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If you missed the MTV Video Musicawards Sunday night, you missed the debut of the soon-to-be little Jay-Z and Beyonce. Yes that’s right, the singer is pregnant and has been the talk of the whole event, upstaging even Katy Perry’s 10 nominations and three moonman trophies. Before the show even began, on the black carpet, arriving in a loose fitting red gown Beyonce announced the pregnancy as she clutched her baby bump. Later that evening, she performed on stage in an atypical conservative spangled tux, but danced around in those high heels like nothing’s new. She didn’t say anything about the news at first, but when she ended the performance by taking off her jacket and rubbing her belly. At that point the crowd erupted in applause and cheering. So despite all of the show’s year-long planning, outrageous outfits and wild performances, Beyonce’s pregnancy was no doubt the highlight and main attraction all night long.
Results have come back about the death of Amy Winehouse, who died of unknown causes on July 23. According to a toxicology report, the singer did not have any illegal drugs in her system at the time of death. The report did however reveal that there was alcohol in her system. But the cause of death is still a mystery. In the meantime, while the world mourns the singer’s premature death, a tribute and surprise film debut of a Winehouse/Tony Bennett duet is expected to be revealed on the MTV Video Music Awards, which will air Sunday, Aug. 28 on what would have been the singer’s 28th birthday. “It was a thrill to record with Amy Winehouse and when you listen to the recording of ‘Body and Soul, it is a testament to her artistic genius and her brilliance as one of the most honest musicians I have ever known,” Bennett said in the statement.
Jani Lane – former lead singer of the rock band Warrant – was found dead at a hotel in L.A. Thursday evening … TMZ has learned.
Lane’s body was discovered at the Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, CA. So far, no official cause of death has been released.
Lane famously penned the band’s biggest hit “Cherry Pie” back in 1989 … before eventually leaving the band to pursue a solo career.
Lane had a history of alcohol-related issues — he was ordered to serve 120 days in jail after he was arrested for DUI in 2010 … his second DUI in two years.
Lane was 47.
How long will the insane fighting go on with VH-1’s Basketball Wives? I am sure this is not the vision that Shaunie O’Neal had when she created the show. The latest episode featured a virtual smackdown when Tami slammed the crap out of Castmate Meeka Claxton. Every week there is a fight, and it’s not just Basketball Wives. All of these female-based reality shows have fighting and screaming matches. I am sick of it, and I have decided I can no longer co-sign these shows. I always liked Tami Roman, but the producers have set her up like the drunk, crazy one. Evelyn Lozado is already looking for life after Basketball Wives. I hear she is in talks to join Dancing With The Stars.
SIDEBAR: I’m so sick of all these “so called reality shows” give me a break!
The Kid Is Not My Son! No, this isn’t the Michael Jackson classic Billie Jean, but it’s Rohan Marley, the longtime partner of Singer Lauryn Hill. For seven months, Hill kept her pregnancy a secret, and Rohan said he wasn’t the father. Rohan and Hill have five children together, and when they met and hooked up, he was already married with two kids. Hill, 36, describes her relationship with Rohan as long and complex. She recently admitted he was not the father of her sixth child, a boy born last weekend. The baby came four weeks early, and Hill had to have emergency surgery. Rohan has been spotted with a Brazilian model who has not been quiet about her love for Rohan. Hill says she appreciates the well wishes, but now she is concentrating on her children.
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SIDEBAR: 6 KIDS, my God and you haven’t got married once? Lauryn we are curious what is your belief
regarding stability of children with 2 parents, especially that many kids. This is a sad commentary for
mother hood, wake up somebody and smell the coffee. I love kids too, but I’m not trying to increase on this
over crowded planet already. How do you plan now to take care of 6 kids? Your career is real shaky…………
Published reports say BET has put Mo’Nique’s late night talk show on indefinite hiatus. I told you last week about the reports of on set conflicts. I hear Mo’s husband Sidney Hicks was involved in those rumblings. The good news forMo’Nique is that she has signed on for a new movie project called Bumped. The Oscar-winning actress and comedienne said it took her a while to get around to acting again because she had been hard at work on her BET show. Looks like she’ll have the time now, insiders don’t expect The Mo’Nique Show to return.
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SIDEBAR: Listen if nothing else I’ve learn in life, you should keep business and personal
separate at all time. They do not mix together believe me. Now it looks as though it has
cost you your job – H E L L O somebody this is your wake up call darlin.
Amy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27.
Winehouse shot to fame with the album “Back to Black,” whose blend of jazz, soul, rock and classic pop was a global hit. It won five Grammys and made Winehouse — with her black beehive hairdo and old-fashioned sailor tattoos — one of music’s most recognizable stars.
Police confirmed that a 27-year-old female was pronounced dead at the home in Camden Square northern London; the cause of death was not immediately known. London Ambulance Services said Winehouse had died before the two ambulance crews it sent arrived at the scene.
“I didn’t go out looking to be famous,” Winehouse told the Associated Press when “Back to Black” was released. “I’m just a musician.”
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wed by fame, and by Winehouse’s demons. Tabloids lapped up the erratic stage appearances, drunken fights, stints in hospital and rehab clinics. Performances became shambling, stumbling train wrecks, watched around the world on the Internet.
Born in 1983 to taxi driver Mitch Winehouse and his pharmacist wife Janis, Winehouse grew up in the north London suburbs, and was set on a showbiz career from an early age. When she was 10, she and a friend formed a rap group, Sweet ‘n’ Sour — Winehouse was Sour — that she later described as “the little white Jewish Salt ‘n’ Pepa.
Filming has started on Steve Harvey’s new movie Think Like A Man. The cast is incredible: Kevin Hart, Gabrielle Union, Chris Brown, Michael Ealy, Nephew Tommy, Taraji P. Henson and Meagan Goode. It’s based on Harvey’s bestselling book Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man.
Blair Underwood has joined the cast of Bishop T.D. Jakes’ movie On The Seventh Day. The movie also stars Pam Grier and Sharon Leal. Bishop Jakes is on a roll. He recently co-produces Jumping The Broom. His other films include Woman Thou Art Loosed with Kimberly Elise and Not Easily Broken with Morris Chestnut.
SWV is getting back together. They are planning a tour, a new album and a reality show. Coko, Taj and Lelee are back.
The Reverend Al Sharpton is getting his own show on MSNBC. The cable news network is close to hiring him for a 6pm nightly show.
Wendy Williams returns for a third season of her daytime talk show on September 12th.
Get ready for a second season of the VH1 smash Single Ladies. VHI has renewed the show. It is the cable network’s first hour-long scripted series about three best friends in Atlanta. LisaRaye and Stacey Dash star. Queen Latifah is the show’s executive producer. The second season debuts next year.
The 63rd Annual Emmy Awards air September 18th on FOX. Congrats to Taraji P. Henson, Andre Braugher, Idris Elba, Laurence Fishburne and Alfre Woodard, who have all been nominated for Emmys this year.
Dwight Eubanks has left the building.Dwight has been a staple of The Real Housewives Of Atlanta. Eubanks says he feels the show has no sense or substance. He says it’s time to leave the buffoonery and craziness behind. Sources say Eubanks is really upset because the show won’t reveal what he really does. He is the owner of a salon, and producers have never shown it. Eubanks, 50, may pop up somewhere else because he says he is not finished with TV.
Judge Mablean Ephriam says she would like to return to Divorce Court.It’s been five years since the 62-year old Ephriam left the show in a dispute over money and her hair. Judge Mablean appeared on the popular divorce show for seven years, and she made quite a name for herself. Over the past few years, she has appeared in several Tyler Perry movies, and she took care of her mother, who recently passed away.
After 11 years, get ready for the return of D’Angelo. He has been in the studio with Questlove of The Roots, and D’Angelo says new music is coming before the end of the year. Over the past few years, D’Angelo has been through a lot, including a serious car accident, arrests, drugs and soliciting a prostitute.
Washington, D.C. — Continuing their mutual commitment to the lives of Black women, on September 21, 2011, the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), the National Action Network (NAN), I Choose Life Health and Wellness Center (ICL), and members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will present The Women’s Health Summit:
“Harnessing Our Power: “Mind, Body, and Soul” with a special focus on “HIV/AIDS and African American Women: The Forgotten Population” during the Annual Legislative Caucus (ALC) in Washington, DC. WHUR 96.3 FM-Washington is the official media sponsor.
The Women’s Health Summit will assemble a cohort of experts to discuss the myriad of health concerns and disparities that impact Black women, while also providing insight, valuable information and actions for healthy living.
“There are a plethora of diseases and health issues that continue to disproportionately affect Black women when compared to our counterparts,” says Avis Jones-DeWeever, PhD, author, policy analyst, and Executive Director, NCNW. “As organizations that are invested in the lives of Black women, we wanted to band together to encourage a holistic dialogue that’s solution-based and helps Black women to lead mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy lives.”
Not only are African American women more at risk for heart disease, cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, and diabetes, Black women also have the highest rates of obesity, are mostly likely to die during childbirth and mostly likely to suffer the tragedy of infant mortality. Regarding other areas of concern, African American women are less likely to receive accurate mental health diagnoses than their Caucasian counterparts. Additionally, African-American women experience domestic violence at a rate that’s 35% higher than Caucasian women and thus account for a disproportionate number of intimate partner homicides.
AIDS still remains a devastating killer of Black women, yet they continue to be relegated to footnotes in national dialogues. The rates of new HIV infections for Black women is nearly 15 times as high as that of Caucasian women and AIDS diagnosis for African American women is at a rate of 20 times higher. HIV/AIDS-related conditions are now the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25-34 years.
The Women’s Health Summit will “host a panel focused on overall health to tackle domestic violence/sexual assault, sexual health and reproduction, mental health, infant mortality, and obesity.” And in efforts to reduce the continued impact of HIV/AIDS on Black women, the summit will also convene “HIV/AIDS and African American Women: The Forgotten Population,” a special focus panel, that will look back on the thirty years of the pandemic. The range of experts who will serve as summit panelists include: Gail Wyatt, PhD, University of Southern California; Tony Wafford, President & CEO, I Choose Life; Laura Meyers, PhD, President & CEO, Planned Parenthood-Metropolitan; Willie J. Parker, MD, MPH, Former Medical Director, Planned Parenthood-Metropolitan; Jamila Perritt, MD, Present Medical Director, Planned Parenthood-Metropolitan; Debra Fraser-Howze, Senior Vice President of Government and External Affairs, OraSure Technologies, Inc.; Dazon Dixon-Dialo, MPH, SisterLove; Monica Sweeney, MD, New York City Health Department; Cynthia Davis, MPH, Board Member, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences Institute, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
Panel moderators will be: WHUR 96.3 FM news reporter Molette Green; Jeff Johnson, award-winning journalist, social activist and political commentator; Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Executive Director, NCNW, and Dr.Tricia Bent-Goodley, Chair of the CAPS Sequence, Howard University, School of Social Work.
“We’re coming together to show Black women that despite these devastating facts, they are not alone,” says Tony Wafford, President & CEO, I Choose Life. “As a unified force, we can develop solutions to enhance, preserve and protect the lives of Black women.”
The Women’s Health Summit will take place on Wednesday, September 21 from 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm at the National Headquarters of NCNW, 633 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20004. Spacing is limited; please RSVP at
ncnwprograms@gmail.com.
This summit will be sponsored by the following; Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative (AAALI), AIDS Healthcare Foundation, (AHF), Office of Minority Health, (OMH), Office on Women’s Health (OWH), and Vitas.