Ted “Golden Voice” Williams Back in Rehab
Ted Williams, dubbed “the man with the golden voice” is headed back to rehab, according to 10TV.com.
The local Columbus, Ohio news station caught up with the 57-year-old Williams at the airport just before he boarded a flight heading back to the Origins Recovery Center in South Padre Island, Texas.
The rehab facility is the same one that TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw sent him to in January with an offer to pay for his treatment. But Williams checked himself out after just two weeks.
Williams vows to complete the 30-day treatment program this time. “If I have to pay for it myself, that’s what I’ll do,” Williams said.
Williams, who was in Columbus shooting a reality TV series based on his rags-to-riches story, said “I’m going back to get some real recovery and some rest. Dr. Phil’s concerns and cares will not go in vain. I hope I can successfully complete this whole journey and come back and say, ‘Hey Dr. Phil. I did it.’”
In January a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch spotted the former radio disc jockey standing on the side of a highway off-ramp holding a sign that said he was homeless but he had a “gift of voice” and had “fallen on hard times.”
The reporter recorded a cell phone video of Williams talking, and posted it on the Columbus Dispatch website later that day.
Within hours the video went viral and calls began pouring in with job offers for Williams. The Cleveland Cavaliers offered Williams a job at the Quicken Loans Arena and a house. It isn’t clear if Williams accepted the Cavaliers’ offers.
Celebs Out & About: Vin Diesel, Amber Rose
Socialite Amber Rose is still attracting the paparazzi for some reason. Kanye West’s former beard was spotted shopping with friends in Los Angeles yesterday. She was wearing a canary yellow jumpsuit with Timberland boots and gaudy gold jewelry. Amber, 27, who claims to own a shades line, opened a shop somewhere in the LA area. She had hoped to use her shop as the backdrop for a new reality TV series based on her life, her loves, her family and whatever else she could think of to get attention. “My show’s gonna be an open book into my life, my family and my businesses…it’s called Behind Her Shades, it’s everything that’s behind them and part of that is my shades shop,” she said in an interview. But that was news to VH1 who knew nothing about such a series.
Not to be deterred, Amber teamed up with Kanye’s former artist Consequence, and together they filmed a trailer for his upcoming mixtape, Movies On Demand 3. Consequence, who’s acting more like a scorned female these days, is busy running his trap about Kanye to anyone who will listen. Supposedly he has dirt on Kanye that he plans to share with the world on his new mixtape. We all know he gleaned his Kanye gossip from Amber and they hope to make big bucks off what they know. The problem for both of them is, nobody cares!
Actor Vin Diesel flirted with a mystery blonde at a party in Rome last week. There is no word on what his current girlfriend, model Paloma Jimenez, thinks about these pictures. The 43-year-old actor’s latest film, ‘Fast Five’, is in theaters now.
Photos: DM
Celebs Out & About: Whitney Houston, Romeo
R&B Diva Whitney Houston, 47, was seen arriving at Prince concert at The Forum in Los Angeles last night. She didn’t look too thrilled to see the paparazzi, but they were happy to see her.
‘Jumping The Broom’ star Romeo Miller, 21, arrives to practice for ‘Dancing with the Stars’ in Los Angeles yesterday.
Even though he plays a mature young man who is into older, experienced cougars in the movie, in real life Romeo prefers LSLH chicks more his age. ‘Jumping The Broom’ opens in theaters everywhere today.
Photos: INF PHOTO and Wireimage/Getty
Is Chris Brown Trying To Tell Us Something? *NSFW*
Remember when troubled singer Chris Brown dyed his hair blond and leaked sexually graphic images of himself? We understood then that he took those necessary steps to promote his album, F.A.M.E..
Well, today CB tweeted the above pic of himself and he’s gone blond again. Now we’re confused. We understand why he went blond the first time, but why now?
Then today, I received graphic images in my Inbox of what looked like Chris Brown mounting a submissive male in a sexual frenzy. The submissive male was identified in the email as an up-and-coming rapper, who I won’t name.
At first I wasn’t going to publish the pics — especially since I don’t know if that really is Brown in the pics.
But now Brown has gone blond again.
Which begs the question: is Chris Brown trying to tell us something?
Click the link to see the pics, which obviously are NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
Obama Lays Wreath at Ground Zero During Silent Tribute
A small somber crowd gathered to watch U.S. President Barack Obama lay a wreath at ground zero in New York today.
He laid a wreath in front of the WTC memorial Freedom Tower during the silent tribute. Then he spoke quietly to some of the family members of the thousands of victims.
Obama deliberately kept the ceremony low key so as not to upset or offend the Muslim world — many of whom were busy burning American flags in protest of the death of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
It was Mr. Obama’s first pilgrimage as president to the site where the World Trade Center Towers were felled by Al Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001.
Navy SEAL forces stormed a fortified compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in the early morning hours of Monday, May 2, and executed bin Laden.
Reportedly, they had been given orders to take him alive only if he was naked due to fears that he might be wearing a suicide bomb vest under his pajamas.
Obama invited former President George W Bush to the ceremony today. But Bush declined the invitation, reportedly because Obama was claiming all the credit for the kill.
Bush laid the groundwork for bin Laden’s capture by water boarding bin Laden’s Al Qaeda associates in 2005. One of them eventually gave up the name of bin Laden’s most trusted courier, with whom bin Laden was living.
LA Premiere of ‘Jumping The Broom’
Are you going to see ‘Jumping The Broom’ when it opens everywhere tomorrow?
Last month, I bumped into a distinguished looking older woman at Phipps Plaza while on my way to Saks Fifth Avenue. She was wearing a tailored suit, which is what caught my eye. After a little small talk, she told me she was on her way to see T.D. Jakes’ ‘Jumping The Broom.’ “ “Oh, you couldn’t find a date?,” I teased. And that’s how I got into the Atlanta screening of ‘Jumping The Broom’ 3 weeks ago.
Last night was the Los Angeles premiere of TriStar Pictures’ ‘Jumping The Broom’, starring actors Pooch Hall, Laz Alonso, Romeo Miller and Mike Epps. The men posed on the red carpet at the Cinerama Dome Theater in Los Angeles, California yesterday.
(Photos by Kevin Winter/Getty Images North America)
Even though I’ve seen it already, I’m going to see it again because it’s one of those feel good movies that make you laugh all the way through it. Paula Patton is such a delight on the screen. And Romeo Miller is good, though he needs a few more acting lessons. But if you like ‘The Game’ on BET, you will love this movie!
‘Iconic’ Photo Might Not Be So Iconic After All
Remember that so-called “iconic” photo of U.S. President Barack Obama and his cabinet supposedly watching Osama bin Laden’s brains being splattered all over the monitor in the Situation Room in the White House?
You know the photo that — according to the left wing media — was supposed to be the “defining moment” of Barack Obama’s presidency?
Well, according to CNN, that photo might not be so iconic after all.
What made the photo so “iconic” (in the eyes of the media) was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “dramatically” clasping her hand over her mouth. Supposedly she was in shock at what she was seeing.
CNN caught up with Hillary yesterday to ask her just what was she seeing on the screen.
It turns out Clinton may have been yawning, or even coughing when that picture was taken. According to her, she never saw the exact moment when Osama was shot because there was a video blackout.
“I am somewhat sheepishly concerned that it was my preventing one of my early spring allergic coughs. So, it may have no great meaning whatsoever,” she said.
If it’s true that Hillary was yawning, or coughing, then the picture instantly loses its place in history as one of the “most iconic photographs to emerge in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing.”
Aw, that’s too bad for the national media who now have less than a year to find another photo that defines Mr. Obama’s presidency.
I’m sure they’ll find one. Those media people are always hungry for that next “iconic moment” that they can pound into our brains through annoying repetition.
