Laura Govan (Basketball Wives LA) Speaks Her Mind
Laura Govan, star of the upcoming reality series “Basketball Wives LA” recently spoke with Loop21.com about her baby daddy Gibert Arenas and the new show.
As you know, Govan is the former fiancee of Orlando Magic’s Gilbert Arenas, who recently filed a motion to bar the show from using his name in an attempt to stop the show from airing. Govan did not hold her tongue during the interview.
On if she thinks Orlando Magic’s Gilbert Arenas’ motion to stop “Basketball Wives LA” from airing will be successful:
Hell naw! I don’t think about nothing until something happens. Since he just filed the motion, that doesn’t mean that it’s happened. Do I think it’s still going to air? Of course I do. Do I think I’m still going to get to say what I want to say? Of course I will. He’s not going to stop that.
Singer Tank fires Keyshia Cole’s former manager
Keyshia Cole’s former manager Manny Halley has lost another R&B client, according to my well-placed industry source.
Singer Tank, whose last album was 2010′s Now Or Never, fired Halley and Imani Entertainment citing “creative differences” with the way his career was being handled.
Tank, whose real name is Durrell Babbs, is telling friends that Manny (pictured at right with former client Keyshia) was a bit too disorganized for him. But the 35-year-old hasn’t had a top ten hit since forever.
This has not been Halley’s year since losing Keyshia Cole as a client and then seeing his LA Phillipe Chow restaurant franchise finances go into the red.
But Cole’s journey through managers hasn’t been an easy one either.
The “Calling All Hearts” singer hired industry veteran Ashley Fox of Ashley Fox Management to guide her through the separation from Imani Entertainment last year. Next, Keyshia dumped Ashley Fox for Über manager Chris Lighty. But that union only lasted for a month.
Then last week, Keyshia announced on her Twitter page that she was being managed by Kevin Liles, the former president of Def Jam, who also manages singer Trey Songz.
Manny is a friend to the blog. So we wish him well, and we know he will keep doing big things.
T.O. Sued Again for Not Paying Child Support
NFL star Terrell Owens was slapped with yet another lawsuit (by the same baby mama) for not paying his child support.
According to the AJC.com:
Melanie Paige Smith, in a civil suit filed Aug. 9 in Fulton Superior Court, alleges Owens has not paid child support for the month of August and has said he does not plan to make future payments.
The flamboyant football player was ordered in May 2007 to pay $5,000 per month, according to the suit, which estimated his monthly income at $666,000.
Owens made June and July payments only after being threatened with legal action, the document states.
The 37-year-old Alabama native, who holds or shares several NFL records, is currently a free agent. He last played for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2010.
Smith and Owens have a 5-year-old daughter.
Photo: Splash News Online
Woman Mauled By Chimp Gets New Face
Charla Nash, the woman who was mauled by her friend’s chimp has a new face thanks to advanced medical technology.
According to published reports, Charla Nash underwent a face and hand transplant in May at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The anonymous donor of the face and hands was an unidentified woman on life support. Doctors revealed Nash’s new face on the “Today Show” this morning. Nash, who was too weak to be interviewed, can feel her jaw and her sense of smell is returning.
Nash, 57, was critically after her friend’s 200-pound pet chimpanzee turned on her while she was helping her friend lead him back inside his enclosure.
Nash was blinded when the chimp gouged out her eyes and tore off her lips, nose and both hands. The rampaging chimp was shot and killed by police after a brief hunt.
Nash will eventually receive prosthetic eyes at a later date. She also underwent surgery to attach donated hands but her body rejected the hands after Nash contracted pneumonia. Another attempt will be made to attach new hands at a later date, according to her doctors.
Chimps are aggressively jealous of their mates and are known to viciously attack the faces of their sexual competition.
Click the link to see what Charla looked like before the surgery.
Celebs Out & About: Ciara, Christina Milian, Venus Williams, Mya
Yesterday was a day for celebrities to spend quality time with their pampered animals. Singer Ciara, wearing no make-up and unkempt hair, was spotted outside her condo taking her dogs for a walk in Santa Monica. Are you sure you want to be a celebrity? You can’t even throw a hat on top of your weave to take your dog for a walk without a camera in your face. But Ciara still looks cute even when she’s dressed all the way down.
Grammy award-winning singer Mya joined the celebration of the grand debut of Matilda the Algonoquin cat at North Shore Animal League America’s new mobile rescue adoption unit in New York City yesterday. It’s been so long since Mya had a hit that we forgot what she won a Grammy for.
Forbes Explains Why Jay Z is Always On Top
If you’re like me you’re probably wondering why rapper Jay Z consistently ranks 1st on the list of top moneymakers in Hop Hop. Jay Z is 44 years old and hasn’t had a hit record since the Napster days. Yet he is consistently #1 on the moneymaker list?
The answer is probably that Jay Z knows how to suck up to the corporate suits whose hands rock the cradle of the business world. Corporate suits like billionaire Warren Buffet with whom Jigga shared that infamous cover of Forbes magazine recently.
Zack O’Malley Greenburg, a writer for Forbes magazine, tells MTV that Jay Z consistently outranks Sean “Diddy” Combs and 5 Cents because Jay has become the “gold standard” to which hip-hop artists aspire when it comes to mixing business and music.
“I’d put Diddy and Birdman up there too, but Jay is always at the top of the Cash Kings list because he makes brilliant business moves but keeps putting out relevant music,” he told MTV News. “Others [on the list] are more one or the other, but he keeps doing both.”
So you see kids, the Forbes money list really is a popularity contest rather than how much money a star actually has in his bank account. Besides, how would Forbes know exactly how much money these celebrities make?
LisaRaye wants you to know…
“Single Ladies” star LisaRaye, who is currently on tour in Italy (no doubt spending that “Single Ladies” cash), was forced to interrupt her vacation yesterday to respond to the backlash she received from Stacey Dash fans on Facebook.
As you know, there are unsubstantiated rumors circulating about Dash’s abrupt termination from the popular VH1 show. LisaRaye posted this message to her Facebook wall:
As everyone know I am in Italy vacationing. I was just made aware of the lies that are being spread by Mediatakeout and other blogs that like to create false stories. I was not even aware that Stacy Dash had been fired from Single Ladies. Furthermore if she has been fired that is a network decision. I don’t have the power to get her fired nor do I have any beef with her. Now im going to go continue enjoying my vacation!
Stacy Littlejohn, the show’s principal writer and executive producer, also responded to the grilling on LisaRaye’s Facebook:
LisaRaye is a very strong woman and we love her, but she does not have that kind of power, nor at any time did she seek to influence any casting decisions. Furthermore, no cast member of Single Ladies has the power to get another cast member fired. the 6th grade back-stabbing that LisaRaye’s being accused of is completely the creation of uninformed, instigating internet gossip. Please don’t buy into it. Let’s just celebrate that we have a Season 2 coming!!!!
But why would anyone think LisaRaye had anything to do with Dash’s dismissal from the show when LisaRaye is just a cast member herself? If people on Facebook are this dumb I’m glad I don’t have a Facebook page.
Anyway, LisaRaye tweeted these photos from her vacation. Enjoy!
Photos: Twitter
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