In 2004, producer
Sean "Diddy" Combs returned with
Making the Band 3, this time searching for the next female super group.
[4] With the help of choreographer
Laurie Ann Gibson, vocal trainer Doc Holiday and talent manager
Johnny Wright, he set out on a multi-city search and chose twenty young singers out of almost 10,000 young women.
[4][5]
While seven women remained, Combs became discontent with the level of
talent remaining in the competition, and eventually decided not to form
a band.
[4] He did, however, give a reprieve to three contestants he felt deserved another chance, including then-best friends
Aubrey O'Day and
Aundrea Fimbres, whose close bond originally formed early in the season.
[4] The three contestants became the first to appear in Season 2 of the show.
[4]
Afterwards, Combs once again pressed his team to audition new young women for the group.[4] Finally, twenty young women were chosen and moved into a loft in New York City.[4] Viewers had become invested in O'Day and Fimbres's friendship, naming them "the AUs" and "Aubrea" (portmanteux of their first names put together), as they watched the two compete all over again for positions in the group.[4][6]
As the competition's challenges increased, their friendship seemed to
become the foundation upon which the group was being built.[4] In addition, O'Day emerged as the show's breakout star.[4][5]
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In the secret world of shadows where good and evil are deeply
enmeshed,the dark world where fear stalks through streets, where the
thin veil of sanity can get ripped off in an instant revealing the
hidden face of stark terror-on that razors edge live the chosen ones,
wearing masks that can never be taken off.
Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth century love story about a marriage of
alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal Emperor,
Akbar and a Rajput princess, Jodhaa. Politically, success knew no
bounds for Emperor Akbar, After having secured the Hindu Kush, he
furthered his realm by conquest until his empire extended from
Afghanistan to the Bay of Bengal, and from the Himalayas to the
Godhavari River. Through a shrewd blend of tolerance, generosity and
force, Akbar won the allegiance of the Rajputs, the most belligerent
Hindus. But little did Akbar know that when he married Jodhaa, a fiery
Rajput princess, in order to further strengthen his relations with the
Rajputs, he would in turn be embarking upon a new journey - the journey
of true love. The daughter of King Bharmal of Amer, Jodhaa resented
being reduced to a mere political pawn in this marriage of alliance,
and Akbar's biggest challenge now did not merely lie in winning
battles, but in winning the love of Jodhaa - a love hidden deep below
resentment and extreme prejudice. Jodhaa Akbar is their untold love
story.