Monica Celebrates “New Life” Album Release At Reign In Atlanta Monica celebrated her “New Life” album release in Atlanta with old friends T.I., Jeezy, Polow Da Don, JD and more at Reign in Atlanta Friday. Ladies, which of these gentlemen would you hit? Photo Credit: Prince Williams/ATLPics More On Bossip! Let’s Stay Together: Couples That Came Thissss Close To Breaking Up But Stayed Strong Whooty Whoo! White Girls With Supple Becky Cakes Better With Masks: 10 Notorious Celebrity Butter Faces Baller Cribs: Eddie George Selling Tennessee Mansion For $1.099M [Photos]
Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans apparently has or had issues with cutting herself, according to former pal Tori Rhyne, who is selling her out hardcore lately. Rhyne tells Radar that Jenelle’s extensive and well-documented family turmoil initially put her in a bad place, leading to Evans’ self-destructive behavior. “They’re all crazy,” Rhyne said of the Evans family. Well, yeah. Tori says that when Jenelle’s parents split, “It just messed with her head” and that Jenelle would constantly call her crying about any number of things. Rhyne said she would reassure her things would get better, and became painfully aware of Jenelle’s cutting fixation when she would visit her house. Even with her wrists concealed, either wrapped or covered by long sleeves, “Sometimes you [could] see the blood and stuff,” Rhyne recalled. She says she’d try to cheer Jenelle Evans up by telling her that “she is not alone,” but with only mixed results, leading to a rift between the girls. Rhyne admits her frustration with Jenelle even caused her to turn physically abusive toward her at times – even before their INSANE fight on Teen Mom 2 (below). Jenelle Evans Fights Roommate on Teen Mom 2 “I would actually slap her cuts that she had on her wrist,” Rhyne says. “I knew it was gonna hurt her a little bit, but I wanted to make a point.” Consider it made. Studies indicate between 2-3 million Americans have inflicted harm to themselves intentionally, Jenelle and Demi Lovato included. If you’re one of them, get help. As for Jenelle, she recently broke up with Gary Head and is said to be off drugs and seeking custody of son Jace , so hopefully she’s doing better.
Ashton Kutcher And Mila Kunis Are Dating This one sounds a little more believable than the Rihanna shenanigans: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis played a couple on the sitcom “That 70′s Show.” Now reports say that the two are dating in real life. The website X17.com reports that the pair spent the day together Sunday, heading out furniture shopping in the afternoon and then on a date to sushi restaurant Asanebo in Los Angeles at night. The pair reportedly headed back to Kutcher’s newly purchased mansion in Hollywood Hills after the cozy dinner.”Ashton was touching Mila’s hand and Mila was all dressed up,” a source tells the site. “She looked hot; this was definitely more than a dinner between friends — this was a full-on date!” The website snapped Kutcher and Kunis two heading back to his car after the dinner. While Kutcher wore a navy blue sweater over a button-down shirt, Kunis opted for an off-the-shoulder top with skinny jeans and nude heels. Both avoided making eye contact with the camera. X17.com furthers that the pair has been seen together several times on recent occasions, and has even spent the night at each other’s abodes in recent weeks. Both actors are newly single after long-term relationships. Should Kutcher and Kunis start officially seeing each other, it would be a case of life imitating art. Both actors starred in movies about friends becoming lovers in 2011. While Mila Kunis paired up with Justin Timberlake in the film “Friends with Benefits,” Kutcher fell for Natalie Portman in the movie “No Strings Attached.” Interesting…. Source More On Bossip! Let’s Stay Together: Couples That Came Thissss Close To Breaking Up But Stayed Strong Whooty Whoo! White Girls With Supple Becky Cakes Better With Masks: 10 Notorious Celebrity Butter Faces Baller Cribs: Eddie George Selling Tennessee Mansion For $1.099M [Photos]
Ashton Kutcher And Mila Kunis Are Dating This one sounds a little more believable than the Rihanna shenanigans: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis played a couple on the sitcom “That 70′s Show.” Now reports say that the two are dating in real life. The website X17.com reports that the pair spent the day together Sunday, heading out furniture shopping in the afternoon and then on a date to sushi restaurant Asanebo in Los Angeles at night. The pair reportedly headed back to Kutcher’s newly purchased mansion in Hollywood Hills after the cozy dinner.”Ashton was touching Mila’s hand and Mila was all dressed up,” a source tells the site. “She looked hot; this was definitely more than a dinner between friends — this was a full-on date!” The website snapped Kutcher and Kunis two heading back to his car after the dinner. While Kutcher wore a navy blue sweater over a button-down shirt, Kunis opted for an off-the-shoulder top with skinny jeans and nude heels. Both avoided making eye contact with the camera. X17.com furthers that the pair has been seen together several times on recent occasions, and has even spent the night at each other’s abodes in recent weeks. Both actors are newly single after long-term relationships. Should Kutcher and Kunis start officially seeing each other, it would be a case of life imitating art. Both actors starred in movies about friends becoming lovers in 2011. While Mila Kunis paired up with Justin Timberlake in the film “Friends with Benefits,” Kutcher fell for Natalie Portman in the movie “No Strings Attached.” Interesting…. Source More On Bossip! Let’s Stay Together: Couples That Came Thissss Close To Breaking Up But Stayed Strong Whooty Whoo! White Girls With Supple Becky Cakes Better With Masks: 10 Notorious Celebrity Butter Faces Baller Cribs: Eddie George Selling Tennessee Mansion For $1.099M [Photos]
Landlord Finds Dead Baby In The Freezer Police say an East Toledo landlord found a dead infant inside the freezer in one of his properties on Friday. The female corpse was discovered inside the home at 116 Paine St., where renters had just moved out. The landlord was said to be cleaning out the property when he found the body inside a freezer. He called police around 8:00 p.m. Friday to report the discovery. According to Toledo Police Sgt. Joe Heffernan, 20-year-old Kenisha Pruitt and Antonio Cervantes, 18, have been arrested. Both are being held in the Lucas County Jail on charges of child endangerment. More charges against the most recent tenants of the home are pending an autopsy which is scheduled to be performed on the infant Monday morning. Authorities say Pruitt was said to have been pregnant in November but that no birth was ever reported. So sad. That poor baby didn’t even have a chance for survival. Source More On Bossip! Let’s Stay Together: Couples That Came Thissss Close To Breaking Up But Stayed Strong Whooty Whoo! White Girls With Supple Becky Cakes Better With Masks: 10 Notorious Celebrity Butter Faces Baller Cribs: Eddie George Selling Tennessee Mansion For $1.099M [Photos]
Landlord Finds Dead Baby In The Freezer Police say an East Toledo landlord found a dead infant inside the freezer in one of his properties on Friday. The female corpse was discovered inside the home at 116 Paine St., where renters had just moved out. The landlord was said to be cleaning out the property when he found the body inside a freezer. He called police around 8:00 p.m. Friday to report the discovery. According to Toledo Police Sgt. Joe Heffernan, 20-year-old Kenisha Pruitt and Antonio Cervantes, 18, have been arrested. Both are being held in the Lucas County Jail on charges of child endangerment. More charges against the most recent tenants of the home are pending an autopsy which is scheduled to be performed on the infant Monday morning. Authorities say Pruitt was said to have been pregnant in November but that no birth was ever reported. So sad. That poor baby didn’t even have a chance for survival. Source More On Bossip! Let’s Stay Together: Couples That Came Thissss Close To Breaking Up But Stayed Strong Whooty Whoo! White Girls With Supple Becky Cakes Better With Masks: 10 Notorious Celebrity Butter Faces Baller Cribs: Eddie George Selling Tennessee Mansion For $1.099M [Photos]
Throwback: Lll Chunky Indian Kids Punjabi Dance Routine Is One For The Ages! [Video] When we seen him do the splits… we said, this kid is dope. Turn the page and peep. Image Youtube More On Bossip! Let’s Stay Together: Couples That Came Thissss Close To Breaking Up But Stayed Strong Whooty Whoo! White Girls With Supple Becky Cakes Better With Masks: 10 Notorious Celebrity Butter Faces Baller Cribs: Eddie George Selling Tennessee Mansion For $1.099M [Photos] –
The eight remaining contestants on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice were assigned to build two original puppet characters for Jim Henson’s Creature Shop last night. The celebs had to perform with their creations at Henson’s “Stuffed and Unstrung” live improv puppet show for adults … but it was anything but kid-friendly. At least behind the scenes. Paul Teutul, Sr. volunteered as project manager for Team Unanimous and Lisa Lampanelli stepped forward for Team Forte. Meanwhile, the latest episode of drama between Lisa Lampanelli and Dayana Mendoza came when Lisa banned Miss Universe 2008 from the spotlight. Dayana has developed a thicker skin and started to call out Lisa’s mean, whiny behavior, but last night, she just couldn’t take it after Lisa lashed out. Clay Aiken suggested that Lisa is constantly intimidated by Dayana’s beauty. Probably more or less true … but in any case, they somehow won the task! Paul decided to take Aubrey O’Day and Teresa Giuidice to the boardroom, but the girls put up a fight and ultimately, he was no match and got tossed. Good decision? Bad call? Do you even know who Paul is? Discuss.
Critics praise HBO show while questioning whether it will connect beyond urban audiences. By John Mitchell Lena Dunham in “Girls” Photo: HBO HBO’s new comedy “Girls” is easily the most buzzed-about series debut so far this year. From the almost uncomfortably realistic sex scenes and sharp dialogue to series creator/producer/writer/star Lena Dunham’s Louis C.K.-style multitasking — not to mention the show’s similarities to and differences from that other landmark show about four single females in New York — people cannot stop talking about “Girls.” Luckily for everyone involved, most of the things being said range from good to rave. “Girls,” which premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO, has critics using words like “groundbreaking” and “revolutionary” to describe the series, about four friends (Dunham and co-stars Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke and Zosia Mamet) in their early 20s trying to get their lives off the ground in NYC. Here in the MTV Newsroom , we’re as enraptured with the show as everyone else seems to be, but in her otherwise rave review in Salon , Willa Paskin makes an observation about “Girls” that has come up often during chatter about the new series: that its specificity, minus the fantasy element that made middle America fall in love with “Sex and the City,” may make the show unrelatable to those outside East Coast urban centers. “My concern was that ‘Girls’ speaks so specifically and accurately to the experience of me and my census buddies — and to be clear, that’s urban white girls with safety nets; have at us in the comments — that people would either write it off as navel-gazing, snark at the innate privilege undergirding the whole thing, or find it unrelatable,” Paskin writes. That concern doesn’t diminish the show’s quality, though, and the site goes on to call the show “smart, bracing, funny, accurately absurd, confessional yet self-aware.” “Few series come out of the box as brilliant as ‘Girls’ does,” Tim Goodman rhapsodizes in The Hollywood Reporter. “The new HBO series from Lena Dunham (‘Tiny Furniture’) is one of the most original, spot-on, no-missed-steps series in recent memory. For her part, Dunham, who writes, directs, stars in, created and executive produces the series, is a talent as unique and refreshing to the medium as Louis C.K. — high praise indeed, as FX’s ‘Louie’ is one of the most critically acclaimed series on television.” Sex factors heavily in “Girls,” but unlike the glamorized romps we saw on its HBO foremother “SATC,” the sex acts depicted here are graphic, button-pushing and realistic but not gratuitous. According to Verne Gay in Newsday, the sex serves as a visual manifestation of the characters’ internal issues. In a four-star review, Gay writes, “Hannah [Dunham’s character] and the show are all about internal conflict and so is the humor, while sex — and fair warning, it’s pretty graphic here, which may be the handiwork of Apatow — is the metaphor for all that conflict. It’s grotesque, malignant, unpleasurable and a particularly devious torture chamber, at least for the women, who still submit to it.” The Los Angeles Times isn’t as unconditional in its praise, calling the show “nothing short of revolutionary” but “hard to love.” “There is a cool cleverness to the show that is both attractive and off-putting,” Mary McNamara writes. “The characters are flawed and hyper-aware of their flaws, the stories so bent on covering every angle of self-examination that there is no real role for the viewer to play. Which makes watching it an intellectual rather than emotional experience.” The show positions itself as being a far more realistic version of the girls in the big city trope that “SATC” glamorized, which the Atlantic Wire ‘s Richard Lawson sees as a reflection of the times the two shows premiered in. ” ‘SATC’ was fantasy and fable, with a few bits of relatable relationship stuff thrown to the commoners like chum. ‘Girls’ is something else; it’s a very particular, very of the moment dissection of mundanely funny minutiae, of boredom and anxiety in these brownly grim times,” Lawson writes. “Though I guess it’s possible the difference really is merely generational — the rich late ’90s gave us Sex, while the wobbly ’10s give us Girls, a witty and occasionally touching glimpse into our immediate neighbors’ lives. They’ve got something here, it just remains to be seen how big a thing it is.” That “Girls” could be the next big things seems like the consensus opinion of critics, but will this story of a group of friends struggling to discover themselves and succeed in the big city connect with audiences in Peoria, Illinois? Lawson seems to think it may. “Who knows, it could be that soon enough young women the nation over will be saying they’re ‘such a Hannah’ or ‘totally a Marnie,’ ” he writes. “Maybe fabulous is officially out. Maybe the new aspiration in these punishing times is, simply, to aspire.” Are you excited for the series premiere of “Girls” Sunday on HBO? Let us know if you’ll be watching in the comments below!
Much-hyped band, opening for Jack White, releases debut, Boys & Girls . By James Montgomery Alabama Shakes Photo: MTV News It’s not exactly a stretch to say the Alabama Shakes have come out of nowhere — it would, however, be incorrect. After all, they hail from the town of Athens, Alabama (pop. 21,897), and, since forming in 2009, they’ve logged thousands of hours playing sweaty, soulful gigs throughout the Southeast — though Egan’s Bar in nearby Tuscaloosa remains their spiritual home. Since January 2011, they’ve been working on their debut album, paying for recording sessions themselves using money from their various day jobs (painting houses, delivering mail), and slowly but surely building a bit of buzz, namely on blogs like Aquarium Drunkard , which posted an MP3 of the band last summer and inadvertently got them a deal with ATO Records. In November 2011, they finished that debut disc, and in March 2012, the Shakes tore through the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. On Tuesday, their journey finally came to a head with the release of Boys & Girls, a crackling, creaky collection of ringing, downright retro guitars, pealing organs and, of course, frontwoman Brittany Howard’s voluminous, velvety voice. Not surprisingly — given the Shakes’ Southern roots and the laundry list of adjectives their music inspires — long-suffering rock critics have already embraced both the band and their sound, dubbing them everything from the genre’s next great saviors to the new kings and queens of retro soul. But, as Howard explains, she prefers to call it one thing, and one thing only: “It’s rock and roll. Think about Chuck Berry … rock and roll. AC/DC, rock and roll. Little Richard. James Brown was doing some rock and roll. That’s what it is,” she told MTV News. “R&B and rock and roll go more hand in hand than I think a lot of people want to admit.” MTV News caught up with the Shakes, MTV PUSH Artist of the Week , on Tuesday at New York’s Studio at Webster Hall before they took the stage for Live in NYC, MTV Hive’s concert series . Their performance will be available on-demand next week. Howard and bandmates Steve Johnson and Heath Fogg told us they are proud of everything that’s lead them to this point and that they did everything their way. “We’d go up to Nashville once a month, at most, to make the album,” Fogg shared. “We’d get up there Friday night, work all day Saturday, head back home Saturday night … It was a long process. “We’ve been wanting this record to come out for a long time,” he continued. “To get the opportunities we’ve gotten, we were all pretty shocked. We’d get taken out to dinner by all these big labels, and the whole time I kept thinking I’d have to pay for these meals, like, I’d stand up and kinda grab for my wallet, and they’d be like, ‘No no no.’ ” Johnson added: “When we were making [ Boys & Girls ], there were certain recordings where it felt like you were almost in the room with the band while they were being recorded. Just background voices, the stir of the room; it felt like there were other people in there, and we were all fans of that kind of stuff, so we decided to leave little things in. “The songs have a feel to ’em: There’s kind of a sway of the rhythm, it picks up and slows down. We weren’t sitting there on a metronome, playing to a click track or something like that, and I think that was the overall goal: to make a good-sounding, good-feeling album. And if there was a mistake, but it didn’t mess with the groove of the song: leave it in.” Of course, the Shakes are trying very hard to come to terms with their newfound fame, which includes a sold-out North American tour, dates in Europe and the U.K. and an opening slot for avowed-admirer Jack White on his solo trek. Mixed in with all of this is the very real struggle to remain attached to their roots, which are as far-reaching as they are humble. After all, they’re not a “retro soul” band, they’re a rock and roll band. One whose time has finally come. “A lot of people listened to James Brown and Elvis Presley when I was growing up,” Howard explained. “We had a station called Solid Golden Oldies, and I would spend a lot of time with my grandmother, and that’s what we would listen to. We’d be in the kitchen cooking or cleaning, listening to Solid Golden Oldies, and she’d tell me about Dion and Elvis Presley, how her and her friends would go dance to Elvis records. “I just grew up loving it and understanding it and just the sound and the honesty of the music was something I’ll never forget,” she explained. “And I ran into these guys, and they all get it too. But, we also listen to a lot of other stuff — it doesn’t stop there. That’s why we don’t say we’re retro soul, because I also love MMJ [My Morning Jacket], the White Stripes, Kings of Leon … I’m not stuck under a rock or anything. I don’t think any of us are.” Related Videos PUSH: Alabama Shakes Related Artists Alabama Shakes
