The entire World took pause today to absorb the reality that pop star Justin Bieber turned 18 years old today!
Bieber’s fans from around the globe turned to twitter and Facebook to try and set a world record worthy of the Guinness World Records book, and for his part Justin spent the day with his pal Ellen DeGeneres.
The videos below highlight Bieber’s visit with Ellen as she “Trucked in” one of his biggest fans, Bieber receiving his gift from his manager Scooter Braun, and visiting the riff-raff room.
The first video is Justin Visiting with Ellen and announcing his new single “Boyfriend” and talking about his charity work.
The next video shows Ellen putting a Bieber super fan on a truck and shipping her to the studio to meet Justin Bieber in person!
The big surprise for the day was Justin’s gift from manager Scooter Braun and Usher Raymond – a brand new Fisker Karma electric car! The Fisker is one of the most expensive and hard to get cars out there right now and Bieber got one!
Watch Justin Bieber get his Fisker Karma Birthday Present
And to round out the birthday surprises, Ellen had the Audience sing “Happy Birthday” to the Biebs before heading out to the Riff Raff room to visit with the overflow audience!
So there you have it - the birthday celebration of the most famous 18-year-old on the planet.
Now we suspect Justin will spend a quiet evening with his girlfriend Selena Gomez and have a nice romantic dinner and…….. well…
Ryan, who was Bieber’s road manager and stylists was also credited as a friend, mentor, and all around team player.
Now we learn that Ryan has announced he is leaving Justin’s management team to pursue other interests.
Ryan was first hired by Manager Scooter Braun after Bieber was signed to Island records under L.A. Reid, and has served by Justin’s side for the last three years.
Good was featured in the 3D movie “Never Say Never” and is frequently seen at Justin’s side in YouTube videos.
Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun took to twitter to say,
“For all you who are asking… Ryan is going to pursue some of his dreams… We encourage him to go after his. He will always be a part of this family. Always!”
Justin’s close friend and bodyguard Kenny Hamilton tweeted,
“I’m gonna miss you man! Been so much fun and so many memories… @thatrygood I wish you well…”
Before working for Justin Bieber’s team, Ryan Good worked as an assistant to the singer Usher.
Good spent the early days with Justin on the road and refined his early look and was sometimes referred to as his “swagger couch”.
Ryan is well known for his now famous articulation of the phrase “Aw C'mon!”.
There is no word on what Ryan will be doing or who he will be working for but we suspect it is all good!
As teen sensation Justin Bieber and his crew head for Mexico to jumpstart their South American “My World” tour, news is out that Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun is now running the ship for young 14-year-old Australian singer Cody Simpson.
Braun, whose real name is Scott Samuel Braun, not only discovered Bieber on YouTube but got him signed to Island Records under L.A. Reid.
Braun will now try to duplicate his Bieber success with Cody Simpson.
Cody says,
“I’m a big fan of Justin’s. We support each other a lot. He was talking to me yesterday about the songs he liked off my album. People say we’re in a competition, but it’s really like being friends and part of a family. It’s definitely not something that should be seen as a rivalry.”
Scooter Braun, who was born in New York, got his start by organizing parties while attending Emory University.
His events attracted celebrity performers like Ludacris and Britney Spears, and when he was 19-years-old created his own party-promotion company.
In 2002, Jermaine Dupri hired him as Director of Marketing of So So Def Records, and at age 20 was named Executive Marketing Director.
In addition to Justin Bieber, Braun also manages singer Asher Roth and has business connections to wake board guru and champion Paulie Koch.
Scooter currently owns and operates two music labels - Raymond-Braun Media Group (RBMG) which is co-owned with Usher, and Schoolboy Records.
Even though Simpson was just signed and is already getting asked about collaborations with Bieber.
Simpson has released one album and just completed a short U.S. tour with friend and fellow teen singer Greyson Chance who was also discovered on YouTube and signed by Ellen DeGeneres’ label “eleveneleven”.
Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun hit up Dolce & Gabbana’s Fashion Night last week and gave one of the best interviews we’ve heard in a while.
Justin talked about Scooter’s beard, and how and when he decided to cut it off – and his failed attempt to auction the hair for charity.
Bieber talked about Braun’s “aging” fashion attire and said Scooter “had his day” when he was fly and had the swag down – and that JB has kind of given up on trying to give Scooter fashion advice.
The most important part of the interview was when they talked about the charity organized by Scooters brother called “Pencils of Promise” and the number of schools that have been built so far.
Justin and his team have supported Adam Braun and his charity since its inception and now have over 50 schools either already built, or being built in third world countries.
Bieber’s new Christmas album is due out this November and will contain mostly original songs written by Justin, and at least one original track written by Justin and Taylor Swift.
Proceeds from the Christmas album will go to “Pencils of Promise”.
Taylor Swift and Justin have become friends this summer, and the singer even pulled the ultimate prank on her a couple of weeks back as part of the new MTV “Punk’d” TV series that is being revived.
Leave it to Justin Bieber to start a controversy no matter where he goes.
While leaving a restaurant yesterday in Hollywood with his manager Scooter Braun, Bieber was confronted by a photographer from TMZ who clearly did not have his facts straight.
Bieber was asked about an incident on an American Airlines flight where the pop singer was rude and refused to sign an autograph for one of the pilots.
Bieber denied the story and then was asked what it was like to be famous and have all these fake stories and rumors circulating about him.
Bieber responded,
"I'm famous? I'm a celebrity? I didn't even realize. My name's Derek. I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm just a look-alike. I don't know why you guys are following me around with cameras. I've never heard anybody ever call me a brat."
Justin then told the photog that he shouldn’t believe everything he hears and that there were also stories that he had died from multiple causes and they were on their way to his funeral.
Funny…
Watch Justin as Derek Bieber in Hollywood
Within an hour of the video being released “Derek Bieber” was a worldwide trending topic on twitter.
Ah, the power of social media!
But when you really are Justin Bieber, and worth an estimated $100 million, you can do anything you want and wear anything you want.
In fact, The Bieb’s is so confident in his masculinity these days he was rocking some ultra-bright pink shoes.
Nothing says masculine like pink shoes, two earrings, and making a lady carry your shopping bags.
We also noticed in the video that nobody really seemed to care that Scooter Braun was there, and he acted like he didn’t want anything to do with any of the discussion.
Smooth move Scooter – and nice beard.
For his part, Bieber is back in the studio working on his new album “Believe”.
You know what they say; it’s not what you know it’s who you know…
And Scooter Braun knows a lot of famous people.
That was very apparent last Saturday when Scooter turned thirty years old and held on heck of a party.
Braun not only was the one who discovered Justin Bieber on YouTube four years ago, but also became the teen pop sensations Manager, mentor, and best friend.
So how does somebody as connected as Scooter throw a party?
Well, you start by renting out “The Music Box” in Hollywood California and inviting all your friends.
There was Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, Jaden Smith, MC Hammer, Usher Raymond, Perez Hilton, Kenny Hamilton, Ryan Goode, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Adam Levine, Wilmer Valderama, Dan Kanter, Mary J. Blige, and others.
Both User and MC Hammer performed on stage, and Justin performed “Never Say Never” with Jaden Smith, and all were on the stage singing and dancing during each other’s performances.
Justin even backed up User on the drums during one of his songs:
Insiders say Justin and Jaden played “Beer Pong” (with water and not beer) most of the night while other celebs took to twitter to tell their fans where they were and who they were with.
MC Hammer tweeted,
“Usher... Justin B. ... Adam Levine .. We’re performing and partying in LA .. Celebrating Scooter’s B Day and Fathers Day !!!”
Usher Raymond was so excited he forgot there was such a thing as lower case when tweeting,
“WE ARE HAVING THE GREATEST NIGHT EVER!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOOTER!!!! URIV”
And while user performed, Bieber was on stage executing some killer dance moves as seen in the video below.
There were also belly dancers and fire eaters and enough food to feed an army. From what we here a good time was had by all and the group partied into the wee hours.
The highlight of the evening was a “Roast” of young Scooter, whose real name is Scott. It was very personal with lots of “stories from the road during last year’s concert tour” and lots of inside jokes from when Scooter and Justin were on the road early in the process hitting up Malls and radio stations.
But there were a few conspicuous absences.
Bieber’s mom Pattie Mallette and divorced dad Jeremy Bieber were unable to attend, and girlfriend Selena Gomez was not there either.
But Gomez had a good excuse as she was in Toronto Canada rehearsing for her hosting duties at the “Much Music Video Awards” MMVA show.
In fact, after Scooter’s birthday bash, Justin hit the road to join Selena in Toronto where he won two MMVA awards.
The first was a tie with singer Drake for International Video of the Year, and the second was for “Ur Favorite Artist” award.
There was one funny moment when Gomez announced the winner and Justin came out on stage to receive his award and turned to Selena and said,
“Selena? Nice to meet you, I’m Justin, maybe we should go out some time?”
The Paparazzi also took note of Justin’s attire as he showed off his T-shirt with a picture of the character Kelly Kapowski from the popular “Saved by the Bell” television series.
Justin Bieber Arrives At The MMVA
So there you go, just another weekend in the life of a $150 Million teen pop sensation.
Back in November 2009, Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun was arrested at New York’s Roosevelt Field Mall for not cancelling a performance before the crowed grew unruly.
Almost 3,000 Bieber fans had shown up to see the singer perform when police were called to control the crowd.
Braun was told to cancel the performance and use Twitter to tell the fans to disperse.
Police cancelled the event but not after 5 people were injured and Braun had been arrested on charges of reckless endangerment and criminal nuisance.
The next day, Bieber was seen sporting a t-shirt with the slogan “Free Scooter”.
Today, Scooter and Bieber’s record label Island Def Jam agreed to plead guilty on one count of violating a county safety ordinance. A rep commented,
“Basically they are just trying to settle the case and make it go away. It is water under the bridge and was only a moderate safety infraction. This way both sides can move on and put this issue behind them. After reviewing the case, both sides agreed things could have been handled better by everyone involved.”
Island will pay a small fine of $8,000 to settle the case and Bieber is ordered to do a PSA (Public Service Announcement) about cyber bullying.
Not bad when you consider that Bieber makes $300,000 per show, and has pulled in over $100 million dollars over the last year between his “My World” concert tour and widely successful 3D movie “Never Say never”.
For his part, Bieber is finishing his tour in Australia this week and has plans to move on to Japan later this month.
But his tour management company and stage crew have mounted a mutiny of sorts and are refusing to work in Japan due to the risk of radiation from last month’s earthquake and tsunami.
If the team can’t come to some sort of agreement soon, the May 17th and 19th shows in japan may have to be cancelled. Both Avril Lavigne and Slash have already cancelled shows at the same stadiums in Japan over health fears.
Once his tour is over later this month, Bieber plans to return to the U.S. and finish work on his third album and begin shooting his new movie with Mark Wahlberg.
It’s not easy being the world’s most popular 17-year-old Pop star.
And we also know that Justin Bieber is not the kind of performer who likes to cancel a show.
But today during a crew meeting in Adelaide Australia, were Bieber is performing, the road and stage crew overseeing his tour said they refused to return to Japan for more concerts due to fears of radiation from the recent nuclear disaster.
Since the earthquake and Tsunami last month they fear the risk of cancer and other illnesses is too great, and say they refuse to return for shows on May 17th and 19th.
Bieber has already visited Japan on his My World Tour, and is scheduled to return later this month to both Tokyo and Osaka.
The crew reminded Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun, that both Avril Lavigne and Slash have cancelled shows at the same venues over health fears.
Braun was overheard yelling and cursing at the crew telling them that the Japanese Government had told him there was no risk at all and that they should do what is right for the kids.
At this point there is a mutiny and the crew says they refuse to return.
Bieber himself has not made any comments on the subject and a simple statement released by his PR rep said “They are working through the issue now”.
And for Justin Bieber’s manager Scooter Braun there is no escape.
Today, a new video has appeared on YouTube titled “Scooter Braun’s Theme Song”, and it's a vicious parody of Braun’s success in the music business and other ventures.
The video theme song features a South Park style animation that shows Braun throwing around cash, private jets, big mansions, Usher, Justin Bieber, Asher Roth, and others.
Scooter commented via Twitter “yeah I’m weirded out...who made this”?
In what can only be called a change up in the world of celebrity agents and managers, Scooter Braun has decided to expand his empire.
Not content with managing the number one pop singing super star Justin Bieber, Braun is now setting his sights on the uber-talented wakeboarding Koch family.
The Koch kids can currently be seen wakeboarding on the Disney Channel in Disney’s sports “shorts” called “Getcha Head In The Game”.
Paulie Koch and his sisters, Tori, Gabriella and Moxie, were selected to be featured for the next five years in a Disney short film that showcases their Wakeboarding skills and training regimen.
Scooter invited 14-year-old Paulie to the New York City premier of Justin’s “Never Say Never 3D” where he got to walk the red carpet, see the movie, and meet Justin back stage after the show.
Suddenly, brother Paulie and sister Tori have become the latest teen sensation.
Paulie writes on his blog:
I have the pleasure of knowing Scooter and I can tell you he is a great guy! A real class act who keeps Justin grounded and on course. I also am fortunate that Scooter will be guiding me in the future as I continue to pursue my passion for wakeboarding.
Paulie maintains a website and blog at PaulieKoch.com and the video below tells a little bit about his family and his aspirations and includes a bio, pictures, and videos of his wakeboarding.
