Octavia Spencer: ‘My weight is not healthy’
Octavia Spencer should be on top of the world. Her many accomplishments over the past year make her the envy of her peers. But the 41-year-old actress, renowned for her portrayal of a sassy southern maid in ‘The Help,’ is worried, despite all the accolades.
“I am not healthy at this weight,” said Spencer to the media assembled backstage at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she won a best supporting actress trophy.
“Any time you have too much around the middle, then there is a problem. [And] when you reach a certain weight, you are less valuable,” she said, referring to Hollywood’s strict physical standards.
Spencer says that Hollywood should be more accepting of actresses of different sizes, including those who are thin.
“I feel for the overly thin women as much as I do for the overweight women. It … has to change,” she said.
Ms. Spencer indicated that her problem may stem from the fact that she overeats when she’s feeling down: “If more women ate, they would be a lot happier. Let me tell you, I am a lot grumpier when I don’t eat.”
Sandra Rose BEST of 2011 Awards
This is what you’ve been waiting for all year: my BEST of 2011 Awards! Deciding which artists made an indelible impression on 2011 was very difficult (mainly because T.I. was locked up), but I was able to narrow down the choices and finally arrive at a winner in every category.
HAPPY NEW YEAR everybody! Be safe, eat healthy and drink wisely. We’ll see you back here on Monday!
Album of the Year Award
Adele – 21 (even though she destroyed her golden voice, Adele’s 21 managed to sell 6 million in the U.S. alone)
Single of the Year Award
Drake “Marvin’s Room” (everybody and their grandmother remixed this emotional ballad about a rapper drunk dialing another man’s woman)
Best Video of the Year Award
Adele – “Rolling In The Deep”
Best Collaboration of the Year Award
Kanye West and Jay Z – Watch The Throne (who else?)
Best New Artist Award
(Tie) Meek Mill – “Ima Boss”, and Mitchell’l “Only A Few”
Best Female Artist R&B Award
Adele
Best Female Artist Hip Hop Award
Nicki Minaj (even though I can’t stand her, she did her thing in 2011)
Best Male Artist Award
Drake
Best Male Artist R&B Award
Drake
Best Male Artist Hip Hop Award
(Tie) Drake and Lil Wayne
Most Underrated Artist Of The Year Award
(Tie) Melanie Fiona and Miguel
Best Comeback Artist of the Year Award
T.I. (with the midnight release of his reclamation mixtape, F*ck Da City Up, T.I. put all rappers on notice that he is the one to dethrone)
Mixtape of the Year Award
Ludacris – 1.21 Gigawatts (it was certainly the most talked about mixtape of 2011)
The Please Go Sit ‘Cho Azz Down Somewhere Award
Beyonce’s collapsible baby bump, aka Pillow Carter
Most Played Out Artist of the Year Award
(Tie) Rihanna and Beyonce
Worst Single Of The Year Award
Willow Smith ft. Nicki Minaj – “Fireball” (the video was cute, but the song was just plain bad)
Flop of the Year Award
Rihanna – Talk That Talk (what can I say that hasn’t already been said about this wack album?)
The Most Fake Bling Award
Soulja Boy (The boy is broke. Even an arrest on weapons and drug charges couldn’t save his flop of a career)
The Most Authentic Bling Award
T.I. (his diamond encrusted $100K Audemars Piguet timepiece is a thing of beauty)
Most All-Around Fake Award
Beyonce (who else?)
Jump Off of the Year Award
Chrissy Lampkin (for waging a reality TV campaign to force aging rapper Jim Jones to marry her. How desperate is that?)
Best Sandrarose.com commenter (Female)
(Tie) KDub and Anna
Best Sandrarose.com commenter (Male)
(Tie) Man, I just don’t care™ and eastpointvet
BEST Urban Blog
Rhymeswithsnitch.com
BEST Blogger
Michelle Brown (Straightfromthea.com)
And my list would not be complete without the …
Most Overrated of the Year Award
Kim Kardashian (for her over-the-top wedding to a gullible man who was dumb enough to fall for her narcissistic ways)
Braylon Edwards Gives $10,000 Each to 79 College Students
In 2005, Cleveland Browns rookie Braylon Edwards made a promise to 100 eighth graders — a promise that he would keep 6 years later.
Edwards announced that he’d give $10,000 in scholarships to 100 area eighth-graders if they could graduate high school with at least a 2.5 grade-point average and 15 hours’ community service.
According to the LA Times, 79 of those students met the criteria and began their first year of college in campuses all across the country, including Harvard.
“Without this scholarship, I probably wouldn’t be here,” Bowling Green freshman David Gholston told ESPN’s Rick Reilly.
Now, most people would think writing $790,000 in checks would be enough, but Edwards went one step further. In addition to the $10,000, he provided each of the students with a laptop computer.
“I’m supposed to give people a chance like I was given a chance,” Edwards said.
But that’s not the only amazing part of the season. Edwards is now a member of the San Francisco 49ers. His salary for this season? $1 million. In other words, he has donated almost his entire salary this season to help those 79 kids. Source
World’s Tiniest Teenager Wins Guinness World Record
Jyoti Amge of India has been recognized by Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s shortest woman. Jyoti was known as the world’s shortest teenager until she turned 18 this year. Guinness said in a statement Jyoti has grown less than one centimetre (0.4 inch) in the last two years and will not grow any taller due to a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia.
The teenager stands at 24.7 inches tall – 2.76 inches shorter than the 22-year-old American who had held the title since September. She weighs about 10 lbs.
She receives a lot of support in her hometown of Nagpur, India, where she is treated like a minor celebrity. Jyoti lives with her parents and her 3 siblings. She attends school where she studies at a tiny desk made especially for her.
Jyoti burst into tears after receiving her plaque, and sharing a birthday cake with friends.
“I have put Nagpur on the world map. Now everyone will know where it is,” she said.
13-year-old Rachel Crow eliminated from X Factor USA
One of the silliest reality TV shows on American television is Fox’s ‘X Factor USA’. The reality show bills itself as a talent competition, but where’s the talent?
13-year-old Rachel Crow learned the hard way that these shows are more about dramatics and TV ratings than actual talent. During the Top 5 performances show, she went up against singer Marcus Canty singing a stirring rendition of Ella Fitzgerald’s “I’d Rather Go Blind”. But as these reality shows always go, the producers already know who they want in the finals.
Rachel’s dramatic crying act was almost completely devoid of actual tears. But the worst actress award of the night goes to judge Nicole Scherzinger who was given the task of eliminating Crow or Marcus Canty — or sending the decision to the American voters. Nicole is such a horrible actress that she gave away the answer even before presenter Steve Jones said it.
Pretending to be flustered by the enormity of the task, Nicole gasped “I can’t, I cant make this decision… please, I can’t make this decision. I love and adore both of you both.” Bish, it’s your job to make the decision! That’s why you were picked as a judge! Nicole’s phony act sent her trending worldwide on Twitter.com as users went IN on her — and rightfully so.
PICS: The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live! and After party
Troubled musician Kanye West leads the Grammy Award nominations with 7, but the bad boy producer was a no-show at last night’s live concert warmup to the 2012 Grammy’s in February.
While Kanye’s hit all-star single, “All of the Lights,” was nominated for Song of the Year, his critically acclaimed album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which featured ‘Lights’, was snubbed in the Best Album category.
But Bon Iver, who was a complete stranger to many of us before collaborating with Kanye on MBDTF, was nominated for 4 Grammy’s, including Song of the Year — which Kanye is also nominated for — and Record of the Year, which we assume is different from Song of the Year.
Fading rapper-turned-actor LL Cool J, 43, (pictured above) attended the concert after party with his long-suffering buxom wife, Simone Smith. I bet she has a lot of stories to tell, such as why LL Cool J is bleaching his skin when he’s already a light alabaster color. Or why he still calls himself “Ladies Love” Cool J, when they don’t.
Newspaper Disses the Grammy Awards 2012 Nominations
A British newspaper published a scathing article on the 2012 Grammy Awards, calling the show the worst representation of the best music of the year.
The writer was particularly brutal in her opinion of last night’s duet performance by rapper Ludacris and country musician Jason Aldean.
Other than sadism, there can be no other explanation for the sonic boom of hell that was a live duet featuring that master of subtlety, Ludacris – a singer perhaps best known for a song that features the Shakespearean chorus of “Get back, motherfucker, you don’t know me like that” – and Jason Aldean, an extraordinary young man whose life ambition appears to be to marry the two genres of rap and country music. Source
But she also reserved some venom for cartoon rapper Nicki Minaj, whom she referred to as “a zombie reading an autocue that was written by robots …” She added Nicki “… served as a double confirmation that just because a woman might dress crazy, she isn’t necessarily all that interesting.” Ouch!
Kanye West, who received the most nominations for 7 Grammy’s, didn’t even show up at last night’s Grammy warm up event. The writer pointed out that Kanye might have snubbed the event because his album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, “was not nominated for Best Album, despite most music critics lavishing so much praise on it one might have thought it was the cure for cancer.”
But it’s probably more likely that Kanye knows he is being set up for failure.
See the full list of nominations after the break — courtesy of loyal reader Mizzdallas!
Photos: Getty Images
