Jermaine Jackson

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: Gary, Indiana , 11 December 2020

Jacksons set to find new pop family - April 12 2007
Three members of the Jackson family are set to host a new Pop Idol-style US reality show to find the next pop family super-group, according to US reports.

Jermaine Jackson will be one of the principal partners in the new series, which will be called Pop Dynasty, and has also enlisted his brother Tito and sister LaToya as fellow members of the judging panel, according to Hollywood trade newspaper, Variety.

Jermaine's longtime collaborators Jamie Foxx, Marcus King and Greg Shelton are also said to be involved in the project, which has been commissioned for at least eight episodes on the CBS network.

Although the format of the show is still being finalised, families vying to be the next Jackson Five, Carpenters or Hanson are expected to perform in front of a judging panel and demonstrate how they interact as a group.

Neither Michael nor Janet Jackson are currently involved in the project.

Jackson ’needs to become a Muslim’ 30 Jan - 2007
Celebrity Big Brother star Jermaine Jackson hopes to convert brother Michael to Islam.

Jermaine told the BBC Asian Network that his Muslim faith helped him cope with life inside the Big Brother house.

"If I didn’t have Allah and my prayer rug, I would not have survived, and the reason why is because it kept me focused, it kept me calm," said the former Jackson Five singer, who now lives in Bahrain.

"Michael, I feel, needs to become a Muslim because I think it’s a great protection for him from all the things that he’s been attacked with, which are false. There’s a strength and a protection there.

"I brought him a lot of books, and he reads everything and he reads a lot.

"I think he’s probably given it serious thought because he’s spent a lot of time in Bahrain. I was the reason why he had gone there because I wanted him to get out of America and just go somewhere peaceful and quiet, where people pray five times a day. It’s a beautiful thing."

Jermaine, who came second in the Channel 4 reality show, also denied branding Jade Goody, Jo O’Meara and Danielle Lloyd "white trash".

He said: "I didn’t make that statement. I was repeating something that someone else had said and I was trying to let Shilpa know what some of the housemates felt was the reason why she was attacked. They didn’t show who originally said it.

"I was raised no different from Michael and the rest of our family. We don’t look down upon people because of their colour or anything. People are people to us. That’s how we were raised, and I would never call anybody ’white trash’ because it’s just not right."

Celebrity Big Brother

Contestants:
Carole Malone
Cleo Rocos
Danielle Lloyd
Dirk Benedict
Donny Tourette
Ian Watkins
Jermaine Jackson
Jo O’Meara
Ken Russell
Leo Sayer
Shilpa Shetty

Biography