Celebs Out & About: Halle Berry, Nicki Minaj, Queen Latifah
No, actress Halle Berry doesn’t have a new man (that we know of). She was spotted snuggled up with actor Olivier in between takes on the set of their flick “Dark Tide”, shooting on location in Cape Town, South Africa. Martinez is the ex-boyfriend of Australian pop star Kylie Minogue and Berry recently split from her model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry. Photo by PacificCoastNews.com
Not even Today’s Black Woman magazine can make cartoonish rapper Nicki Minaj look respectable. They get an ‘A’ for effort though. Photo: TGJ
Beyonce Lookalike on Trial for Infecting Sex Partners with HIV
The trial of HIV positive German pop star Nadja Benaissa was set to start today in the district court house. Benaissa, a singer from the German girl band No Angels, has admitted to having unprotected sex with several partners without warning them that she was HIV-positive.
Ms. Benaissa faces a charge of grevious bodily harm for allegedly infecting one man and has also been charged with attempted bodily harm for allegedly having sex with two other men who did not contract the infection. If she is convicted, the singer, who shot to fame in Europe in 2000 after winning the German version of “Popstars”, faces a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Celebs Out & About: T.I. and Tiny
On Friday, Tameka ‘Tiny’ Cottle joined her husband, T.I., as they visited the AXE Lounge in Southampton on Friday to announce that he is performing a secret show to kick off the “AXE Music One Night Only” concert series tonight in Manhattan. As I told you earlier, T.I. signed a multimillion dollar deal with AXE to sponsor his upcoming 50-city tour. But some of you expressed doubts that my scoop was legit. You’ll learn…
Then yesterday, Tiny posed with her BFF, Vanity, at the NY premiere of TAKERS. As you know, Tiny never travels without her girl to keep her company while T.I. is working.
Lauren London Cast as Bow Wow’s Love Interest in Tyler Perry Film
Lil Wayne’s other baby mama, Lauren London, has been cast as Bow Wow’s love interest in Tyler Perry’s upcoming film, “Madea’s Big Happy Family”.
This news dashes the hopes of DL men everywhere who assumed Bow Wow would play a gay character — especially since teh ghey Old Spice pitchman, Isaiah Mustafa, is aslo cast in the flick.
“Madea’s Big Happy Family” is set to hit movie theaters 2011. Bow Wow currently stars in “Lottery Ticket”, which premieres in theaters on August 20th.
Source: TB&W
Dwyane Wade & Chris Paul Crush the Dreams of Little Children
This is an interesting way to teach little children to pass the ball instead of hogging it during a game.
A blogger filmed 6′-4″ Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade aggressively blocking the shots of little NBA wannabes during a youth basketball clinic at the infamous Rucker Park on Friday.
After he blocks the shot, Wade and his BFF Chris Paul, of the New Orleans Hornets, then team up to taunt the shawties.
Blogger Gus Garcia-Roberts was not amused by the spectacle of two giants ganging up on youngsters:
DWade apparently likes a little negative reinforcement in his basketball instruction… because he had a little fun with these kids by viciously rejecting their shots… taunting them… and (sort of) dunking on them.
Yeah, it seemed to all be in good fun… at least to him (and Chris Paul). Why not ask the kid who just walked off after the second Wade rejection? He looked thrilled. Read More…
I’m not sure what Wade and Paul thought they were accomplishing. But publicly shaming and posterizing small children can’t be good for their pride or dignity. Watch the body language of the rejected kids as they crawl off the court after DWade plays big bully.
A Smiling Paula Cook Spotted Attending Church
Pictures have surfaced of Antwaun Cook’s wife, Paula Cook, smiling as she attended church with her sons Christian and Jackson yesterday in Charlotte, NC.
Is there anyone left who doesn’t believe that Paula, a 36-year-old school teacher, and her estranged husband Antwaun, conspired with Fantasia to boost the ratings of Fantasia’s reality show?
Still, Paula and her attorney, Tamela Wallace, reacted with surprise at the photos of Fantasia and Antwaun’s reunion in a park on Friday. They hint at filing a lawsuit against Fantasia for “alienation of affection” — or depriving Mrs. Cook of the affection of her husband.
Wallace tells People magazine:
It’s that kind of brazen behavior that Mrs. Cook has had to endure for the last 11 months, until June of this year. This is something that has caused her emotional distress, pain, anguish.
She wanted nothing more than to have a happy family with her husband and her children. And she’s not been able to do that.
The only mistake she made was marrying a man who Ms. Barrino felt like she was entitled to have. She is having to defend her marriage, when she didn’t ask for this.
Something tells me that “alienation of affection” suit will never be filed.
Religion: Outrage as Obama Backs Controversial NY Mosque
U.S. president Barack Obama’s statements backing the construction of a Muslim mosque near the site of the World Trade Center disaster is being met with outrage from proponents of the planned project.
At a dinner Friday celebrating the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Mr. Obama said Muslims have a right, as a matter of religious freedom, to build a religious center near Ground Zero. “Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country,” he said to applause. Read More…
Some critics wonder why Obama felt the need to interject himself into the mosque controversy in the first place. Others say Obama’s statements will increase the opposition to proposed mosques everywhere.
“It will galvanize their desire for resistance to the mosque,” said Pastor William Rench of Calvary Baptist Church, next door to another proposed mosque site in Temecula, CA. “It confirms in their minds the idea that Mr. Obama seems to be more accommodating to the Islamic world than he is for the Christian representation in America.“
Meanwhile, Republicans seized on Obama’s comments as evidence that he is woefully out of touch with the rest of America.
In an interview Sunday, Gary Berntsen, a New York Republican Senate candidate and a former senior Central Intelligence Agency officer, said a mosque near Ground Zero would become a national security risk.
“[Obama] missed the point that people found this offensive because it’s very, very close to Ground Zero,” he said. “That mosque will become a magnet for militants. They will be drawn there in large numbers, and they will seek to impose themselves on that mosque…” Read More…
While Muslim leaders praised Mr. Obama’s support of the proposed NYC mosque, proponents picked up on Obama’s lack of sensitivity for the families of the 3,000 victims of September 11.
Rev. Gregory S. Whelton, a pastor at St. John’s United Church of Christ in Sheboygan, said he believes Muslims have the right to build mosques anywhere, but he feels Ground Zero should be off limits because of the circumstances of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“To do it in light of what has happened, I’m not sure I would agree with that,” he said. “But as far as their right to do it, absolutely.”
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