They feuded over the Farrah Abraham video and how the Teen Mom star planned to leak it, but James Deen has nothing but good things to say now. In fact, Deen’s upset about the backlash against the Backdoor Teen Mom since the story of how she planned the Farrah Abraham sex tape broke. “I think she did an amazing job,” he said of his co-star, adding: “I get kind of bummed about society and the fact that just because a chick decides she wants to do a porno, that she needs to be called mean names and stuff.” “I kind of feel like people should be nicer to her.” “If she wants to express her sexuality , whatever her motivations for making the adult film may be, I kind of feel like she shouldn’t be ostracized for such decisions.” Express it she did, and 2 million people viewed her romp with Deen in the first 12 hours after it was released by Vivid, who paid nearly $1 million for the rights. While her story about making the tape for personal use is highly questionable, James says you can’t blame her for making it to provide for her daughter. Nor can you criticize her for starring in porn just because she’s a mom. And he maintains again that Sophia, 3, was nowhere near the set of the film. “The child was not on set. Her kid was not involved in making any of the adult material,” he said. “I would happily testify that her daughter was not involved.” In the weeks since they filmed the porno, Farrah has slammed James, calling him a “prop in the background,” and slamming him for being “unprofessional.” She even claimed James Deen has a small package. But through it all, he says he has no hard feelings and wishes her all the best going forward. “I think just because you have a healthy sexual appetite doesn’t necessarily make you a bad parent in any way, shape or form,” he said of Farrah. Seems like a standup guy, no?
The Swirl : 1, Brothas: 0 Bob Johnson’s Daughter Marries White Man In Bahamas There’s one less heiress on the market: Paige Johnson got married Saturday. Via Washington Post reports: The gorgeous daughter of BET founders Bob and Sheila Johnson wed Dudley Payne III in a sunset ceremony at the Ocean Club in the Bahamas. The bride and groom picked the site because they’re fans of the James Bond movie “Casino Royale,” which was set at the famed luxury resort. More than 200 guests attended the lavish four-day celebration, which kicked off with a rehearsal dinner Thursday. A beach party on Friday got hit with some rain, but we’re told there was perfect weather for the ceremony and reception Saturday, where Grammy-winning R&B star Ne-Yo sang Elton John’s “Your Song” for the couple’s first dance. There was also entertainment by in-demand DJ Cassidy — who has spun discs at the White House as well as at Jay-Z’s house — and a Motown band. Guests trickled out after a farewell brunch Sunday. This is the first marriage for Johnson, a champion equestrian based in Middleburg, as well as for Payne, an insurance broker from Warrenton. The two were introduced by a mutual friend seven years ago and have been dating ever since. “This guy is the perfect guy for Paige,” Bob Johnson told us last week. “He’s a true gentleman.” Before proposing last year, Payne took the old-fashioned step of inviting the multi-millionaire to Café Milano to ask for his only daughter’s hand in marriage. Their courtship and engagement stayed under the radar because the two have been so busy with other pursuits. Johnson, 27, who walked the aisle in a Monique Lhullier gown, has been a competitive equestrian rider since she was 5, training in Virginia and Florida, and traveling to competitions around the world. She was included in a 2012 Town & Country cover story on heiresses of the horse world, alongside fellow riders Jessica Springsteen and Georgina Bloomberg. Payne, 30, has an insurance brokage business but his real passion is golf; he competes at serious amateur tournaments almost every weekend. “They’re both intensively competitive in their chosen fields,” said her dad. Matt Blum Continue reading →
Jenelle Evans came clean last night on MTV’s Teen Mom 2 reunion. The troubled star opened up to Dr. Drew about how her ex Kieffer Delp got her addicted to heroin , and shot her up so much one time, she nearly died. Jenelle said the only reason she got back together with Kieffer is because she felt so alone and rejected after her ex-fiance Gary Head assaulted her. She has a way of exaggerating claims against her exes and blaming everyone else for her problems, but for Jenelle, this was still a major confession. Evans said she desperately turned to Kieffer for support, and in turn he enabled her to do drugs and reportedly got her to try heroin for the first time. “I had never tried it, so I tried it. I was throwing up every five minutes. I was in the hospital three times, you can’t sleep because you are in withdrawal,” she said. Jenelle Evans also said she was in withdrawal for about a month, and broke things off with Kieffer for good, something Dr. Drew was skeptical about. He also disputed whether he used clean needles every time. Yikes. Jenelle’s mom Barbara Evans came out and said after witnessing her daughter strung out and living with an addict, she had to do what she needed to do. She had her committed out of fear for 21-year-old little girl’s life. Because of Jenelle’s unstable behavior, she said it would be a while until she lets her have custody, or even more visitation with Jenelle’s son Jace, 3. She can see him Thursday through Sunday, at home. That’s it. Dr. Drew also spoke with Kailyn Lowry , specifically about her baby daddy Jo Rivera‘s girlfriend Vee Torres, and how Kailyn won’t give her much of a chance. Kailyn can’t seem to get past the pot-smoking pics she saw online, and says she wants to “rip Vee’s head off” and has no desire to get to know her. She doesn’t want Vee to be taking care of Isaac, period. Even though Jo Rivera is, by most accounts, a doting and loving dad, and her marriage to Javi Marroquin means they could move across the U.S. When Dr. Drew brought Vee out on the stage, it was the first time they had officially met! Vee said she is studying to be a teacher and is good with kids. Vee actually wants what’s best for Isaac, believe it or not. After Dr. Drew kept asking Kailyn why she doesn’t want to get to know Vee, Lowry stormed off the stage and that was pretty much it. Good times. A day in the life of a Teen Mom 2 star …
In the following video, a series of animals try to stay awake. That’s it. That’s the entire video. But have you ever seen a puppy with his or her eyelids heavy? Attempting as best he or she can to remain awake, alert and active? It’s cuter than any Justin Bieber shirtless photo. Seriously. See for yourself: Animals Attempt to Stay Awake
Sofia Vergara covers the new issue of Cosmpolitan . In it, the fabulous Colombian beauty discusses Modern Family , Nick Loeb, saggy boobs and more. “I’ve never had a plan for anything,” the 40-year-old, inherently spontaneous star said when asked what’s next for her, personally and professionally. “I know I’m not going to get any more shows like Modern Family .” “If it ends in five years, it would be great to do movies, focus on my Kmart line. Maybe have a kid. But I am going to work my whole life. I love making money. I really love it!” Spending it on a wedding? She loves that idea less. “He was already married with a big wedding and I was already married with a big wedding, so we’re going to something but not right now,” she says. One thing she did do with an eye to the future? I froze my eggs. I had to go to my doctor’s office a hundred million times to do injections. My doctor had told me ‘We have a small window.’ I said, ‘That’s so rude!'” “I already have a kid, so I never thought I would need to do that. But I will have to use a surrogate, because I had thyroid cancer and lots of radiation.” When will she and fiance Nick Loeb decide to go down that road? “I don’t want to wait forever, but not yet, because I’m working like an animal.” She works so hard, she swears she’s not sexy! “No one can be a sex kitten every day, and anyone who tells you that is lying,” she confessed. “But I do wear negligees and Japanese silk robes.” “For a long time, I lived alone with my son and only saw my boyfriends in hotels. So at home, I slept in old T-shirts. I realized when I moved in with Nick that I couldn’t do that.” “Now, I only keep nice pajamas around.” When it comes to non-nighttime wear, Sofia says she has to be choosy: “I have learned that not everything looks good on me because of my boobs.” “Magazines will say, ‘She is wearing the same shape again.’ I’m like, yes! So what? My boobs are real. They’re a 32F. I can’t wear something backless.” “Because what holds them up? Then the same [ celebrity gossip ] magazines would be saying, ‘What was she thinking with those sagging tits?'” Seriously. You just can’t have that.
Things are looking up for Farrah Abraham and her mother, Debra Danielson, after their recent feud over the Teen Mom star’s porn career. In a recent heartfelt exchange with her reality show daughter, however, Debra appears to be extending an olive branch . Take a look at her letter: “Farrah & Sophia, I miss you both so much!” Danielson wrote. “Love you and pray God will bless and keep you safe. Want our family to heal and grow. I will NEVER leave you or forsake you. You are a priority in my life.” Somewhere, Dr. Phil is beyond infuriated with Deb. The TV doc recently eviscerated Farrah as an entitled, coddled brat who is never held accountable for anything or willing to take responsibility. He suggested that comes from upbringing, too. Looks like her mom caved once again here. Earlier this month, 21-year-old Farrah opted to move out of her mother’s home after the two got into a fight. When news of the Farrah Abraham sex tape surfaced, and she denied it was real, Danielson steadfastly denied her little girl would do such a thing. “We have religious beliefs,” she said at the time. She even went so far as to slam porn star James Deen for “trying to exploit” her daughter … except Farrah staged the whole thing and recruited Deen. When she did learn the truth, Danielson kicked her daughter out of the house, though it looks like she’s already back to full-on coddling mode. Way to have a spine, Deb.
Some kids just need a good old fashioned a** whooping. Two Girls Make Video Death Threats Against Classmates According to North Jersey Two seventh-grade girls from School 27 have been removed from classes and face criminal charges for posting a video on YouTube this week threatening to kill their classmates, officials said. Authorities have not made public any evidence the two students actually planned to carry out the threats. But one parent at the school, Jackie Quinones, said the girls in the video named 10 to 12 classmates they said they wanted to kill and stab. “It’s serious enough for us to have this investigated, especially because of the current climate we’re in,’’ said Mayor Jeffery Jones on Thursday afternoon, shortly after being informed of the situation by acting Police Chief William Fraher. “Let’s hope that it was just frustrations and emotions and they didn’t mean anything, but we can’t sit back and just hope.’’ Parents, too, aren’t taking any chances. Officials say parents whose daughters were on the girls’ hit list went to police headquarters on Wednesday evening to file terroristic threat charges against the two students. Quinones said some parents also have spoken to investigators with the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office at 401 Grand St. Quinones said the two girls who made the threats had not been in any previous disputes with their classmates. “No bullying, no fights, nothing,’’ said Quinones. “I don’t understand it.’’ Quinones said her daughter told her the situation started on Tuesday afternoon during a classroom journal writing exercise. One of the girls wrote in her journal the names of students – mostly other girls – she wanted to kill, said Quinones. At the end of the class, the girl read her journal entry to classmates, but not within earshot of the teacher, said Quinones. “My daughter said to her, ‘You want to kill me?’” said Quinones. “She said, ‘Yes, I want to kill you.’” Quinones said her 12-year-old daughter, whose name she asked not be published, then went to the bathroom to hide. “My daughter called me from the bathroom,’’ said Quinones. “She was so scared she was crying.” Quinones said she was working in Newark at the time but rushed back to Paterson and went right to the school principal’s office. She met with Graciella Ayala, who she said is the principal. Ayala told her the student who made the threats was being removed from the school and would not be allowed to return until she had been evaluated by a doctor, Quinones said. But the next day, Quinones said her daughter called again from the school to let her know that the girl who had made the threats was back in the building, but in a different classroom. Quinones said she returned to the principal’s office and was told the girl had gotten medical clearance. By Wednesday afternoon, another student in the class had found the threatening video on YouTube, Quinones said. The video showed the girl involved in Tuesday’s threats again saying she wanted to kill certain classmates, naming about a dozen of them, Quinones said. A second girl participated in the video, speaking off-camera about classmates to target, said Quinones. The video was 21-minutes long and remained posted on YouTube until about 1:30 am on Thursday, Quinones said. School district spokeswoman Terry Corallo issued a statement saying educators learned of the “disturbing video” on Wednesday. “As the safety of our students and staff is our utmost concern, we immediately took action and removed these students from the school environment,’’ said Corallo’s statement. “We have been communicating with the parents who had children in the same class as these two students. We have assured these parents that we have taken this issue very seriously and are taking the necessary steps to address this issue.’’ Corallo would not clarify whether the students have been suspended. “Additionally, the video has been pulled from YouTube,’’ Corallo said. “This is now a police investigation and they will have our full cooperation.” Capt. Heriberto Rodriguez, head of the Paterson Police Department’s detective bureau, declined to answer questions about the case. “It’s under investigation,’’ Rodriguez said. Have we become a culture obsessed with violence? Google Maps
Fox News Says President Obama’s “Muslim Faith” Is To Blame For Lack Of Islam Slander In true right-wing radical fashion, Fox News has now implied that President Obama’s “Muslim faith” background is the reason why he won’t condemn all Muslims in the wake of the Boston Marathon Bombings. via Think Progress Fox News is sounding the alarm about Muslim extremists in the aftermath of the Boston bombings and is using the tragedy to argue that President Obama is too weak or afraid to confront the threat. A day after Fox News host Bill O’Reilly wondered why Obama refused to condemn radical Islam before the Boston bombers’ motives were known, the network suggested that Obama’s middle name might provide the answer. Radio host Bill Cunningham implied, while appearing on Sean Hannity’s program, that Obama’s upbringing in Indonesia prevents him from opposing terrorism: CUNNINGHAM: Sean Hannity, maybe his middle name is a clue, as well as the fact that he spent his childhood practicing the Muslim faith. I think — of course he’s a Christian now, but we have to understand where he came from. He says the sweetest sound he ever heard was prayers at sunset. So with that orientation, I think it’s hard for this to say anything other than “Muslim jihadist terrorist” because it runs contrary to what he was taught as a boy in Honolulu and Jakarta, Indonesia. These fools have no boundaries to how far they will reach. SMH.
Pray for the people in Bangladesh ! Daughter Finds Out Mother Is Among The Dead In Primark Factory Disaster According to Mail Online Bangladeshi rescue workers are continuing their increasingly desperate search for survivors in a collapsed clothes factory building where workers made cheap clothes for Primark. Hundreds were killed when the eight-story Rana Plaza in Savar on the outskirts of Dhakar collapsed yesterday, the day after cracks were seen in its walls. The death toll continues to rise and currently stands at more than 230. Forty people have been pulled alive from the rubble today. Many of those working in the building at the time were young women, while some of those killed and injured are bound to be children as the building also housed a crèche. Around 2,000 people have so far been pulled out alive. Doctors at local hospitals said they were unable to cope with the number of victims arriving from the disaster site. This afternoon workers still trapped could be heard crying out for help as firefighters and soldiers using drilling machines and cranes struggled to reach them. Officials say police had ordered the building evacuated on Tuesday, the day before its deadly collapse, after deep cracks became visible in its walls. But the factories flouted the order and managers ordered their staff to keep working. Some survivors have said they were threatened with the sack if they refused to enter the building. After the cracks were reported, managers of a local bank that also had an office in the building evacuated their workers. The garment factories, though, kept working, ignoring the instructions of the local industrial police, said Mostafizur Rahman, a director of that paramilitary police force. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association had also asked the factories to suspend work starting on Wednesday morning, hours before the collapse. ‘After we got the crack reports, we asked them to suspend work until further examination, but they did not pay heed,’ said Atiqul Islam, the group’s president. Today the smell of rotting bodies wafted through holes cut into the building. Junior minister for Home Affairs, Shamsul Haque, said a total of 2,000 people had so far been rescued from the wreckage. Brigadier General Mohammed Siddiqul Alam Shikder, who is overseeing army rescue teams, said the death toll had climbed to 194. Dozens of bodies, their faces covered, were laid outside a local school building so relatives could identify them. Thousands of workers’ family members gathered outside the building, waiting for news, as thousands of garment workers from nearby factories took to the streets across the industrial zone in protest. General Shikder said rescue operations were progressing slowly. He said rescue teams were standing by with heavy equipment and would ‘start bulldozing the debris once we get closer to the end of the operation. ‘But now we are careful,’ he added He also said the size of the crowd was interfering with getting more rescuers to the scene. ‘We are ready with about 1,000 soldiers and rescue workers from other departments. But a huge crowd is obstructing our effort,’ he said. Searchers worked through the night to probe the jumbled mass of concrete with drills or their bare hands, passing water and flashlights to people pinned inside. Sumi, a 25-year-old worker who goes by one name, said she was sewing jeans on the fifth floor with at least 400 others when the building fell. ‘It collapsed all of a sudden,’ she said. ‘No shaking, no indication. It just collapsed on us.’ She said she managed to reach a hole in the building where rescuers pulled her out. Survivor Shaheena Akhter, 23, said: ‘Some of us did not want to work fearing something might happen, but the garment factory people told us that we had to join our work otherwise we will lose our jobs.’ Abdul Halim, an official with the engineering department in Savar, said the owner was originally allowed to construct a five-story building but he added another three stories illegally. Local police chief Mohammed Asaduzzaman said police and the government’s Capital Development Authority have filed separate cases of negligence against the building owner. Habibur Rahman, police superintendent of Dhaka district, identified the owner as Mohammed Sohel Rana, a local leader of ruling Awami League’s youth front. Mr Rahman said police were also looking for the owners of the garment factories. Among the textile businesses in the building were Phantom Apparels, New Wave Style, New Wave Bottoms and New Wave Brothers. Primark’s ethical trade team is working to collect information, assess which communities the workers come from and provide support ‘where possible’, the company said. Charles Kernaghan, executive director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, which has an office in Dhaka, says his staff are investigating. ‘You can’t trust many buildings in Bangladesh,’ Mr Kernaghan said. ‘It’s so corrupt that you can buy off anybody and there won’t be any retribution.’ Do you think the owner of the garment factory is to blame for threatening the factory workers’ jobs if they did not work? Getty
So Teen Mom Farrah Abraham is back in a bikini again, only this time she brought her daughter along for the “candid” pictures. But apparently this isn’t the only inappropriate place she took her kid this week. Supposedly, Farrah also brought her along to her sex tape negotiations with Vivid Entertainment — and her dad came too. Gross. But hey, like the Kardashians always say, the family that negotiates sex tape deals together, stays together. Or something like that. Photos: PacificCoastNews
