American swimmer Michael Phelps arrives at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards at Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles on Sunday.
English comedian Russell Brand will host the event while Britney Spears will be opening up the night with a surprise performance. Kaba Modern and Fanny Pak of America’s Best Dance Crew will battle it out to determine who will present the Best Dancing in a Video award.
American swimmer Michael Phelps parties it up with a bunch of girls at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on Friday.
With the 23-year-old’s Olympic fame, everyone’s been wondering if Michael has a main squeeze! In a recent interview, Michael said, ‘I never said I have a girlfriend, and I never said I don’t have a girlfriend. My public and private life are separate. I keep my private life to myself.’
As reported earlier, Michael will host the season premiere for Saturday Night Live on Sept. 12 and will also be making a cameo appearance on HBO’s Entourage.
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Swimming champion Michael Phelps will make a cameo on the HBO comedy Entourage later this year, reports EW.
The 23-year-old Olympian literally stumbled upon the show’s set while it was recently shooting in Manhattan. Series producer Doug Ellin immediately wrote Phelps into the episode after learning how Phelps was a big fan.
Entourage kicks begins its fifth season @ 10PM on Sunday, Sept. 7 on HBO. For more information, visit HBO.com.
Pictured here is Phelps earlier this morning being presented with a $1 million bonus check from Speedo for his eight gold medals during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. This was given to him on The Today Show at NYC’s Rockefeller Plaza.
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All-time Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps shares a laugh with Minnie Mouse after completing a relay race held at the Typhoon Lagoon wave pool.
Gold medalists Phelps, Ian Crocker and Lenny Krayzelburg visited Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., to kick off a national tour called “Disney’s Swim with the Stars.” The trio will visit 12 cities around the country, with tour stops scheduled to include Atlanta, New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Francisco and the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.
“I am so happy to celebrate here and see some of the fans who supported me,” said Phelps. “It’s great to feel so much excitement around the sport of swimming in the U.S. and around the world. To top it all off with a parade at Disney World is just incredible.”
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Michael Phelps helps launch ‘EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09′ at the Strata Metronome in New York City on Wednesday.
The 8-time Olympic gold medalist will host the 34th season premiere of NBC’s SNL on Sept. 13. Joining the 23-year-old athlete as musical guest will be rapper Lil Wayne.
Phelps will also join the likes of Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens and many others, as presenters at the Sept. 7 VMAs telecast from Los Angeles.
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Beijing Games hero Michael Phelps will host the upcoming season premiere of Saturday Night Live!
In front of a live audience, the 23-year-old super swimmer will help kick off the 34th season of the long-running NBC comedy show. The SNL season premiere kicks off four live shows in a row.
The musical guest for the night will be hip-hop superstar Lil Wayne. The season premiere of Saturday Night Live will air on Sept 13. @ 11:30PM ET/PT on NBC.
Phelps will also be dropping by The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday, Sept. 8.
Australian Olympic swimmer Stephanie Rice is presented with commemorative underwear upon her return to Sydney, Australia on Tuesday.
Rice, 20, is rumored to be dating US golden boy Michael Phelps. When asked about the rumored romance and alleged kiss she and Phelps shared together she said, “No, it was just really great to meet him … and people that you usually see on TV, like [Rafael] Nadal and [Roger] Federer. To me Michael Phelps is a huge inspiration and someone I really look up to.”
Rice received her commemorative underwear along with her former boyfriend, Eamon Sullivan. The couple broke up just before the Beijing Olympics. Sullivan won silver and a bronze but claimed a world record in 100m freestyle heats while Rice collected three gold in three events.
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A lot of you felt that Sports Illustrated did a horrible job with Michael Phelps on the cover of their latest issue, covering up his body too much. Well, now check out the swimming champion in Olympic gold medal haute couture. Infinitely more interesting! Loving the bracelet, btw. Ferosh!
To see Phelps in his other haute couture get-up, visit PrettyOnTheOutside.
Phelps, 23, also plans on writing a book telling the story behind the winning of his eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympic games. “Built To Succeed”, due out in December, will cover his philosophy on training and competition, as well as his life being raised by a single mother and coping with an attention-deficit disorder.
