After a year of absence from movies JoJo is making her return though not on the big screen. JoJo is set to star in the Lifetime TV movie True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet. It’s about a young Hollywood starlet who is adjusting to her new life as she is sent to live with her aunt after a stay in rehab.

It was just a matter of time before someone would make a movie like this with people like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears going to rehab. This is just a TV movie so we can’t expect to much of this but we’ll see about that.

JoJo doesn’t seem to be focussing on an acting career which is her right of course; the movies she has done to date weren’t exactly major box office hits. This probably really is a side project to her.

I remember when Britney Spears released her first video that people were saying how inappropriate she was dressing in that video. Girls started wearing stomach revealing tops and schools banned them (they did at my high school anyway). I first have to point out that I’m everything but a prude. I’m just starting to think that the level of what’s being regarded as acceptable for teens to wear is going down; the girls in Hollywood are a good example of that trend.

When Britney did her Baby One More Time video there was of course less exposure of celebrities. They were only seen in the music videos themselves and other TV shows they were featured in. These days with the internet they’re in the spotlight almost every single second so we see far more pictures of them at Hollywood events compared to the past. I still get the impression that the girls in Hollywood are trying to show off as much as possible these days. The worrying part about this however is more about the age of these girls. What wasn’t acceptable for sixteen year olds ten years ago seems to be becoming acceptable to thirteen and fourteen year olds.

There are girls out there that try look sexy when they shouldn’t really be bothered by stuff like that yet. Of course fashion is a big thing these days but what’s the point in showing off cleavage if a girl doesn’t even have cleavage yet? All this results in is getting attention from people that shouldn’t be interested. I’m a member on quite a few forums; a couple also fall under the babes category. Not that I’m a shallow guy but I’m still human and they can just be a good source for images. People just post pics on there not knowing how old these girls are anymore.

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It seems to be a common thing these days, movie and TV stars releasing albums. But how successful can you actually be as a singer being an actress? I can’t even count the number of headlines I’ve seen that basically said that yet another actress is releasing an album, people seem to be annoyed by it.

Of course there have been success stories in the past, someone like Cher managed to be successful as an actress and as a singer. But we of course don’t focus on that age group. But the double career seems to be becoming a more common thing, was it a thing not happening that often in the past it’s happening more and more.

With the success of High School Musical on the Disney Channel, it’s not surprising that Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Anne Hudgens got record deals. The sales numbers of those albums didn’t quite match those of the High School Musical soundtrack though; the solo sales didn’t even come close to those of the soundtrack. Why is that? If you ask me it’s simple, they lack a sound of their own.

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Recently the Maxim Hot 100 came out; I’m starting to wonder how many of those hottest women lists actually exist. And if you ask me they’re looking at the wrong criteria; I usually just call them meat rankings.

The people at Maxim claim they look at the complete package, looks, public exposure and the career to come. Starting with the number one Lindsay Lohan; don’t get me wrong, I like her. But should she be number one on that list right now? I don’t think so, her career isn’t at an all time high right now and it doesn’t look like she has a big blockbuster coming anytime soon. She is a favourite with the paparazzi; apparently the public exposure is enough for Maxim to rank her first.

But these women want to be on the list. Attention is important in this business; though they always try to be recognised for their talent and not for their looks. But with dozens of these rankings out there it’s not that easy, the entertainment magazines usually pay more attention to a hotness ranking than to a good movie review.

The consequence of this quest for attention is that some of these celebrities dress above their age. They want to be on the hotness lists radar even though they aren’t eligible yet. A magazine won’t post a hotness list with underage girls on them. I can pretty much assure you that Hayden Panettiere will be on the 2008 hot list, she’s the internet’s guilty pleasure at the moment. Though in her case it’s not that bad, she’s seventeen she can dress like that.

Will be in the Maxim Hot 100 in 2008

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You would think that in this day of age with all its technology that the younger generations of celebrities would go with the trend of everything being interactive. But apparently this isn’t the case; taking a look at the average official celebrity website tells the whole story.

Taking a look at the links list on starletlinks.com already tells you one thing; a lot of young celebrities don’t even have an official website. And I’m not counting myspace pages because for me those don’t really count, it’s rather effortless to set up one of those.

Taking a browse through the pages that are linked get from bad to worse. Take llrocks.com for example; Lindsay Lohan’s official website. To start of with you get a small intro with a single from her newest single from the album Speak. Call me crazy but I could have sworn her last album released was called a Little More Personal. When you go further into the site it doesn’t get any better, the last update is from November 27th 2005. The design in general is very outdated and the info on the site is of course outdated as well. And leaving the journal section online is just pitiful, seeing the last entry is from October 15th 2003. It just shows that Lindsay and her management don’t seem to care about their online presence. So there was an effort at one point but there just isn’t any anymore.

New single? Maybe two years ago.

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