Case Against Selena Gomez’s Alleged Stalker Is Dismissed

Well, it sounds like Justin Bieber better beef up and watch his gal’s back, as Selena Gomez’s case against her alleged stalker was dismissed by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Edmund Clarke Jr. yesterday. You see, Gomez had placed a restraining order against Illinois man Thomas Brodnicki earlier this year after Brodnicki “claimed he spoke [...]

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Avril Lavigne Will Be 'Bundled Up' For Macy's Parade

Goodbye Lullaby singer will perform 'Wish You Were Here' on Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, also featuring Daniel Radcliffe.
By Jocelyn Vena


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Avril Lavigne will join the likes of Cee Lo Green, "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" star Daniel Radcliffe, Mary J. Blige and Cobra Starship for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, airing live, as you might expect, on Turkey Day Thursday. The Goodbye Lullaby singer stopped by the MTV News offices to tease fans about what to expect from her come show day.

"I'm going to be performing on a float and singing my new single 'Wish You Were Here,' and I am planning on being very bundled up," she said, laughing. "And I've never performed in a parade before. Actually, I've been in a parade: I used to be a highland dancer in my hometown growing up, so I did stuff like that.

"I'm singing full on on a float — it's gonna be cool," she added. "New York right now, it's so pretty, and everyone's super getting into the holiday season, so I'm excited. I'm really happy to be a part of it."

A native Canadian, Lavigne already celebrated her country's Thanksgiving last month, but loves the chance to double up on the holiday once November rolls around.

"I'm Canadian, and our Canadian Thanksgiving is a month before yours," she said. "But I live here [in the U.S.], so I celebrate both. I do Thanksgiving twice a year, and it really depends on where I'm traveling and where I'm at, but I'm going to celebrate it this year, and I'm in the States. And I was with my family in Canada this year [for Canadian Thanksgiving], and we're gonna definitely do the whole friends and family sit-down, pig-out Thanksgiving."

Lavigne shared some dishes she likes to fill up on: "I like the potatoes. I like doing squash. If I ever cook it, I like doing butternut squash with rosemary. Sometimes you put brown sugar on it, if you want to be bad, and maple syrup, if you really want to be really bad. Butternut squash and stuffing."

Will you be watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday? Share your plans below!

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Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun Address 'Unfortunate' Paternity Suit

Pop star jokes that a better false allegation would have been: 'Justin Bieber went off to South America with this 27-year-old supermodel.'
By Jocelyn Vena


Justin Bieber at New York radio station Z100 on Thursday
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Justin Bieber stopped by New York radio station Z100 on Thursday morning (November 17) and addressed a number of subjects, from his favorite candy (Swedish Fish) to his early crush on Selena Gomez to his Christmas album, Under the Mistletoe. But there was one topic he couldn't avoid: the paternity suit.

"Right now, I'm focusing on my album and the music and the [Pencils of Promise] charity we're doing, and just being positive because Christmastime is a time for joy and happiness, so that's what I'm thinking," Bieber told Elvis Duran and crew. "And as far as the whole baby situation, it's unfortunate that it had to happen like that. People make false accusations, but things happen in this industry and you have to keep your head high and be positive."

When asked if he wondered why he was the target of Mariah Yeater's allegations, he joked, "If it was up to me, it would have been a better story like, 'Justin Bieber went off to South America with this 27-year-old supermodel.' That would have been awesome.

"They say that any press is good press — I do not believe that's true," the pop star added. "If you're in the spotlight, then people are looking at you to be a role model, and if you're doing bad things to be getting press, I think that's really, really sad."

While Bieber was diplomatic about his response, his manager, Scooter Braun, had stronger words for Yeater and her legal team. "Look, I don't usually talk in front of mics but the bottom line is they said they're in settlement talks with us, and the only thing I'm gonna say is they will never be in settlement talks with us," he said. "We will never settle with them. That's my little guy right there — I protect him — and they messed with the wrong crew.

"It's false and people should be held accountable when they run out and say this stuff," Braun continued. "And they have this lawyer running around saying, 'Well, we want everything to be held confidentially now.' But you don't get to go out there and badmouth a 17-year-old kid to the entire world then suddenly think it's going to stay confidential. We're not gonna go away quietly. I'm from around [the NYC area], and you know that people from around here don't like to be messed with."

Bieber also revealed what he wants his legacy to be: "[I want people to say], 'He was a good entertainer; a great entertainer,' more or less. I don't want to be second- or third-best, but I want to be the best."

Justin's visit to New York City won't end with Z100. He's also slated to make various radio and media appearances, including a gala held for the Pencils of Promise charity and a Make-A-Wish Foundation event on Friday, where he'll be honored for granting the most wishes in 2011.

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List of winners from the 2011 ESPY Awards

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On Wednesday night (July 13), the 2011 ESPY Awards took place at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California. Hosted by SNL funnyman Seth Meyers, the Dallas Mavericks emerged as the big winners of the night, as the NBA Champions took home Best Team accolades while Rick Carlisle was named Best Coach and Dirk Nowitzki garnered Best NBA Player and Best Male Athlete trophies. With skier Lindsey Vonn being named Best Female Athlete, another big winner was Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay, as he won Best MLB Player and Best Moment. Meanwhile, there was plenty of star power on hand, as celebrity presenters included Justin Bieber, who was joined by girlfriend Selena Gomez, along with big names such as Justin Timberlake, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Kendra Wilkinson, Brooklyn Decker, Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds. The complete list of winners from the 2011 ESPY Awards is as follows, and enjoy the pictures from the event below! Best Male Athlete Jimmie Johnson, NASCAR Rafael Nadal, Tennis WINNER: Dirk Nowitzki, NBA Aaron Rodgers, NFL Best Female Athlete Kelly Clark, Snowboarding Lauren Jackson, WNBA Maya Moore, NCAA Basketball WINNER: Lindsey Vonn, Skiing Best Championship Performance Tim Lincecum, 2010 MLB Postseason WINNER: Tim Thomas, Stanley Cup Finals Kemba Walker, Big East Tournament and NCAA Tournament Serena Williams, 2010 Wimbledon Best Breakthrough Athlete Jose Bautista, Toronto Blue Jays Arian Foster, Houston Texans WINNER: Blake Griffin, Los Angeles Clippers Li Na, Tennis Cam Newton, Auburn Tigers Best Record-Breaking Performance WINNER: Ray Allen, NBA three-point record Rory McIlroy, U.S. Open Derrick Rose, youngest player to win NBA MVP UConn Women's Basketball, longest win streak Best Upset Blame over Zenyatta, Breeder's Cup Fabricio Werdum stuns Fedor Emelianenko, MMA Seahawks upset Saints, NFL Wild Card Playoffs WINNER: VCU, NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Best Game Auburn beats Alabama, Iron Bowl Butler upsets Pittsburgh, NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament WINNER: Eagles rally to beat the Giants, NFL Oklahoma City edges Memphis in triple-OT, NBA Playoffs Best Moment Fennville HS Basketball Team, High school basketball tournament run WINNER: Roy Halladay Postseason No-Hitter, MLB Trevor Bayne at Daytona 500, NASCAR Best Team Auburn Football Boston Bruins WINNER: Dallas Mavericks Green Bay Packers San Francisco Giants Texas A&M Women's Basketball Castrol Edge Performance Under Pressure Award WINNER: Arian Foster, Houston Texans DeAngelo Hall, Washington Leon Washington, Seattle Best Sports Movie WINNER: The Fighter Secretariat Soul Surfer Win Win Best Coach/Manager Jim Calhoun, Connecticut Basketball WINNER: Rick Carlisle, Dallas Mavericks Gene Chizik, Auburn Football Mike McCarthy, Green Bay Packers Dom Starsia, Virginia Lacrosse Best NFL Player Tom Brady, New England Arian Foster, Houston Clay Matthews Jr., Green Bay Troy Polamalu, Pittsburgh WINNER: Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Best MLB Player Jose Bautista, Toronto WINNER: Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Josh Hamilton, Texas Felix Hernandez, Seattle Joey Votto, Cincinnati Best NHL Player Corey Perry, Anaheim Daniel Sedin, Vancouver Martin St. Louis, Tampa Bay WINNER: Tim Thomas, Boston Best Driver Greg Anderson John Force Dario Franchitti WINNER: Jimmie Johnson Best NBA Player Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City LeBron James, Miami WINNER: Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas Derrick Rose, Chicago Best WNBA Player Tamika Catchings, Indiana Lauren Jackson, Seattle Cappie Pondexter, New York WINNER: Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Best Fighter Bernard Hopkins Jon "Bones" Jones Sergio Martinez WINNER: Manny Pacquiao George St. Pierre Best Male Golfer Luke Donald Jim Furyk Graeme McDowell WINNER: Rory McIlroy Charl Schwartzel Best Female Golfer Na Yeon Choi WINNER: Cristie Kerr Jiyai Shin Yani Tseng Best Male Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Roger Federer WINNER: Rafael Nadal Best Female Tennis Player Kim Clijsters Li Na WINNER: Serena Williams Caroline Wozniacki Best Male College Athlete WINNER: Jimmer Fredette, BYU Basketball Andy Miele, Miami-Ohio Hockey Cam Newton, Auburn Football Rob Pannell, Cornell Lacrosse Kemba Walker, Connecticut Basketball Best Female College Athlete Blair Brown, Penn State Volleyball Dallas Escobedo, Arizona State Softball Melissa Henderson, Notre Dame Soccer Katinka Hosszu, USC Swimming WINNER: Maya Moore, Connecticut Basketball Best Male Action Sport Athlete Tucker Hibbert, Snowmobiling Travis Pastrana, Motocross Kevin Rolland, Freestyle Skiing Kelly Slater, Surfing WINNER: Shaun White, Snowboarding Best Female Action Sport Athlete Sarah Burke, Freestyle Skier Kelly Clark, Snowboarding Ashley Fiolek, Motocross WINNER: Stephanie Gilmore, Surfing Best Jockey Ramon Dominguez Garrett Gomez WINNER: John Velasquez Best Male Athlete with a Disability Chris Devlin-Young WINNER: Anthony Robles Aaron Scheidies Jerome Singleton Steve Wampler Best Female Athlete with a Disability Allison Jones Tatyana McFadden Alana Nichols Melissa Stockwell WINNER: Mallory Weggemann Best Bowler Chris Barnes WINNER: Jason Belmonte Mika Koivuniemi Bill O'Neill Best MLS Player Edson Buddle, Los Angeles WINNER: Landon Donovan, Los Angeles David Ferreira, Dallas Chris Wondolowski, San Jose Best Track and Field Athlete Allyson Felix WINNER: Tyson Gay David Oliver [gallery=763]

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Tom Hiddleston Has A Banner Year With 'Avengers,' 'Thor'

With five releases in 2011, Brit even made time for a Woody Allen movie, and he talks about it all in MTV News' Thankful Week.
By Kara Warner with reporting by Josh Horowitz


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To say that 2011 has been a banner year for relative newcomer Tom Hiddleston would be a serious understatement. If you didn't see him beginning to discover his mischievous roots as Loki in "Thor," you may have caught him in "Midnight in Paris" as F. Scott Fitzgerald, or noticed his name and/or face in trailers and posters for the upcoming dramas "War Horse" and "The Deep Blue Sea." Not to mention all the attention paid to the filming of his villainous role in next year's surefire summer smash "The Avengers."

It's been a banner year indeed for Hiddleston, and from the looks of things, the very talented and delightfully disarmingly charming Englishman is just getting started. It should therefore come as no surprise to see that Tom Hiddleston is one of the actors for whom we're most thankful this year.

MTV News recently caught up with the 30-year-old to discuss his big year, what he is most thankful for and what the future has in store for him.

MTV: With "Thor," "Midnight in Paris," "War Horse" and "The Avengers," this has been an amazing year for you, yes?

Tom Hiddleston: Yeah, it has been amazing. Amazing that I was even remotely considered for any of those roles. Amazing that I got them, and amazing that they turned into the films that they turned into. It's hard enough to make a film ... God knows anyone involved in the business, no one ever sets out to make a bad one. I've just been so very lucky. I've worked with some incredibly talented people whose chances of making a bad film are certainly slimmer, but they're all extraordinary films in their own right.

MTV: Looking back at the start of your career, is this the kind of success you wanted?

Hiddleston: Oh yeah, but you dare not dream about it, you dare not dream. Sometimes to dream it, you think, almost, you kill the dream by trying to conceive it in your imagination. So my way, my process of making my way in the world is to put one foot in front of the other, accept each job for its own merits and that will lead to whatever it will lead to. And suddenly you're doing five films in one year and they're all awesome.

MTV: In the spirit of being one of the actors for whom we're most thankful, what are you thankful for this year?

Hiddleston: I can't believe you're thankful for me! I am so beyond proud. I am thankful for so much. I am thankful for the things I hope I never take for granted: the love and support of my family, for my friends and their successes, and for the fact that life is generally pretty damn amazing if you let it be. I'm thankful for the fact that I can sleep on planes. ... I know many people can't. ... I am thankful for my Nike "Flywire" red-stripe/ white-tick running shoes. ... I'm thankful for my iPod Shuffle too and the music that propels me round these wonderful places. Come to think of it, I am thankful that I can run at all. There is nothing like the feeling of health: mens sana in corpore sano (a sound mind in a healthy body). I only realized that fully when I hit my late 20s. I am thankful that I made it to 30 in one piece! Thankful for my 30th birthday party, which was incredible and featured the greatest dance-off between my friends that I have ever seen. The dance floor was the star. It was raised up like a stage and had flashing lights underneath it like a cross between the sidewalk in Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" and the floor in "Saturday Night Fever." ... I'm thankful for the new album by Bon Iver, which I've just seen is the most played music in my iTunes Library. I am thankful for some incredible movies. My top five for 2011 are, in no particular order: "The Tree of Life," "Warrior," "Drive," "Bridesmaids" and "The Help." But I also haven't seen a lot of the most talked-about yet: "Shame," "The Descendants," "The Artist," "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close." I'm looking forward to all of those enormously.

MTV: How would you summarize this last year for you, career-wise? What kind of recognition are you now getting that you might not have had before?

Hiddleston: It has been an extraordinary year. Quite literally out of the ordinary. If the 30 years leading up to this one could be classified as "ordinary," this one definitely has the "extra" on the front. ... I feel incredibly fortunate: fortunate to have worked with some of the greatest directors alive and working today; fortunate to have been in films that have affected people and ignited in their imagination; fortunate to have played such a diverse range of roles across such different projects. I have shuffled in the shoes of Scott Fitzgerald, filled the boots of a First World War cavalry captain, fallen in and out of love with Rachel Weisz and run riot (twice) as the chaos-craving comic-book mischief-maker himself. I couldn't have dreamed it better. ... In terms of what I get now that I might not have gotten before: letters! I have received letters written with such passion and fervor that they reinvigorate and reinspire me to get back to work. An actor is not an actor without an audience. And if the audience is moved and inspired, as some have beautifully expressed that they have been in their writing, then I find that more meaningful than anything in the world. But I can still walk down the street to buy bananas without getting recognized, if that's what you mean.

MTV: What's next? Where do you go from here?

Hiddleston: At the moment, I am playing Prince Hal in Shakespeare's "Henry IV" part 1 and part 2, and Henry V in "Henry V." Hal was a drunken rebel, and Henry V was the greatest warrior king of England, and the fun part is that they're the same man. It's a great character arc. We are shooting the three plays as three separate films for BBC and NBCUniversal, directed by Richard Eyre and Thea Sharrock, and produced by Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productions. They'll be on TV at the same time as the broadcast of the London Olympics. It's mud, blood and warrior poetry for me. Back to my roots. "The Avengers" is released on May 4, 2012, which is, um ... exciting! And then Chris Hemsworth and I will beam back up to Asgard for "Thor 2." The rest is a blank page. Just the way I like it. The surprises are the best part.

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