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Are you watching Dancing With The Stars? Viewership is down 20 %, but the show still averaged 21 million viewers. This year’s cast is impressive. Despite doing poorly in her first week, Wendy Williams is vowing to do better. C’mon Wendy! How you dancin’? Kirstie Alley and Ralph Macchio (the original Karate Kid) were very impressive.
Regina King got some good news this week. Her TNT police drama Southland has been renewed for a fourth season.
Singer Kem is coming out with a new fragrance. He hopes to have his fragrance Secure out by Mother’s Day
Della Reese is returning to TV in the ABC show Hallelujah from Desperate Housewives Creator Marc Cherry. Reese’s last show was the CBS hit Touched By An Angel.
Celebrity Apprentice is the talk of the town. Donald Trump admits he has a winning cast, and he loves the drama. 70-year old Singer Dionne Warwick has surprised everyone with her strong attitude. Warwick is an “OG,” and she don’t take no mess! In the next few weeks, look for the drama to turn up between Star Jones and NeNe Leakes of The Real Housewives Of Atlanta. These two clearly do not like each other. Their on screen fighting has spilled out to the public, and it’s vicious. Leakes has befriended Star’s ex-husband Al Reynolds. Reynolds loves the spotlight, and will do anything to get back in it. Star Jones did not anticipate the drama with NeNe, but she won’t be bullied or back down. Jones released her latest book entitled Satan’s Sisters. The book is about a woman on a female-based talk show called The Lunch Club, and how the other women on the show betray and stab her in the back. Is she talking about her former co-stars on The View? Jones says no.
TMZ is reporting that Wendy Williams was sued by a concert promoter who claims she was paid $25,000 to appear at an Atlantic City resort, but her conduct at the event “was best described as … ungrateful.”
According to the lawsuit, Williams was scheduled to make a two-hour appearance at The Pool at Harrah’s Resort. The suit claims Williams hardly mingled with guests and left after only an hour — after complaining how she and her husband wanted to leave.
The talk show host and “Dancing With the Stars” contestant was supposed to take the mic on stage, but instead retreated to a cabana, the lawsuit states.
The suit also claims Williams “disappointed her fans who came out expecting her to host the party,” and alleges she demanded four bottles of Ace of Spades champagne and two bottles of white wine at her cabana.
The lawsuit states Williams and her husband said they wanted to be left alone while they drank.
The Queen Of Soul Aretha Franklin has changed her life. No more ham hocks, chitterlings or pigs feet, she is exercising and eating differently. Franklin is also working on a new album (she has enlisted R Kelly to help her), and she’s planning to go on tour this summer. Franklin says she hopes to get down to a size 16. Franklin also had advice for Fantasia, who boycotted the Grammys: Calm Down! So What You Didn’t Get To Participate In That Grammy Tribute, You Are Young And Other Opportunities Will Come Your Way! She says she plans to meet Fantasia this summer. Look for the Wendy Williams exclusive interview with The Queen Of Soul the week of March 1st.
SIDEBAR – Fantasia tone down all the screaming, or you would have been on the show.
In addition to a third season for The Wendy Williams Show, The Queen Of All Media is going to be hosting a show on the Game Show Network. Williams is the new host of Love Triangle. It’s a mixture of a game show and a talk show. It debuts on April 18th. Wendy is also rumored to be joining the new cast of Dancing With The Stars.
As season two gets underway for The Wendy Williams Show, you will notice new set changes. Behind the scenes, a new producer has been put in place. Word has it the show is being toned down. Don’t change Wendy! There is no one else like her on TV, and that is what makes Wendy Wendy. If the show took a ratings hit, blame it on all the reruns and long hiatus breaks. Let Wendy shine and do her thing!
Whitney Houston Tour has Fans Asking for Refunds. There have been multiple reports in the past week calling Whitney Houston’s overseas tour performances a complete disaster and that she’s been asked to postpone some dates due to her “fragile condition.” The latest complaints come from Australian fans, who apparently watched as the diva flubbed her way through a concert in Brisbane on Monday night. Popeater is reporting that the 46-year-old “took a break after just two songs, brought her brother onstage to hit her high notes and slurped from a water bottle through a closing performance of ‘I Will Always Love You.’” One concertgoer told the press outside: “She couldn’t entertain a dead rat.” Monday’s performance at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre was the first of several Australian stops on Houston’s “Nothing But Love” comeback tour. On Tuesday (Feb. 23), concert promoter Andrew McManus defended the singer against the many ticket purchasers calling for a refund. “It was not a train wreck,” McManus told Agence France-Presse of Houston’s performance. “She was hitting most of the notes; yes, her throat was a little croaky. Her health is fine, but she’s also not 22 years of age anymore.” According to concert reviews cited by the AFP, Houston also appeared disoriented during the show, relied heavily upon backup singers and struggled to remember the names of her band members. “This show was like watching a slow and painful death of a living legend,” a Courier-Mail reader wrote in. Last week, a rep for Whitney Houston denied rumors that the “Million Dollar Bill” singer is in ill health following poor performances in Japan. According to the National Enquirer, Houston was urged to postpone upcoming live dates “after a string of health problems in recent months.” But her spokesperson called the article “rubbish” and “ridiculous.” In fact, she has added three more dates to her upcoming U.K. leg, which kicks off in Manchester on April 8.
Wendy Williams defended First Lady Michelle Obama on her talk show last week, according to Black Voices.*
The talk show host said if you are going to call anyone an “angry black woman” don’t look at Obama, but someone like Nene Leakes.
“The Wendy Williams Show” (weekdays on Fox) doesn’t usually get political, but when Williams heard that Michelle Obama was defending herself against being described as “an angry black woman,” she sprang to the First Lady’s defense. “If you’re a black woman and you have something to say and you say it like you mean it, everybody portrays us … as an angry black woman,” Williams said.
Williams then pointed out that a somewhat similar critique was leveled at another smart, powerful First Lady, Hillary Clinton, who Williams remembered was called an “angry lesbian woman” by her detractors. “As soon as you get a little strong, then okay, you’re a lesbian,” Williams lamented.
SIDEBAR: What do you call a weak man a “pussy”?