OLIVER TANSON® conducted an interview with Brian LITTRELL.

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FRIDAY, JULY 11

Saw KEVIN RICHARDSON from the Backstreet Boys at Lucky Devils on Hollywood Blvd on Friday night with three blonds and another guy. While eating, AJ from BSB spotted him from the street and came in to say hello. What are the odds? Kevin looked the exact same, AJ was much more bearded than I remember.

Source: Defamer via Emilia at IB Forums

Former Backstreet Boys memeber Kevin Scott Richardson arriving at the Ventura Court Theatre carrying some props including a wig and some clothes. Studio City, CA. USA. July 24, 2008.

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Evens & Appearances:24 07 2008 Kevin at Ventura Court Theatre in Studio City CA

Source: Incomplete Men

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July 24, 2008 , 12:15 PM ET
Gary Graff, Detroit

Backstreet Boys Howie Dorough and A.J. McLean are continuing to work on their first solo projects even as the group has started work on its sixth studio album.

Dorough tells Billboard.com that “A.J.’s about done” with his album, while Dorough is “probably close to halfway there.” He’s been working with Jon Secada and George Noriega (Ricky Martin, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez) on an album Dorough says will explore the Latin roots of his mother’s family, which hails from Puerto Rico.

“I’ve always embraced the Latin rhythms, the Latin sounds, just the music itself,” says Dorough, who even flirted with joining Menudo when he was younger. “It’s just such a feel-good music, and I’ve always looked up to people like Jon Secada, Ricky Martin, Enrique (Iglesias), who have done a good crossover.”

Dorough describes his album as “kind of Latin-ish, English, Spanglish. It’s just a mixture of my American roots in pop music meets my Latin roots. It’s gonna be a good, kind of eclectic mixture.”

Release dates for both his and McLean’s albums are up in the air, however. “Obviously Backstreet’s always gonna be number one,” Dorough says. “It’s a matter of timing, when we feel each of us wants our record to come out so that we’re not competing with each other or taking time away that we could be working … as a group.”

The group, in fact, has already started working on its follow-up to last year’s “Unbreakable,” recording some new material while on tour in Europe. Dorough says the quartet plans to hit the studio after its tour of North America, which starts Tuesday in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and wraps on Sept. 6 in Seattle.

“We’re looking at getting back into the studio quite quickly,” says Dorough, adding that Backstreet Boys may work again with Swedish producer/writer Max Martin, who worked with the group on “I Want it That Way,” “Shape of My Heart,” “Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)” and other hits.

“We want to hopefully have something ready to go or at least be heavily into it by the end of the year and have something out towards the beginning of next year,” Dorough says.

Source: Billboard , BsbBroksGirl

Singer Howie Dorough of the Backstreet Boys and Deborah Gibson attend singer Deborah Gibson’s Camp Electric Youth at the Howard Fine Acting Studio on July 18, 2008 in Hollywood, California.

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Evens & Appearances: 18 07 2008 - Howie at Deborah Gibson’s Camp Electric Youth

Source: IB Forums & Emilia

Thanks to Emilia for the lowdown on the situation:

Here’s the deal the email says vote for them now. But we can’t. As MTV is doing 2 categories a week. The only award the boys can be nominated for is Best Pop Video and maybe Video of the year. I doubt they can get video of the year nomination. But maybe Best Pop video for Inconsolable. Ok since MTV is doing 2 categories a week we have to wait until Friday at 8pm EST on FN MTV to vote for the next two categories which includes best pop video. Here’s the email thebackstreetboys.com sent.

Help Nominate BSB For 2008 Video Music Award
MTV is letting YOU decide this year’s VMA nominees! Help The BSBs earn as many nominations as possible - just go to VMA.MTV.com to cast your nomination and check back to see who got the top votes! Time is short - VOTE NOW and help the guys rack up nominations for “Helpless When She Smiles” and “Inconsolable.”

Not sure if I posted on the old forum. So I’ll post this here.

Search with the Backstreet Boys is a search engine that offers you a chance to win cool prizes every time you search. You earn swag bucks with those bucks you can get prizes like BSB merchandise, gift cards, electronics plus more. Click here to check it out.

http://searchwiththebackstreetboys.prod … &rb=107043

You don’t get the swag bucks each time you search. It happens randomly. You’ll get a message saying you won this many bucks. I think every 20 searches you’ll get 1 swag buck. Since June I got two 5 dollar amazon gift cards for only 60 swag bucks each sent to my email. One in June and one earlier this month. This is legit they even have updates on BSB from their official myspace blogs. It’s for US/Canada people only.

If you’re gonna register and repost about this somewhere else use your own link. Each member gets their own link so people can register using your link and you’ll see a list of people who joined by clicking your link. I think you even get bucks if someone registers under your link.

Source: IB Forums

According to Buch Walker, Brian will be a judge for Independent Music Awards which is going to be in December, 2008. Read article here.

Source: Mike @ LD

We’d like to mention a new Elite Affiliate, We Still. This wonderful site is run by Stephanie, and she does such a great job! It’s a lovely site about Backstreet and provides fans with lots of media and information, in French no less. Go check it out!