But now it seems Torrie Wilson may have surpassed her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez in the muscle stakes.

The baseball player and his former wrestler squeeze are both fitness fanatics, with A-Rod recently opening his own gym.

The show, which does not yet have a title, is set to debut on the Sky Living channel in Britain. It will be hosted by Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts and include appearances by Rihanna herself, though it is unclear how frequently the pop star will be on the show.

“I’ve always had a great love of fashion. It’s a constant source of inspiration in my life, and is a big reason why I’ve grown into the person and artist I am today,” the singer said in a statement on Sky Living’s website. “I have been very fortunate to work with some truly amazing designers and stylists throughout my career, and they have been instrumental in making sure my creative vision reaches the stage. I am excited to follow the journey of our aspiring contestants and see how their individuality influences their efforts during the course of the show.”

The show, which will presumably bear some resemblance to “Project Runway” in terms of format, will culminate with a final challenge in which the remaining designers must create a unique stage outfit for Rihanna’s performance at the Wireless festival in Hyde Park, England, in July.

Over the next few months, YouTube, Netflix and Hulu will roll out their most ambitious original programming yet – a digital push into a traditional television business that has money, a bevy of stars and a bold attitude of reinvention.

The long-predicted collision between Internet video and broadcast television is finally under way.

No one is suggesting that the quality on the Internet is close to that of broadcast TV, but it’s becoming easy to imagine a day when it will be.

And even though critics question whether new media can rival a business that’s been around for about 70 years, the video sites have sought partnerships with seasoned professionals. And they benefit from the different economics of global Web-based entertainment.

Either way, what’s happening now is just the first wave.

“This convergence is now,” says documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who created “The Failure Club,” a series about people trying to do the things they’ve always feared, for Yahoo, and “A Day in the Life,” a series documenting 24 hours of someone’s life, for Hulu.

He says the quality still varies, but viewers will soon see talent and production values begin to change.

On Feb. 6, Netflix will premiere its first scripted show, “Lilyhammer,” in which Steve Van Zandt (“The Sopranos”) plays a New York mobster in witness protection in Norway. Later this year, it will release “House of Cards,” a highly anticipated adaptation of the British miniseries produced by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey. Next year, it will debut new episodes of the cultish comedy “Arrested Development,” which originally aired on Fox.

Hulu plans a Feb. 14 premiere for “Battleground,” a mock political documentary. The site will later release “Up to Speed,” a six-part documentary by Richard Linklater about “monumentally ignored monuments of American cities.”

Hulu, which has some 30 million monthly users and 1.5 million for its monthly subscription service Hulu Plus, is co-owned by the parent companies of NBC, Fox and ABC.

Yahoo has sought to capitalize on its enormous search audience of nearly 180 million unique monthly visitors by drawing viewers to its original programming, including a slate of women-focused shows launched last fall and comedy programming planned for February. Its first scripted entry will be “Electric City,” a futuristic animated series produced by Tom Hanks, who will also voice a character.

YouTube recently launched an entire catalog of original programming, spending $100 million on the gradual rollout of more than 100 niche-oriented channels.

The channels don’t have the pressures of a 24-hour schedule and instead focus on short-form, on-demand programming. Partners vary from the Wall Street Journal to World Wrestling Entertainment to Madonna.

At the recent consumer electronics trade show CES, YouTube’s global head of content predicted that by 2020 about 75 percent of channels will be transmitted by the Internet. And video will soon be 90 percent of all traffic.

“Over time, you will see more and more television properties, television channels distributed over the Internet,” Robert Kyncl said. “Everything in its due time.”

Internet delivery allows programming that is “much harder to fulfill through traditional distribution means…because we have a global scale,” Kyncl added.

And online systems can serve niche audiences that would be difficult to sustain any other way, and do so at lower cost.

YouTube plans to expand to hundreds of Internet channels, just as television went from a few networks to dozens of cable channels. In the next few years, “most of your interests will have channels on YouTube,” Kyncl predicts.

Netflix, which streamed 2 billion hours of video in the fourth quarter of 2011, is already operating under the assumption that video networks – whether streaming or televised – are converging. Just as Web video is undertaking original programming, TV networks are experimenting with systems such as TV Everywhere, which allows viewers to watch channels on the Web and on mobile devices.

“You can think of us as a cable-TV network, but we like to think we are at the center,” says Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix. “We are an Internet TV network, and then they are going to become like us. But it’s the same thing, really.”

Hastings offers a comparison between Netflix and HBO: “We are becoming more like them in doing some originals, starting that journey, and they are becoming more like us in creating an on-demand interface like HBO Go,” which allows viewers to watch channels on the Web and on mobile and tabulate devices.

HBO declined to comment.

Production schedules will vary widely at the sites, but Netflix plans one notable difference: All its episodes will be released at once.

James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, says the fact that Hanks is making a series for the Internet shows how the traditional TV system is “ready to unravel.

McQuivey says the disruption in video will “unfold in front of us like a slow-mo replay of an accident.”

“The new content won’t be as good as what you watch Thursday nights from 9 to 10 p.m., but it’s going to get closer to that quality,” he adds. “And it’s certainly as good as what you watch on Thursday from 3 to 4 in the afternoon or Saturday morning from 10 to 11.”

Hulu and Netflix both want to use original content to entice viewers to their much larger libraries of older content. For Netflix, that’s movies and old TV; for Hulu, that’s last night’s TV and older series. Hulu executives say any new original series has to be match up to traditional content.

“If you’re ever going to do anything original, it’s got to stand up to that,” says Andy Forssell, senior vice president of content at Hulu. “That can’t be `Web video,’ it’s got to be TV quality.”

Original content remains a small percentage of the budget for Hulu, which plans to spend $500 million on content in 2012.

Erin McPherson, head of original programming at Yahoo, likes to call Yahoo “the fifth network.” Its Yahoo Studios production house in Los Angeles produces as many as 30 originals a month, often partnering with production companies such as Reveille (NBC’s “The Office”). Its original programming attracted more than 26 million unique visitors in November, according to comScore.

“The time is right,” says McPherson. “We’re finally here.”

The woman tells emergency operators that Moore had been “having issues lately.”

“Is she breathing normal?” the operator asked.

“No, not so normal. More kind of shaking, convulsing, burning up,” the friend said.

When the emergency operator asked what Moore ingested or smoked, the caller replied, but the answer was redacted.

“Some form of … and then she smoked something. I didn’t really see. She’s been having some issues lately with some other stuff. So I don’t know what she’s been taking or not.”

When the operator asked the friend if this has happened before, she said, “I don’t know. There’s been some stuff recently that we’re all just finding out.”

By the end of the call, Moore seemed to have improved.

“She seems to have calmed down now. She’s speaking,” a male caller told the operator.

Her publicist, Carrie Gordon, said previously that the actress sought professional help to treat her exhaustion and improve her health. She would not comment further on the emergency call or provide details about the nature or location of Moore’s treatment.

The past few months have been rocky for Moore.

She released a statement in November announcing she had decided to end her marriage to fellow actor Ashton Kutcher following news of alleged infidelity. The two were known to publicly share their affection for one another via Twitter.

Moore still has a Twitter account under the name mrskutcher but has not posted any messages since Jan. 7.

Moore, 49, and Kutcher, 33, were wed in September 2005.

Kutcher became a stepfather to Moore’s three daughters – Rumer, Scout and Tallulah Belle – from her 13-year marriage to actor Bruce Willis. Moore and Willis divorced in 2000 but remained friendly. Moore and Kutcher were photographed socializing with Willis, and the couple attended Willis’ wedding to model-actress Emma Heming in 2009.

Moore and Kutcher created the DNA Foundation, also known as the Demi and Ashton Foundation, in 2010 to combat the organized sexual exploitation of girls around the globe. They later lent their support to the United Nations’ efforts to fight human trafficking, a scourge the international organization estimates affects about 2.5 million people worldwide.

Moore can be seen on screen in the recent films “Margin Call” and “Another Happy Day.” Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen on TV’s “Two and a Half Men” and is part of the ensemble film “New Year’s Eve.”

The musical superstar from Barbados will be hunting for undiscovered design talent in Britain on a new TV show – as yet unnamed – in which she will be the executive producer and the star.

Sky Living HD announced Thursday it has commissioned media company Twenty Twenty to make the series and say Rihanna will be working mainly behind the scenes.

Hosting duties will go to another pop name, Nicola Roberts from the U.K. group Girls Aloud.

Together they will challenge fashion newcomers to create stage gear for musicians and celebrities – with the final task to dress Rihanna for her July 8 performance at the Wireless music festival in London’s Hyde Park.

Pitt will attend the $1,000-per-person gala on March 10 called “A Night to Make It Right,” which will include performances by singers Sheryl Crow, Rihanna, Seal and Dr. John, said foundation spokeswoman Taylor Royle.

Pitt launched Make It Right in 2007 to help Lower 9th Ward residents who lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The Lower 9th Ward was one of the hardest-hit neighborhoods when Katrina caused levees to fail, inundating roughly 80 percent of the city with floodwater.

Pitt worked with architects to come up with designs for stronger, safer and more energy-efficient houses than the ones residents lost. So far 75 homes have been built, six more are under construction and construction is set to begin on roughly eight others in coming months.

“Our goal is 150 houses, and this fundraiser is going to help us reach that goal,” said Royle, noting that all proceeds will benefit Make It Right.

Royle said it has taken more time and money than the foundation originally thought to build 150 homes. Getting in touch with families, making decisions about their homes, getting finances in order and clearing paperwork takes months, she said.

“It’s been a long road to get these families home,” Royle said. “But we’re happy with our progress, and we’re looking forward to celebrating the progress we’ve made.”

Royle said a video of Make It Right’s work over the past four years will be presented at the gala. A four-course dinner organized by chef John Besh will include courses by chefs Emeril Lagasse and Giada de Laurentiis.

Degeneres, a New Orleans native, has already donated more than $2 million to Make It Right.

“She’s been one of our biggest supporters,” Royle said.

Jackson, a Baton Rouge native, was quick to offer his participation in the event, Royle said.

Other celebrities serving on the event’s host committee who may also be attending include actors Josh Brolin, Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey and director Spike Lee.

The gala will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans. Comedian Aziz Ansari will host an after party. Tickets for that event start at $150.

January 23, 2012

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com are:

1. “Underworld Awakening,” Sony Screen Gems, $25,306,725, 3078 locations, $8,222 average, $25,306,725, one week.

2. “Red Tails,” Fox, $18,782,154, 2512 locations, $7,477 average, $18,782,154, one week.

3. “Contraband,” Universal, $12,039,605, 2870 locations, $4,195 average, $45,937,525, two weeks.

4. “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” Warner Bros., $10,737,239, 2630 locations, $4,083 average, $10,737,239, five weeks.

5. “Beauty and the Beast,” Disney, $8,779,676, 2625 locations, $3,345, $33,588,056, two weeks.

6. “Haywire,” Relativity Media, $8,425,370, 2439 locations, $3,454 average, $8,425,370, one week.

7. “Joyful Noise,” Warner Bros., $5,917,437, 2735 locations, $2,164 average, $21,745,419, two weeks.

8. “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” Paramount, $5,554,254, 2519 locations, $2,205 average, $197,363,441, six weeks.

9. “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows,” Warner Bros., $4,515,497, 2485 locations, $1,817 average, $178,321,726, six weeks.

10. “The Iron Lady,” Weinstein Co., $3,684,279, 1076 locations, $3,424 average, $12,585,958, four weeks.

11. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Sony, $3,528,514, 1907 locations, $1,850 average, $94,553,582, five weeks.

12. “War Horse,” Disney, $3,150,502, 2525 locations, $1,248 average, $72,285,180, five weeks.

13. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked,” Fox, $3,076,168, 2070 locations, $1,486 average, $124,682,205, six weeks.

14. “We Bought a Zoo,” Fox, $2,783,440, 2065 locations, $1,348 average, $69,565,025, five weeks.

15. “The Devil Inside,” Paramount, $2,668,865, 2207 locations, $1,209 average, $51,289,972, three weeks.

16. “The Descendants,” Fox Searchlight, $2,372,298, 560 locations, $4,236 average, $51,259,658, 10 weeks.

17. “The Artist,” Weinstein Co., $2,371,803, 662 locations, $3,583 average, $12,119,718, nine weeks.

18. “The Adventures of Tintin,” Paramount, $2,218,841, 1340 locations, $1,656 average, $72,321,006, five weeks.

19. “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” Focus Features, $1,763,380, 731 locations, $2,412 average, $18,328,977, seven weeks.

20. “Hugo,” Paramount, $937,620, 650 locations, $1,442 average, $55,887,402, nine weeks.

“Will and I have decided we were moving a little too fast, and there were a number of things that had not been thought through thoroughly. There will be no wedding at this time,” Franklin said. “We will not comment on it any further because of the very personal and sensitive nature of it. We appreciate all of the many well wishes from friends.”

Franklin, 69, announced shortly after New Year’s Day that she was getting married. In an interview with The Associated Press, the jovial Queen of Soul talked about getting fitted for gowns by designers including Vera Wang and Donna Karan, and said she hoped for a summer wedding in either Miami or the Hamptons on Long Island, N.Y.

Franklin said Wilkerson was the one for her and that the relationship was particularly strong because they had been friends first.

“We’re very compatible, and he supports me and I support him a lot, and he has given me specialized attention that I don’t think I’ve received from anyone else,” she said.

It’s unclear if the pair are still romantically involved.