Bristol Palin is moving on from her recent breakup from Levi Johnston by hitting the dance floor. Sarah Palin's 19-year-old daughter has officially been cast on season 11 of "Dancing With the Stars," E! News is reporting and sources confirm to PopEater.com.
Although she has never danced before, Palin is looking forward to living in L.A. while the show tapes and is bringing her son, Tripp, with her, sources at ABC tell PopEater's Naughty But Nice Rob. Her proud mama plans to be sitting in the front row cheering her daughter on.
"Bristol is excited and scared and hopes she gets Maksim Chmerkovskiy as her partner," the source adds.
Last season, he and Erin Andrews turned up the heat on (and off) the dance floor - but the brash dancer still hasn't taken a star to the top to win the mirror-ball trophy.
According to E! News, David Hasselhoff, Audrina Patridge, The Situation and Brandy have all been cast on the upcoming season, which premieres Sept. 20.
It's the end of an era for MacGruber. After eight seasons, Will Forte is leaving "Saturday Night Live." Forte's publicist, Lewis Kay, said Thursday that Forte is moving on from "SNL" "to pursue other opportunities," Popeater.com reports.
Kay said Forte is "eternally grateful" to "SNL" producer Lorne Michaels and to "all the incredible people he worked with over the years" for his successful run on the show.
Forte joined the cast in 2002 as a featured player. Shortly after, he was upgraded to regular cast member and took over the role of then-president George W. Bush when Will Ferrell left the show and was featured as a number of recurring characters, including the Falconer and MacGruber.
Recording artists Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley will again be the hosts of the Country Music Association awards show.
The CMA announced their selection on Thursday in Nashville, the Associated Press reports.
It will mark the third consecutive year Underwood and Paisley have been the hosts.
The awards presentation on Nov. 10 will originate from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville and be telecast by ABC.
Country star Vince Gill will headline a free outdoor concert next month to promote tourism on Florida's Gulf Coast.
Dawn Moliterno, a Walton County tourism official, said Thursday in a statement released by Gill's publicist that the concert will help communities in the area with much needed economic recovery.
Set to the backdrop of the Choctawhatchee Bay, the Sept. 25 concert will be held at The Links Golf Course driving range at Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. It's been labeled "Back to the Beach."
Gill is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes are reuniting for a trans-Atlantic production of "Richard III," producers announced Thursday.
Spacey will play the villainous English king in a production of Shakespeare's play directed by Mendes, which is set for an international tour in 2012.
The play will form the third and final season of the Bridge Project, which brings together British and American actors on classic plays directed by Mendes.
"Richard III" will open at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music in February 2012, then tour internationally before opening that May at London's Old Vic Theatre, where Spacey is artistic director.
The two men last worked together on the 1999 film "American Beauty," which won five Academy Awards, including best actor for Spacey and best director for Mendes.
Paul Hogan, the Australian actor best known for his 1986 film "Crocodile Dundee," has been barred from leaving Australia until a tax dispute is settled, his lawyer says.
Hogan, who flew to Australia last week to attend his mother's funeral, was served with a departure prohibition order under the Tax Administration Act, which prevents him from traveling overseas, Andrew Robinson, his lawyer, said in an e-mailed statement, Bloomberg News reports.
"He is stunned and very disappointed the government could treat him as a flight risk," Robinson said in the statement. "Paul continues to vehemently deny any wrongdoing."
The Australian Taxation Office and other agencies are investigating promoters of tax havens and their clients. The office collected $45 million in unpaid taxes after more than 100 civil investigations, Michael D'Ascenzo, the commissioner of taxation, said in a statement on the agency's website.
The Taxation Office has been investigating Hogan's finances for five years and hasn't laid any charges, Robinson said.
Hogan lives in Los Angeles, where he has a wife and a child. He has five other children, nine grandchildren and a brother and sister living in Australia and has frequently traveled to visit them, Robinson said.
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