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Kerry Washington in Essence: ‘Special time to be woman of color’

2012-02-05T19:10:22Z

Actress Kerry Washington graces the cover of next month’s Essence Magazine, shere she big ups black women.

“I think it’s a really special time to be a woman of color in this business,”she says. “The landscape of who has the power is changing. We are in more influential positions and are able to have a say in the stories that are told. I feel very lucky to be in the business now…”

Washington has signed on to at least two big projects for 2012.

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Coldplay’s Chris Martin: ‘Rihanna ‘one of the top 5 singers in world’

2012-02-05T18:58:48Z

Coldplay’s Chris Martin may have paid Rihanna the ultimate compliment: “She’s one of the top five singers in the world,” Martin told Entertainment Weekly.
Rihanna has been criticized for not being a pure singer, with some saying that she can’t sing at all.

But that’s not with Coldplay frontman Martin had to say about the “Talk That Talk” singer, who collaborated on a song, “Princess of China“, together.

Watch: Rihanna could sing @ 15! (VIDEO)

Martin said he had Riri in mind from the beginning.

“While we were working on it, I was thinking, ‘I wish Rihanna was singing this.’ That was around the time of Rated R, when she was singing dark stuff like ‘Russian Roulette.’ I got nervous to ask [drummer] Will [Champion], because I knew he would say, ‘Well, we don’t really have guests on the records,’ but then I asked him and it was accepted as an idea. But the song itself was always asking for her.”

The process of recording with the Barbados native “was very organic,” he said. “I played her the song on the piano, and then she said ‘OK, leave it to me.’ And then the next thing you know, you’ve got a f—ing beautiful Rihanna record. She’s amazing. And by the way, she could sing the menu and it would sound amazing. Believe me, I thought about doing that — just replacing the rest of our album with her singing the menu. ‘Two ninety-nine!’”

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Watch ‘Basketball Wives’ Season 4 preview trailer (VIDEO)

2012-02-05T13:13:15Z

Get More: Basketball Wives (Season 4)

Playing off ‘The Game’ promo, VH1 just debuted the preview promo for “Basketball Wives 4″. It features all the gang, Evelyn Lozada, Jennifer Williams (who are now feuding) along with Royce Reed (who said she wasn’t coming back) and of course, the ringleader, holding a gun no less, Shaunie O’Neal?

One face doesn’t seem to be returning is the chick that got it on with Tami Roman last season, Mrs. Claxton. Nolo?

Are y’all tired of this or ready for Season 4 on Feb. 20?

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Forget Cinnamon, Can you do the Chilli Challenge? (VIDEO)

2012-02-05T13:02:45Z

The Cinnamon Challenge has gone viral, but can you do the Chilli Challenge? People have been taking a spoon of the righteous cinnamon fire and gulping it down in one sitting.
But what about a chilli pepper?
“What i decided to do is a man’s challenge — this is a man’s challenge,” says Youtube user AyyOnline. He gives us the low-down when he crunches down, chews and swallows a green pepper! #FIYAH!!!

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Rihanna = Back To Blondie

2012-02-05T12:49:22Z

Although it is just making news, Rihanna has had a blonde head of hair since last fall. She performed in London with a platinum coif as far back as November 2012.
The singer yesterday tweeted: @rihanna: #Back2Work 1st Cover of the year!!!! #ELLE. And ’Bleach + weave #WERQ.’The photo went viral (tx Rihanna Navy!) but it wasn’t the first time she’s had lightning-colored hair.

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Kelly Rowland feat. Lance Gross – “Keep It Between Us’ (VIDEO)

2012-02-05T12:24:49Z

Kelly Rowland – “Keep It Between Us” from Kelly Rowland on Vimeo.

Kelly Rowland released her third single from her “Here I Am” album last week, “Keep It Between Us,” featuring actor Lance Gross.
Rowland has been known to use actors and other celebs in her visuals: Nelly, 50 Cent and others have all starred onscreen with the former Destiny’s Child star.
“Keep It Between Us” features Gross as a former lover that doesn’t want to lose Rowland.
One fan wrote in the comments:
I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! WHEN LANCE FIRST TWEETED ABOUT HIM FLYING TO PARIS TO CREATE THIS VIDEO WITH KELLY, I WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE A FAN FICTION ON THE SONG. I AM AMAZED AT HOW SOME OF THE SCENES FROM MY STORY OCCUR IN THE VIDEO. PLEASE READ IT IF YOU’RE INTO FAN FICTIONS: HTTP://CELEBLUVGASMS.COM/?P=3539#COMMENTS

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Really? Will Smith & Jada Pinkett-Smith split up

2012-02-05T12:10:33Z

Acting couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are living apart, according to news reports. Will is living in his native Philadelphia with son Jaden, 13,; while Jada is in Los Angeles with daughter Willow, 11.

The couple met in 1990 when Jada tried out for the role of his girlfriend on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” (The part went to Nia Long).

They have been the perfect family for much of that time since, but Willow and Jaden are taking it hard, sources reveal to Star magazine. ”The kids are really suffering,” a source says.

Read: Will & Jada show off SoCal retreat (PIC)

“It’s always a shame when divorce splits up families,” Estelle Pinkett, Jada’s great-aunt, agrees.

“They haven’t spent any time as a whole family in months,” explains the source. “And it’s not going to happen anytime soon — if ever again.”

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Will divorced in 1995 from ex-wife Sheree Zampino, whom he paid a $900,000 lump sum divorce settlement plus $24,000 per month in alimony and child support; or about $288,000 a year.

“You’re so much stronger when your partner is strong. I honestly believe there is no woman for me but Jada. Of all the women I’ve met – and there’ve been a few – no one can handle me the way Jada does. Once you feel someone locked in on you, it’s no contest. As fine as other women can be, as tempting sexually, I’m not going anywhere. This is it. I can’t imagine what anyone else could offer,” Will said several years ago of his wife.

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Vanessa Bryant may not join ‘Basketball Wives’ cast

2012-01-24T11:17:36Z

Vanessa Bryant, estranged wife of Laker’s Kobe Bryant, may or may not join VH1′s “Basketball Wives,” according to reports.

It was reported over the weeekend that producers are putting together “an extremely lucrative pitch for Vanessa” … for her to become a recurring character.

Read: Did real basketball wives dish on Kobe to Vanessa?

Well, according to VH1, which owns the franchise, “Production has not reached out to Vanessa at this time.”

So that’s it. Anything else implying her imminent inclusion in the show is rumor. Early reports even said, “Vanessa has more than enough storyline and would bring the show to another level,” a source tells TMZ.

It may happen, but it’s nowhere close to being presented by either party. If it does, happen it would be huge.

“Basketball Wives,” executive-produced by Shaunie O’Neal, would reunite the wives of two of the biggest stars on the Lakers in the early 2000s.

Vanessa would be seen reportedly as a lead on the show, taking some of the screen time from Amani Showalter, who is waffling on whether she’ll return to the show or not.

Vanessa, whose split with Kobe, gave her three mansions reportedly worth around $75, would join the “L.A.” cast and not Miami.

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Seal & Heidi Klum divorcing over his ‘volcanic temper’

2012-01-24T10:50:10Z

The Supermodel and The Face may be headed to Splitsville. Heidi Klum and Seal will file for divorce, says TMZ.

The couple, married for six years, have been a model of celebrity marriage, having started a family with kids and all that.

But now it’s over. The couple will cite “irreconcilable differences” in their divorce papers, according to TMZ. Who would have thunk it?

“While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul-searching we have decided to separate. We have had the deepest respect for one another throughout our relationship and continue to love each other very much, but we have grown apart,” the couple said in a statement.

“This is an amicable process and protecting the well-being of our children remains our top priority, especially during this time of transition. We thank our family, friends, and fans for their kind words of support. And for our children’s sake, we appreciate you respecting our privacy.”

“I don’t condone it, but I get why he did it. He didn’t have anyone in his corner to say, ‘Hey mate, no you don’t’.” “What he did have was loads of ‘yes’ people. He just didn’t see it coming. He thought he was God and that he could do no wrong. And they always get you,” he said.

Of course, he said that he would always be faithful to his supermodel wifey Klum.
“Have I cheated before? Hell, yes! Not in my marriage, but in relationships before,” he admitted. “I mean, I’m married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful, women in the world. She is funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, and she loves me to bits.”

The two met in 2004 when Bondon-born Seal was a relevant singer with the hit “Eyes of a Rose”. Heidi actually was knocked up with her daughter Leni, now seven, with Italian businessman Flavio Briatore.

London-born crooner Seal, 48, was present for Leni’s birth and later adopted her.

He proposed on December 23, 2004, in an igloo he had built on a glacier in Whistler, British Columbia.

In December the couple tweeted pics of the family vacation in the snow-capped mountains. The 38-year-old model and her hubby watched their four kids on the sleds.

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Beyonce, Jay-Z moving overseas for Blue Ivy’s sake?

2012-01-22T15:51:12Z

After her birth two weeks ago, Beyonce, Jay-Z are reportedly thinking about moving overseas to protect baby Blue Ivy.

The move would put two of the former Destiny’s Child members in foreign countries. In 2010, Kelly Rowland bought a home in London, where she blew up as a house music star.

A source told Look Magazine that Bey and Jay are considering uprooting themselves from NYC and relocating to a new country, possibly France, to escape the high-profile madness in the states.

Read: Beyonce gives birth to Blue Ivy

“I can even see them moving to somewhere like France, like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, where they won’t get harassed by paps and can bring Blue up as part of a normal family,” a source told Look magazine.

The only problem with that is they would be unknowingly going into the media frenzy-liar of the paparazzi, a french word meaning “crazy people with cameras.”

Read: Backlash @ Lenox Hill over Beyonce’s baby

“They’d already been careful to mislead the public into thinking Blue was due in February, so no one would show up at the hospital in New York, and Jay-Z also made arrangements to block off her maternity suite from everybody else,” the insider told Look.

“He sent in a team of security experts to assess what they’d need and where to place the guards. It was like a president was going to be in that hospital!”

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Really? Will Smith & Jada Pinkett-Smith split up

Acting couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are living apart, according to news reports. Will is living in his native Philadelphia with son Jaden, 13,; while Jada is in Los Angeles with daughter Willow, 11.

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