Psy squashes rumors of a Dubai visit, OneRepublic play the Dubai Jazz Festival, tennis stars Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenca and Ana Ivanovic enjoy the city and Bollywoods Celebrity Cricket League heads into town as tabloid! brings you all the highlights in entertainment this week. See more at http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00In tabloid land this week, we found out Psy is coming, and then he wasn't, and chatted
00:10to OneRepublicanDeepPurple, and we got ready for a little event called the Oscars.
00:15This is your weekly wrap for tabloid.
00:17Hearing that Psy, he of gangnam style, is coming to Dubai was a big deal.
00:21Then hearing he may not be coming was a big let down, or for 54% of the nearly 3,000 people
00:26polled on golfnews.com, a big relief.
00:29The South Korean was a big name at the new MyMusicX festival due to take place next month,
00:33but on Wednesday he tweeted,
00:35To fans in Dubai, there is some wrong information being reported.
00:38I will not be in Dubai March 28th, but look forward to coming soon!
00:43At the time of filming, the organisers told us they were looking into the matter.
00:46At least some of the stars who had made a date for Dubai followed through, with OneRepublic
00:50delivering a fantastic opening for the Emirates Airline Dubai Jazz Festival.
00:54I love jazz.
00:56I love jazz.
00:57I've gone to jazz concerts and jazz shows almost my whole life.
01:01Playing jazz for a living would be a dream job.
01:04If I didn't have the job that I have, then I would be very happy, because it would mean
01:08I'd be a lot better at piano or whatever, and you're still getting to play music for
01:14a living, and it's a lot of fun.
01:16Performing this weekend are The Script and Deep Purple, who told us they won't be playing
01:20any new music on Thursday because they don't want rubbish videos of it going up on YouTube.
01:24It's the 21st century guys, deal with it.
01:26Within five minutes, the whole world will have some tinny, horrible, emaciated version
01:32of it, and it'll be a complete waste of time.
01:35Fans of the 90s British movement Britpop will head to Media City to see the newly reformed
01:40Stone Roses.
01:41Snoop Dogg, or Lion as he likes to be called nowadays, is having a love affair with a gulf.
01:46After wearing a kandoura on stage during his New Year's Eve concert here, he decided to
01:50team up with Saudi designer Hatem Al Akil and wear one in his latest video, although
01:54his accessories we're not too sure of.
01:57Also happening in Dubai this weekend, and the next, are the Dubai Tennis Championships.
02:01We met up with a few of the women's stars before the tournament, including Serena Williams
02:04who went buyer shopping, and Victoria Azarenka who took a tour of the Dubai airport's new
02:08Concourse 3.
02:10And we assure you, our reporters are very nice and had nothing to do with those two
02:13stars pulling out of the tournament later.
02:16We also spent time with the lovely Anna Ivanovic, who had an afternoon learning about modern
02:20Middle Eastern art.
02:22Biba fans in the region can rejoice as the teen star, newly single remember, has added
02:27an extra date to his time here.
02:29He's now due to play Muska Oman on May 6th as part of his Believe Tour.
02:33He performs in Dubai May 4th.
02:35In international celebrity news, Fergie is finally pregnant, after what feels like years
02:39of rumours every time she ate a Big Mac.
02:41Congrats to her and baby daddy Josh Duhamel.
02:44And Rihanna has turned to designing clothes and makeup.
02:47She launched her well-received collection for British high street chain River Island
02:50at London Fashion Week.
02:52It will be in stores in the UAE on March 5th.
02:54And on Wednesday, announced a partnership with Canadian makeup brand MAC.
02:58Well, we all know they make great concealers and Rihanna's clearly a person who knows
03:01all about that.
03:02Of course, there's really only one event we should be talking about this weekend,
03:06the Oscars.
03:07Hollywood's biggest night takes place on Sunday in Los Angeles, which means for us
03:11a very early morning.
03:13Join me and the team from 2am Monday morning as we live vlog the red carpet and the show.
03:18Deliveries of coffee and donuts will be welcomed.
03:21Ahead of the awards, the buzz is high for Daniel Day-Lewis to win the Best Actor award,
03:25although Lincoln, in which he stars, has lost some momentum heading into the final stretch,
03:29with Argo looking likely to take the Best Picture prize.
03:32Best Actress is a race between Jessica Chastain, a supporting actress Oscar winner last year,
03:37and Jennifer Lawrence, a Best Actress nominee two years ago.
03:40Let's not forget the other nominees in that category, which includes a nine-year-old,
03:44say it with me, Quevenzaneh Wallace, and an 85-year-old, Emmanuel Riva, the oldest and
03:50youngest nominees in that category ever.
03:52It's going to be interesting, and not just because we were hoping for some actual laughs
03:55this time, courtesy of host Seth MacFarlane.
03:58Now over to Manju for this week's Bollywood news.
04:02In the world of Bollywood, guess who's making a cameo in Vidya Balan's next Kanchakkar?
04:06Beefcake Sanjay Dutt, that's who.
04:09Balan couldn't keep her excitement in check as she described Dutt as the first superstar
04:13that she ever met.
04:14We have worked together in Parinita and I still remember when we were doing the first
04:18scene.
04:19I was very nervous when I had to do the shot with Sanjay, who's so tall and well-built.
04:23But he has a kindest and most gentle face.
04:26He was so helpful and I'll never forget that.
04:28For me, the first superstar will always be Sanjay Dutt.
04:32Catch the comedy Kanchakkar in June.
04:34After playing a ruthless pimp in Agnipath, Rishi Kapoor is all set to play a deadly gangster.
04:39In director Nikhil Adwani's next, the legendary actor will take on the role of the notorious
04:43underworld king Dawood Ibrahim.
04:45Ace choreographer Farah Khan has created some special moves as a part of a promotional campaign
04:50for the upcoming Indian Premier League.
04:53And she hopes her superstar friend and Kolkata Knight Riders team owner Shah Rukh Khan will
04:57dance to those steps in the stadium as his team hits a 6 out of 4.
05:01For those wondering, the song is called Dil Jumping Japak.
05:05Close your home, gear up for some fun cricketing action at the Dubai International Stadium
05:09on Saturday as Celebrity Cricket League players fight it out in Season 3.
05:14Actors including Salman Khan, Bipasha Basu, Chitrangada Singh and Nargis Fakhri will be
05:18seen cheering from the sidelines.
05:21Rumour has it that Salman will also utilise this weekend to finalise locations in Dubai
05:25to shoot his next movie, Mental.
05:28Say hello to Bollywood's new kids on the block.
05:30Abhishek Kapoor's movie Kaipoche about three friends with empty pockets and big dreams
05:35will introduce you to three fresh faces including Sushant Singh Rajput, Rajkumar Yadav and Amit
05:40Sadh.
05:41Set in the early 2000s in Trouble, Gujarat, the film which opened to great reviews is
05:46gritty, real and not synthetic.
05:48Also at the movies is supernatural teen romance Beautiful Creatures where a witch falls in
05:52love with a mortal.
05:53For action fans, Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock flexes his dramatic muscles in Snitch.
06:00And that's your weekly wrap.