Following is an excerpt from a DCBLOG Pulse Extra from earlier tonight,
reposted in the interest of readers who don't want to scroll down.
reposted in the interest of readers who don't want to scroll down.
Last month, we featured the man who singlehandedly pulled off a true underdog tale: Devin relying on solo cups and a quarter to help his AYTO Season 3 castmates go from 2 lights in their ninth try to 10 in the last one as they won $750,000 two years ago. There, Big D joined Canadian filmmaker and fresh-faced funny man Zak as they prank-called fellow AYTO alumni in offering them spots on the casts of phony reality series, just after his first early elimination after cashing in his first three shows. Now, another member of that Miracle in the Islands cast has made another splash... this time quite literally, and with one of music's biggest stars, who tomorrow turns 25 years old and is marking his birthday weekend with dropping new music.
A decade ago, the buzz of the pop music scene were The Jonas Brothers: siblings Nick, Joe and Kevin started their music career in a local play in New Jersey, which attracted record executives to them and Nick's prior solo work when he was 12. That led the boys to tours in 2005 with Kelly Clarkson, the Backstreet Boys and Jesse McCartney as they began to make their way into the music business, and led them to stardom among the Disney crowd. With two top-rated Disney Channel shows and the telefilm Camp Rock, the guys scored top-five albums and legions of fans.
After a hiatus and a failed comeback attempt, the guys went their separate ways, and for Joe - it saw him form the pop band DNCE and scoring success with the catchy top-10 single "Cake by the Ocean" and collaborations with Nicki Minaj and recently with Sir Rod Stewart at the VMA's a few weeks ago. For Nick, he returned to doing some theater work, roles on the Broadway-themed TV series Smash, Hawaii Five-O, Kingdom and a couple movies; and was the creative and musical director on Demi Lovato's 2014 Neon Lights Tour before music came calling again.
His self-titled second solo album and first on a major label earned him a Billboard top ten and two top-20 singles, and it also introduced the world to a new Nick Jonas: gone was that squeaky-clean Disney image and in came the persona of being a sex symbol, perhaps tamer than that of another Disney alum in Miley Cyrus. To add to this, he also had a recurring role on FOX's Scream Queens and was part of Christina Aguilera's team of mentors on the eighth season of The Voice as he prepped for his third album, which has only added to Nick's superstar status in the music world: another top 10 album in Last Year Was Complicated, another top-20 single in "Close" with Tove Lo, performing on the 2016 VMA's in New York, and a starring role alongside James Franco in Goat... and also, getting to do a rap battle with someone who's the latest to align with Team Jailah, Kevin Hart.
Earlier this summer, Nick debuted new music in "Remember I Told You" featuring Anne-Marie and Mike Posner, who got to hang out with Brandon from AYTO Season 2 just after he returned from filming that season in Puerto Rico. That was a harbinger of what was to come, where this week as he turns 25, the stud announced a new album to come this fall, and a new single "Find You" which debuted on Apple Music's Beats 1. And that's where we find the link between him and AYTO.
One of those who we saw head to Hawaii almost exactly two years ago this month was Hannah Rathbun, a Syracuse native who's, as her bio stated, "funny, sweet, beautiful, and loves to swim with sharks, literally." What brought her to AYTO was a dating history that saw her ex cheat on her and putting the feelings of everyone else ahead of her own. Early on, she was attracted to Mr. Merman himself, Chuck, but after that early and money-losing blackout in week 2 she would eventually make her move on Zak. And as it turned out, though they were not one of those ten matches by the time Devin reached into his top hat and made that record 8-light jump to destiny, the Canadian and the Upstate New Yorker would leave Hawaii together. And two years later, they are still together as other AYTO couples have faltered after leaving the house.
Over the summer, Hannah was asked by Nick Jonas to make a cameo in that music video for "Find You" where in one of the scenes of the clip that will premiere on Monday, she appears underwater with Nick and almost gets very close to actually cheating on Zak. We'll find out about that when that drops at the beginning of this coming week, just two days before the journey begins for the Season 6 cast in New Orleans.
FOLLOW-UP...
Since this was first posted on Sept. 15, there is actually more to Hannah's fandom for the Jonas Brothers: when she was 16, she and her sister went to a Jonas Brothers concert in Syracuse, NY and shared the following Instagram photo below of a screencap from the "Find You" video and her taking a picture with Nick, Joe and Kevin just a couple days after the pair's second meeting was released on all of Nick's social media accounts, VEVO and YouTube.
She captioned to the photo that has since been deleted, "So @nickjonas & I have come a long way since we were 16 🤷🏼♀️ I had so much fun shooting this & swimmin w you guys @loveebonique @espritcasting ✨check out my full 16 yr old Jonas Brothers fan glory 🙆🏼"
After a hiatus and a failed comeback attempt, the guys went their separate ways, and for Joe - it saw him form the pop band DNCE and scoring success with the catchy top-10 single "Cake by the Ocean" and collaborations with Nicki Minaj and recently with Sir Rod Stewart at the VMA's a few weeks ago. For Nick, he returned to doing some theater work, roles on the Broadway-themed TV series Smash, Hawaii Five-O, Kingdom and a couple movies; and was the creative and musical director on Demi Lovato's 2014 Neon Lights Tour before music came calling again.
His self-titled second solo album and first on a major label earned him a Billboard top ten and two top-20 singles, and it also introduced the world to a new Nick Jonas: gone was that squeaky-clean Disney image and in came the persona of being a sex symbol, perhaps tamer than that of another Disney alum in Miley Cyrus. To add to this, he also had a recurring role on FOX's Scream Queens and was part of Christina Aguilera's team of mentors on the eighth season of The Voice as he prepped for his third album, which has only added to Nick's superstar status in the music world: another top 10 album in Last Year Was Complicated, another top-20 single in "Close" with Tove Lo, performing on the 2016 VMA's in New York, and a starring role alongside James Franco in Goat... and also, getting to do a rap battle with someone who's the latest to align with Team Jailah, Kevin Hart.
Earlier this summer, Nick debuted new music in "Remember I Told You" featuring Anne-Marie and Mike Posner, who got to hang out with Brandon from AYTO Season 2 just after he returned from filming that season in Puerto Rico. That was a harbinger of what was to come, where this week as he turns 25, the stud announced a new album to come this fall, and a new single "Find You" which debuted on Apple Music's Beats 1. And that's where we find the link between him and AYTO.
Over the summer, Hannah was asked by Nick Jonas to make a cameo in that music video for "Find You" where in one of the scenes of the clip that will premiere on Monday, she appears underwater with Nick and almost gets very close to actually cheating on Zak. We'll find out about that when that drops at the beginning of this coming week, just two days before the journey begins for the Season 6 cast in New Orleans.
Guys catch me underwater with @nickjonas for his new single #FindYou out tomorrow 👏🏼 https://t.co/ivteVUsk0g— Hannah ❁ (@_hannahrathbun) September 13, 2017
FOLLOW-UP...
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| Twitter @_HannahRathbun |
She captioned to the photo that has since been deleted, "So @nickjonas & I have come a long way since we were 16 🤷🏼♀️ I had so much fun shooting this & swimmin w you guys @loveebonique @espritcasting ✨check out my full 16 yr old Jonas Brothers fan glory 🙆🏼"
- I AM DC
Post Updated 5/21/19 to replace deleted Instagram post with Twitter picture
Post Updated 5/21/19 to replace deleted Instagram post with Twitter picture
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