YOWZAS!!! That Shakira is one hot mamacita!!!

The Colombian bombshell sizzled in a Carolina Herrera gown on the red carpet and performed her mega-hit “Hips Don’t Lie” with Wyclef Jean. Them hips really don’t lie.

Watch Shakira’s performance below. I watched it 10x already because it’s that good. Shakira’s choreography (and especially her back-up dancers) is top notch!! Check out more sex-ay pictures of the hot and only Shakira!!

Shakira & Wyclef Jean perform “Hips Don’t Lie” at the Grammys

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Shakira was on hand in Panama City on December 12th to help launch the ALAS Foundation (America Latina en Accion Solidaria - ”Latin America for Solidarity”).
The foundation is helping Latin Americans unite to fight various causes, mainly hunger and poverty, by putting on large humanitarian concerts to raise money and support.

Here’s the press release:

The ALAS Foundation (America Latina en Accion Solidaria - “Latin America for Solidarity”) will be launched on December 12, in the National Theater of Panama. The Foundation is based at the City of Knowledge in this Central American country.

With the goal of helping the neediest, artists, intellectuals, businessmen, international organizations and NGOs have gathered to form the ALAS Foundation, the largest cultural solidarity movement in the history of Latin America.

With the aim of replacing philanthropy with commitment and charity with solidarity, personalities from the world of culture such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Miguel Bose, Diego Torres, Juanes, Babasonicos, Mana, Ruben Blades, Daniela Mercury and Danilo Pere have risen to the occasion, as well as outstanding individuals in the Latin American world, such as Carlos Slim, Emilio Azcarraga, Alejandro Santo Domingo, Alejandro Soberon, Joseph Safra, Roberto Kriete, Marinela Servitje, Stanley Motta, Alberto Bollmer, Jose Antonio Fernandez, Felipe Gonzalez, Oscar Arias, Sergio Renan and Jaime Baily. All of them have joined to fight hunger, poverty and marginalization.

On Tuesday, December 12, the National Theater of Panama will be the setting for the announcement of the various actions to be undertaken by the Foundation, examples of which are large humanitarian concerts at Latin American venues during the next year. Such events will raise funds for two of the key local programs, the ALA VIDA Plan (designed to fight poverty-related mortality) and the ALA ESCUELA Plan (designed to increase schooling and thus combat child labor).

Below is a spoof of Shakira’s Hips Don’t Lie video. If you’re easily offended, don’t view it.

Fergie presided over last night ’s ‘Shake It Up’ dance contest finals at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.  The dance competition was sponsored by Cold Stone Creamery, who distributed freebie milkshakes, in NYC’s Times Square. (Check out the terrible wax figure of Jon Voight’s lover, Shakira, in the backdrop.)

Fergie, 31,  (along with My Chemical Romance) will kick off the"Red Carpet on the Rock" pre-show that leads into the "MTV Video Music Awards. All happening tonight starting at 6:30PM on MTV!  More pictures in the gallery including Fergie arriving at her hotel this past Tuesday in an all black PONY tracksuit…

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Shakira almost pulled the plug on her scheduled ‘American Idol‘ performance tonight. Sources connected with the show tell TMZ that the singer had insisted her band accompany her as she opened the show, but FOX said "no." We’re told it’s because FOX didn’t want to ante up money for her band.  ¶ Shakira drew a line in the sand and refused to perform. But, we’re told, FOX blinked and agreed to fork over what it would take for Shakira’s band to perform. So, the show will go on.

Grammy winner Shakira, 29, and hip-hop luminary Wyclef Jean, 33, will definitely be performing my absolute favorite song of the moment –  the Latin-inflected, cross-cultural hip shaker "Hips Don’t Lie" during tonight’s broadcast of American Idol!  Tonight’s American Idol results show airs tonight, March 29 (9PM ET/PT) on FOX.

RECAP UPDATE :: Ace Young, Lisa Tucker and Katharine McPhee are in the bottom 3.  Ace is safe. Katharine is safe. Anaheim’s 16-year-old Lisa Tucker sent home. The whole time Ryan Seacrest was hosting, I was like EEEWWWW, you sucked face with Teri Hatcher last weekend!!!!!!  Shakira did a whole lot less chest thrusting than she normally does performing. 

For a few seconds during last night’s broadcast, Taylor Hicks’ name
and phone number displayed during Mandisa’s performance. Is FOX
trying to send subliminal messages for America to vote for Taylor?
If so, keep on sending them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Colombian pop superstar Shakira is set to be honoured with a giant steel statue in her hometown of Barranquilla. The mammoth construction is rumoured to be five metres high (16 feet) and is expected to arrive by boat tomorrow. The Laundry Service star is thrilled by the tribute; following a viewing of the artwork during a fundraiser in Germany she said: "I want people to think that any girl can start working on her dreams and that they will come true."

New York City, NY :: Singer Shakira, 29, appeared on stage during MTV’s "Total Request Live" show at the MTV Times Square Studios yesterday afternoon. Watch the video below  of Shakira and Wyclef Jean performing her hit single "Hips Don’t Lie" off her new album "Oral Fixation, Vol. 2", which will be released next Tuesday, March 28.  It’s one hot, hip-shakin’ performance, be sure to check it out. More pictures in the gallery!