Ms. Informed

Break out your trading cards, action figures, pillowcases, binders and any other paraphenalia you may have.


It’s. Time.

Rumors have been circulating for a few months now, but it has been confirmed that 80′S teen music sensation the Old Men New Kids on the Block will be getting back together to release a new album and go on tour. The group, as LFO points out in its one-hit wonder “Summer Girls,” did, in fact, have a bunch of hits. Hopefully their success in the 80’s/early 90’s carries over for their reunion tour. If recent Spice Girl sucess from their reunion tour are any indication, NKOTB will go over huge.

NKOTB members consist of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny Wood. Since the band parted ways in the 90’s, Donnie Wahlberg has went on to star in TV and movie roles, while Jordan and Joey each had solo albums. (Who could forget Jordon’s smash hit “Give It To You”? Gives a whole new meaning to carnivals.) Not too sure what Jonathan and Danny did….but Ms. Informed sure did have the Jonathan and Danny dolls back in the day…yup, true story.

He may have been the king, but not anymore. This week, her Madgesty, Madonna, has broken Elvis Presley’s record of most top-ten singles and songs bird Mariah Carey has shattered his record of most number one singles. All in all, not a good week for the king. (Really, he’s dead…when is it a good week for him anymore?)

Carey’s latest single “Touch My Body” from her E=MC2 album (due to drop 4/15) is her 18th number one song. She is second now only to The Beatles, who have 19 in the US.

Madonna broke Presley’s record as the single “4 Minutes,” off her latest album “Hard Candy” (to be released on April 29) has become the her 37th Top 10 hit.

Britney Spears is making her way back into mainstream media, but not via the music industry.  Rather, the pop princess will guest star on CBS’s sitcom How I Met Your Mother.  It is not yet confirmed if it will be a one-time appearance or an ongoing role.

If nothing else, it’s gotta beat Britney & Kevin: Chaos.  Although I still don’t think I’ll be tuning in for it, even for Doogie Houser’s sake.

While he may not like too many contestants on American Idol, no-fuss judge Simon Cowell does like one thing: Botox. Cowell admitted to British media sources that to him, Botox is “no more unusual than toothpaste.”

“It works, you do it once a year – who cares?”

I hope this doesn’t mean he brushes his teeth that infrequently.

The judge, 48, also admitted to putting lifts in his shoes to make him appear taller on camera.

Can we say mid life?????

But even though he’s pushing the big 5-0, one area of his life that doesn’t need any improvements: his sex life. Or at least one would think, as Cowell (highly insulted) turned down a $2 million dollar contract to be the “face” of Viagra last year.

Little Miss Sunshine Rihanna has helped a lawyer from New York City with leukemkia find a bone marrow donor, People reports.  The singer campaigned to find a suitable donor for Lisa Gershowitz-Flynn, 41, and with the help of the celebrity magazine, over 5,000 readers contacted DKMS, the world’s leading bone marrow donor center, to become potential donors.  Additionally, DKMS recruited and registered nearly 2,000 new donors, just from phone calls and emails from Rihanna’s call for help.

“My life will be saved because of you, my family and friends (old and new),” Flynn writes. “My children (Michael, 5, and Alexandra, 3) will have their mother, my husband will have his wife, and my parents will have their daughter.”

{image courtesy of People/Photo by: Jemal Countess / WireImage}

If the sheer star power alone isn’t enough for you, I urge you to pay especially close attention to the five seconds between 4:31 and 4:36 and see if you recognize this 25-year-old Hawaiian organ donar.

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So we said we would not post on the antics of Britney Spears anymore, but this post is not about antics, it’s about a comeback.  Since exiting the UCLA medical facility last week, Spears has been spotted at Millennium Dance Complex almost daily.  Sources close to Ms. Informed tell us that she is preparing for a world tour.  Maybe a world tour is just what this troubled pop princess needs to get her life back on the right track.