Whether or not Prince Michael I, Paris Katherine and Blanket have been interviewed for the program is not known.

The children, who are evidently being counted as one person, were shielded from the spotlight after their father Michael died suddenly in June.

Other picks are Lady GaGa, Adam Lambert, Glenn Beck, Tyler Perry, Brett Favre and South Carolina governor’s wife Jenny Sanford.

Veteran fireside journalist Walters has kept the tenth interview a secret. But it won’t be US President Barack Obama, as he filled the mystery slot in last year’s edition.

The program will air on ABC on December 9.

The 59-year-old was set to direct the remake of the 1984 flick, but he said the Jackson movie wasn’t planned and he needed a break after making it.

Talking about his departure from the film, he said: “It was not planned. None of this [This Is It film] was happening when I started working on Footloose with Paramount.

“I honestly love the team I was working with on it – Craig Zadan, Brad Weston, Neil Meron and Dylan Sellers, the actors. It had been a wonderful couple of years developing the idea but I really need to take a break.

“I wish them all the luck in the world.”

Now Orianthi is preparing to release her solo debut album, Believe, on October 27th. In addition to her talent at guitar, Orianthi has a gorgeous voice and even sang at Michael Jackson’s Staples Center memorial service. Even before starting rehearsals for his tour though, she was hard at work writing and recording the album with her band. Believe is full of anthemic rock tracks with a sound reminiscent of Paramore or Evanescence, but entirely Orianthi thanks to her signature shreds and thunderous hooks. Her first single, “According to You” is a catchy tale of an ungrateful boyfriend, featuring a killer guitar solo.

To hear the story in her own words, watch Orianthi in this segment from Australia’s Today show. Visit Orianthi.com for updates on this rising star, and be sure to check her out in This Is It out on October 28th.
Orianthi Panagaris Interview On Today Show:
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Dame Elizabeth Taylor, 77, made a rare public appearance on stage at a gala Aids benefit, using the event to pay tribute to Michael Jackson.

“I just want to say one thing,” Taylor told the crowd at the annual Macy’s Passport Fashion Show in Santa Monica. “As my beloved friend Michael said, ‘We are the world.’”

Dame Elizabeth appeared on a blackened stage in a luminous gown and a wheelchair.

Jackson’s favourite charity was Aids Project Los Angeles. Also appearing was La Toya Jackson, his sister, who said: “You have to continue, and I think a good way to continue on my behalf is giving to one of the charities that Michael gave to. And he gave so dearly and wonderfully to AIDS Project LA, and I want to continue that.”

The benefit aims to raise $1 million for Aids and HIV organisations in Los Angeles, with Sharon Stone in dazzling form taking to the mike to encourage donations.

Kathy Ireland said:”We’re excited by the news today about the vaccine. We’re encouraged. There’s hope. But it’s not been eradicated.”

Dame Elizabeth, who no longer makes public appearances, thanked those in attendance with a promise to be back next year.

Mark Lester, the godfather of Michael Jackson’s children, has said he is “not pushing for any DNA tests” to see if he is the father of Michael’s daughter, Paris.

Mark, 51, recently came out and said that he had donated sperm to the 50-year-old star and that he believed he could be the father of his 11-year-old daughter Paris.

Mark recently confirmed that he is still close with the family and is not demanding a DNA test.

He said: “Look, I’m not pushing for any DNA tests. The family has been under enough pressure since Michael died and I just want things to settle down.

“Contrary to reports, I was invited to his funeral recently, but I couldn’t go for business reasons and hopefully I will be able to fly over at Christmas time and pay my respects privately.”

Mark said that he is still in contact with one of Michael’s family members. He said: “I’m still in touch with Randy Jackson whom I have known for a very long time, and we both respect one another. To suggest that there is a rift between myself and the Jackson family is just not true.”

Source: Splash News

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It was Debbie Rowe who reported the dermatologist Arnold Klein for supplying Michael Jackson with drugs, sources reveal.

Rowe, mother of two of Jackson’s children, posed as an anonymous informant when she contacted police to tell them Jackson was using aliases to obtain drugs through her old boss.

Klein brought the pair together when the singer met the former dermatology nurse at Klein’s Los Angeles practice.

Britain’s Sun newspaper claims court papers show detectives received a tip-off from “an unknown female caller” who revealed Jackson used the names Omar Arnold, Fernand Diaz, Peter Madonie and Josephine Baker when he saw Klein.

Police found a prescription issued by Klein for an Omar Arnold when they searched Jacko’s LA mansion after his death in June. Many other aliases also reportedly surfaced during the inquiry.

Sources told The Sun: “Rowe holds Klein totally responsible for Jackson’s drug addiction. She believes there is no way he could have got hooked without the help of Klein – and she is potentially the only one who can prove it. She must have suspected what was going on for years.

“She could really put the boot into Klein and she has good reason to. It makes her skin crawl to think Klein is the biological father of her kids, like reports suggest.”

Klein, meanwhile, is said to have evaded an order to provide medical records to investigators. The 48-year-old treated the king of pop for 20 years. The Sun has claimed Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray called Klein in the 90 minutes after Murray said he had found Jackson not breathing.

Taylor publicly said she did not want to go as she intended mourning privately for the late King of Pop.

But columnist Cindy Adams claims that the actress did not go after the family refused to invite her to any of the private events.

“Elizabeth Taylor was snubbed. Not accidentally. Deliberately. Willfully. Given short shrift. Put on the B-Minus list,” Cindy Adams wrote in the New York Post.

“Understand, as I’d reported before his death, she’s confined to a wheelchair. “Still, despite her physicality, with staffers and nurses and assistants and whoevers, she was flying to London for his concert opening.

“Hopping a ride on the private plane of my friends, publisher Dwight Opperman and his author wife Julie Chrystyn. So, when it comes to Michael, she sure wasn’t looking to hide.

“The family purposefully dissed her. Didn’t want her. Offered her a seat someplace in the Staples Center, but not with them.

“Not near them. Nor was the world’s most famous name given an invite or access to any of their private events. Not one.

“Why? Because she was always Michael’s friend. Not the family’s. Michael’s. They resented her.

“Elizabeth Taylor was crushed. She’s still crying.”

The funnyman achieved massive fame after covering Jacko’s Beat It tune and changing it to Eat it.

“He basically changed me from an unknown into a guy that got recognised at Burger King,” Jankovic told Rolling Stone magazine.

“I considered parodying Black or White around that time, but Michael wasn’t quite so into it, because he thought it was more of a message song.”