There are many things Laurie Ann Gibson is great at. She’s a world renown choreographer and dancer who has worked with artists like Beyonce, Lady GaGa, Brandy, Jordin Sparks, and Michael Jackson. She’s already jumped into movies, choreographing Paramount Pictures’ Alfie and Universal’s Jessica Alba dance flick Honey, which she also has a starring role in. She’s responsible for creating the eye-popping stage shows for Danity Kane and Day26, and showing competitors how it’s done on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.

Biting her tongue, however, is not really her strong suit.

Laurie Ann is known for being an intense force. She’ll waste no time telling you you’re wasting her time or you have to toughen up if you plan to get into the music business — and she won’t use those sweet words. That fiery passion was widely displayed when she joined Diddy on his hit MTV reality show Making the Band. While some are afraid, it’s that fierce intensity that makes Laurie Ann a sweeping success, and by extension, anyone she lends her wisdom to.

MTV.com – OK, so Kanye West and Lady Gaga probably have not actually gotten married, as Gaga jokingly said. However, they are apparently working on their first baby.

By “baby,” we of course mean the super-ambitious set design they’re collaborating on for their upcoming co-headlining tour, which, although it is yet to be officially confirmed, is reported to be kicking off on October 4 in Buffalo, New York.

In an recent interview with the BBC, Gaga said that she and Kanye have been working together on the look and feel of their tour, and, from the sound of things, it’s shaping up to be a big production — if not, as she says, one of the biggest of all time.

“I love Kanye … [he] is my very dear friend and we are creative kindreds,” she said. “It’s been fun to work on the design of the tour with him — we’re finishing each other’s sentences.

“It’s going to be one of the most groundbreaking moments in touring history,” she continued. “I am sure of it.”

In another interview — this one in the September issue of Out magazine — Gaga made another claim.

She said she told Kanye, “I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I’m gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it’s gay,” she told the magazine. “And I love my gay fans and they’re all going to be coming to our show. And it’s going to remain gay.”

Before Gaga hits the road with West, she’ll get the chance to work out the live show kinks at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. She’s up for nine Moonmen, and earlier this week, it was announced that she’ll also be performing at the big show, alongside the likes of Jay-Z, Green Day, Taylor Swift, Pink and Muse.

Roisin Murphy has denied reports that she accused Lady GaGa of badly copying her style.

The former Moloko frontwoman issued an official statement to refute the comments, saying that the press had taken some remarks out of context and “completely fabricated” others.

Murphy said:

“I NEVER said ‘Lady GaGa is a poor imitation of me’. That was a completely made up quote. I respect Lady GaGa’s work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the piano, singing live and dancing too.

“I don’t care about shoulder pads! Not every female artist needs to be at odds with their contemporaries – I prefer to focus on the wonderful things happening in my life, which are plentiful. All the best to Lady GaGa – she is fantastic.”

In an interview with the Arjan Writes blog, she added: “All my answers were my honest answers, which was that she is really talented, a great performer and that she wrote her own songs and that she is a more than worthy popstar.

“So I was really surprised when I saw the article and those nice things I said weren’t put in there at all. I did say that perhaps [Lady GaGa] is inspired by my style a little bit, but I said that after I praised her and how fantastic she is.”