Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks & more at Oprah's Farewell Show

Bigtime celebs made a surprise appearance at Oprah's Farewell Show, which was taped last Tuesday, May 17, at the United Center in Chicago.

Dubbed as "The Farewell Season: Oprah's Surprise Spectacular", The Oprah Winfrey Show's finale / last episodes will be aired on May 23 and 24.Oprah's show is signing off after being on air for 25 years, the longest-running daytime talk show in the US.

Here's the list of celebs appearing on Oprah's Farewell Show, which include Arnold Schwarzenegger's wife Maria Shriver, who despite the marital crisis she's going through, managed to surprise Oprah Winfrey on her show:

(in alphabetical order)

Alicia Keys
Aretha Franklin
Beyonce
Dakota Fanning
Diane Sawyer
Gayle King
Halle Berry
Jackie Evancho
Jada Smith
Jamie Foxx
Jerry Seinfeld
Josh Groban
Katie Holmes
Kristen Chenoweth
Madonna
Maria Shriver
Maya Angelou
Michael Jordan
Patty LaBelle
Queen Latifah
Rascal Flatts
Rosie O'Donnell
Simon Cowell
Stedman Graham
Stevie Wonder
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Tyler Perry
Usher
Will Smith

I wonder why Oprah's goddaughter Charice wasn't part of the farewell show.

Anne Curtis hits 1 million Twitter followers!

Anne Curtis' followers on Twitter has now reached 1 million, becoming the first from the Philippines to reach the million mark.

Anne Curtis, who is an active Twitter user since March 2009, now has 1,003,302 followers on Twitter as of 2PM today, April 29, and Anne Curtis is ranked 388th worldwide, according to Twittercounter.com.

She is even ranked higher than Victoria Beckham and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Anne is also the only one from the Philippines to enter the Top 500 list of Twitter users with the most followers.

Here's how some of our local celebs rank worldwide:

Anne Curtis 338th
Angel Locsin 628th
Kris Aquino 633th
Bianca Gonzalez 803rd
Sam Milby 804th
KC Concepcion 826th
Angelica Panganiban 827th
Cristine Reyes 894th
Iya Villania 923rd
Pres. Noynoy Aquino 952nd
Luis Manzano 984th

Charice who's considered an international celebrity ranks 932nd.

'Glee' return of Charice will be this April 19 | She will sing 'All By Myself'

Glee Season 2 is back this April 19 (April 20 in Manila) after a 1-month break and the show's comeback episode also marks the return of Pinoy pride Charice.

The new episode, which is already the Glee Season 2's 17th episode, is entitled "A Night of Neglect" and Charice will be reprising her role as Sunshine Corazon, who was already part of Glee Season 2 debut last September.

Charice will be singing the Eric Carmen/Celine Dion hit "All By Myself". Here's a teaser video of her performance:

Also set to return on Glee Season 2's "A Night of Neglect" episode is Gwyneth Paltrow as Miss Holly Holiday.

Her return on Glee is actually one of the many great things happening for Charice this month onwards.

On April 18, her single "Before It Explodes" which is written by Bruno Mars will be released on iTunes and Amazon.com.

Another song entitled "Louder" will be released in May, then one more, "Waiting Outside the Lines", a song by Youtube sensation Greyson Chance which features Charice.

Charice is also filming the Hollywood movie "Here Comes the Boom", where she portrays the role of student of Music. The movie is topbilled by Salma Hayek, Kevin James and Henry Winkler.


Video courtesy of jamieCHAGLEEKpeters

Pia Toscano is a huge fan of Charice | Faceoff: Pia and Charice "All By Myself"

Pia Toscano, the American Idol Season 10 finalist who got eliminated last week, has told HollywoodLife.com that she's a huge fan of Pinay singing sensation Charice.

According to the website's article posted Tuesday, Pia Toscano finds Charice as an amazing singer and admits she loves to watch Youtube videos of Charice singing Celine Dion songs.

“Charice Pempengco? She’s the most amazing singer ever. I would absolutely perform with her, she’s insane. When I was covering all of my Celine Dion songs, I would watch her videos. She’s just out-of-this-world amazing and I am such a huge fan of her,” Pia told Hollywood Life.

Now we know where Pia drew inspirations from when she sang "All By Myself" during one of her weekly performances on American Idol Season 10.

In fact, there's a video posted on Youtube last March 12 comparing Pia and Charice's versions of the song. Watch!!!


Pia, who was a strong contender on American Idol Season 10 but unfortunately got eliminated, will be back on the season finale and she reportedly wants to perform a duet with Charice on the finale.

Charice immediately responded to that and said she loves the idea. On Twitter, she said, "@PToscanoAI10 would love to perform with you too. :) you're so sweet."

Wow, let's all hope to see Pia and Charice performing together "All By Myself". (and change the song title to "All By Ourselves").

Video upload courtesy of SHANDYMOiMOi

Charice 'Born This Way' cover (clear video)

Charice covers Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' in her video greeting for popular gossip blogger Perez Hilton during the latter's birthday celebration last March 26.

Watch video!Charice sang it so well.

Aside from Charice, other celebs who wished Perez a happy birthday thru a video greeting were Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Nelly Furtado, Sugarland and Lady Gaga.

But many are wondering why of all songs Charice chose to sing this Lady Gaga hit.

"Born This Way" was the song which made Filipina-Canadian Maria Aragon a Youtube sensation and some people are now comparing the versions of the two talented girls.

Charice is also being compared of course to the original singer Lady Gaga. Gossip site Hollywoodlife.com conducted a poll asking its readers to choose who between Charice and Lady Gaga sing "Born This Way" better than the other, 86% of the voters voted for Charice.

Before Charice, Katy Perry also sang her own version of "Born This Way" during her concert early days of March. And many also said that Perry did it better than Gaga.


Video upload courtesy of ice3353