Selita Ebanks, who wore a $4.5 million bra and panties bedecked with 9,000 jewels. “Of course, you feel like a million bucks,” she told The News’ Jo Piazza, “but the diamonds between my legs pinch, so it is like getting a Brazilian wax every two seconds.”
Kanye West had to bow out of performing at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in LA last night for obvious reasons, but never fear! The Spice Girls, who look mostly the same, although the majority of them have gotten way, way skinnier, were on hand to lend their peforming services. This may or may not have been disastrous. I’ll need to check it out when it airs.
I’ll give it to Victoria’s Secret. With Jessica White, Selita Ebanks, and Noemie Lenoir stomping down the catwalk, they’ve got one up on most designers that show during fashion week. Three black models don’t exactly make an army (although there could have been more that weren’t pictured), but still. More pics — the men should like these — after the jump.
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• Readers in the New York area looking to break into the fashion industry and hear advice from blacks at the top of their game in the fashion world? Check out a panel discussion Sunday featuring Jay Alexander, Selita Ebanks, and Tia Williams (of Shake Your Beauty fame and, um, my mother’s womb), among others. Ticket sales go toward Designers for Darfur. [TL]
• Say goodbye to the black middle class? [BET]
• At least Jay-Z know who wears the performing-pants in his relationship. [HHDX]
• Among others, the granite industry is pissed that the statue for the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial will be Chinese made. But will it be an excellent statue? That’s all I want to know. [BG]
• Feds will “investigate” possible racism at a Louisiana public works department decorated with a bull whip, a noose, and a dart board with the bullseye replaced by a picture of a black man’s eye. Umm, yeah. Investigate that. []
Well, I certainly called it with this headline. Nick Cannon, has, indeed, quickly moved on from Selita Ebanks to a woman who is also way too hot for him. This time it’s Zulay Henao, the Columbian-American actress starring opposite Omarion in Feel the Noise.
What is Nick putting in their drinks? There should be a federal investigation.
[SP]
Sometimes opposites attract, but in the case of Selita Ebanks and Nick Cannon, not for long.
Selita and Nick are taking a break to focus on their careers but still very much love each other and remain the best of friends,” says her rep, Melissa Raubvogel.
The breakup comes just five months after the Drumline actor made a proposal that lit up New York’s Times Square – literally – as he asked Ebanks to marry him with the help of a jumbotron.
This should really come as no surprise, considering the fact that their relationship is widely considered a publicity stunt and Nick’s theory on engagements.
[People]
Out of the celebs in attendance at Friday evening’s Baby Phat/KLS show in NYC, the only one who might actually be caught dead in any of the B.P. get-ups on the runway is Remy Ma, who was probably salivating thinking of stuffing herself in that pink denim bedazzled suit. They rest came to see and be seen. See them and some looks from the show after the jump.
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See the look on Nick Cannon’s face as he hosted last night’s Teen Choice Awards? I think we are witnessing the moment, captured for posterity by an ingenious photographer, when Nick Cannon officially realized he was too old for this shit.
And yet, the show had to go on. If you have even the slightest interest in who won what, you can find the list of winners here. If not, check out the stars in their teen-friendly award show gear after the jump.
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Nick Cannon was full of wisdom on love, marriage, and babies at Mark Ecko’s golf charity in NYC last night. He takes an interesting position on engagement and rock ‘n’ roll dads.
Cannon – who is gearing up to host the Teen Choice Awards with Hilary Duff on August 26 – is a fan of the long engagement because, “you get to know people.”
“It’s that preparation time to see if this is what you really want,” the comedian/actor said at the Tuesday night event, held at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan.
A friend of Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, Cannon also weighed in on the couple’s pregnancy: “She had good parenting, so she’ll know how to get it going.”
What kind of dad will Joel be? “He’ll be a cool dad. The coolest dad. Any rock ‘n’ roll dad is a cool dad.”
I’ve got to disagree on a number of things, here. Nicole’s parents? Not widely considered to have done a very good job. Along the same lines, rock ‘n’ roll dads are not known the world over for being the best out there.
And while I don’t oppose long engagements, it’s supposed to be kind of assumed that you know the person pretty well and are aware that “this is what you really want” before you put the ring on the finger. It’s called dating.
More pics from the last night after the jump.
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• Nick Cannon announces he’s co-hosting the Teen Choice Awards with Hilary Duff. Expect Selita Ebanks to announce soon that it’s time to find a grown man. [People]
• Tameka Foster’s manipulative, Usher’s a sucker, blah blah blah. []
• This is the best and worst idea ever rolled into one. [MG]
• At $250 a person, it’s cheaper than Oprah’s Obama party, but Area ain’t a Santa Barbara estate. [TMZ]
• Eddie Murphy, Chris Tucker, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx, and Denzel Washington are supposedly (it sounds kind of improbable to me) in talks to star in a heist movie set in Trump Tower. Which they could all buy if they wanted to. [SOHH]
I’m shocked and amazed at the lack of major fashion don’ts last night, considering the crowd. Even Lil’ Kim, while I wouldn’t have chosen that outfit/makeup/hair necessarily, could have done much, much worse. I’m not saying there weren’t some questionable wardrobe and hair choices — I’m talking to Keyshia Cole and Vivica Fox specifically, here — but in general things were looking pretty good. More red carpet pics than you can handle after the jump.
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