Usher spotted out with Tameka?
R&B crooner Usher, 32, was spotted out and about shopping for a new pair of sunglasses with a female friend in West Hollywood today. When they spotted the paparazzi, Usher and the chick quickly ducked into a car and left together. Some blogs are saying the chick who was driving is his baby mama and ex-wife, Tameka Foster. I can’t tell if she is Tameka or not. Tameka has had so many plastic surgeries done on her face. She almost looks like a new woman. What do you guys think?
Photos: INF PHOTO
Celebs Style: Ashanti, Kelly Rowland, Taraji P. Hensen
It’s February, so that means it’s that time for New York to kick off the big Fashion Week extravaganzas that take place around the world twice a year. Traditionally, Fashion Week was held several months in advance of fashion collection debuts so the big fashion houses could preview their designs for boutique owners and department store buyers.
Over the years, the private showings were opened to the public and the events mushroomed into big splashy, overhyped spectacles where celebrities, VIPs and other wannabes jockey for position in the front rows.
Among those celebrities are actress Taraji P. Hensen, singer Ashanti, 30, who is famous for no reason at all these days, and her bestie Kelly Rowland, 29, who is a major superstar overseas, but not so much here in the states. But they both have good PR people, which is why we’re blogging about them.
The ladies attended the sold out BCBG Max Azria show at the Fall 2011 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week today.
Don’t you LOVE Ashanti’s shoes? I’ll wait for Allen over at UpscaleHype to tell us who makes them. Then I’ll update the post.
Update:
Thanks to loyal readers Sonya (SoulofBeauty.com) and Tenitrus who found Ashanti’s Massimo Dogana F U Shoes on TheCrusade.net and CoCoPerez.com! The shoes come complete with rhinestone tennis bracelet and manicured fingernail and are available as a boot or sandal. They retail for around $1,100.
Photos: Splash News Online
Rihanna agrees to lift restraining order against chris brown
According to EOnline.com, Rihanna has had a change of heart.
She has agreed to approve chris brown’s request to lift the restraining order barring him from making contact with her or approaching within 300 yards of her.
brown’s attorneys filed an aplication with the courts asking a judge to lift the restraining order and amend it to a level one – citing his inability to attend awards shows.
While Rihanna has requested that the order be dropped to a level one—meaning that they can have contact as long as Brown doesn’t annoy, molest or harass her—and Brown attorney Mark Geragos has been informed of her approval, Geragos still needs to go to court to have the order officially modified by a judge.
But according to an industry source, it’s the Grammy people who don’t want brown in attendance this Sunday for the reasons that were stated in this post.
Still, Rihanna’s change of heart means the industry will lift its unofficial blacklist that was imposed on him after he beat Rihanna to a pulp prior to the Grammy Awards in 2009.
But will the fans have a change of heart and accept brown again? I highly doubt it. chris brown has not changed. He is still an immature little boy who feels entitled to do and say whatever he wants.
I agree with my source who says age is not an excuse for bad behavior — especially at 21. “People are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan who are younger than him.”
Whitney Houston Insults New Edition
R&B Diva Whitney Houston was in rare form yesterday when she was spotted in Beverly Hills outside her doctor’s office. Whitney, who was accompanied by her beautiful daughter Bobbi Kristina, was asked if she would consider opening for New Edition on tour if they ever got back together.
Whitney, who obviously felt insulted, snapped “Isn’t that a joke?!” as she climbed into her car.
But all jokes aside, doesn’t Whitney look HAWT now that she’s lost all that weight?
Thanks to FlashCity.com for the exclusive video!
Photos: Splash News and INF PHOTO
Video: FlashCity.com
fanMAIL: The Real reason chris brown is not attending the Grammy Awards
This email was sent by a well-connected source within the industry who asked to remain anonymous:
By the way, I know the real reason why Fistopher Brown isn’t going to the Grammys: the producers of the show and the Grammy committee told him that they did not want him there. They said he waited too damn long to try to get that restraining order lifted, he should have told them sooner so that they could have planned for their security, and that they did not appreciate him making a scene so close to the award show by asking for the restraining order so close to the show. They know well enough that the reason Rihanna did not make it to the show that year is because of him beating Rihanna.
According to my source, they never even expected him to have the nerve to show up, especially since they scheduled Rihanna to perform. They were furious when they found out that he was trying to flip the script and all of a sudden come. They didn’t even have a SEAT for him. Also, they wouldn’t have had Rihanna performing “Love the Way You Lie,” – a song about domestic violence, with his ass in the audience.
They were not checking for the idea of having to deal with that PR, especially since Fistopher is really B-list and not an artist too many people are checking for. Let’s face it, he ain’t nobody’s Michael Jackson, in spite of what he may think. The Grammy people did not want their show to turn into another VMA Kanye/Taylor Swift fiasco. I don’t know what Brown’s people were thinking, but this was the worst move ever.
Photo by Sandra Rose
She Wanted Butt Shots like Nicki Minaj, Now She’s Dead
A 20-year-old British student is dead after flying to Philadelphia with friends to undergo a “must-have” butt injection procedure.
In Hackney, East London, where Claudia Aderotimi was born, butt injections are illegal. They’re illegal in the U.S. too, but authorities here have done nothing to stop the unlicensed, dangerous practice.
Claudia and her friends thought it would be a simple procedure. What could go wrong? The “clinic” was in the shadow of a big city hospital — the same hospital where she was eventually pronounced dead.
But Claudia knew something went wrong hours after the operation when she felt horrible pains in her chest. She was rushed a block away to the hospital, where she died at 1.32 a.m. on Tuesday.
The “clinic” where Claudia and her friends went chasing their dreams was inside a seedy Philadelphia motel room. The unlicensed street technician is still being sought by police who are certain she didn’t use sterile technique. They are also certain she didn’t use medical grade hydrogel or silicone, which are difficult to obtain outside of a hospital setting without a doctor’s order.
Claudia had aspirations of appearing in music videos, like her idols, the video vixens who advertise their talents on Twitter.com. Claudia thought that in order to qualify to appear in rap music videos today, she must have a butt as big as Nicki’s or Esther Baxter’s or Keyshia Dior’s.
All Claudia wanted was a few injections to fill out the curves that she already had, she told friends. She thought the butt shots would make her famous, heartbroken pals say.
Like most young black women today, Claudia’s self-worth and identity are defined by a big butt and breast implants. They don’t know any better because their idols don’t know any better. It’s a vicious cycle.
Now that the eyes of the world are on the U.S., maybe Congress will take some action to put a stop to this hydrogel epidemic that is killing our beautiful black women and turning them into deformed walking mannequins.
Throwback Thursdays: Michael Jackson – Who Is It
This short film, directed by David Fincher, for Michael Jackson’s dark single “Who Is It” is one of two video versions released in 1993 as part of a promotion for the single. This version never aired in the U.S.
The story goes that Michael wasn’t happy with the finished product, because the video made him out to be ‘normal’ with emotions and everything. So he banned the video from airing in the U.S. A Michael Jackson impersonator played most of his parts because Michael was touring during the filming (that’s the impersonator sleeping on the private jet).
The video is about a millionaire who learns his girlfriend leads a double life as a high-priced call girl. The directing is visceral and sensual. It has everything a Michael Jackson fan wants: excitement, beauty, intrigue, mystery, suspense and a little sex.
