Source: Morgan Lieberman / Getty Geoffrey Owens Claps Back At Haters At SAG Awards Actor Geoffrey Owens was the unfortunate victim if the uncouth internet last September when some a$$hole thought it hilarious to film him bagging up work at Trader Joe’s to make ends meet. Fast forward to 2019 and Owens has been showered with employment opportunity and applause for the classy way that he handled his very public shaming. Last night Owens attended the SAG awards where he received more applause and ample opportunity to verbally extend his middle finger to those who thought him the butt of their jokes. Today, TMZ caught up with Owens to talk about what the moment meant to him and how his life has changed over the last four months. God bless Geoffrey Owens, but “unsweetened apple sauce”?
Source: Morgan Lieberman / Getty Geoffrey Owens Claps Back At Haters At SAG Awards Actor Geoffrey Owens was the unfortunate victim if the uncouth internet last September when some a$$hole thought it hilarious to film him bagging up work at Trader Joe’s to make ends meet. Fast forward to 2019 and Owens has been showered with employment opportunity and applause for the classy way that he handled his very public shaming. Last night Owens attended the SAG awards where he received more applause and ample opportunity to verbally extend his middle finger to those who thought him the butt of their jokes. Today, TMZ caught up with Owens to talk about what the moment meant to him and how his life has changed over the last four months. God bless Geoffrey Owens, but “unsweetened apple sauce”?
According to the Associated Press, the media maven recently purchased a 10 percent stake at Weight Watchers for approximately $43.2 million. The acquisition scored the businesswoman nearly 6.4 million shares of the company. As a result of the five-year partnership, Weight Watchers has earned the right to use Winfrey’s name, image, likeness and endorsement for the brand’s programs, products and services with her approval. Oprah has also received the right to use the Weight Watchers brand and logo for collaborative promotional efforts. Winfrey will also be joining the weight loss and maintenance company’s board of directors. With the television personality’s recent inclusion, the Weight Watchers board has expanded from nine to ten members. [ MadameNoire ] Bobby Brown To Release ‘My Prerogative’ Memoir Detailing Bobbi Kristina’s Death Since the tragic death of Bobbi Kristina, Bobby Brown has only talked about his daughter in-depth once. Last month, Brown and his wife visited the daytime talk show The Real, where offered heartfelt words about Kristina and the guilt he felt about not being able to come to her rescue in time. Now, it has been recently reported and confirmed by Dey Street Books that Brown is penning a memoir, reasonably titled My Prerogative, as reported by US Weekly. Slated as a tell-all of his controversial life – including details of Kristina’s death, “the book, out June 2016, promises to “tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston,” a release from the publishing house explains. Brown had already arranged and signed off on the book deal prior to his daughter’s hospitalization… [ MadameNoire ] Butthurt Racists Threaten To #BoycottStarWars Over Black Lead Character The trailer for the final Star Wars: The Force Awakens film has a lot of racists (and sexists) upset because the cast is fronted by a Black guy, and a woman. You can’t please everybody. Once the trailer dropped, racist Twitter immediately went into defense mode. It’s been concluded that Star Wars director J.J. Abrams is suffering from self-hate because of the casting choices, and thus the #Boycottstarswars hashtag was born. This argument is of course so stupid that it doesn’t really even deserve the attention, but everyone gets fair billing here at Hip-Hop Wired — even the a**holes complaining about nonsense. Seriously, who raised these people? [ HipHopWired ] Tamar Braxton Performed Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” On ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ And Killed It [ VibeVixen ] Snoop Dogg Passes Out Mixtape CDs to Police [ TMZ ] 10 Contemporary African Artists You Don’t Know But Should [ HuffingtonPost ] Joe Giudice Deported? ‘RHONJ’ Couple Will Move To Italy Together If Need Be [ StarPulse ]
D.R.A.M. Says Drake Jacked Cha Cha For Hotline Bling Drake broke the internet last night after dropping his new video for ‘Hotline Bling’ but one person wasn’t feeling the dirty dancing in the video. Rapper D.R.A.M. took to his Twitter to blast the Six God for “jacking” his song ‘Cha Cha’ and not getting credit for the song. He says: “I feel like I got jacked for my record,” tweeted D.R.A.M., who let out a string of other thoughts throughout the night. Singer Erykah Badu, who remixed ‘Hotline Bling,’ even responded to D.R.A.M., saying, “we loved Cha Cha first. Very unique and raw.” Poor thang! We just hope the rapper doesn’t end up like Meek Mill. The flip to peep more from D.R.A.M. complaining about Drake…
For those missing The Dream‘s music, fret no longer. The singer/songwriter/producer is re-releasing his online album 1977. The digital album hit the internet last April…
Pilar Sanders Jokes On Twitter About Chad And Evelyn Domestic Dispute Pilar Sanders may have been a little too quick to react to the Chad and Evelyn Johnson domestic dispute news that hit the internet last night. The a ttention-sloring soon to be ex-wife of former NFLer Deion Sanders, who is no stranger to the subject and is currently involved in a messy divorce of her own, took to her twitter last night to offer some “advice” to women involved in domestic violence disputes shortly after the news of Chad and Evelyn’s altercation broke. While many of her followers laughed along with her, some felt that it was out of line, especially considering Pilar’s involvement in a highly publicized domestic violence inciden t with her estranged husband and children earlier this year.
Credit: Kate Spencer, Randy Kochevar via GreatMarlinRace.org The Pacific blue marlin is one of the largest billfish to swim the open ocean. Just how far can they swim, and where exactly are they going? Scientists are tracking the movements of 10 marlin as part of this year’s Great Marlin Race, and showing the results on the Internet. Last year, three marlins swam across the equator, from Hawaii to the Marquesas Islands , a distance of more than 1,8… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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