Black Eyed Peas Get It Started at Vegas Concert After-Party - Vegas Pop Blog

The party has started- and there's a surprise addition of superstar Usher to the all-VIP celebrity lineup for Vegas this weekend!

Usher will be rocking at TAO in the Venetian not only tonight but he's also joining bosomy-blonde Pamela Anderson who's flying in from Vancouver tomorrow for the Dec. 31 !

And the world's hottest music group of the moment, the Black Eyed Peas kicked it all off early this morning at TAO after their Mandalay Bay concert.

On hand were Will I Am, Taboo and Apl.de.ap along with their musicians and dancers.

"We're partying till 6am" Will I Am told me flashing a giant thumbs up." It was a great concert here but we've now got to jet down to Rio de Janeiro for New Years Eve to play there -- so we may as well hang out here at TAO, party and then just go straight to the plane. We can sleep the 10-hours all the way down there!

Being a star is tough with all the travel. We spend more time moving from one place to another than we spend playing."


Joining in the "kick off New Years weekend " party were Dancing with the Stars heart-throb Mario Lopez and comedian Pauly Shore. It was Pauly's third consecutive night at the star-studded nightspot and he created a fan frenzy of fiery flashbulbs when he jumped on one of the speakers to dance.

Mario is in town for tonight's touring version of the dance TV show with co-stars Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna and Drew Lachey. (Since that is being held at the Thomas Mack Center just two blocks from the MGM Grand where UFC champions Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz will brutally battle for the title-belt, expect all-time worst traffic gridlock!) Also at the Black Eyed Peas party were restaurateurs Frank Rao Jr.

and his kitchen-queen chef Carla from Manhattan's tough-to-get into RAO'S that's just opened an outpost in Caesars Palace here. They told me the official celebrity-studded gala opening will be Thursday Jan 11. ( for our Luxe Life advance tour of the famous Italian restaurant)


My new favorite femme fatale Fergie remained back at the Mandalay Bay hotel skipping the party so she could spend some precious holiday time at midnight with her boyfriend and her family before the South America flight.

News that R B King Usher is coming to town to party and play reverberated around TAO.

He'll be there solo tonight just joining the crowds for New Years weekend, but he's also asked to party with 'Baywatch' babe, Pamela tomorrow night as she does the 11:59PM countdown into 2007!

TAO co-owner, Jason Strauss told me, "The party has only just begun. Usher being here is the icing on the cake to make it a never to be forgotten New Years!

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Meantime, just a reminder that in addition to Pamela and Usher at TAO, Vegas hosts on pop-queen Britney Spears at PURE in Caesars Palace, Kid Rock at JET in the Mirage, Dave Navarro at Tangerine in the TI and the final member of Pamela's romantic life, Tommy Lee will launch two nights of Supernova concerts at the Joint in the Hard Rock while downstairs in its Body English nightclub, it's rockers galore with Camp Freddy -- in all, more than 30 nightclub and music events. Add in the giant Fremont Street rock concert with OK GO, Chicago and Smashmouth -- plus a host of other rock star groups -- and the seven rooftop Strip hotel fireworks display at midnight, and you realize why Vegas has won the title of #1 City in America for New Years Eve!