Reality Television

It’s that time again, country fans! The 2012 season of ‘American Idol’ will kick off this January. It’ll be the show’s 11th season and let’s hope that this season follows the same trajectory as the last, when the final two contestants were country artists! Will Scotty McCreery‘s heir apparent make it to the top? Will we find our next Lauren Alaina? It’s certainly an exciting prospect, since country music dominated the show last season. That trend could very well continue into 2012.

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This is going to be a shock to all of you fans who believe in the power of a relationship forged on a reality show, but ‘Bachelorette’ Ali Fedotowsky has ended her relationship with Roberto Martinez.

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Three finalists are left to fight over the mirror ball trophy during next week’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’ finale, and Lady Antebellum will be on hand to watch. The country trio announced on their Twitter page that they’ll be performing.

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With four couples left and all of them wanting a slot in next week’s finale, tensions were high — especially since former frontrunner J.R. Martinez was off his game on Monday night due to an injury.

So did his woes result in someone else slipping past him and getting one of those last three coveted spots?

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‘Survivor: South Pacific’ castaway and country singer Whitney Duncan is denying that she engaged in a scandalous affair — and that she cheated on the husband no one knew she was married to while on the island. Sources claim that the blonde beauty was already in the process of divorcing, so it’s technically not cheating.

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On Monday, the remaining four couples all danced two routines plus a “relay” Cha Cha Cha — all vying to get into next week's finals — and the taped pieces before the second dance showed us a little more about each contestant, just in case you need to know that stuff before tossing your votes around.

J.R. hurt his ankle pretty ba

Piers Morgan, the tart-tongued British judge on ‘America’s Got Talent,’ has announced he’s leaving the television competition to focus more on his eponymous nightly talk show.

On Wednesday, he told his 1.5 million Twitter followers, “I’m leaving America’s Got Talent after 6 wonderful years. Turned out that juggling’s harder than it looks, so I’m going to focus on CNN.”

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Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have announced they are expecting their 20th child, due in April. The Arkansas couple and stars of TLC’s ’19 Kids and Counting,’ clearly love children, so while they busy themselves sprucing up their nursery yet again, we thought we’d honor their 20th bundle of joy with — what else? — 20 jokes about having such a large family.

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Five couples danced two individual routines on Monday night, an evening which also saw J.R. and Karina get the first and second perfect scores of the season.

So which couples made next week’s semi-finals — and who went home?

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Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar, stars of TLC’s ’19 Kids and Counting,’ will have to change the title of their reality show again this spring. The couple is expecting an April birth date for their 20th child.

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And then there were five.

The quintet of remaining pairs on 'Dancing with the Stars' were tasked with two individual (non-themed, yay!) dances each — one deemed an “instant dance” in that it had to be performed just minutes after being assigned a song.

Who fell apart under the pressure —

Week after week, contestants on NBC’s hit acapella competition ‘The Sing Off’ tantalize viewers with vocal cover songs, often trying a hand at today’s Top 40 hits and easily-recognizable artists. On Nov. 7, the show will mix in a little twang to produce country renditions — like Carrie Underwood‘s famous one, ‘Before He Cheats.’

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