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  1. Thanks for that link, some great shots.... Cher.. well I am speechless and Donny Osmond, OMG he is ageless! I've also just watched all Charice's performances on YT (wow she had quite a few) and she looks older and performs with so much confidence. Her voice sounded great but I've heard her in better form. Yeah I know I sound like an anxious auntie but I want so much for her to do well, not just because I've been following her career from the start but also because she is an inspiration to young people everywhere, especially those who start life behind the 8 ball. Didn't like that red in her hair though. LOL the ex-pat contingent from the Philippines sure made themselves heard! Did I say something about red hair? Now, when it's Clay Aiken's hair au naturelle it looks just superb. I've never seen him look better or healthier. Whatever he's been putting in his drinking water... it's working...!!
  2. I have watched that MOM video before, it is brilliant, but your link has the lyrics which makes it even better! Thanks for posting it! What a hoot! p.s. hope your newest baby is on his best behavior for his mom today!!
  3. Thanks, scarlett's MPG is now downloading. But of course it's all her fault for not idiot-proofing it by spoon-feeding the instructions like you do... p.s. Yes I KNOW we have had this conversation before and in fact I did know the rules but I reserve the right to have senior moments.
  4. Thanks so much for those links. David Foster is such a lovely man. I love the way Clay looks, his hair looks natural and I love the "scruffy chic" look, shirt hanging out, loosened tie. He looks relaxed and happy, I think Clay is experiencing some of the best times in his life right now. Thanks to everyone who brought over the goodies from other boards. I can't seem to get scarlett's link to work though, I wonder what I am doing wrong. I wonder what special surprises Clay has up his sleeve for Jaymes for Mother's Day. Couchie, I know Charice sometimes strains her voice too much, and it doesn't sound as good as it could. When she is in top form, as she was on Oprah, she is just incredible. No doubt she has the right people advising her about how to use and look after her voice properly. She is still very young and needs guidance - I am surprised that she is still lapsing into "I'm not living without choo" from AIATY, as I was sure it would be corrected. The natural talent is there although I do worry a little that it's all happened too fast for someone who is essentially still a child.
  5. beryl, thank you for your courage and generosity in sharing your personal story.
  6. Happy Mother's Day to everyone but most especially to Jaymes who celebrates her very first mother's day. :clap: :clap: Here's a song called , written and performed by Rowetta, who was 4th (and top female) in the first series of XFactor. ETA: If you think you've heard every version of Nessun Dorma, you haven't ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c87Qd5hNCKs
  7. I know there are a few Charice fans here... You might want to subscribe to this YouTube channel, they say they will be posting her performances fairly quickly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KcoFkog5sQ This vid is one of my favorites of her performances, her voice is exquisite. Watch David Foster's face when she hits a big note. This was on Oprah, the same day Charice was later surprised by Celine Dion inviting her to duet Because You Loved Me at Madison Square Garden. ETA: Charice will be on Oprah on May 18
  8. Hope DF remembers that Mother's Day is also Charice's 17th birthday. WOW except for Peter Cincotti, I know all these artists, that's very unusual . I love Katherine Jenkins, she's well-known in the UK. Signature's audition for Britain's Got Talent is really worth looking up on YouTube. They brought the house down. I can't wait to actually hear Clay sing Glory of Love!!!!!
  9. That figures... my male boss, typical! I did notice those slot machines everywhere at the airport. We were flying back to LA like 4am in the morning so it was quite deserted at LV airport and so the slot machines kinda stood out.
  10. Had to look up YMMV ... never seen it before or at least, never had a reason to wonder what it meant until now: Good point and thank goodness for flexibility in tradition! Also thank goodness for choice options such as a change of name by deed poll, and wish more people would use it .... just cannot imagine putting a child through school/life with a first or last name like 'Waldo', etc. That is so true for me as well. I'd never heard of Kimmel and a bunch of others on television before I started taking an interest in Clay. I feel really frustrated that I almost but didn't quite make it to Vegas to watch Clay and Charice sing, it just seems as if I'd been sent the money to go but other things got in the way. I was in Vegas many years ago, it was a surreal feeling ... all those neon lights flashing. My boss told me that there would be slot machines at the ladies' room at the airport. While I can clearly remember slot machines at the airport, I wonder if I am dreaming that they were also at the ladies' room or whether I just think/know that because the boss mentioned it beforehand and so it registered in my brain cells!!
  11. What I am wondering is that if the naming of his child had to follow Southern tradition, then why didn't they name him Jaymes' maternal grandmother's maiden name? The name 'Foster' could have remained as the middle name. Just speculating, if we are to stick to tradition, although it seems ironic since Parker is born into a most untraditional family, even by today's complex family situations! (But I agree with David Foster who called it 'beautiful'. I actually think it is fantastic, Parker will always have two parents who love each other for all the right reasons. I have a feeling others will be thinking "hm, what a good idea...")
  12. I thought Clay was very generous in his attitude, too generous as far as I am concerned. After all, he was the child without any power. Ray was the adult in that relationship. While I agree that everyone remembers incidents differently, I don't believe he could have repeatedly had it so wrong with every recount. That book surely would have hurt Brett and Faye in some way, after all, they both loved Ray deeply. I cannot imagine for one moment that Clay would deliberately embellish stories like that, compromising his brother and mother for the sake of book sales. It's one thing to sensationalize say, an event at a prom, but this stuff we are talking about is far too serious to dismiss as unsubstantiated. Would Faye have allowed Clay to say in his book that she told him Ray wasn't capable of loving child that wasn't his own? I hope not.
  13. I think that perhaps some in the fandom who glommed on to every word in LTS as if it was a tell-all autobiography were the ones who were not on good terms with Ray Parker. Clay certainly seemed to be on good terms with him. It is his actual father's funeral he did not attend. (If my son took my car, without permission and likely without insurance, not caring if an accident could ruin my finances and/or destroy the car and I certainly could not afford another one, I would be tempted to whack him upside the head. Putting me through the stress of thinking the car was stolen or hoping he didn't have an accident before I found him is a crappy disrespectful thing to to do a parent. Or a stranger, for that matter. Just sayin'.) That incident about the 'car stealing' you mention isn't what influenced my views on the relationship between Ray and Clay. Here's what immediately comes to mind: Faye told Clay that Ray was the type of man who could only love his biological children. Clay said that Ray would send him to his room to clean it up, then Ray would mess it up, throw stuff on the floor and make Clay clean up again. And then yet again. That's child abuse in my mind. Even Brett, as young as he was at that time, told his father he wasn't being fair. On the last Father's Day when Ray knew he was dying, he called all the members of his family, one by one into his room to say goodbye. Clay was the only one NOT called into the room. That's emotional abuse. Clay said at one point he knew he wasn't wanted by his step-father, he said that kids instinctively know. Then there was the time when Ray bought a convertible for his daughter, and Clay was really excited because Ray said the whole family was going for a ride. But Ray wouldn't allow Clay to go with the rest of the family, he made Clay stay home and clean the freezer while the rest of them went out. That's just SOME of it. Nothing will convince me that Clay felt loved and accepted by his step-father when at the age of 24 or 25, he wrote a book that devoted passages describing the hurt and rejection he felt from his step-father. Until the day Clay suddenly confesses that in fact, he didn't write those words and it never happened that way, and that he allowed those false stories to be used to make the book a best-seller, I will never change my mind about Ray Parker. But I don't believe Clay would ever have approved of those stories going into print just for sensational value, he loves his brother, Ray's son, too much for that. That, and his integrity. Everyone has their own interpretation of terms used and whatever comfort or discomfort they feel, they need to own, especially when no offense is intended. I personally do not punctuate my conversations with expletives, it's not something I feel comfortable doing. However, there are many people who DO feel comfortable using the F word in every other sentence. I am never offended by it because it is just part of their personality, everyone has their little idiosyncrasies that make them unique. I have to admit there was a time when I did feel offended when someone used expletives in my presence, until I realized that I needed to stop being so precious. I only take offense when it is deliberately loaded and targeted. Otherwise, it is just someone being who they are, and that's a lot more acceptable to me than someone pretending to be something they are NOT. While I believe in 'political correctness' in certain matters because they make a difference in terms of improved social awareness, I just would like to feel free about how I express my feelings when I don't mean any harm to anyone.
  14. Honestly, it isn't a term I use in RL because I don't think I have ever heard anyone here use it so far but I KNOW it will be a matter of time before it becomes common place since we get so much American content in our various forms of entertainment. However, I see and hear it all the time online (also baby daddy), in blogs and music forums and at first I thought it meant a mother so young as to be considered a baby herself; indeed that is how it appears in Fantasia's song "Baby Mama" from her first album. Then I saw that usage broadened to simply mean the baby's mother and I am now in a comfort zone with it. I did at first also think it was a little, well, odd and offensive but I no longer do, and I am sorry if it offends you and anyone else but I have come a long way from being an absolute stickler for 'proper' English to simply going with the flow in terms of keeping up to date with communication. For example, at first I was horrified that people were saying "it was so fun" instead of "it was such fun". But you know, common usage dictates language so there is nothing we can do about it and I am trying to be, ahem, current? LOL No offense, truly, aikim, cos boy I sure DO understand where you're coming from and I am very grateful that you mentioned it instead of stewing in silence! As far as it being offensive to Jaymes (and it could be for all I know), I'd like to add that I've been a fan of Jaymes from the first time I realized she was someone significant in Clay's life, long before Parker was a gleam in anyone's eye. In fact, I was thrilled to bits that she was Parker's mother because for a little while before that, I secretly hoped they were an item and so it's the next best thing I could have hoped for. I did know that it is customary to give the grandmother's maiden name to the child and that was how 'Clayton' came about, I think I read it in LTS. Indeed, I don't know why people try to think up a middle name for their child instead of simply giving the mother's maiden name to all the kids born to the same woman, it helps to link up kids to their mothers especially in this day where a lot of young people have half siblings. There are also many cultures that have similar naming customs, e.g. Jackson being Son of Jack, and the "de" and "von" we see in European names are all derived from similar naming customs. However, in my experience, a child isn't typically named after a step-parent that one wasn't on good terms with, as was the case with Clay and Ray Parker. I know that Kate Hudson named her child Ryder Russell after her de facto step-dad, but that was because Kurt Russell was really the only father she knew and loved, according to what I have heard her say in interviews, and what I have heard Kurt say about Kate simply confirmed the fact that they are closely bonded as father/daughter. So I felt that the choice of Parker's name had less to do with tradition and more to do with family bonding, since he and Brett have different surnames, and Clay (I suspect) includes Brett's half siblings as part of the family.
  15. Well, let me confess that I didn't exactly knock-myself-out because I knew anything remotely related to Clay would already be known by most people on a Clay board .... that is why I said AFAIK because that was as far as I knew!! When you're late-to-the-party like I am, you might as well find out from those who have been partying for a lot longer! Thanks for straightening that out .... when I did a little research last year after we were told about Clay's baby-mama, I found some info about her name, and now I recall 'Colleen' but what I read (obviously incorrect) was that when her father died, she wanted to honor him by changing her first name to Jaymes, inserting a 'y' to feminize it. I just did a quick search on 'Colleen Jaymes Foster' to discover that her father's name was Maurice, not James. Agh, the internet can really do your head in! What I note with mild interest is that biologically, David Foster is more Parker's uncle than Brett Parker, since Brett is a half-brother and therefore half-uncle. That's all he has in terms of biological uncles AFAIK. This is just an observation, nothing earth-shattering. My own family situation is somewhat weird so I tend to notice these things. I've always known the difference between a step-sibling and half-sibling and discovered to my amazement that many intelligent adults get the whole thing confused... often calling a half-sibling a 'step' because it never touched their lives. One friend even thought that you couldn't become a child's step-mother if the biological mother was still alive!! (NOTE: This is going back to an era when being a child from a step-family was relatively uncommon. Today, it seems to be almost that if both your parents are still alive and still married to each other, then you're a little 'different'! LOL). What I had also noted with heart-warming interest is that Clay named his son after his step-father's family name, perhaps to bring closer ties. Whatever the reason, I thought it was a beautiful gesture in terms of cementing family bonds. I guess Clay wasn't confirmed at the time and I guess the surprise is now the worst-kept secret in Clay land. (I can't help feeling so proud of Charice, I was one of her original fans ... from shortly after Bianca Ryan won AGT. I sent her YT clips to everyone I knew who appreciated new talent. While I always knew she would become a famous singer, I never dreamed she would reach these dizzy heights so soon, being endorsed by some the biggest names in the music and broadcasting industry in the world. It's a double-edged sword for me, I hate children being exploited yet I love watching extraordinary children showcase their 'gift'. I don't know if anyone here has heard of Tina Arena (yeah okay ausdon) but I ear-marked her for stardom when I first saw her perform on a show here called Young Talent Time. She had a 'funny-face', she danced out of step with the kids on stage but her voice just blew me away. Today, she is a big star in Europe and a mega-star in France.) To me, the only thing they have in common is that they both created a big and ongoing buzz on Idol from the start. But that is where the resemblance ends because Adam was a seasoned pro whereas Clay was unknown as a singer except in his community. I don't see the gay thing as anything to tie them in; Adam was and is overt and out-there whereas Clay was always a private person who had to suddenly deal with the public and media glare. Chalk and cheese IMO.
  16. I Googled "David Foster+brothers+sisters" and found nothing but Jaymes. I didn't think to use 'siblings' because I didn't think it was used much either. Only Jaymes is mentioned at his Wikipedia entry. Jaymes looks so young in that pic! Susan Boyle banned from singing on Oprah My goodness, Simon Cowell is quite the mogul!
  17. Hm, I wonder why I didn't find anything when I looked it up last year and again just then! I've seen so much mentioned about Jaymes (even without the Clay connection) but never the other siblings. When I first looked up his family I remember being surprised that he was married to Linda Thompson, who was with Elvis for several years.
  18. Well, I did actually look it up when we first found out about Jaymes being Parker's mom, and I couldn't find any other siblings besides David and Jaymes. I just had another look and still can't find anything. But that could just mean my research skills are dismal!
  19. annabear, sorry to hear you've been hit with a nasty 'flu. I share your feelings about the paparazzi taking pics of celebrity kids, there's something really appalling about exploiting young children for money, but worst still that the pics appear on the net. I have an American friend who worked online with the police, helping to nail pedophiles and she never used the net to send pics of her child, she still uses snail-mail. I guess she saw too much of the dark side of what can happen. But having said that, I can't stop looking at that little Foster Aiken cherub! Thanks for the link. quote: "the Danny Gokey of his season..." : With those Foster Aiken genes, how could Parker NOT have a music career? David has several daughters but no sons and no siblings other than Jaymes AFAIK so I think he will enjoy having a male member in his family!. It will be so exciting to see what the future holds for him. Meanwhile, I will try to stop gazing at his cute face! (Well, I am talking about Parker but heck, I also think his uncle David is one very handsome man....)
  20. AI#3 was the first one screened in Oz and I was totally addicted, and I remember almost everything about it. Couchie, after Fantasia's semi-final performance (Let's Give Them Something to Talk About), Simon said to Fantasia, "unlike everyone else, you don't need this competition to get a contract". (That's from memory so not verbatim). Fantasia was clearly Simon's early favorite, the only criticism I recall from Simon was during the Gloria Estefan week, when Simon said that Fantasia sounded like Donald Duck on helium. After George and LaToya left, Simon made it loud and clear that only Fantasia would be a worthy winner. I didn't like Jasmine at all except for her first Top 12 performance, Inseparable. Although it is often mentioned that JHud left in 7th place, booted out too soon etc, it is rarely mentioned that, in fact, she was in the bottom two with Leah Labelle, who was justifiably the first of the Top 12 to leave. That's what is so remarkable about JHud, that so many people misjudged her talent. Simon even told her she was out of her depth, he never seemed impressed with her until after she did Circle of Life. So unlike Clay, who really impressed from his semi-final onwards (he was in the top 3, after all), JHud was a dark horse. I think that Adam Lambert is the kind of artist that other artists admire, he is very 'artistic', different and 'owns the stage. I think he is perhaps an 'acquired' taste for those who are a little more conservative. He is totally different to the Clay in that Clay really was the 'boy next door' with the magnificent voice. Actually, speaking of AI#2, Ruben remains unforgettable because he sang so effortlessly, he was such a natural singer. Fear, I love that heartwarming story. I am suddenly reminded of one of my favorite movies, Stand and Deliver. I was 'dragged' to it by a friend who was a principal of a school. He had already seen it and was determined to get me to see it because he felt it was my 'thing'. ncgurrl, according to your registered details, it's your 100th birthday! So... I got this email a few hours ago and while I just love Obama, I totally cracked-up over this:
  21. Apparently there is an interesting article - in an interview with Simon .... he thinks Danny has the broader appeal in the USA but Adam is more international. This is the best Clay content I can think of. Thanks to everyone who provided the pics of Parker and his relatives... I think I could become Parker's #1 fan! He is just gorgeous, looks just like a cute little cherub out of one of those paintings ...I can't think of the name of the artist!
  22. RID does make the claim that it "is the only personal repellent to offer 'before and after' bite protection". I haven't seen OFF! actually make this claim in writing but I tested it and it definitely worked for me in diminishing the itch. The reason I wanted to try OFF! was because it claimed to be safe for young children. I am sure there will be a lot of news, especially since Sunday May 10 (Mother's Day) is her 17th birthday, and what a huge transformation her life has become since her first performance on American soil in December 2007, on the Ellen Show. Click here for more*: http://findingclayaiken.invisionzone.com/i...=40#entry105555 *I've included a YT vid of Charice promoting her second album, before she duets with her mom. I love the way it is packaged, it has two CDs and can be propped up as a display frame. Great idea!
  23. Mosquitoes seem to be attracted to some people more than others and, unfortunately for me, they seem to find me every time. I finally found two repellents that work wonders for me: 1) Rid http://www.rid.com.au/company.htm 2) OFF! http://www.scjohnson.com.au/products/off_r...ff_personal.htm The reason I like these is because not only do they repel those awful insects but IF you forget to use it, it can also be applied to soothe the itch. I live in a semi-tropical climate and spend a lot of time outdoors in summer so I appreciate having them. Rid also has a version with sun-screen. OFF! Can be used on children as young as 12 months +.
  24. Preden There is a poll at http://www.claynewsnetwork.com/ for the best of 6 pics of Jerome and Clay. The top 3 are easy to pick. A couple of really beautiful pics I had forgotten about.
  25. ldyjoycelyn I am sorry that you feel sad and will miss your mother periodically for perhaps the rest of your life. But I am not actually sorry for you in the real sense at all because I am thinking how lucky your mother was to have lived to such a wonderful age and to have had the experience of getting to know you through the many phases in your life. And how lucky you are that your mother lived long enough to reach a time in her life that she needed you, and how lucky you were to have been there for her. I am also not sorry because I know your beliefs, and therefore I know they will bring you great comfort and joy in knowing that she is in a better place. The sadness you may feel right now is also a privilege. I hesitated to say this in case it is misunderstood but I really wanted to say what I felt so I hope it is taken in the spirit that it is intended.
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