- Well, it's good to see you. Happy New Year to you,
and where-- you were in Miami, right?
- Yes, I was. For New Years.
- It was like a big party thing, or--
- No, no. Actually Bo was working down there,
and so I went-- - Who's Bo?
- Oh, God, come on. Why do you do this every time?
- Because you lie to me every time.
- I don't lie to you! - Last time you lied.
- I give the most accurate answer that I can give you.
- Okay.
So now you're with him.
- Yes. - Now you're with him.
- Yes. We were down in Miami together for New Years.
He was working, I didn't have to work.
I had, like, literally two days off.
- Uh-huh. - And we just--
we were hanging out, yeah. - Uh-huh.
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So what was Christmas like and the house,
and what did the kids want, and what did they get?
- Okay, Christmas was great.
My family came in from New York.
My mom, my sister, my niece.
You know, my kids were there, all my cousins.
And, you know, it was just a regular Christmas, you know?
I cooked.
I've turned into my grandmother, I realize.
I am now my grandmother.
My grandmother passed away a few years ago.
And, you know, it was like who's--
what are we going to do?
We were literally for, like, a couple of years
we were lost. You know what I mean?
We didn't know what to do with the holidays
and things like that.
And I was like, "I'm gonna have to cook.
I'll cook. I'm the best cook, I'll cook."
And this was the first year I really cooked everything.
- Now and what did your kids want for Christmas?
- My daughter wanted bunnies.
- Real bunnies? - Yes, real bunnies.
She did a whole project in school.
They do a half, like, semester project every year.
They do two projects a year.
and hers was on bunnies.
And so she learned about all different kinds of bunnies.
And she wanted a dwarf bunny. - Mm-hmm.
You know, they're called Netherland dwarf bunnies.
And so I was like, "How am I going to find
a Netherland dwarf bunny?" You know what I mean?
And so I found one. - Of course.
- So you just got one? - We got a bunny. Yeah.
- One bunny? - No, two bunnies. Two bunnies.
- Oh, you're going to have many bunnies now.
- No, don't-- you think I didn't--
do I look stupid to you? - They're both girls
or they're both boys? - They're both girls.
- Yeah. - They're both girls, yeah.
- Aww, that's great. - Yeah, they're really cute.
So she was--I mean, I have video that she was just--
she was blown away. She couldn't believe it.
You know what I mean? I think it was the last thing
she thought she would get.
And she's such a good girl... - How did you wrap them?
My daughter. We just kind of, like,
put them in a kinda open box.
Until we're like, "Hurry up, open it!"
- Yeah, I know. Open that one first.
- Yeah. And Max was really into, like, computers
and things like that, you know?
- Uh-huh. - Like electronics like all kids
and so he got his first computer.
- Oh, wow. That's great. - Yeah.
- And what did they give you?
- They didn't get me anything. No.
Did they get me something? I don't--you know what?
I don't even think about what I get.
I only think about I covered everybody.
Everybody was happy and I got, like,
I got some jewelry and some, like, leggings,
and, you know, I got things from--
- What did Bo give you? - He gave me some jewelry.
Some beautiful bracelets. Vintage.
- What did you give him? I gave him a tuxedo.
A tuxedo because I'm, you know, opening in Vegas,
and I was like, "You can wear this on opening night."
- Ah.
- "So you look nice."
- "Or for the wedding." Where--when is it? Do you know?
- No! No wedding.
No wedding. There's no wedding. - No?
- No. - All right.
- Okay? Honest? It's honest as I can be.
- That's today. - That's today.
- Now next time you come back and you'll be married.
- I got married! - Yeah.
All right, we're gonna take a break,
and when we come back, we're gonna talk about
the Vegas thing and your new show.
- Yeah. - You've got tons going on.
- It's called "Shades of Blue" and when did you have time
to shoot that? - I was--
after we wrapped "Idol" last year,
after the finale, I moved to New York
for five months and we shot this, "Shades of Blue,"
13 episodes, yeah. - Wow.
And now you're doing this Vegas residency,
which is--when do you start and how long does it go?
- Yeah. It starts soon, which is scary to me a little bit,
but we've been rehearsing every day
since I did the AMAs, I think.
We've been just like in there every day, like,
creating the show and creating--
it was being created before I got there,
while I was doing "Shades of Blue."
I was, you know, kind of working on the music and all that.
And now we're just rehearsing every single day,
and it's on January 20th. January 20th.
Are you going to come? - Wow.
- You have to come. - I'd love to. I'd love to.
- You have to come. - Yeah.
- I'm there for, like, the-- you know, 'cause my shows
are sporadic throughout the year.
And I'm gonna be there for three years,
but it's 40 shows a year, and I do some in January
some in February, then I go back in May and June,
and then I go back-- so I'm there sporadically,
but you have to come for sure. - I would love to come.
- You have to come. - Yeah, because every time
you're on the show and you perform,
you're such an amazing performer.
- Thank you. - So--and did you talk to, like,
Celine Dion or Britney or anybody, like,
to see what it's like to perform there?
I haven't spoken to anybody.
I went and saw all the shows before I decided to do it.
- Uh-huh. - You know what I mean?
Like I wanted to see, like, get a vibe
for what it would be like, and--but I didn't get to.
I got to say hi to Britney backstage
for a second. And I'm excited.
I'm excited to share the whole thing with them.
Do you know what I mean? - And how long is your show?
Is it an hour or-- - It's like an hour and a half.
It's like a concert. It's probably--
Mine will be probably a little bit longer than that.
- It will be great. It will be fantastic.
- It will be awesome. I'm excited about it.
- Yeah. I'm excited, too. - Yeah.