Alternative titles to this post included: “So You Think You Can Dance: Books a Musical Guest Who Can Actually Sing,” “So You Think You Can Dance Musical Guest: With 100% Less Lip Syncing,” “So You Think You Can Dance: Keeping It In The Fox Family.”

Courtesy of a Fox press release we learn that this week’s musical guest will be Kelly Clarkson. Or as I like to call her, someone with actual musical talent. Sure, she was discovered by FOX’s other hit reality show, American Idol, which makes it seem a bit cross-promotional but there’s no denying: Kelly Clarkson can sing. Kelly will perform her new hit “I Do Not Hook Up” and hopefully, unlike the other musical guests this season, she will actually sing.

While Kelly will be this week’s musical guests, professional dancers Desmond Richardson and Patricia Hachey will perform a Pas de Deux as this week’s guest dancers. You may remember Desmond Richardson for the lovely Pas de Deux he choreographed for Katee Shean and Will Wingfield last season.

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That’s set for this week guys!

Also, more news on Kelly’s new video. Joseph Kahn is the director, and its not known yet when the video will be premiered.

That could all change with her upcoming third single, “Already Gone,” written by Clarkson herself and produced by Ryan Tedder. While the song may resemble listeners of Beyonce’s “Halo” in the opening riff, what will overpower those comparisons is Clarkson’s likeability factor as well as heartbreaking lyrics. Tedder co-wrote both tracks. However, Clarkson had lyrically written her version while Beyonce barely had a hand in it after “demanding” a track like Clarkson’s. Kelly Clarkson’s penned song is a tear-jerking ballad with haunting vocals of having to leave someone. “Already Gone” sums up a previous relationship Clarkson had where it just couldn’t and wouldn’t work, no matter what road they took, someone of the two had to leave and it would be her. It had to be her more so because of her high profile career that prohibits her from making enough time for a relationship.

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First off, welcome back Melissa! Thank you, I try =] I love Kelly Source too, and it’s great that you’re staying with us. Between the both of us, we still have a lot of work to be done.

Second, I was walking down the supermarket, and Kelly’s face was on the cover of Reader’s Digest. Not cover sadly, just the small box in the corner. I didn’t buy it, but I did check out the article online - which talks about Kelly, pre-stardom. Here’s an excerpt:

Q. On your fan sites, people talk about how you’re like a sister to them.
A. Everyone says I’m down-to-earth. It would be very hard for me to keep up any sort of celebrity persona. It’s just not me. I’m comfortable in my skin. I’m outspoken. I don’t know any other way to be.

I kind of don’t recall saying we’re like sisters to Kelly, but it’s great to know that she’s thinking about us! There’s also …

Q. You have taken your share of lumps, especially around your weight. Does it mean a lot to you to show girls that you don’t have to be skinny to be successful?
A. I recently gave a self-esteem workshop for Girl Scouts in Nashville, and I told the girls that I wasn’t a role model for my weight, because I change. Sometimes I’m thicker when I’m around my family and I’m eating more. Sometimes I’m thinner because I’m on the road and that takes a lot out of me. But I do feel it’s important to talk to girls about weight. They see these images, and there’s no way they’ll ever live up to them. I want them to see someone who is real and know they don’t have to live up to anything.

I think that’s the best way to say something about yourself. Being completely honest - and modest.

The article was just impressive. You can read the full article here. It’s the issue that’s in stores now - and if anyone gets a copy, we’d love some scans. Thanks guys ;]

"Life's too short to keep things inside," says Clarkson. "You've got to say what you feel."

Hello hello hello my lovely dedicated kelly-addicted visitors, I am back, I have been away just taking some time off from the online world, I needed a break to be quite honest.

Okay so first can I say I adore this layout and that Jannice is the best co-web a girl could ask for, thank you dearest!!!! You’ve done such a great job. My apologies for just disappearing into think air.

Okay so I’m looking to convert all the pages to wordpress, and we do have a media centre we obtained it from the kelly-element.net merge but its just not ready it needs to be upgraded and re-vamped then we’ll be able to go live with it. We are keeping its name Kelly Motion and I may buy a domain for it it just all depends on how popular it becomes. I also bought another kelly domain k-clarkson.org because I am going into my own hosting and I couldn’t take kellysource with me since I adopted the site and I was going to start over but to be quite honest this site is a huge part of me and I just love you all so much that I just can’t leave. Gertie has offered to have me stay on at FSN and I’m taking her up on it, that place has become my online family so its really nice to keep my connection with the place.

So anyway k-clarkson.org will be added as a alternative url momentarily I’ll let you all know when that happens.

Other than that I have some upgrades to attend to and some stuff to sort out. Thanks for continuing to support us over the years we love you all!!! <33

I apologize for all the weird messages that may have restricted you from the site! I was playing around with some things, which still hasn’t worked. But sorry!

*Note: The graphics link is working now, so make sure to check that out!

Perez Hilton’s antics are getting worse, and Kelly just had to be brought in. Her opinion on something he said, caused her to say something that apparently has people split:

Perez Hilton shouldn’t count on Kelly Clarkson to rush to his defense anytime soon.

The American Idol alum spoke to Virgin Radio following Sunday’s Much Music Video Awards, and among the topics broached was the alleged assault perpetrated on Hilton by Black Eyed Peas general manager Polo Molina.

“I’m gonna be honest with you, he’s gonna get a lot of flowers—not Perez, the manager,” Clarkson laughs. “I do not think violence is the answer, but what did you expect? You can’t say that much crap about people without having to say something.” Check out video of the interview below:

According to Hilton, he was confronted by Molina and Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am for repeatedly calling BEP songstress “fugly” on his site. But then, Hilton says a lot of things.

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Some of the comments on the news story are just ridiculous.

So Kelly lost the award to Lady Gaga, and Poker Face. But it’s alright, the performance was amazing. If you haven’t watched it yet, the Much Music Video Awards youtube channel provided it here. We’ve also got some pictures from the event:

Kelly’s performance at Nova Radio in Australia was released, of her singing “Already Gone”. I guess we can assume that Already Gone is her newest single now. The song’s amazing! Send an email to me for an mp3 version of the Youtube video, which we provided below:

Almost forgot, I’ve uploaded tons of photos to the gallery, including the gorgeous photoshoot that she was in Australia for (thanks to Sheeda!).

GALLERY LINKS
new events
Photoshoots » 2009 » Sydney, Australia
Appearances and Performances » 2009 » June 21 - Much Music Video Awards

old events
Appearances and Performances » 2004 » American Music Awards (6 added)
Appearances and Performances » 2005 » T-Mobile Appearance (10 added)
Appearances and Performances » 2006 » Kelly at ACMA (17 added)
Appearances and Performances » 2006 » Brit Awards (5 added)

Kelly did videoblog shortly after her rehearsal for the Much Music Video Awards. If you haven’t seen it already, you can check it out here.

The show is tonight! I’m sorry, I don’t have a channel or anything for viewers. All I know is that you should be tuned in at 7 PM, red carpet at 8 PM, and the actual show at 9 PM. I’ll have media from yesterday up soon!

UPDATE: Kelly Clarkson Is Much Music Ready!

First-ever American Idol Kelly Clarkson rehearses for her 2009 Much Music Awards performance on Saturday (June 20) in Toronto, Canada.

The show will air live TODAY (June 21) @ 9PM ET from MuchMusic’s Queen Street West HQ in downtown Toronto. The Jonas Brothers will be hosting the event.

On Monday, Kelly is also expected to perform on Live With Regis and Kelly. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is also a guest on the show that day.

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GALLERY LINKS
Appearances and Performances » 2009 » June 20 - Much Music Video Awards (Rehearsals)

TONIGHT! Go Kelly!

*note: We’re pretty sure that only Canadians can watch it, but the show I believe will either go LIVE on the website (click the image above), and for sure that it will be available after it’s over.

The Jonas Brothers, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas…the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards Show pulls out all the stops for Canadian fans.

Hear that sound? It’s the gush of Jonas Brothers fans counting down the seconds until the über-boy pop stars swoop into Toronto to co-host the 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards.”

“The MMVAs always put on a ridiculously amazing awards show. But this year, it will be the first time we’ve ever had a celebrity co-host,” says MuchMusic VJ Sarah Taylor. [...]

Beyonce, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Lady Gaga, Lil’ Wayne, Miley Cyrus, Kevin Rudolf and T.I. are among the big-name artists vying for International Video of the Year.

First-ever American Idol Kelly Clarkson will perform for this year’s screaming fans. [...]

The 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards air live on Sunday, June 21 at 9 p.m. ET from MuchMusic’s Queen Street West headquarters in downtown Toronto.

The MMVA 09 Red Carpet Special airs live at 8 p.m.

MMVA wristband holders can line-up for the show beginning at 6 a.m. on Sunday.

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