST

New Reality Series from the Producers of AMERICAN IDOL Searches for Ultimate Musical Group

The producers behind mega-hit phenomenon AMERICAN IDOL take the musical reality genre to a whole new performance level with a mission to find undiscovered groups on THE NEXT GREAT AMERICAN BAND. Singer/songwriter John Rzeznik (The Goo Goo Dolls), legendary percussionist and performer Shelia E. ("The Glamorous Life," "A Love Bizarre") and Australian TV personality Ian "Dicko" Dickson ("Australian Idol") will serve as judges while Dominic Bowden ("New Zealand Idol") hosts the series premiering Friday, Oct. 19 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. The show will air in its regular time period on Fridays (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).

Q. Mark - RealityWanted.com: How did you get involved with the show?

A. Russell - Murder: Actually I heard about via my agent in Dallas. I have to admit I would not do too many reality shows. I liked the challenge of this one and I liked that fact that the winning team gets to donate 5,000K to a crime victim's charity.

Today I had the opportunity to talk with Jen Johnson, the 23 year old single nanny from Beverly Hills Ca. Prior to Big Brother Jen has made appearances on shows such as CSI, Bones and she was also a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. Jen will be the second member of the Big Brother 8 jury and now being sequestered until the end of the show.

Q. Mark RealityWanted.com: What did it feel like once you knew you were going to be part of the cast?

A. Jen Johnson: I thought that it would be a fun experience and was a little nervous to leave my life for so long.

The competition gets fierce for the ninth cycle of The CW's hit series AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, as the 13 finalists fight to turn their dreams of becoming a top model into reality. This season, an incredible transformation takes place as the finalists face new challenges and photo shoots ranging from the very glamorous to controversial, all while living under one roof in a posh Los Angeles mansion. See the drama unfold in the one-hour, ninth-cycle premiere of AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL on Wednesday, September 19 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) on The CW.

By Todd Grove

It's Thursday night in the BB house and that means that one of the two noms, Amber or Jen will be walking out the front door tonight.

In the DR Dani states her reason for wanting Jen out is "She isn't in it for the money" and that "Jen wants dick out of the house"

Later we see Jen packing her bags and the cooking a turkey burger (she is on slop and not allowed to eat remember). She then goes and finds Dick's cigarette, takes them into the storage room, and pours bleach on them and smashes them up. Meanwhile Dick goes looking for his cigs, finds out what Jen did, finds Jen's clothes, and takes them to hide in the HOH room. During all of this, Jen is on what I can only describe as an �eating binge' in front of all the other HG's. She then said if BB was not going to follow the rules she was not either (this did not air on the CBS show but I saw it on the live feeds. Jen says that the BB producers told her she could destroy dicks cigs and that they would make Dick give her clothes back, but the DR told Dick that it was ok to hide things, but not ok to destroy things, so Jen was angry that BB is not making Dick give her clothes back) Jen then gets into it with dick again when he blows smoke from a cig into her face, she tries to take it out of Dicks hand and Dick burns her with it. Now Jen is called to the DR, where after we learn that because she broke the rules and ate while on slop, she will get the first penalty vote in US BB history and that she will already have one vote to evict her.