[Aj Hammer, Hln:] Tonight SHOWBIZ breaks news about the divorce drama surrounding the stars of "Real Housewives." Wait until you hear what they told us. I`m AJ Hammer in New York with Nischelle Turner. And this is SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.
[Hammer:] More big news breaking tonight. J.Lo`s divorce tell-all all revealed today. For the very first time Jennifer Lopez reveals all about her split from Marc Anthony. What really led to their breakup? Will she find love again? Plus J.Lo`s her jaw-dropping payday. Explosive report today she`ll get $20 million to stay on "American Idol." Our SHOWBIZ "Flashpoint" tonight, is she worth it? SHOWBIZ TONIGHT breaks big Kardashian sex tape news. We dare to ask Kim`s mom to set the record straight. Did she really make a sex tape just like Kim?
[Kareen Wynter, Showbiz Tonight Correspondent:] We can`t let you go without talking about that sex tape, guys.
[Kris Jenner, "keeping Up With The Kardashians":] Oh, my gosh. I didn`t think anybody would catch that.
[Hammer:] SHOWBIZ trending tonight, ridiculous ads that turned "Mad Men`s" Christina Hendricks rusty, curvaceous image a super-skinny model. Plus the Pippa butt lift. Women getting plastic surgery to get a butt just like Duchess Catherine`s sister. Has the world gone mad? TV`s most provocative entertainment news show breaks news right now. Hello. I`m AJ Hammer in New York with Nischelle Turner.
[Nischelle Turner, Hln:] And there is big news breaking tonight that comes down to this. Whoa, J.Lo, did you really just tell all?
[Hammer:] Well, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you that indeed she did. It was just a couple of weeks ago that Jennifer Lopez dropped the divorce bombshell heard around the world. She and Marc Anthony were done, over, splitting up. It seemed that nobody saw this coming. But today for the very first time we heard J.Lo reveal why her seven-year marriage to Anthony led to a seven- year itch to get divorced. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT also learned today the remarkable amount of money that J.Lo will reportedly get to help soothe those wounds, not from Anthony, but from "American Idol." SHOWBIZ TONIGHT with the story behind the big bucks and behind the breakup. Jennifer Lopez is in a familiar spot, right smack dab in the middle of another public and painful split, this time from her husband Marc Anthony, father of her twins. Now just over two weeks after the big divorce announcement, J.Lo is speaking out for the first time telling "Vanity Fair" magazine about the split and what led to it. Hint, its initials are "
[Ai." Ken Baker, E! Chief News Correspondent:] Jennifer clearly makes the point that after she started focusing on her career, got on "American Idol," that it was a struggle.
[Hammer:] About her divorce, Lopez tells "Vanity Fair", quote, "This was the hardest decision I`ve ever had to face. I really wanted this family to work. That was my biggest dream and I worked hard at it. We both did. Sometimes it doesn`t work and that`s sad."
[Baker:] The "Vanity Fair" interview was actually done in two parts. The first part she was still married. They weren`t separated yet and she was hinting at there were serious problems in the marriage, and then she did a follow-up interview after announcing the split and she revealed a lot more.
[Hammer:] This morning the "Today" show talked to "Vanity Fair`s" Lisa Robinson who interviewed Lopez before and after the split. Robinson says during her first chat with J.Lo she didn`t mention any serious marital problems, directly anyway.
[Ann Curry, Today Show:] What was your sense then?
[Lisa Robinson, Interviewed J.lo For Vanity Fair:] I got a sense of a woman who was coming to terms with herself as a strong, independent woman.
[Hammer:] So what went wrong with this superstar couple, who were the picture of red hot A-list passion when they performed together on "American Idol" where J.Lo serves as a judge? There`s no shortage of theories on the celebrity Web sites, magazines and blogs.
[Baker:] A lot of them titillating speculation was that someone was cheating on the other person, there was some third party involved, and that Marc was too controlling.
[Jennifer Lopez, Singer:] Just let people feel your soul.
[Hammer:] In her first "Vanity Fair" interview before the split, J.Lo hinted her return to work including her new gig on "Idol" was affecting her marriage, making it hard for these two superstar parents to find a balance. She said, quote, "We try, we try, but it`s getting increasingly harder. When we were first married, most of time and even before the babies were born, we were able to go everywhere together." She adds, "I wasn`t working, it was mainly about him. Then we got pregnant. Then it became about the kids. And then I started working again."
[Baker:] She said that there was a time when they thought about everything. Where things were really hard and that they`re two people with very strong feelings and strong opinions, and they needed to work through that. I think the assumption from the outside perspective was that they had worked it out. But what she reveals in that interview was that in fact they did not.
[Hammer:] The "Vanity Fair" writer tells "Today" that after the split J.Lo reached out to her.
[Robinson:] She sent me an e-mail a week or so later that even was stronger about, I can walk away from things if they`re not what I feel is right for me or something I can`t you know, if I`m in a relationship where someone isn`t treating me correctly.
[Hammer:] This will be Lopez`s third divorce. In addition to her splits from ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck and Sean P. Diddy Combs. Still J.Lo might give love another try. She tells "Vanity Fair", quote, "I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love. It`s still my biggest dream." But for now it looks like Lopez is focusing on her longest running relationship.
[Robinson:] She said to me at the time that she felt the most important relationship that she had was with herself and what she had to learn how to love herself.
[Hammer:] So I got believe that because nobody saw this breakup coming.
[Turner:] Yes.
[Hammer:] People are really going to be chomping at the bit to read more of whatever else Jennifer has to say about the surprising split. And we have even more of that interview to reveal to you right now. With me in New York, Michael Billy who`s a TV and radio host. Also in New York, Jill Dobson, who`s an entertainment journalist. All right, guys. In this bombshell interview with "Vanity Fair" revealed today, Jennifer also made statement that I quite frankly think so many women can identify with. Let me read this to you. "As women we are naturally giving and we take care of others. We just have this tendency to put ourselves on the back burner but we need to like conscious about loving and taking care of ourselves, too." Sounds to me like perhaps Jennifer felt maybe she was playing second fiddle to Marc, maybe even her family, and quite frankly was tired of being the woman behind the man. Jill, is that how you see it?
[Jill Dobson, Entertainment Journalist:] Yes. And she also goes on to say to understand that a person is not good for you or that person is not treating you in the right way, I love myself enough to walk away from that. So she has some strong feelings about this and says, hey, it`s time for me to finally look out for number one.
[Hammer:] And everybody has been wondering what`s been behind this thing because since their divorce announcement, a lot of reports have been out there that perhaps Jennifer, among other things, couldn`t take Marc`s controlling behavior. And J.Lo really seemed to hint that that was true in the "Vanity Fair" interview revealed today as Jill was just alluding to. Let me read what else she said here. "Sometimes we don`t realize that we are compromising ourselves to understand that a person is not good for you or that person is not treating you in the right way or that he is not doing the right thing for himself. If I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now," is what she`s saying, Michael. Sounds pretty clear to me that she was essentially affirming those reports that Marc was too controlling. What do you think?
[Michael Billy, Tv And Radio:] Well, I mean, let`s look at their relationship. I mean they got together when Jennifer wasn`t really the hottest thing in the world, Marc was. And he was hot overseas. And then as she says in the interview she had the babies, it was family time, she was traveling with Marc, and then all of a sudden things got busy for her. With two big personalities, two big huge stars like that and her career is taking off, now that she`s going back with "Idol," this was bound to happen. She`s a business savvy person but it`s nice sometimes they say third marriage is the charm. Hopefully the fourth one will be it for her.
[Hammer:] Yes. I mean, I`m happy that she`s optimistic about love and all but there has to be a point you know, you mentioned this is now divorce number three.
[Turner:] Yes. She`s got to be thinking well, where`s my culpability in all of this? What am I doing wrong? Yes.
[Hammer:] And I don`t think anybody can deny just how much Jennifer`s star power has gone up since she made her debut as a judge on "American Idol" this past year. And Nischelle, it almost seems to me that getting her career back may have given her the power to walk away from something that obviously wasn`t working.
[Turner:] Yes, I think it definitely does give her a little empowerment. And AJ, this is actually really paying off because now there are reports that J.Lo is going to do another season of "American Idol."
[Hammer:] Right.
[Turner:] And she`s going to get a big I mean huge pay raise. $20 million. She was making 12 apparently last year. Which leads to our SHOWBIZ "Flashpoint," is J.Lo worth it? Michael, what do you think?
[Billy:] Now she is. Now that she`s left Marc, she`s single, she`s sexy. She was great on "American Idol." $20 million. She said that this leaving Marc was the hardest decision for her. Going to see "Gigli" was the hardest one for me but now she`s I`m a big fan. I`m a big fan of the J.Lo.
[Turner:] Jill, what about you? Tell me what you think?
[Dobson:] Well, no one has what she has, which is a combination of three different things. She`s sold more than 55 million album, so she`s popular. She`s got that chemistry with the other judges and with the contestants and she is gorgeous. I defy you to take your eyes off J.Lo when she`s on camera. You can`t turn away from her, you can`t change the channel, and the "American Idol" producers know that.
[Turner:] Yes, I have to say she looks better than ever, AJ. I mean 42 and just banging.
[Hammer:] Yes. And let me be clear, I think Steven Tyler, he was certainly a good addition. Our big Steven Tyler fan Jay in the studio here would be very upset if I didn`t say that. But I think the smartest thing "American Idol" could have done because, let`s face it, their audience was eroding. It wasn`t the strong show it once was.
[Turner:] Yes.
[Hammer:] Which is natural after so many years on the air. The smartest they have done perhaps since the show launched was bring on Jennifer Lopez.
[Turner:] Absolutely.
[Hammer:] What a great choice. And also great for the fans because we really as she is always saying, we really got to know J.Lo.
[Turner:] Yes.
[Hammer:] For who J.Lo is.
[Turner:] Yes. And we saw the nurturing side of her and the side that loves music. All of the above. Very smart. Michael Billy, Jill Dobson, thank you very, very much. We appreciate it. Now we want to hear from you. This is our SHOWBIZ TONIGHT "Exclusive Poll." Jennifer Lopez`s first post-split tell-all. Who should she date next? George Clooney, Sean Diddy Combs or Bradley Cooper? Vote at CNN.comshowbiztonight. You can always e-mail to our address, showbiztonight@CNN.com.
[Hammer:] All right. I hope you`re ready for it because SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is about to break news about a new Kardashian sex tape. We dare to ask Kim`s mom to set the record straight. Did she really make a sex tape?
[Wynter:] We can`t let you go without talking about that sex tape, guys.
[K. Jenner:] Oh, my gosh. I didn`t think anybody would catch that.
[Wynter:] We`ve all been talking about it.
[K. Jenner:] Well, you know, we were just kidding. Right, honey?
[Hammer:] Mama Kris in a sex tape with hubby Bruce Jenner. TMI to the nth power.
[Turner:] That`s a good one. SHOWBIZ trending tonight, the Pippa Middleton butt lift. Women out there are getting plastic surgery to get a butt like Duchess Catherine`s sister.
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