Celebs were out and about partying to bring in the new year.
Usher threw wifey Tameka a birthday bash at The Bank Nightclub at Bellagio in Vegas.
Meanwhile, Reggie and Kim brought in the year at LAX in Vegas
I actually like this couple.
And Dame brought in the year with his son Boggie at Club Plumm. Looks Boggie scored a DJing gig.
Friday, January 02, 2009
CELEBS BRING IN THE NEW YEAR
Thursday, January 01, 2009
SOLANGE SOAKS IN THE SUN
Solanage hit the Miami beach this weekend.
With a zebra-striped bikini hiding underneath her zombie-printed coverup, Solange Knowles soaks in the Miami surf.
MARIAH & NICK OUT AND ABOUT
Looks like Nariah is getting around these days
After trekking through the snow-covered streets of Aspen, Colo., last week, Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon defrost with detour to St. Bart's Nikki Beach Resort.
Monday, December 29, 2008
JENNIFER AND MARC HEADED TO DIVORCE?
The NY Daily News reports that J.Lo and Marc are headed toward splittsville.
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony may have renewed their wedding vows a mere three months ago, but their rocky romance will likely bite the dust right after Valentine’s Day, says an insider.
“Marc and Jennifer are planning on announcing their divorce right after Marc’s show at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 14,” a friend of the couple tells us. “Jennifer is planning on joining Marc onstage for a surprise duet. Things haven’t been right for a while now, and they thought it would be a bittersweet farewell.”
Definitely one for theatrics in arenas, J.Lo confessed her pregnancy at a sold-out show in Miami during her El Cantante tour in November 2007 and will employ the same shock value a second time around.
“They’re definitely planning a clean break in February,” the source insists.
The couple, who have been married just over four years and are the parents of 10-month-old twins Max and Esme, renewed their vows in a surprise Las Vegas ceremony back in October, but sources close to the pair say that it didn’t help, and that their relationship has been on a downward spiral in recent months. Lopez, 39, set tongues wagging when she arrived at “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” premiere in early December without her wedding or engagement rings.
GV Says: I'm not sure how much I believe this one. Hope it's not true.
Friday, December 26, 2008
EARTHA KITT PASSES
Sultry singer Eartha Kitt died on Christmas Day in New York City at 81 after being treated for colon cancer.
Her daughter Kitt Shapiro was by her side at the time of her death. Known primarily for singing in her distinctively raspy voice and purring like a cat as Catwoman on the '60s TV series Batman, Kitt was a star of stage, the small and big screen and music. She was nominated for three Tony awards, two Grammy awards and two Emmys. A performer to the very end, Kitt taped a PBS special in Chicago six weeks ago that is set to air in February, CNN reports.
MARIAH & NICK HIT THE SLOPES
Mimi and Nick were spotted on the slopes of Aspen this holiday season . 
GV Says: These two....so camera ready...so much faux fur....these two are a sight. Good luck to them
EVA'S ENGAGED
Look who's engaged....Eva Pigford (a.k.a. Marcille) and Lance Gross.
Lance popped the question Christmas Eve. No date has been set.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
JENNIFER HUDSON TO TAKE THE STAGE
Jennifer Hudson will take the stage for the first time since the October murders of her mother, brother and nephew on February 6 as part of the Recording Academy's MusiCares Person of the Year gala.
The event will honor veteran singer/songwriter Neil Diamond, and will feature Hudson singing one of Diamond's songs alongside a number of other contemporary singers paying homage to the "Sweet Caroline" crooner, including Coldplay, Adele, Foo Fighters, Josh Groban, Raul Malo and Tim McGraw.
Hudson has remained secluded since the murders, which resulted in charges on December 2 against her brother-in-law, William Balfour, who faces three counts of first-degree murder and one count of home invasion.
MURDERER OF T.I.'S FRIEND SENTENCED.
Less than a month after T.I. took the witness stand in a Cincinnati courtroom to testify about the night in 2006 when his best friend and assistant, Philant Johnson, was killed, Hosea Thomas was sentenced to 66 years in prison for pulling the trigger.
According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Ralph "Ted" Winkler handed down a sentence of 66 years to life on Tuesday morning (December 23). Thomas will not be eligible for release until 2074, when he will be 100 years old.
It was the second time Thomas has been sent to prison for shooting a gun in public. The first time occurred in 1992, when he got into a bar fight, left to get a gun and returned to the scene and shot wildly into a crowd, wounding a pregnant woman who ended up giving birth three months prematurely due to her injuries. The woman later testified against Thomas, who spent eight years in prison for the incident.
This time, Thomas' fate was sealed by the damaging testimony of his own brother, Padron Thomas, who was behind the wheel when Hosea fired at T.I.'s van after an altercation at a Cincinnati nightclub on May 3, 2006.
During his testimony, T.I. described the chaotic scene inside the club that night and his difficulty in telling Johnson's then 5-year-old daughter that her father had passed, explaining that he apologized to Johnson's mother, "because I felt that all those rounds were fired for me."
During the trial, prosecutors claimed that Thomas was hit in the head with a liquor bottle during a fight at the club as he tried to get into the VIP area reserved for the rapper and his crew. Thomas later jumped into the passenger seat of his brother's car and they began chasing T.I.'s vans, leaning out of the window to fire shots at the vehicles while an unidentified person in one of the vans returned fire. The gun battle continued on the city streets and ended with Johnson being shot in the head and three others in the vans sustaining non-life-threatening wounds.
The Enquirer reported that Thomas — who was convicted of murder, five counts of felonious assault and being a felon with a gun — offered brief condolences to Johnson's family and asked Winkler for mercy in his sentencing, but the judge said he would show him only as much mercy as Thomas showed his victims.
"(Thomas) gave Philant Johnson a death sentence, and his family — he gave them a death sentence as well," the judge said, adding that he hoped Thomas never gets out of prison. "All of his crimes have been cowardly and senseless. ... You could say he's the poster boy for gun violence in Cincinnati."
JANET JACKSON INDULGES
JJ was spotted leaving Burritos El Chavo after having lunch there with a friend yesterday
GV Says: I guess she's back to her old cycle.
JAY-Z & MARY J BLIGE SUED
MJB and Hov are being sued.
Two producers have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Mary J. Blige and others claiming her track, "On My Grind," is too similar to a tune they submitted to the song's producer, reports TMZ.
New Jersey-based Jermaine Jumpp and Michael C. Adams say in their federal lawsuit that they handed a "compact disk" to the "office" of producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins that contained the song "On My Grind."
Four years later, Darkchild produced the track "Enough Cryin'" for Mary J., the track they maintain is a rip off of "On My Grind."
"Enough Cryin" was recorded and mixed in 2005 for Blige's multi-platinum album "The Breakthrough."
Jay-Z was also named in the lawsuit, although his role is unclear.
CHRISTINA COOLS OFF
After ripping Nick a new one in the press for cheating on her, Christina has finally lost her raft when it comes to ex Nick.
"He's a beautiful person...Regardless of what I felt in the past at the time, I actually forgive him and I'm very much over that."
She went on to talk of Nick's new love.
"I was like, 'Really?' It just seemed like a weird match," says the singer and actress. “But I was happy for him. I always feel like Nick works hard to get what he wants, whether that be women – that's how he got me."
Christina is gracing the new issue of Rap-Up mag.
GV Says: Isn't that funny....Christina and I had the same reaction.
Monday, December 22, 2008
CHRIS AND RIHANNA GET THEIR GROVE ON
Rihanna and Chris were spotted in Paris this weekend getting their grove on at club Palais Maillo
In other RiRi news, the singer will be on hand in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day. She will headline the Recording Industry Association of America's charity ball to benefit Feeding America on Jan. 20
JERMAINE SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
No babies on the way for JJ
JD is using his blog to set the record straight regarding JJ and the never-ending rumors that she is pregnant.
TO ALL THE JANET FANS,
AS YOU ALL KNOW JANET IS A VERY PRIVATE PERSON THE ONLY REASON YOU SEE HER
AS MUCH AS YOU DO ON MY YOUTUBE VLOG IS BECAUSE OF ME LOL
BUT I HEAR YALL AND YOUR QUESTIONS. SO HEAR YOU HAVE IT…
NO SHE IS NOT PREGNANT AND YES WE’RE STILL TOGETHER.
IT BAFFLES ME HOW YALL LET THESE BLOG AND MAGAZINES CONTROL YOUR LIFES
THAT’S WHY I CREATED GLOBAL14.COM SO WHEN EVER HEAR SHIT ABOUT ME YOU
CAN COME RIGHT HERE AND GET THE TRUTH.
The pregnancy rumors flared up again after JJ canceled a string of concerts on her Rock Witchu tour this fall because of "migraine-associated vertigo," which is characterized by dizziness, imbalance and other symptoms.
BEYONCE BRINGS THE BLING
Rag mag Starmagazine is giving the skinny on Beyonce's bling
The singer received two engagement baubles from her hubby: a $5 million 18-carat diamond ring, and a $5,000 cubic zirconia copy!
"Even though Beyoncé's real engagement ring is insured, she doesn't always feel comfortable wearing such a valuable stone," an insider says.
She rocks out on stage with the fake, while the real rock is locked away in a vault!
MICHAEL JACKSON ILL?
Is Michael fighting an illness? The NY Daily New reports:
Michael Jackson is suffering from a rare lung condition and needs to undergo an emergency transplant operation, according to a report that continues to gain steam.
And his normally outspoken publicist hasn't denied the allegations.
The King of Pop may even be fighting for his life, New York Times bestselling biographer Ian Halperin tells In Touch magazine and Britain's Sunday Express newspaper.
Halperin, author of such tomes as "Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain" and "Stalking Britney: Under Siege With Britney Spears," says Jackson has been diagnosed with Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, an occasionally fatal genetic condition.
"He's had it for years but it's gotten worse," Halperin told In Touch. "He needs a lung transplant but may be too weak to go through with it.
He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping. It's the bleeding that is the most problematic part. It could kill him."
According to Halperin, Jackson "can barely speak" and is having trouble seeing: "The vision in his left eye is 95 percent gone."
Jackson, who has lived largely out the public eye in recent years, shocked fans in July when he was photographed in wheelchair.
The 50-year-old also received help walking when stepped out in Los Angeles earlier this month wearing a Zorro-style face mask.
Jackson's rep was unavailable for comment Sunday, but the singer's brother Jermaine didn't deny the reports, telling Fox News, "He's not doing so well right now. This isn't a good time."
GV Says: Well hopefully he is in good health. He has been looking frail lately.
NELLY READY TO POP THE QUESTION?
Spies at the rag mag Starmagazine are reporting that Nelly is ready to wife up Ashanti.
Nelly is ready to propose to his girlfriend of five years, Ashanti. But there's just one problem: He can't stand her mother, Tina Douglas!
"Tina sticks her nose in everything because she's also Ashanti's manager," a source tells Star. "She's always pushing Ashanti to make more money, to always look great. It stresses her out, and Nelly doesn't like that."
The rapper, 34, has tried to encourage Ashanti, 28, to become more independent, but "Tina has such a strong personality that she's kind of afraid of her." Still, if the singer doesn't put her mom in her place soon, she won't be getting that rock she's been hoping for.
"Before he makes her his wife," adds the source, "Nelly wants to know that Ashanti can make decisions on her own."
GV Says: Interesting...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
KENYON MARTIN SPORTS A NEW TAT
Nuggets forward Kenyon Martins has gone and gotten a tattoo as an ode to his new girlfriend rapper Trina.
“It’s just something that I wanted to get a while ago, but I’m not just gonna get it for anyone,” Martin said at a dinner to officially launch his foundation.
GV Says: I could say so much about this....hasn't he been married (better yet is he still married)? Were those women not special enough?
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