Now, we all know that Kerry Washington is one of my favorite celebrities ever. And Common? Well, I’ve made no secret of being a fan of both his musical talents and his external appearance (but only if the hat stays on). So I am pleased, no, honored to spread an unconfirmed rumor that they are an item!
According to SOHH, she directed his newest video. According to , she was seen backstage last night at his concert in Norfolk. And, while I didn’t see them together there, they were both at the Hip Hop Honors last week. That’s enough for me. Start picking out the engagement rings!
To be taken with a grain of salt, of course: according to the Daily Mirror, Halle Berry has had to beef up security since racist notes threatening her unborn baby started appearing in her mailbox. Police are apparently investigating the threats. I’m investigating whether this story is true.
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Here’s the problem inherent in creating massive amounts of negative publicity for your no-good baby daddy. Once the no-good baby daddy stories run out, the public still has a thirst for negative stories period. Mel B, you’re up!
Tonia Lamere says Spice Girl Mel B left young Angel Iris with her while she eloped to Sin City with Stephen Belafonte.
“One evening of baby-sitting turned into four days!” Lamere tells Star magazine.
“The child was sick, there was no nanny, and when Mel called, she never even asked about the baby.”
Lamere also claims she was forced to buy food for baby Iris and her older half-sister (Phoenix Chi) out of her own pocket during the four days Brown was away.
Brown’s rep says this is all a fabrication, but also fails to come with the cold hard facts about Scary Spice’s wedding trip with the duck murderer. A parenting class for famous people should be a prerequisite to getting a SAG card or signing a record deal.
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I’m kind of disappointed. I was excited to see Rihanna and Shia LaBeouf start making hand-in-hand red carpet appearances together, but if Rihanna is to believed, there’s no romance happening on that front.
Actually, she claims she barely even knows him, which is pretty embarrassing if he was the one going around telling people they were together.
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Contrary to the rumors that have been furiously circulating the Internet and reported in the ever-reliable National Enquirer, Toni Braxton does not have breast cancer.
“There has been a rumor circulating that I have been diagnosed with breast cancer. After feeling something uncomfortable in my left breast, I went in for a screening. I was very fortunate that they did not find anything and I am in great health. However, I encourage women to take their annual tests and suggested precautions to prevent this disease that continues to affect so many women.”
Phew, I was worried for a while there. Now, I can breathe again.
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Whether they’re offering him the courtesy of “blindness” or putting him on Front Street, the NYC papers are skewering the very married Cuba Gooding, Jr., for his sloppy drunk and slutty ways.
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“He made out with about five different girls at his table,” claims a witness.
“First he made out with two girls. Then a fight broke out because some idiot thought he could hang out at his table, [but Gooding] was undeterred,” says the source.
“After that he made out with at least three other girls. He does not discriminate, either — Asians, blonds, brunettes. The girls were getting p—d at each other also because they were like, ‘He just made out with me!’”
Look, I get how Daddy Day Camp and Boat Trip could drive a once-promising actor to drink. But he’ll probably need to think of a better excuse than that when his wife reads about the indiscriminate making out. I know! He can tell her he’s gay.
Self-proclaimed publicist-turned-blogger, Jonathan Jaxson, who most notably claimed he knew for a fact that Beyonce and LeBron James had a weekend-long sex romp in a Miami hotel, is now “” celebs he knows to be gay or “at least bisexual.”
My prediction is that he rocks the industry with this list. Because none of us had any idea that Queen Latifah, Da Brat, Lance Bass, and Rosie O’Donnell were gay. Besides the obvious, there are the usual suspects on “closeted celeb lists” — Alicia Keys, Eve, Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Usher, Tom Cruise — and a little bit of Jamie Foxx and Cuba Gooding, Jr. thrown in for good measure. Plus he’s got a whole on Henry Simmons. Anyway, I hope our publicist-turned-blogger doesn’t think he’s broken any new gossip ground. The “list” is after the jump. I’d love to hear your opinions.
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50 Cent again? Look, I can’t help it if the guy gives some ridiculous quotes about Kanye West and has a nervous breakdown in the same day. According to Miss Info (via Idolator, since her blog post about it has disappeared), 50, who is apparently under a bit of a stretch, sort of lost it at the G-Unit offices yesterday when he found out that he new video, which has already been yanked from YouTube, with Robin Thicke has been leaked.
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Whether the rumor is that Jay-Z is fleeing Def Jam for Apple or for Columbia, the rumor always entails him fleeing, so we can bet that’s probably going to happen. Today, the New York Daily News speculates that Jay is heading to Columbia to be closer to Bey and Rick Rubin and, apparently, further away from Jermaine Dupri.
Other insiders say the arrival of Jermaine Dupri as president of the Island Urban music division in February is the reason.
“There isn’t room for two kings at one label,” says a source. “Why would Island bring in another power-hitter urban guy?”
Dupri’s main squeeze, Janet Jackson, followed him to Island two weeks ago. And Columbia is the home of Jay’s girlfriend, Beyoncé.
For businessman, Jay-Z and Jermaine Dupri sure do seem to be making a lot of decisions based on their girlfriends. Although, when your girlfriends are Beyonce and Janet Jackson, that’s probably unavoidable.
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Ciara must not be foremost in 50 Cent’s mind if he’s hooking up with girls that former British boy banders aren’t even interested in. Tabs are reporting that semi-famous-in-the-UK model Danielle Lloyd lost her footballer boyfriend over an alleged tryst with Ciara’s man last week. Do we think he brought 10 entourage members along for that hookup?
When Fiddy caught up with the buxom babe backstage he invited her back to his £2,500-per-night suit at the Landmark Hotel in West London, where they took a trip to the Candy Shop.
“Danielle was bragging to pals about how big he was – all over” a source told the Daily Mirror “She said he’s a mega-star in more ways than one.”
According to another source Lloyd “looked a bit wobbly after her late night.”
Dani was reportedly rejected by Take That star Jason Orange at the Di Concert the day before she met the rapper.
Judging by the way she was walking, we’re sure she didn’t mind.
Oh, that snarky British media. So we know that there is a big chance that none of this is true, just because it doesn’t seem all that reliable. But it’s not like it couldn’t be true, or that there aren’t hundreds of salacious stories that have never been printed in the paper or written about on blogs. In a nutshell, Ciara, your man will always act “like a boy.”
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