TheStewartofNY/FilmMagic Russell And Nina Westbrook Expecting Twins After already telling the world that they’re expecting , Russell Westbrook and his wife are sharing more details. The happy couple announced this week that their second pregnancy isn’t just one baby, it’s TWO twin girls. The Westbrooks made an announcement in a YouTube video called “The Westbrook Family.” They already have a 1-year-old son, Noah. Congrats to the Westbrooks!
Image via The Breakfast Club/iHeart Media/YouTube Machine Gun Kelly Talks Eminem Beef On The Breakfast Club Machine Gun Kelly appeared on The Breakfast Club this morning to air out his beef with Eminem and talk about his passion for drug usage according to iHeart . “I’m a father. I have a 9-year-old daughter. I get it. One hundred percent. Can I apologize? Can I take the tweet down? Sure. But a public apology? Come on, man.” MGK won’t apologize publicly because of Eminem’s reputation for “shitting on dead people” and “Christopher Reeves, who was in a wheel chair.” He also says that it was “a silly comment to have started all of this.” MGK also discussed his new EP that is set to drop today, Binge . You riding with Kelly or Marshall?
Image via The Breakfast Club/iHeart Media/YouTube Machine Gun Kelly Talks Eminem Beef On The Breakfast Club Machine Gun Kelly appeared on The Breakfast Club this morning to air out his beef with Eminem and talk about his passion for drug usage according to iHeart . “I’m a father. I have a 9-year-old daughter. I get it. One hundred percent. Can I apologize? Can I take the tweet down? Sure. But a public apology? Come on, man.” MGK won’t apologize publicly because of Eminem’s reputation for “shitting on dead people” and “Christopher Reeves, who was in a wheel chair.” He also says that it was “a silly comment to have started all of this.” MGK also discussed his new EP that is set to drop today, Binge . You riding with Kelly or Marshall?
Image via The Breakfast Club/iHeart Media/YouTube Machine Gun Kelly Talks Eminem Beef On The Breakfast Club Machine Gun Kelly appeared on The Breakfast Club this morning to air out his beef with Eminem and talk about his passion for drug usage according to iHeart . “I’m a father. I have a 9-year-old daughter. I get it. One hundred percent. Can I apologize? Can I take the tweet down? Sure. But a public apology? Come on, man.” MGK won’t apologize publicly because of Eminem’s reputation for “shitting on dead people” and “Christopher Reeves, who was in a wheel chair.” He also says that it was “a silly comment to have started all of this.” MGK also discussed his new EP that is set to drop today, Binge . You riding with Kelly or Marshall?
A magician never reveals his tricks. But a magician has now revealed what it feels like to be crowned the winner of America’s Got Talent… … because Shin Lim took home that honor on Wednesday night. With 10 finalists battling it out on stage until the final vote, Season 13 came down to Lim and singing group Zurcaroh, with the self-taught 26-year old eventually coming out on top. Much to his own complete shock. “I can’t speak right now,” Lim said after he was named the champion and tackled his fellow finalists. They all picked him up and put them on their shoulders after the announcement was made. “When you told me at 16 that an awkward, shy kid would one day be performing at the Dolby Theatre performing on America’s Got Talent, I wouldn’t have believed them,” he added. “To compete on AGT, it means the world to me.” The very impressive magician not only took home the $1 million prize — but will also headline the America’s Got Talent Live stage at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas from November 2-4. Lim’s parents hail from Singapore. He was born in Canada and currently lives in Acton, Massachusetts and he blew viewers away through sleight of hand magic and close-up tricks. For his finale, Lim performed a card trick with host Tyra Banks and American Ninja Warrior co-hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila. At various points in the competition, Howie Mandel and Simon Cowell called Lim “the best close-up magician they have ever seen.” (He’s second magician to win America’s Got Talent, following Mat Franco on Season 9.) At age 20, four years after the started to learn the art of magic, Lim was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. This forced him to gave up his piano career, as he dropped out of the School of Music at Lee University in Tennessee and put all his time and effort into his aspiring magic career. After perfecting a number of tricks simply by studying YouTube videos, Lim appeared twice on Penn Jillette and Teller’s magic competition show, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, in 2015 and 2017. He also took his talents overseas, including gigs in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan. After his victory, Lim said he took Cowell’s advice to heart and moved away from the card table to make his show appear even bigger and more dazzling. He’s thankful to the judge for offering up this tidbit and pushing him toward the grand prize. “I learned so much going away from the table. It’s harder because it’s something I’m uncomfortable with. So, I really feel like I now have the confidence to build on it,” he said. The finale performance “was my way of growing as a magician, and I think I’m going to follow that path of getting bigger and having a full show.” Congratulations to Shin Lim! Do you think he deserved to win? Or do you remain shocked that singer Courtney Hadwin didn’t go all the way?
Corallys Ortiz Told To Straighten Her ‘N*ggery-Looking’ Hair For The News Another day, another disgruntled MAGA-loving mayo packet getting all out of line and ahead of themselves. You may recall last year when Las Vegas weather reporter Demetira Obilor ‘s thick curves and natural curls had box-shaped, un-melanated watchers shook and calling to complain. Now, West Tennessee reporter Corallys Ortiz is catching some similar hater heat over her copious curls and kinks . The Afro-Latina reporter, of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent, has been giving her flat iron a rest an rocking her natural hair in the Tennessee humidity for the past few days. But some of her viewers just can’t handle seeing something so offensively African on their screens when they just want to tune into the evening news and peacefully hear about their president’s latest moves. Corallys took to her Facebook page to share a video of the recorded message she received about her hairstyle, where a caller complained about her “n*ggery-looking” hair and suggested she straighten it ASAP. SMH. Thankfully, since she came forward with that racial verbal abuse by viewers she’s gotten an outpouring of support from fans. SMH. Are you shocked that Black newscasters are still getting these types of complaints on their appearance? Getty/Instagram/Facebook
Source: Photo by C Flanigan/Getty Images / Getty Once again, Nicki Minaj has the Twitter-verse riled up and this time a major fashion brand is connected to the chaos. Diesel recently announced that Nicki would be one of the faces for its Autumn/Winter 2018 “hate couture” campaign used to combat cyberbullying. Different stars, including Nicki, Gucci Mane , actress Bella Thorne and model Jonathan Bellini have been recruited for the campaign. In a video Diesel posted to their social media, the most hateful messages these stars have received on social media are etched into the design of their Diesel apparel. Thus Nicki’s shirt reads “The Bad Guy” (It’s still up for debate if people actually call her this or if she just gave herself the name herself). You don’t make online hate disappear by hiding it. Introducing #DieselHateCouture feat. @nickiminaj @bellathorne @gucci1017 @tommydorfman @milesdheizer #BarbieFerreira #BriaVinaite #YooAhIn #JonBellini #YoVentura #FW18 . . Director #jovantodorovic Stylist @markymarcmode pic.twitter.com/XXpI9BrsZZ — Diesel (@DIESEL) September 18, 2018 Proceeds from the sale of the limited-edition clothing items will reportedly go to anti-bullying programs at the OTB foundation according to The Business of Fashion. Though the campaign seems to have good intentions, folks across the Internet couldn’t help but notice a tiny issue in the selection of stars. Nicki Minaj has been accused of some major bullying. The most notorious instance came when cultural critic and Twitter user Wanna Thompson critiqued the subject matters in Nicki Minaj’s music a few months back. Instead of starting a conversation on Twitter like Wanna had hoped, an army of Nicki-crazed Barbz came after Wanna like she was the village plague. “I wouldn’t wish this on my worse enemy,” Thompson told The New York Times back in July. After Nicki fans came for Wanna’s life via social media, emails and even phone calls, Nicki herself contacted Wanna and it wasn’t pretty. She slid in Wanna’s DMs and called her everything but a child of God. “Eat a di** you hating ass h*” and “ugly ass” were just a few of the words Nicki aimed at Wanna. Sounds like a bully, no? When Wanna heard the news of Nicki’s Diesel campaign, she was just as confused. @DIESEL is making a mockery out of cyber-bullying. There are countless organizations and individuals doing their best to combat the issue and instead of enlisting them you get Nicki Minaj? So irresponsible and counterproductive. — Wanna (@WannasWorld) September 19, 2018 Then, let’s not forget the accusations Cardi B made about Nicki after their notorious run-in during New York Fashion Week. In an Instagram post, she accused Nicki of lying on her and telling other artist not to work with her. Though it’s not certain that Cardi’s accusations are true, one has to ask what would provoke a woman enough to send her shoe flying across a fashion event. Nicki even gave Travis Scott a “Ho* Ni**a of the Week” award on her Queen radio show when she was critiquing his record sales and number one spot on the charts. Despite all this controversy, of course the Barbz still weren’t bothered… Nicki Minaj is a marketing genius! Sis really flipped this “Bad Guy” narrative and now has a Capsule Collection with Diesel that is going to inspire and uplift so many people who have been beaten down by the words of others. — Pink Queen Tingz (@pinkqueentingz) September 18, 2018 Even Diesel seemed to hold strong in their partnership with Nicki. “We’re here to support anyone who’s getting hated on, and Nicki is one of them,” Diesel wrote in response to some fan criticism. We’re here to support anyone who’s getting hated on, and Nicki is one of them. — Diesel (@DIESEL) September 19, 2018 Well if we’re going with that logic, anyone can be apart of this campaign! When should we expect our phone call? Other parts of the Internet were over the partnership as well. Hit the next pages to peep what folks had to say!
Kim Kardashian apparently does not read The Hollywood Gossip. It provides us with some solace, however, to at least realize that she doesn't read the Internet at all . That's our main takeaway from this sneak peek at this Sunday's Keeping Up with the Kardashians episode, as Kim confides with Khloe early on about the major secret everyone in the family has been tasked with… well… keeping. This secret is that Kylie Jenner is pregnant with Travis Scott's baby. “The funnest game ever is the Kylie pregnancy game, just to see what people think,” says Kim to her sister. “Like, there were pictures of her out on TMZ and she looked so skinny.” “I know, ’cause it’s the angle,” replied Khloe. “They got her from face-on. But if they got a side shot, it would have been over for her.” Yes, game over. The implication here is that no one outside of Kylie's very close circle is aware that she's expecting… … even though pretty much EVERYone was aware that Kylie was expecting. We helped break this news back in September , and we're pretty sure these Season 15 episodes were filmed in November or December. (Remember the fight Kim and Khloe got into with Kourtney about her not showing up for the Christmas card shoot?) Still, the family evidently believes that anyone outside of, like, Calabasas is clueless simply because Kylie herself had not confirmed her pregnancy at the time of filming. Later in this clip, Kim tells Jenner that her expecting state “has been the best-kept secret of our generation,” which is just an amazing quote. “I’m not trying to keep it secret,” Jenner says. “I’m really doing this for myself.” (Editor's Note: You were, by definition, keeping it a secret. The basis for said secret-keeping wasn't really the question here.) “Your friends deserve awards. Like, seriously,” Kim responds. “Now you know you have some real ones. That wouldn’t have happened in my day.” Jenner never actually addresses her situation until AFTER she gave birth, finally saying once Stormi Webster entered the world: I’m sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumptions. I understand you’re used to me bringing you along on all my journeys. My pregnancy was one I chose not to do in front of the world. I knew for myself I needed to prepare for this role of a lifetime in the most positive, stress free, and healthy way I knew how. There was no gotcha moment, no big paid reveal I had planned. I knew my baby would feel every stress and every emotion so I chose to do it this way for my little life and our happiness.
He may have quashed his beef with Meek Mill , but Drake is now in another battle with a woman who once claimed that he’d gotten her pregnant. Drake says that, in addition to this baby scam, this woman made false rape allegations against him and demanded that he buy her silence. He is suing her for extortion and for defamation. According to court documents filed by Drake’s team and obtained by TMZ , Drake met Layla Lace at one of his concerts in early 2017. Specifically, he met the curvaceous Instagram model while he was on his Boy Meets World Tour in Manchester, England. In February of 2017, Drake says that he and Layla had a consensual hookup. The sexual activity is said to have taken place in his hotel room. According to Drake’s team, “Layla also voluntarily and seemingly happily performed oral sex.” Drake’s attorney, celebrity lawyer Larry Stein, says that Layla was fine with the hookup — but enraged when Drake left it at that. Apparently, she had been hoping that Drake would take her on tour with him, and did not take it well when he did not. Though Drake and Layla continued to text, evidence contained within the lawsuit shows that Layla was more demanding of Drake’s attention. Documents claim that Layla began to imagine a relationship beyond a hookup and flirtatious texts — that she came to believe that the two of them were dating. That, the lawsuit says, was a factor when she claimed in April of 2017 that Drake had gotten her pregnant and then ghosted her. Things got worse from there. Drake’s team alleges that, when Layla was unable to get anything out of him or produce any evidence of an actual pregnancy or child, she changed tactics. It was then that Layla allegedly accused Drake of rape — which was investigated by police and then cleared. While police failing to find evidence of sexual assault is not the same thing as proving that it never happened, Drake’s team has that text messaging history. With those text messages as evidence demonstrating Layla’s desperation to see him, they hope to prove defamation. Sexual assault allegations should always be taken seriously, in part because the number of false reports are dwarfed by real ones, which are in turn dwarfed by the number of survivors who never come forward. But that does not mean that there are never false reports. While it’s rare for a jilted ex to go to such extremes, it sounds like Layla was not even an ex. Based upon these documents, it sounds like Layla was a hookup with whom Drake later flirted in text messages before they became too much. Unless there is more to this story that we’re not seeing, it sounds like she may have become a stalker. Not all stalkers are deranged fans. Some stalkers imagine an elaborate relationship with a celebrity, and then become enraged when the celebrity does not share their delusion. Drake says that, when the sexual assault claim fell through, she tried to demand money to keep her from going public. That said, so far, we have not heard Layla’s team’s side of the story. We know that Drake fathered one secret love child in the past. Let’s not pretend that he isn’t capable of being shady. But if she really did try to extort money and make false claims about Drake in the process, he may have a very solid case for defamation and extortion. We’ll be sure to keep an eye on this case as it develops. View Slideshow: Sophie Brussaux: All You Need to Know About Drake’s Baby Mama
Image via Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET Plies Arrested For Gus Possession At Tampa Airport Plies was arrested at the Tampa International Airport this morning when TSA found a Glock 43 and a fully loaded magazine inside his carry-on bag according to TMZ . To make matters worse, Plies didn’t have a permit for the weapon and was charged with felony carrying of a concealed weapon. Sources close to Plies say he mistakenly grabbed the wrong bag while packing and is fully claiming possession of the gun. Why the hell do rappers use this same excuse when they get caught with guns at airports? Why is there always a random gun in a random bag? SMH. Peep the video below. Free Plies?
