My World was eventually certified Platinum in the U.S. and Canada and Silver in the UK. To promote the album, Justin Bieber performed in several live shows such as mtvU's VMA 09 Tour, European program The Dome, YTV's The Next Star and The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Show, Lopez Tonight, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, It's On with Alexa Chung, Good Morning America, Chelsea Lately, and BET's 106 & Park with Rihanna. Justin Bieber also guest starred in an episode of True Jackson, VP in late 2009.

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After Sarah Jessica Parker's parents divorce, her mother married Paul Forste, a truck driver and account executive who was a part of Parker's life from an early age. Parker's mother was of English and German descent; through her mother, Sarah Jessica Parker is descended from Esther Elwell, one of the accused during the Salem witch trials. Parker's father, a native of Brooklyn, was of Eastern European Jewish background; his family's original surname was "Bar-Kahn" ("son of Kohen"). Parker has identified culturally and ethnically with her father's religion, Judaism, although she had no religious training. She has said that even while her family lived in Cincinnati, her mother emulated a New York lifestyle.

Vanessa Hudgens received a recording contract with Hollywood Records. On September 2006 her debut album entitled V was released. It charted on the Billboard 200 at number twenty-four, and was certified Gold on February 27, 2007. Vanessa Hudgens' first single, "Come Back to Me" became her highest-charting single. Vanessa Hudgens' second single was "Say OK". Billboard readers chose "V" as the seventh best album of the year. Vanessa Hudgens was named Female Breakout Singer of the year at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards.

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