Celebs Out & About: Lil Wayne, Serena Williams, Gabrielle Union, Monica, Cee-Lo, Jane Lynch
Tennis star Serena Williams peers into rapper Lil’ Wayne’s eyes to make sure his pupils are equal and dilating normally during a game between the Miami Heat and the Detroit Pistons in Miami on Tuesday, Nov. 30. She looks like she’s saying, “Are you sure you’re okay baby?” Weezy, who is known for his kush and syrup binges, recently dropped an album titled I Am Not Human.
(L-R) Gabourey Sidibe, Malaak Compton-Rock (Chris Rock’s wife), Christy Turlington Burns and Gabrielle Union attended the World AIDS Day event at Brooklyn Borough Hall in New York City yesterday. City landmarks were illuminated (Red) for World AIDS Day.
R&B sensation Monica and pop superstar Cee-Lo posed for Goodie Mob member Gipp Goodie backstage at the GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live! concert in LA last night.
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Twitter FAIL: Alicia Keys Breaks Her Vow to Stay Off Twitter
Singer Alicia Keys attended a screening of “Biutiful” hosted by the Cinema Society with Miuccia Prada, Sandra Brant & Ingrid Sischy at the Lighthouse Theater in New York City last night.
Keys was widely criticized by her followers on Twitter.com yesterday after she broke her own vow not to tweet until she had raised $1 million for AIDS research.
Other celebs such as Kim and Khloe Kardashian also broke their vows to stay off Twitter yesterday. Keys tweeted a number that her followers could text to “buy” her life back. But apparently, few of her followers cared if she came back to life or not. Keys deleted her tweets once her followers protested.
The poorly received ‘Dead Celebrities’ campaign, featuring stars such as Usher, Serena Williams and Ryan Seacrest lying in open caskets, has raised less than $100,000 so far.
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Breaking News: Total Sales of Jay Z’s ‘Decoded’ – 54,983
According to USA Today’s Best-selling books list, Jay Z’s biography slash memoir Decoded fell 3 spots from #18 to #21 one week after its debut.
Since hitting bookshelves on November 16, Decoded has sold 54,983 total copies in all 50 states.
The book scanned a measly 27,113 copies last week, just barely breaking the $1 million sales mark for total sales (based on Amazon.com’s list price of $18.88).
The USA Today‘s bestselling list is based on actual book sales rather than who you know over at the NY Times.
Decoded was ghostwritten by gifted author Dream Hampton, the former editor of VIBE magazine. It’s a narrative of Jay Z’s journey from common street hustler to corporate boardroom hustler told through a collection of his rhymes.
Former president George Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, tops the list scanning 189,386 copies last week for a total of 885,891 books sold.
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When Twitter Goes Horribly Wrong: Rihanna Goes Awf
Just one day after a video hit the web showing her boyfriend stepping out on her, singer Rihanna posted a nasty tweet to one of her followers on Twitter.com.
Don’t you hate it when celebrities ignore the fans who live and breathe for them, only to entertain morons like this dude?
Kate Gosselin: ‘My kids were not expelled from school’
Remember when I wrote about Kate Gosselin snapping on one of her kids and beating the child in front of paparazzi? Well, 2 of her brats have now been expelled from their private school and are being home schooled, according to online reports.
Naturally, mama Gosselin denies that her precious babies were expelled.
“The school would never use that word,” Gosselin, 35, assured People.com after news of two of her 6-year-old sextuplets supposedly being expelled. “[The school] did not feel like they could meet their needs anymore, so it was decided they should leave, for now.”
That’s a nice way of saying that Alexis and Collin are special needs children.
Kate tells People.com that the children are experiencing personal problems stemming from their parents’ divorce.
“They’ve been the ones to verbalize the most that they miss Daddy. I could see that they’re the ones struggling the most,” she said of Alexis and Collin.
Raz B Secretly Records Ray J
Attention whore Raz B strikes again with a new video on WSHH, in which he secretly records his friend Ray J begging him to clarify a statement he made.
Apparently, Raz B dropped Ray J’s name during his ongoing gay smear campaign, insinuating that Ray J confirmed his gay accusations against Chris Stokes and Marques Houston.. In reality, Ray J was agitated about a bad business deal that had nothing to do with Stokes or Houston.
In the edited, 14-minute recording, Raz B promises Ray J to “clear that up real quick for you,” by releasing a brief statement. But his real intention all along was to put the video of the phone call up on WSHH.
I can’t believe Raz B still has friends in Hollywood. When will his homies catch a clue that Raz B is not their friend?
The former B2K member, who has built a career out of smearing his former friends with accusations of molestation, proves once again just how sleazy an opportunist he is.
He interrupts Ray J repeatedly to ask about a collabo for a mixtape he’s recording. At this point, Ray J, who doesn’t realize he’s being recorded for a WSHH video, is ready to promise Raz B anything.
“I can get you on Oprah, ni**a. You can even get your own a reality show,” says Ray J.
I’m telling you what I can do for you… I have ABC my ni**a, I got Sarah Palin, I got ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ VH1, I got everybody in my corner, ni**a. I can take your sh*t to the next level right now. I gotta call Gayle [King] and Oprah and ‘em and try to set up the thing with you and Chris Stokes and Eddie Long, [and his accusers] and other victims.
Watch the video after the break.
Kanye West’s ‘Fantasy’ Fails To Go Gold in 1st Week
Remember last week when Kanye West bragged that his newly released CD My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was on pace to sell 600,000 copies? Well, Kanye’s critically acclaimed album didn’t even go gold!
That’s right, according to Soundscan and Billboard.com, MBDTF sold only 497,089 copies in the first week — and that’s including the so-called ‘Black Friday’ sales.
According to the RIAA, an album must sell 500,000 copies in order to receive a gold certification.
I hope Kanye has a strong support structure of friends and gold diggers around him to prop him up when he hears the news that his album didn’t even go gold. Brace yourselves for another round of finger pointing and accusations of racism by the troubled producer.
The music industry aggregate site HitsDailyDouble.com originally reported Kanye’s album selling 518,000 units. But their numbers are never reliable.
Meanwhile, newcomer rapper Nicki Minaj’s debut CD also came in below the early estimates. According to Soundscan, Nicki’s Pink Friday eked by with 375,973 units sold to grab the #2 spot.
British superstar Susan Boyle’s The Gift takes the #3 spot with 262,865 sold. While Taylor Swift’s nearly double platinum disc Speak Now (#4), and Britain’s wunderkinder, Jackie Evancho, round out the Top 5.
Ne-Yo’s Libra Scale, which was originally released in Europe last year, debuted on the U.S. charts this week at the #9 position with 112,533 sold. I would call that a flop for him.
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