Celebs Out & About
According to Dr. Drew of Drewreports.com, Penny McDonald’s BET Farewell Celebration took place at TAJ in New York City last night. Ludacris, and others gathered to wish Penny a fond farewell. Was she fired? For some reason I don’t think Dr. Drew liked Miss Penny very much.
Looks like Luda was handling his business
BET’s Rocsi, left, posing with my good friend Julissa Bermudez
Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe of Bell Biv Devoe performed for Miss Penny
She must have been very influential to get all these B and C-listers to come out and fete her like this.
Aww, it looks like Miss Penny had a great time despite the damp air giving her hair a mild case of the frizzies.
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EPIC FAIL!!!
Loyal reader Janet writes:
Sandra,
I am an ardent reader of your site. I go to your page twice a day! A few months ago you posted an article about Ciara (and I am paraphrasing) and how she has fallen off because she went Hollywood by firing those who helped build her career and with the influence of 50 in her life.
Her album is on track to sell a measly 75K copies in its first week? If she was going to be the next supermodel or Beyonce or whatever she is trying to be, what happened? Shouldn’t she be at like 300K? I mean Ashanti and Kelly Rowland sold 90K their first week and we KNOW that they didn’t have the budget she got for promoting her record! We liked her better when she was the girl next door with swag instead of this glamazon!! I hope Chrisette Michelle gets that #1 spot! She has real talent and deserves it!
Peace and blessings,
Godsjoy!
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RIHANNA’S BACK!!!
All I can say is Thank God Rihanna toned down the Goth makeup and washed those horrible streaks out of her hair! What got into her anyway? She looked so beautiful last night! But we HATE that ring. It’s horrid and looks dangerous. But how happy are we that RiRi dumped bitch boy Chris Brown and she seems to have gotten her mind right? But there was no excuse for her recent fashion miscues. Rihanna must never forget she is a fashion Icon and a trend-setter. And as such, failure is never an option!
Rihanna to Beyonce: “Bitch, sit down!”
Rihanna showed love to little Isabelle Huurman, who was honored last night at DKMS’ 3rd Annual Star-Studded Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in NYC.
Awww, aren’t they adorable? *sniff*
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Audio: T.I. fires Alfamega?
I don’t know if the audio below is really T.I.’s voice or not. But Worldstar Hip Hop says it is T.I. speaking on terminating his artist Alfamega from the Grand Hustle family after secret DEA documents leaked by The Smoking Gun showed Alfa worked as an informant for the DEA. T.I. fired Alfamega for not disclosing his past history with the DEA.
Personally, I like Alfamega. He’s a cool dude who stayed down for T.I. throughout all of his legal troubles. I had hoped that T.I. would ride for his loyal artist, but I guess there is no loyalty among thugs.
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Are Sean Combs, Jay Z and Ron Artest members of the Secret Brotherhood of Masons?
Rumors have swirled for years that certain elite members of the black community are part of the secret order of Masons. The Masons are a secret society of brothers who recognize each other through a series of clandestine signals such as a special secret handshake as evidenced by the photos above.
When a friend alerted me to the suspicious hand signals exhibited by rappers Jay Z, Sean Combs and NBA star Ron Artest in the above pics, the first thing I thought was that the handshakes looked like some ol’ regular hood greetings to me. But of course I was wrong, as the friend pointed out.
He told me he was positive the greetings held some special significance because he had heard that Sean, Jigga and Ron were secret members of the Masons. Well, if these Masonic handshakes are supposed to be so secret then how is it that non-members know what they look like?
Then I thought well, maybe the Masons is an exclusive down low club. It would not be far outside of the realm of possibility considering that we are talking about Diddy and Jay Z.
But it turns out the Masons are not a secret society of well-to-do homos at all. It’s a brotherhood of powerful men, sort of like a fraternity, who keep the power and the money within the society.
Members of the Masons are alleged to be such powerful public figures as Barack Obama, Jay Z, Sean Combs, Russell Simmons, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson, Ron Artest, Jamie Foxx, etc. In other words, black men with money and influence.
I Googled Masonic handshakes to see if there was anything to all of this, and what I found were examples of greetings that were difficult to distinguish from the normal handshakes, fist bumps and daps that you see brothers (and the Obamas) exchange every day. But who am I to question? I’m just repeating what I was told by the friend who has studied Masonic handshakes exhaustively.
I will do some more research on this subject and get back to you. And then again, I might not…
Information on the Web:
http://www.masonicsecrets.org/masonic-secrets.html
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Are You a Twitter Addict?
British singer Estelle attended the launch party for Belvedere Pop-Up Shop over in London yesterday. Estelle has been traveling back and forth between the U.S. and London for the past several days. We know this because she told us so yesterday on her Twitter page. We also know exactly what time the wheels on her jet lifted up off the ground because she told us that too. In fact, it seems there is hardly anything that Twitter addicts won’t reveal about themselves on the social networking site.
You can find Estelle, and her fellow Twitter addict Solange Knowles, Twittering away at all hours of the day and night yapping about what they ate, drank or whether it’s raining outside their window. There is a fine line between addictive personalities like Estelle and Solange — and narcissists who think their lives are so important that they have to fill us in on every microscopic detail of it.
The endless tweets of Twitter addicts contain zero calories and are, in fact very boring to the rest of us who are mining Twitter Land for actual information that we can use.
What Twitter addicts fail to realize is that the quality of their twits is more important as a whole than what they are doing every minute of their lives. Wouldn’t it be a sad world if all we did all day was sit and wait for an update from someone on Twitter who thinks the world revolves around them?
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Riots Break Out at KFC’s Over Oprah’s Coupons
I’m at a loss to explain what came over normally rational thinking people yesterday.
As you know, Queen Oprah decided to feed the hungry yesterday by allowing anyone with a fast computer connection and a printer to download free coupons from her website for a two-piece grilled chicken dinner at participating Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants.
I’m sure that somewhere in the fine print it said ‘Participating KFC restaurants only’ — or something to that effect. From my understanding, upwards of a million people tried to redeem those coupons for free greasy chicken yesterday.
Is it any surprise then that most restaurants in and around NYC declined to participate? There were reports of sporadic violence and sit-ins at restaurants that refused to accept Oprah’s coupons. It was reported that some of the protestors were well-dressed in suits and brand name clothing — not a homeless person among them.
All of the violence kinda makes you wonder: did Oprah clear this offer with the restaurant owners beforehand? And how exactly did she plan to pay for all the free chicken?
But the madness didn’t restrict itself to just the New York area. Folks right here in Atlanta — who could well afford to treat the entire restaurant to free chicken — made a mad scramble to download the coupons. That’s the part that gets me. What was it about Oprah’s coupons that made even wealthy people feel the urgency to download them?
Last night I was on the phone with a very well-connected industry insider who informed me that she and some of her well-heeled friends went to someone’s job at 6:30 AM yesterday morning to print out Oprah’s coupons because they couldn’t print them out at home.
Here’s the catch: this chick could afford to buy her own KFC franchise if she wanted one! I asked her to explain her actions to me, but she said she just wanted the free chicken. All of which leads me to believe that Oprah’s coupons represented some type of exclusive status to the coupon holders that separated them from people like me who don’t give a damn about Oprah or her coupons.
I guess there are just some things in life that are simply beyond my understanding.
