The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has been catching on like freezing liquid wildfire, with celebrities like Taylor Swift and Jaime King, Demi Lovato, Justin Timberlake, Ansel Elgort, Lil Wayne and Questlove getting in on the body-drenching action and nominating their famous friends to follow suit. But leave it to Justin Beiber to…ehem…elect the ultimate candidate for the next super-saturating round.

In an Instagram post, Bieber responds to his manager Scooter Braun’s challenge, saying, “Now I nominate Ellen, Barack Obama, and – who else? Chris D’Elia.” before cascading water atop his expertly-mussed coif.

WAIT. HOLD UP.

Did Justin Bieber seriously prompt our nations’ president to dump a bucket of ice water on his head? And after the White House shot down that pesky deportation petition? Let’s all just let that sink in for a minute.

Justin Bieber. Barack Obama. Negative degrees of separation (literally). As we live and breathe, we never thought we’d see the day. Your move, Mr. President. Related thought: who would Obama challenge? Go crazy in the comments kids.

Katie Calautti @katieisms

Yesterday, Missouri governor Jay Nixon declared Ferguson, Missouri to be in a state of emergency following the protests surrounding the death of Michael Brown. The Governor imposed a curfew on citizens from midnight until 5 a.m. and Captain Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol promised to help enforce the nighttime restriction.

But last night when midnight came around, many protestors showed no signs of returning home.

Though Captain Johnson said that tear gas and smoke grenades would not be used to enforce the curfew, the now-familiar riot gear, tear gas and armored vehicles did appear when many protestors failed to comply with the curfew’s strict midnight cut-off. The New York Times reports that seven people were arrested for “failure to disperse” and Johnson confirmed this in a press conference early this morning.

Related: Michael Brown Shooting: A Timeline Of The Fallout In Ferguson

The brief press conference was held at 3 a.m. this morning. Johnson revealed that there were subjects on the roof of a Red’s Barbecue, a restaurant in the area, and reports of an armed gunman in the street around the area.

There was also a report of a shooting victim and a shooting at a police car. Johnson said the shooting victim is a male in critical condition and there are currently no leads on the shooter. He said it was these circumstances that motivated Johnson’s decision to use tear gas, smoke and other measures.

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Apparently, between being his high school class clown and morphing into the kind of dude you should definitely date, Chris Pratt‘s life wasn’t all chuckles and chiseled abs.

In an interview with The Independent last month, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Parks and Recreation” actor discussed his financial struggles after dropping out of college and earning a one-way ticket to Hawaii.

“It’s a pretty awesome place to be homeless,” he says, remembering his days sleeping in a van or in a tent on the beach. “It would be different if I lived on the streets of Chicago and ate garbage from a dumpster. …You know, it was charming time.”

And now, Pratt has enlightened us as to just what specific brand of “charm” he was referring to – and let’s just say, it wasn’t only his unkempt hair that was shaggy at the time. Posting a photo to his Facebook page on Friday, he wrote, “Can’t believe I found this picture!!! That is the van I lived in!!! In my hand is the script for the movie that got me out of Maui. Crazy.” We hope it came with a plentiful supply of Scooby snacks.

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The script for Pratt’s first movie role was given to him by actor-director Rae Dawn Chong, who was lucky enough to be one of Pratt’s customers when he was a waiter at the Bubba Gump Shrimp ...

Congratulations to Christina Aguilera and fiancé Matt Rutler—the couple had their baby! US Weekly reports that Christina gave birth to a girl yesterday on Saturday, August 16 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The singer, 33, delivered via C-section for the birth.

The couple broke the news that they were expecting last February, just a week after their adorable Valentines Day engagement.

Related: Christina Aguilera Is Pregnant, Naked & Legendary: See The Pics

It is the second child for Christina, who has a 6-year-old son Max Liron with her ex-husband Jordan Bratman.

The pregnancy certainly didn’t stop Christina from hitting the studio, so maybe now that the bundle of joy is finally here we’ll be getting some new music!

No word on a name yet, but we’re going to give them another few days on that decision. Congratulations to the couple!

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

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The headline kinda says it all right? You’re about to watch Taylor Swift get doused with a bucket of ice cold water. Watching the perfectly put-together queen of heartbreak get absolutely DRENCHED with water is just too good to pass up.

Even Swifties will love watching her go through the trial of freezing water and SCREAM her head off at how cold it is. Her response right before the water hits? “Oh dear GOD we’re gonna do this!”

This is the woman who makes sure she looks flawless even after the gym, and yet, for the sake of ALS she will let herself become bedraggled. In front of everyone.

Related: Who Invented The Ice Bucket Challenge?

And while some people have been complaining that the ice bucket dousing is just a trend that takes away from actually donating to ALS, Taylor shows up with her cold hard cash in hand. Which is colder, all those bills that Tay Tay is holding or the ice water that douses her? We might have a cold, hard tie on our hands.

She really is a good Samaritan huh? Oh yeah, and one of her many BFFs Jaime King is doing it with her. Watch her get drench below.

The girls were nominated by Lily Aldrige, Ingrid Michaelson and Jamie’s husband Kyle Newman. And in return, Taylor nominates Selena Gomez, Emma Stone and Ed Sheeran, while Jaime passes the buck to Lena Dunham,

One of the reasons fans loveDemi Lovato is because she’s always been candid about her own personal struggles. She even opened up in MTV’s 2012 documentary “Demi Lovato: Stay Strong” about depression, eating disorders, self-harm and more following her time at a treatment center in 2010.

In 2011, she revealed she was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, and more recently as Billboard reports, the VMA nominee announced she’ll be joining The Mental Health Listening & Engagement Tour to further advocate for mental health support and treatment.

As part of the announcement she shared a PSA where she talks about bipolar disorder. The Jed Foundation, which promotes emotional health and preventing suicide, helped launch the Sunovion Pharmaceuticals-supported tour.

“Bipolar depression really got my life off track,” she shares in the PSA clip. “But today I’m proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need.”

Lovato says in the video that through the tour she will be learning from mental health advocates and hopes to be a source of inspiration for others. “I want to shine a light on the people out there who, like me, are learning to live well mental illness by getting the right diagnosis and finding the right treatment plan,” she explains in the video. “I want to be the most informed and powerful advocate I can be and to help ...

If you’re anything like us, you’ve marathoned through “House Of Cards” and are jonesing for more. Fortunately, Underwood has returned to cook up a hilarious video with none other than former First Lady and U.S. senator Hillary Clinton.

In this video for the The Clinton Foundation featuring Spacey is full-blown Underwood, but playing just one character isn’t enough for him, so he prank calls Hillary Clinton pretending to be Bill.

For the clip, “Underwood” does a spot-on Bill Clinton impersonation and implores Hillary to purchase an elephant for his upcoming birthday. In reality, Bill turns 68 this Tuesday, (August 19), but the gift request is a reference to Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s campaign to curb elephant poaching and ivory trafficking.

“Don’t you think that could be a little dangerous for our dogs?,” Hillary deadpans. Undeterred, Spacey/Underwood/Clinton/ then suggests some choice names for Chelsea’s baby, but his gag is up when Hillary calls Spacey out and asks him to sign Bill’s birthday card.

There’s also a clever reference to Hillary’s potential presidential bid, which we won’t spoil for you.

Silly Frank, at this point in the game, there’s just no fooling Hillary.

Althea Legaspi @AltheaLegaspi

Rixton are going to make a special appearance on Saturday night’s episode of Nickelodeon’s “Haunted Hathaways,” but apparently, it isn’t going to be too pretty.

But we’re assuming that’s what happens when you’re acting with a bunch of ghosts.

When MTV News caught up with the guys on the set of the show, they said that while their cameo was fun — they perform their bouncy hit “Me and My Broken Heart,” after all — it isn’t exactly a matter of free will.

In fact, they’re held for ransom to perform at a birthday party of ghosts, and things apparently get so weird that singer Jake Roche had to tap into his acting skills to fake cry — which bandmate Danny Wilkin found “hilarious.”

The episode, titled “Mostly Ghostly Girl,” airs tonight at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon. After the episode, the guys will host a comical evening of AwesomenessTV starting at 9 p.m.

Emily Blake

“OH MY GOD! Oh my God, ohmygod, ohmygod!” is pretty much the appropriate response to Daniel Radcliffe surprising fans in a movie theater. And that’s exactly the reaction the “What If” star elicited when he snuck up on unsuspecting moviegoers following a screening of the film. One girl jumped about seven feet away from him and could hardly take the shock!

In the Buzzfeed Video, fans were interviewed under the guise of sharing their thoughts on the movie, but in reality they were summoned to be surprised by the star.

Amid fans swooning over the movie itself in the clip – Fans are busy co-signing “What If” with reactions like “It was really adorable,” “It was really funny,” and “It was really whimsical” when Radcliffe sneakily jumps into the conversations and introduces himself. And the results are just so charming—the fans reactions were priceless.

“I am freaking out!” says one, and who wouldn’t? Hugs are exchanged and Radcliffe seems genuinely happy and even a little relieved that the moviegoers loved his film. “What if they hated it?” he wonders aloud.

“That was me scaring the s— out of a bunch of people, which is always fun,” Radcliffe said. “It is always nice to like get that kind of genuine reaction from people… I was just delighted that they were into the idea.”

Given how down to earth Radcliffe is with his fans, we’d venture to say he had nothing at all to worry about!

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The protests surrounding Michael Brown’s shooting continue to rage in Ferguson, Missouri. And although the previous 24 hours had been peaceful in Ferguson following the replacement of the local police force with the Missouri highway patrol, tensions again ran high in the aftermath of the St. Louis police department releasing new information.

Following yesterday’s release of the name Darren Wilson as the confirmed identity of the officer who shot Michael Brown, police Chief Thomas Jackson disclosed that Brown was a suspect in a convenience store robbery that took place just prior to his death.

Related: Michael Brown Shooting: A Timeline Of The Fallout In Ferguson

Jackson’s decision to name Brown as a robbery suspect was met with immense backlash, and last night, protestors reached violent levels that included looting and robbing several businesses—including the convenience store in question.

Many questioned what the motivations were behind releasing this information, and Brown’s family also joined in expressing their outrage at the allegations, citing it as an example to tarnish their son’s reputation. The Missouri highway patrol also criticized the decision to release the video, in a rare showing of law enforcement disagreement.

So as night fell in Ferguson on Friday (August 15), The Washington Post reports that peaceful protests took an ugly turn. While some protestors attempted to stop the looting, others continues to break glass and steal from the businesses in the downtown area where the protests have been held. After the riot gear ...