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Pop Fizz: New Furby, BTR Renewed, Google’s Popular Online Celebs

A video overview of the new Furby was posted online, and I’m a little nervous about their intelligence…and impressionable personalities. The disposition of your Furby is shaped by how you interact with it, like a real pet. Unlike a real pet, however, you can feed your Furby from its accompanying iOS app. New Furby has digital eyes and costs around $50. We’ll see how it competes with the similar Fijit toys.

Boy band Big Time Rush are happy to see that Nickelodeon has renewed their show for a fourth season. I could’ve sworn that these guys had aged out of that demo already.

Justin Bieber has issued a call for online audition submissions for aspiring dancers. He’s looking for the special bunch to perform with him on his “Believe” tour.

More in Bieber news, Google has revealed that he and Selena Gomez top the list of Most Popular Online Celebrities. The Biebz is searched 30.4 million times a month, while his lady friend sees about 20 million searches. They outrank Lady Gaga, Barack Obama and Michael Jackson who round out the top 5. That’s right, my friends. Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Lady Gaga are more sought out than a president and a king (…of pop, of course).

More in celebrity-power-couple and superlative-lists news, Beyonce and Jay-Z topped Forbes’ “World’s Highest-Paid Celebrity Couples” list. They made a combined $78 million between May 2011 and 2012. Chump change.

Pop Fizz: Harry Potter Reading Club, Call Me Mavy, Cee-Loo Green

J.K. Rowling and Scholastic have launched the Harry Potter Reading Club that gives educators and parents tools to organize a new generation of Harry fans. The series’ author will also be answering questions from kids in a live webcast in October, marking the first time she has done so since 2007.

If you thought you’d seen the last “Call Me Maybe” cover, think again. The filmmakers behind “Hotel Transylvania” have released a featurette starring Selena Gomez’s character from the movie called “Call Me Mavy” (Her name is Mavis in the film). Surprisingly, Selena isn’t the character’s singing voice in the clip.

Nickelodeon’s “How To Rock” will get the guest star treatment from Cee-Lo Green. The musician is also a voice actor in “Hotel Transylvania,” so I guess he’s an actor now?