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May 31, 2000 - The next man in Christina's revolving door of rumored romantic interests is one of her dancers, Jorge Santos, according to the London Sun. The paper says she is worrying about the stress her hectic schedule has put on their relationship.

May 31, 2000 - MSN will have a host with Christina at 9 pm EST on Thursday, June 8. Christina will talk about release of the single of 'I Turn To You' and the start of her Tour 2000.

May 27, 2000 - Christina's gossip menace, Roger Friedman, was on eYada.com yesterday and despite constant criticism that we're an anti-Christina site, I took him to task about his column saying she lipsynched her SNL performance. He response was sarcastic and rude, bashing Christina saying she'll be forgotten in 5 years and that she doesn't even write her own music. To listen, check out Lori Kramer's broadcast Friday in the archives, about 30 minutes in, 45 minutes for the Aguilera comments. Sounds like Friedman will be an eYada backup for when Richard Johnson is out.

May 27, 2000 - Christina Aguilera was voted #8 on their Vote On the 100 Sexiest Women on the Planet, with Jennifer Lopez winning the voting.

May 27, 2000 - Christina Aguilera was on Teen People's "25 Hottest Stars 25 and Under" special last night. She says "I'm a normal person" and that she started singing practically out of diapers. She says being on stage is an incredible rush for her. Regarding fashion, she says expect the unexpected with her, as she'll always be changing her look. At the end, she sang I Turn To You to an audience in a park.

May 27, 2000 - The NY Post reports that Christina was a junk food junkie during her Seventeen photo shoot, where her 9 hour day included Chicken McNuggets, two large orders of fries from McDonald's, a chocolate shake, two slices of pizza, a
Starbucks caffe mocha and a taco salad from Wendy's.

May 27, 2000 - MCA Nashville recording artist Alecia Elliott is scheduled to open three concert dates for Christina Aguilera over the July Fourth Weekend.

May 24, 2000 - One rumor Christina's site hasn't adressed is that she was seen making out with Lit's A Jay Popoff at an after-party for the ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Los Angeles Monday. This according to Allstar, who also claim Aguilera was wearing "black leather pants and a hootchie mamma little top."

May 24, 2000 - Christina's mom is getting much quicker at dismissing rumors, as today she's already adressed the Enquirer story, again claiming its untrue and uploading the thank you note from the school. She also throws water on rumors Christina is pregnant with Eminem's child!! And that she extorted $25k to play a show in Holland, Michigan, amongst several other rumors. Check it out at Christina-A.com

May 23, 2000 - In the Prom of Your Life story that won't go away, NationalEnquirer.com is blistering into the young diva. A girl helping out with the prom told the Enquirer "Christina was rude, crude, selfish and disrespectful," adding "she kept hissing: 'I can't believe I'm going through with this. I can't go out there!'" She also gave a much different account of her relations with Britney saying "she gave strict orders, 'If the DJ plays a Britney Spears song, I'm out of here!'"

May 23, 2000 - Vibe magazine has a rundown in their June issue of Christina's preferred makeup items. For the chemically treated hair, she uses Terax, TIGI Moisture Manic shampoo, Rene Furterer Karite conditioner, Kiel's SIlk Groon for styling, and Bein de Terre Laminates for shine. For her pores? Noxema and Kiehl's Ultra Facial Moisterizer. Most importantly, eyeliner from Urban Decay, Shu Uemura or Make Up for Ever and M.A.C. Lipglass in PRRR or Succulent.

May 22, 2000 - Worldpop reports that Christina Aguilera was chosen by Macy Gray as her ultimate mentor. Macy reports Aguilera has taken her under her wing and is teaching her how to live her life. Worldpop appears to take a stab at the situation by saying she's "advising her to be selfish and live her life purely for self-indulgence."

May 21, 2000 - The New York Post's Page Six reports that Eminem is demanding that life size dolls of Christina, Britney, and *NSYNC bandmembers be 'noosed' up from the ceilings at One 51 for his CD release party Monday.

May 21, 2000 - Christina Aguilera's latest song was spoofed on SNL as What a Wench Wants for a midevil skit.

May 20, 2000 - Eminem told Kurt Loder in a interview at House of Blues that his problem with Christina centered around her comments on her MTV What a Girl Wants special. He says "I met her before and had nothing but respect for her" but then when he was watching the MTV special, they played comments about her talking about Kim, domestic violence and Em says to himself "No! You didn't just say that b*tch?!" he says "Why did she pick my video if she was just going to pick it apart?"

May 20, 2000 - eBay has a few Christina pictures that are autographed and up for bids. The 8x10s (items #332626267, #334450481) end tomorrow and Tuesday.

May 20, 2000 - Eminem dissed out more jabs at Christina Aguilera today on EmTV. When Carson Daly was talking about how a woman waited 4 hours in a bathroom for Carson to rush him when he took a leak, Em finished the story by saying "then they had to kick Christina Aguilera out!" ouch...

May 20, 2000 - The songwriter-producer Itaal Shur, who wrote Smooth for Carlos Santana and propelled him to Grammy success will be writing for Christina Aguilera on her next album, Launch.com reports.

May 19, 2000 - Christina filled in the TBD dates on her summer concert tour, check them out here.

May 19, 2000 - Hoku is attempting to distance herself from the images of Britney and Christina, according to Wall of Sound. She tells them "I have to turn down tons of things, like sitcom offers, because they're trying to make me into this kind of flirtatious, overly adult, sexy kind of girl," adding about her competition "I've always been a big fan of Britney and Christina. I don't ever want to say anything bad about them, because I know they're just the sweetest people. I can't be in judgment of the decisions they make; they're doing what they feel is right and what they want for their career and for their fans."

May 19, 2000 - Some interesting comments from Christina's muchmusic interview this week. On Britney? "Even watching her in interviews, I find myself missing her lately," she said. "I'm really proud of her, how far she's come and what she's been able to accomplish." On image? "You take 'N Sync, you take Backstreet Boys, and they do sexual things. But you take Britney or me for showing some tummy, and drama! It's a little unfair. We're artists." [is abstracts.net going too far to predict a Britney / Christina duet on her 2nd (English) album?]

May 19, 2000 - MTV reports the new title for Christina Aguilera's Spanish album will be Latin Lover Girl... [uh, yeah, but this is a Spanish album... Traducción por favor? Muchacha Latina Del Amante... thanks Babel fish!]

May 18, 2000 - More news on the Christina Olive branch extention to Britney, Worldpop says "could Christina's sudden rush of good nature be because she has found herself lacking friends of late - she was dissed by former crush Eminem on his new album, and flame Enrique Iglesias is said to have run for the hills, scared off by her man-eater reputation." [hmm, where'd they hear the 2nd bit?]

May 17, 2000 - Britney Spears was on Howard Stern today, Christina's name was brought up when she talked about her virginity, when Howard said when he saw Christina he thought she looked like she'd already given it up.

May 17, 2000 - There's an extensive interview with Christina Aguilera on Canoe's Jam Music. She talks about her recent illness, her recording plans, her love life (Enrique), and Britney. She said she gave a photographer her number to have Britney phone her recently.

May 15, 2000 - Ok, the latest rumor about Christina on Usenet is that she's dating a member of Jimmy and the Sharks, a band that looks like it's stuck in an 80s time warp. [yeah, we'd doubt this one's true!]

May 15, 2000 - Howard Stern today asked on his talk show whether Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera would be dirtier in bed, they all said Christina would be.

May 15, 2000 - Wall of Sound's Bob Remstein has a review out of Mandy Moore's new CD I Wanna Be With You where he compares her to Christina by saying "...unlike, say, Aguilera's album, which finds the high-school senior rather unremarkably R&B-ing her way toward adulthood over a slightly sophisticated backing, Moore's record hints that she may actually be the superior singer..."

May 14, 2000 - More rumors about Christina are shot down on the official site, and we think we know who is funneling this information to Christina's mom, to which we say "Good job ST!" Apparently Christina asked Colin Shapiro onstage for her Prom of Your Life performance but he declined. She spent 1/2 hour signing autographs. The F word rumor was also refuted, and that rumors of her arrogance towards extras during a Disney taping may have been misunderstood because her schedule didn't allow any time for her to meet them. The rest were items we didn't report or ones already addressed, check out Christina-a.com for full details. Popcentric.com fwiw, still stands behind Wesley's account of the Disney taping.

May 14, 2000 - Christina's official site thanks all her friends for their concern and wishes about her health. She is doing better now after rest and recuperation in Florida.

May 13, 2000 - Those watching MTV's 1515 show with Britney may have noticed a few mentions for Christina. An angry elevator passenger who chastised Britney for getting off on the wrong floor and commenting on New York was labeled a Christina Aguilera Fan. Chris Kattan told McFayden that Britney could beat Christina in a fight, and she commented on the Eminem song by saying she laughed about it and that you can't take spoofs too seriously.

May 11, 2000 - Christina Aguilera won Favorite Female - New Artist and Favorite Single: Genie In A Bottle at the Sixth Annual Blockbuster Awards Tuesday at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

May 10, 2000 - Christina apparently is quite ill, having an ear infection and flu that will force her to cancel a trip to the UK and a performance in Monaco. Get well soon Christina!

May 9, 2000 - Christina Aguilera is again ripped on Eyada.com, where Lori Kramer and Richard Johnson compaired her to Donatella Versace with the platinum hair and "black eyes". Lori did admit she thought Christina looked better in her Mickey Mouse Club days when she didn't have bleached hair and wore so much makeup.

May 8, 2000 - Christina was spoofed last weekend on SNL as part of their skit on the MTV Wanna Be a VJ 3 included a one night stand with Aguilera, where Carson's character on the skit indicated he got two [nights]. Don't feel bad, they were much worse with Shannon, and they brought the presumably insulted Method Man into the skit to rub in her Wu Tang ignorance.

May 4, 2000 - More from Eminem, this time from MTV, where he's explaining all. Click here for the full comments.

May 4, 2000 - While the winner of the "Prom of Your Life" contest Colin Shapiro according to eyewitness reports wasn't getting a whole lot of attention from Christina, she apparently did speak to the High School freshmen, who needed special permission to attend the Junior/Senior prom. As teenhollywood.com reports, Dorothy Hatch, a school newspaper writer, says "He gave her a rose; she said something like 'Oh, you're the kid who won the contest' and gave him and his friend a CD, That was it."

May 3, 2000 - Speaking of not wanting to play in front of kids, Christina did a show for Disney last weekend and apparently used the F word when she screwed up a song... This was in front of kids. Again it was reported she was ice cold and Disney extras used in the taping were complaining of her attitude and arrogance.

May 3, 2000 - We're getting more details on the whole high school fiasco. Apparently she only sang the two songs, but also didn't even meet with the person that won the contest afterwards.. Seeing Christina loathes any boy band comparisons, we suspect she had little interest in playing at a high school full of kids.

May 2, 2000 - Eminem fired back again at Christina yesterday in a show held in London, saying "London, I think it's time for a news flash. You might have heard a lot of things in the press about me and a certain little *****. I wanna' tell you that it's all good between me and that ****." [note, worldpop added the *'s, so I'll guess the first is the 'b word' and the 2nd is the 'c word'... as well all know, when you use the c word with a woman, all hopes of reconciliation are off!]

May 1, 2000 - Christina's performance at Greenbrier High School reportedly only included two songs sung by Christina.

May 1, 2000 - MTV had more on the controversy on TRL today, as Christina said she didn't know what she did that got Eminem so mad at her but would do it again and reiterated the comments she told Access Hollywood.

May 1, 2000 - Christina was featured heavily on Access Hollywood tonight regarding the Eminem feud. She told Pat O'Brien "it's not cool at all for someone to say something like that". When they showed a clip of Fred Durst denying the claim and praising her yet thinking Eminem's video was funny, she seemed unimpressed, saying "it's good he said it was untrue, but if he really respected me that much he wouldn't have made an appearance on the video, so I have mixed feelings." They also had both Fred and Carson deny any sort of sexual relationship, with Carson adding "I can see how she can be mad."

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