The Day in Pop Digest for 9/9/10: (Billboard) A former bodyguard for Britney Spears filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the pop star of repeatedly parading herself around in the nude and having sex in front of him. more(Yahoo) An attorney for Britney Spears' ex-husband called child abuse claims leveled at the singer by a former bodyguard baseless and motivated by money. more
(Jam!) Rich Cronin, former lead singer of the boy band LFO and the writer of its 1999 hit "Summer Girls," died on Wednesday after a battle with leukemia more
(Yahoo) MTV general manager Stephen Friedman said Wednesday that Eminem would open this year's Video Music Awards more
(Billboard) A Los Angeles man who sued Beyoncι Knowles claiming a music video shoot "shattered" his privacy has dismissed the case. more
(Yahoo) Country singer James Otto is hospitalized in Nashville. He was admitted to an area hospital Tuesday for an abdominal illness more
(Yahoo) Amy Winehouse is making music again. Quincy Jones says the five-time Grammy winner's first new track in years will appear on his forthcoming album, "Q: Soul Bossa Nostra." more
(ASB) Katy Perry has ended Eminem and Rihanna's run at the top of the U.S. pop charts by taking her "Teenage Dream" to number one. more
(Yahoo) Calling her "a Lindsay Lohan wannabe," a judge fined "Jersey Shore" star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi $500 on Wednesday and ordered her to perform community service after she pleaded guilty to disturbing others on a beach in July. more
(Jam!) Cee-Lo Green has delighted fans by promising to reunite with his Gnarls Barkley bandmate Danger Mouse to release at least one more album. more
(ASB) Lady GaGa brought her concert in Washington, D.C. to a halt on Tuesday, September 7 when she spotted two feuding fans in the audience. The "Poker Face" hitmaker was finishing her performance of the song "Monster" when she spotted trouble breaking out in the crowd. more
(Yahoo) British tabloid veteran Piers Morgan, hired by CNN to start as Larry King's replacement as a prime-time interviewer in January, promised that he "came here to win." more
MTV Can't Kill The Video Star! Yahoo reports: MTV which will hold its 27th annual Video Music Awards on Sunday phased out videos in favor of reality programming and other shows that attracted better ratings. But recently, the music video has had a revival. Watching music videos has become central aspect of Internet usage. more.... But will labels and so-called artist rights organizations kill videos with inflated royalty demands from websites who give their music free publicity by posting their videos?
Speaking of MTV, the network is planning more "Jersey Shore" this year according to Yahoo. The network is lining up a pair of specials to air after the Miami-set second season finale October 21. more
(ASB) Katy Perry wants to give Simon Cowell an extra special wedding present - by performing a duet with his TV colleague Cheryl Cole at the ceremony. more