Neil Haskell

Neil David Haskell (born April 16, 1987 in Clarence Center, New York) is an American contemporary dancer. He is best known as a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance where he finished third in the final four.

Neil is the beautiful and talented dancer who first started dancing at age five at the David DeMarie Dance Studio in Clarence, New York, and American Academy of Ballet in Williamsville, NY. At age 14, he began intensive training in ballet at the Chautauqua Institution for three summers. He attended Point Park University for a year, majoring in dance. Haskell has described his dance style as jazz/ballet. He earned the title of "Male Dancer of the Year" at the American Dance Awards in 2005. He got his equity card the summer before auditioning for So You Think You Can Dance.

He has performed in the Twyla Tharp Broadway show The Times They Are A-Changin', with music by Bob Dylan, and in Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's performances Grease, 42nd Street, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Beauty and the Beast.

Neil recently landed a spot in MTV's new musical, The American Mall which will start filming in January 2008 for broadcast and DVD release in summer 2008. In Spring 2008, Haskell, along with former SYTYCD contestants Sabra Johnson and Danny Tidwell is feature in movmnt magazine's cover story to promote 'Keep it real' the publication's awareness non for profit.

Fernando Torres

Fernando José Torres Sanz (born 20 March 1984) is a Spanish football player currently playing for Liverpool. He was born in Fuenlabrada, a large suburban town south of Madrid. At 17, he became the youngest player to play for Atlético Madrid and, two years later, the youngest to become its captain.

In the five seasons preceding his move to Liverpool from Atlético, Torres scored 75 goals in La Liga, a feat only bettered by Ronaldo, David Villa and Samuel Eto'o during the same period. Prior to that, Torres also played two seasons in the Spanish second division, where he scored seven goals in 40 appearances.

In February 2001, Torres won the Algarve Tournament with the Spain under-16 team. In May, the under-16s took part in the 2001 UEFA European Under-16 Football Championship, which they also won, with Torres scoring the only goal in the final.^[2] He finished as the tournament's leading goalscorer (7 goals in 6 games) and was also voted the best performer.

In 2003, Torres made his senior debut for the full Spanish national team on September 6, 2003 in a friendly against Portugal. His first goal for Spain came against Italy on April 28, 2004. Torres was chosen as part of the Spanish squad for Euro 2004. He only appeared as a late substitute in Spain's first two group games, but made the first eleven for the deciding game against Portugal. Spain lost 1-0 and were eliminated. At his first ever appearance in a World Cup finals at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Torres scored the final goal in a 4-0 victory over Ukraine with a volley. In the second group match, Torres scored twice against Tunisia, in the 76th minute for Spain to take the lead 2-1 and then again from a penalty kick in the 90th.

The Apprentice

BBC1 sees the new series of The Apprentice tonight.  For those that have never seen it, in the US its with Donald Trump hiring a top executive, in the UK its Sir Alan Sugar.    Theres 16 contestants 8 guys, 8 girls.  I have only noticed three guys that are quite nice, maybe even hot, I still haven't decided on that yet.  So I am only going to give you a run down of them.

Alex Wotherspoon : He's 24 and a regional sales manager from Bolton

Lee McQueen : He is 30 and a Recruitment Sales Manager from Buckinghamshire

Ian Stringer : He is 26 and a Software Sales Manager from Bedfordshire, not far from me actually.

Sourced from BBC : Multi-award-winning series The Apprentice is back for a 12-week run, on BBC ONE at 9pm on Wednesday 26th March 2008. No-nonsense, self-made millionaire, Sir Alan Sugar returns to challenge a new group of 16 aspiring tycoons, all poised to battle it out in the toughest challenge of their lives.

The candidates lined up for series four include a barrister, a bank manager, a risk manager, and an ex-Army engineer. There is also a single mother, an international car trader, an artist, a former championship show jumper and an applicant with royal connections.

Calvin Goldspink

Although he spends most of his time in the USA, he's still busy doing lots of things.

A little bit of information from his official site :

My new album will be released sometime later this year. I've been back in the studio working with some new producers and muscians, and I'm happy to report that it's been great getting back into my music. A lot of people are wondering what direction this new record is going to take in terms of style and sound.Well, to be honest, we haven't really settled on the sound yet but from what we are working on at the moment, you can expect that it will be a lot more grown up than the material we did in S Club 8. I'm really excited about how well the writing process is going, so you can look forward to something completely different!  Check back to the site as much as you can, and we’ll keep you up to posted with our progress. I’m so pleased with all the fan support and I want you be the first to know when the album is going to be released and to hear it when it's done. Thanks again everybody.

I don't know if the album is a US or UK release or both, but as soon as I know, you will know.

Random YouTube Stuff, and James Sutton

Today on E4 they had the Hollyoaks music show, it featured lots of the cast including James Sutton.

As its a long weekend, fancy doing the housework?  Well if you are going to do some, why not get in the cleaning hunk!!!

Normal When Only Hot Will Do service resumes tomorrow.  Although apparantly I don't post enough videos, maybe I shall post a few more every now and then.

Zac Efron / High School Musical 2

I just noticed I haven't posted about Zac Efron for ages, High School Musical is on BBC1 at the moment so it reminded me lol.

I'm not going to concentrate on High School Musical 1 and 2, let's talk about High School Musical 3.  Of course it features Zac Efron.

The following is an article in The Grand Rapids Press, the pictures are of course of Zac Efron and where not published by The Grand Rapids Press.    Chucky Klapow choreographed the dance moves for "High School Musical 3: Senior Year," scheduled for release in theaters in October. He gave us a sneak peek behind the curtain of the surefire box-office hit:

 

On Vanessa Hudgens (Gabriella): "Vanessa is the most naturally gifted in picking up the new moves.

"Things come really easily for her, so she gets lazy with it because she has to wait for the others to catch on. I have to be like, 'Vanessa, let's get working here.'"

 

On Corbin Bleu (Chad): "Corbin is also a gifted dancer, and he comes from a performing arts background, so he picks things up fast."

On raising the bar: "We only had 10 full days of dancing rehearsal for the first film -- I have no idea how we actually did it! The second movie we took three weeks to do the dancing, and right now we are in the middle of five full weeks of dance rehearsal. This cast is so dedicated and talented. We all raised the bar for 'HSM 2,' now we need to go back to that iconic, basic movement that made the first movie so great."

Tyson Ritter

Tyson Jay Ritter (born April 24, 1984) is the lead vocalist and bass guitarist of The All American Rejects.

Tyson Ritter lived in Stillwater, Oklahoma for most of his life. Being an AC/DC fan, Tyson loved rock music. Tyson met up with Nick Wheeler at a party, where he falsely informed Nick he could play bass in order to join Nick's current band.

Tyson quickly picked up bass, and Nick and Tyson eventually formed their own band. The pair joined up with Mike Kennerty and Chris Gaylor later. Tyson Ritter is also a model and has appeared in Glamour Magazine as well as in various advertisements and fashion shows. He currently lives in Florida.

William Moseley

William Peter Moseley (born April 27, 1987) is an English actor. He is best known for starring as Peter Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. Previously, he played a small role as Forrester in a 2002 television version of Goodbye, Mr. Chips.

Moseley was born in Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire, England in the Cotswolds. He had always wanted to become an actor ever since he was ten years old. William is the oldest of three children. William attended Wycliffe College and Marling School in Stroud.

William Moseley is the very lucky to get picked out of thousands to play Peter Pevensie from C.S. Lewis masterpiece, "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe." The first book in the epic seven series of "The Chronicles of Narnia".

  

He has had a small role in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002 TV) and in Cider with Rosie (1998 TV) as an extra.

Chace Crawford / Gossip Girl

ITV are advertising coming soon, for you Americans out there, Gossip Girl is old news, it may be one of the favourite shows over there but in the UK we still have not got it on TV, yet. I can confirm it airs on 27th March 2008.

Blake Lively stars as resident hot girl Serena van der Woodsen. The hot boy role is filled by Leighton Meester, who plays Blair Waldorf. That's not to say the hotness is limited to those two.

Anyway, back to the story. Serena van der Woodsen was once the posho Upper East Side's most notorious party girl. Then she disappeared. No-one knows why, except, perhaps Gossip Girl. She's the mysterious blogger who keeps the locals up to date with the latest news.

When Serena suddenly turns up again, everyone wonders why. And why did she do a runner in the first place? All will be revealed in ITV2's Gossip Girl. Except, of course, the real identity of Gossip Girl.

Echo Beach! Do you like it ?

When Echo Beach was first announced by ITV it seemed like it would be worth watching. But although it has a very hot cast. It doesn't really interest me that much, although the sex scene on the beach with Ed Speelers in it made watching that episode worth it.

I have found many soaps tend to get boring after the first few episodes. Echo Beach needs to show some more flesh after all its set on a beach!!!!

Echo Beach is the title of a British television soap opera set in the fictional Cornish coastal town of Polnarren which began airing on ITV1 on January 10, 2008 and continues on Fridays thereafter. The show lasts for twelve weekly episodes and filming began in July 2007 for January 2008 broadcast. Tony Jordan created the show and it was produced by Kudos for ITV.

I will have to keep watching the show after all it has Ed Speelers and Christian Cooke in it.