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ON MEETING
On September 1, 2013 Celine Dion met with Eric Salvail, on backstage before her show, at the Colosseum of the Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas, USA. Eric Salvail is a French Canadian host.
ON TV SHOW
On September 6, 2013 Celine Dion appeared on the American late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and aired live on ABC channel in USA. Celine sat on Jimmy Kimmel´s couch for two whole segments, and then later performed her new single "Love me back to life", from her upcoming album "Love Me Back To Life". She wasn´t as goofy as one might expect, though sometimes hilarious regardless - Kimmel pointed out that the titular command of her new song "Love me back to life" is technically impossible to pull off, but Celine vehemently disagreed, citing the scenario of a bunch of people praying around a hospital bed while someone was in a coma as an example of loving someone back to life. For Celine, all drama is melodrama. Life is but a soap opera. Kimmel also asked her about her Vegas show, now in its 10th year, and Celine said that when she signed on to sing at Caesars Palace, people thought her career was over ("The vibe was bad"), so she had any famous person who stopped by autograph a big canvas "for her kids". Kimmel asked if anyone refused to sign, and Celine said there was one person: Prince, whose name was a symbol when he attended her Vegas show. "I have no name right now. I´m a sign", the artist then formerly known as Prince said. Celine also talked about the sale of her Jupiter Island house.
ON TV SHOW
On September 8, 2013 Celine Dion appeared during the broadcast of the new TV show "Les Chansons D´abord", hosted by Natasha St-Pier and aired on France 3 channel in France. Celine´s appearance was via satellite from the USA.
ON TV SHOW
On September 9, 2013 Celine Dion appeared during the broadcast of the famous American weekday television entertainment news program "Access Hollywood", hosted by Billy Bush and Kit Hoover and aired on Syndicated channel in USA. This was part of the promotion for her new single "Loved me back to life". On this new interview with Bush and Hoover, the "Loved me back to life" singer says her mother was very against her relationship with Rene Angelil. "I have to say that for my mom he was not the prince charming - the ideal prince charming. It was very difficult", Celine said. Rene met Celine when she was 12, and he began managing her professional career. Within a few years, her view of him turned romantic. "So maybe at 17, 18 years old, my feelings started to change for him. I kind of saw him differently. Make a long story short, she saw it coming too because she´s a mom - mom knows best", the 45-year-old star said. "Maybe [when I was] 19 years old, [I told her] that I have some really strong feelings for Rene and he´s been married twice and he had three children. And she tried everything to kill him and to make me snap out of it". "I was very frustrated and mad at her at first because I said, ‘It´s not just like a crazy thing. It´s real!’ but she tried to make understand that this kid tried twice before, he has three children, he´s not responsible", she continued. "He knows how it works in show business. But you´re my daughter, you´re my baby, and I want the perfect prince charming for you". Eventually, Rene earned the love of her whole family (she has 13 siblings), and her mother came around. "She had no choice. Love won", Celine said, adding that roughly 10 years later, she finally understood why her mother had been concerned. "It´s because the moms fight all the way, like, ‘This is wrong, this is not your age, this is not what I [hoped for you] - are you sure? I´m afraid you´re going to make a mistake’". Now, as a mother of three boys (Rene-Charles, 12 and nearly-3-year-old twins Nelson and Eddy), Celine said she wouldn´t be as understanding as her mother was if one of her sons wanted to marry a twice-divorced 45-year-old woman with children. "If I reversed roles - when I had my first son, RC, if I think of him and he comes [to me] with this lady who has kids and she´s 45 and she think she knows best, [I´d be] like, ‘Take your hand off of my son’", she continued. Adding, "I don´t think I´ll be able to do it. So, [my mother] is a saint. God bless her heart". Celine and Rene´s relationship has happily defied the odds. "For the year 2000, we renewed our vows, just to prove again that we were right", she said with a laugh. After the interview, Celine was photographed with Erin O´Sullivan and a fan.
ON TV SHOW
On September 10, 2013 Celine Dion was interviewed during the broadcast of the famous American entertainment television news program "Extra", hosted by Maria Menounos and aired on Syndicated channel in USA. Directly from the Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles, USA Celine chatted with Menounos about her upcoming album "Love Me Back To Life", her kids and being married to her manager, Rene Angelil, for 19 years.
ON TV SHOW
On September 10, 2013 Celine Dion appeared during the broadcast of the famous daily American morning television show "Today", aired on NBC channel in USA. Celine´s interview, by Natalie Morales, was part of the promotion of the new single "Love me back to life". "It´s a very powerful song", Celine told Morales of the new album´s title track. And her singing style had to adjust, Celine said, noting that she tried not to make the performance "too pretty", and worked to put "this little edge" into her voice while singing. The Grammy Award-winning singer stressed that she´s not reinventing herself at age 45. "It´s not about that", she told Morales. "Because what I have accomplished through my career, this is something that I´m extremely proud of. But I can afford to kind of be sitting on a couch and relax a little bit, not try to overdo it". For Celine, that relaxing time includes her family - husband Rene and their three sons, 12-year-old R.C. and 2-year-old twins, Nelson and Eddy. She´s putting her Florida mansion up for sale and focusing on family life in Nevada, USA where she´s just extended her show at the Caesars Palace. "Parenting is our most important job", Celine said. "It´s not the easiest one. But we take great... pride (in doing) it. Because we know that we´re making a difference. "Whatever we do in show business we have a good time. But what we do at the house will make a difference for the rest of their lives". Celine, who´s been with Rene since she was 19 years old, says the couple recently bought karaoke stands for the children. Their famous mom has to alter her musical choices when singing with them, she said, demonstrating her rendition of a Wiggles tune. "We have a very unique life", she told Morales. "But we´re really trying to be - not trying, we are - normal people".
ON TV SHOW
On September 11, 2013 Celine Dion appeared during the broadcast of the famous American television talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", often shortened to "Ellen", hosted by by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres and aired on Warner Bros channel in USA. Celine´s appearance at "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was part of the promotion of her upcoming album "Love Me Back To Life". During the interview, Celine talked about putting her 5.7-acre Jupiter Island home on the market, and Ellen showed some amazing footage of Celine´s closets. Inside the main closet holding area, there´s a dry cleaner rack, one of those enormous rotating conveyor belts for all of Celine´s amazing clothes, plus an electronic storage facility for her the 3,000 pairs of shoes she keeps at this home. "The reason we use the dry cleaner thing is because this is where we can hold the most clothes", Celine said. "And you know how crazy I am for shoes". The 10,000-square-foot house, which has been listed with Sotheby´s International Realty for a couple of weeks, has an asking price of $72 million. After the interview, Celine performed her new single "Love me back to life". At the end of the performance, Celine met with Sam Horowitz. On backstage, Celine met with Australian singer and songwriter, Sia Furler, who wrote "Love me back to life" to Celine. Celine also was photographed with a fan.
ON TV SHOW
On September 19, 2013 Celine Dion appeared during the broadcast of the famous American talk show "Larry King Live", hosted by Larry King and aired on CNN channel in USA. Celine has discussed many topics including her upcoming album "Loved Me Back To Life", new single, her return to the spotlight, motherhood and about her long time relationship with her manager, Rene Angelil. Larry wraps a great week of interviews with Celine, who talked about being able to live out what she believes she was born to do. "I want to please", said Celine. "I was born to do that, don´t forget. I love the spotlight". "As a mother, I´m a singer; as a singer I´m a mother", said the mother of three. "My children know exactly what I do". Talking about her relationship with Rene, she said "I was never with another man". She also revealed that she would love to work with Adele, Rihanna and Christina Aguilera. Celine also answered questions from fans via social media.
PRESS EVENT
On September 30, 2013 Celine Dion received more than 100 journalists from fourteen different countries (Canada, Germany, Spain, South-Africa, Japan, Australia and Poland among them) at the Singer Island Hotel in Riviera Beach, Florida, USA to promote her new album titled "Loved Me Back To Life". Celine´s team has set up a press center (consisting of three rooms, one for interviews with Celine, one for interviews with her manager and husband Rene Angelil and one for Celine´s make-up and clothing) on the 21st floor of the Singer Island Hotel. According to Joann Keading, from Sony Music International, it was the first time an international press event like this has been organized. After giving interviews for television on September 30, 2013, the next day Celine was reserved for radio and then she gave countless interviews for written media. The journalists listened to the album, watched the "making of" of the album and spend some time, about ten minutes each, talking to Celine. Celine´s team and Sony Music asked for the journalists and media to not broadcast any of the interviews until the new album was released.