Drake and Rihanna are a very cute couple. They have yet to confirm their romance, but they made it clear as day during a performance on August 31 . The performance took place in Miami and they got super close to one another while performing “Work.” They were all over one another and it was pretty great. It was only a few days ago that Drake confessed his undying love to Rihanna during the MTV VMAs. They may have been trying to keep their relationship quiet at first, but it seems they are now going full steam ahead and aren't afraid of people knowing about it. After the VMAs, they were pictured looking very affectionate with one another. This didn't sit well with Chris Brown, who mocked them on Instagram. Luckily, it didn't develop into a full blown feud. That's no doubt down to the fact that Chris Brown has been acting super sketchy and waving guns at women. If that wasn't bad enough, he then refused to surrender for fourteen hours. Yikes. Rihanna made a lucky escape from that bad egg. Rihanna's relationship with Chris was full of drama, so we're glad she's finally moved on. The 2016 VMAs were career defining for Rihanna, who wowed crowds with four different performances. She essentially performed the full set from her tour. Not many singers get the opportunity to do that, but it shows how popular Rihanna is with fans. Some of her songs may sound like she's mumbling her way through them, but they sell records and people love them. What do you think about Rihanna and Drake's PDA? Do you think they make a great couple? Hit the comments!
They met while filming Famously Single , but Aubrey O’Day and Pauly D could very be married by the end of this year. O’Day just wrapped Celebrity Big Brother in London, so she and the D are taking a lover’s holiday around Europe. And though she didn’t end up winning the reality competition, Pauly D still thinks O’Day a champion. “In My Eyes She Won !” he Instagram’d five days ago. Before starting the show, Aubrey sent a love note to her man on social media. “My dearest hubby@djpaulyd, I will miss you so much,” she wrote. “You are my best friend, my lover, my person, my soulmate! Hold the fort down.. take care of our babies… hopefully I’ll come home with an amazing accent ;)!” However, once O’Day was inside the CBB House, TMZ reported that Pauly D. had dumped her without her knowledge, since celebrity participants (including Mob Wives ‘ Renee Graziano) are cut off from the outside world. The site reported that the couple split “for a few days” in May, and then on August 1st the Jersey Shore star and DJ deleted all of his social media posts involving O’Day. It appears, however, that they are back together, because both O’Day and D have been posting an insane amount of loved-up photos on Instagram, complete with a selfie stick. “some people have selfie sticks.. some don’t,” O’Day wrote on one Instagram. In the photo below, O’Day is showing off a big ole’ rock on her left finger, prompting fans to wonder if Pauly D had popped the question. Or she could have pulled a page from Farrah Abraham’s book and purchased it herself (what, with the exchange rate being very favorable for Americans in Europe right now). During their first break-up in May , O’Day told E! News that she and Pauly D were the real dea. “I’m the first girl Pauly has ever loved as he admits on the show – never loving before me.” she said “Nothing about our relationship was not serious. View Slideshow: 15 Couples Who Fell Apart on Reality Television “He brought me into his life with his daughter and mother, who I respect dearly. “Neither of our busy schedules have anything to do with why this didn’t work. At the end of the day, we tried our best.” Another day has dawned on their relationship! True love is real! View Slideshow: 14 Celebrity Couples Who Just Can’t Quit Each Other
On The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 11 Episode 9 , Kelly Dodd once again sought to explain her rough behavior this far. Watch The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 11 Episode 9 Online For a new cast member, KD is already notorious, and The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 11 Episode 9 was proof of this. To be the focal point of so much drama so soon is pretty impressive, but after the Battle at Beadors, well, Dodd’s notoriety is well earned. This week, she put it all out there on the table. “I feel like we were getting along really well,” Heather Dubrow said of herself and Shannon Beador, Kelly Dodd’s newfound rival. “But that sushi dinner?” “I’ve just never been involved in something like that. The screaming and vulgarity? I felt like I was suffocating and I had to leave.” Dodd’s response? “I was kind of shocked that you got so upset at me because I wasn’t talking to you,” she said, feigning incredulity fairly well. “It was a nightmare, and I’m really ashamed of myself, quite honestly,” Dodd added, but Dubrow said she wasn’t buying it. Heather told the Bravo cameras that “I think it’s great that Kelly’s showing remorse and she’s ashamed of her behavior.” BUT … “But the last two times I have been with Kelly, she has acted in a way that I think is not acceptable,” so why assume she’ll ever change? It’s a good point she raises. Dubrow also asked Dodd why she made fun of her behind her back: “I leave and I hear you imitated me and made fun of me?” “Why would you do that?” Dodd’s response is that Dubrow wanted her to leave, and well, that’s just kind of ridiculous. “That wasn’t your party!” she said. “That wasn’t your place.” Heather’s take on that? “When you start calling people the c-word and ‘dumb f—k’ screaming in the middle of restaurants, you lose all right to say.” Okay then. Dodd seemed at least partially humbled by that one, walking it back by saying, “I didn’t mean it towards you. I was wrong!” “I admitted it. I’m not saying my behavior was right … it was wrong. That’s not my personality at all. I do not behave that way.” “And I don’t hang out with women like that at all. It was probably the alcohol. And I felt like I was being attacked. She struck a nerve.” “I was emotional. Do you understand how that made me feel?” Dodd said through tears. “I don’t just attack people. I don’t do that.” She later broke down to the cameras, adding: “I know I have a problem with my anger, but I’m a mom and I’m a damn good mom.” Dodd continued in her own defense: “I have never been inappropriate around children … ever. When anybody accuses me of something untrue, the feeling of hurt is the reaction.” “And I’m a very very emotional person,” she said, wishing this could all go away. “I feel like I’m treading water and I’m drowning.” Did Dubrow buy it? Yes and no. “It seems like Kelly’s tears were real,” she revealed. “She seems remorseful. But every time I see her it’s a different personality.” What more can she say? It’s hard to just assume everything is fine and let bygones be bygones when someone’s track record suggests otherwise, but here’s hoping. “I guess we’re just going to have to wait and see,” Heather added, and if you watch The Real Housewives of Orange County online , you can do the same.
Shana Mangatal has a lot to say about Michael Jackson. And she swears it all comes from first-hand experience. The 46-year old has penned a book titled “Michael and Me: The Untold Story of Michael Jackson’s Secret Romance” in which she attempts to end certain rumors about the artist’s private life. Specifically, Mangatal says she knew Jackson intimately. She claims she slept with him on numerous occasions and that the iconic singer was very strongly into women. There has been chatter over the years, of course, regarding Jackson’s sexuality and whether he was actually attracted to the opposite gender. Mangatal says she met MJ in 1988, shared her first kiss with him at the age of 26 and slept with him several times in the summer of 1996. She also kept diaries of their experiences together. “After he passed away, it was really difficult for me to look at his pictures, watch his music videos or even listen to his music, so I definitely couldn’t read those diaries, until about, I’d say, a year or two ago, when I finally got the strength to do it,” Mangatal says . Jackson, of course, died in 2009 at the age of 50 from “ acute propofol intoxication .” Mangatal says her intent in publishing this book and including with it excerpts from her diary is so the public can think a “little bit differently about Michael and have a different perspective on him.” For example? “Anyone that I talk to, most of them believe that he was asexual, and I tell them no,” Mangatal explains . “All you have to do is spend five minutes with him, and you know instantly that he was not asexual. “He was quite the opposite, because he was extremely flirtatious – he was always flirting with me, at least. He could flip any conversation into something flirty. “From the very first day that I met him [as a fan] at the afterparty for his concert in New York, he was flirting with me… And from then on, I knew that there was more to him than meets the eye, because it was clear that he loved the ladies. “And he couldn’t hide it. Even if he tried to be child-like and innocent, he had that manly, macho thing in him that made him the flirtatious, sexy guy in real life.” Jackson was also accused through the years of molestation. Multiple lawsuits were brought against the singer that alleged he slept in the same bed as little children and touched them inappropriately. Mangatal scoffs at this notion. “When you were with Michael, and you saw him with kids, you saw the relationship, and it was just so pure and innocent,” she says. “It was really a wonderful thing to see, because … he became like a kid when he was with them. He was like a peer to them. So it was never like he was this adult preying on the children. “He was literally one of them. He loved playing what they loved to do, which was play video games, watch cartoons, talk about girls even.” This is the second time Mangatal has spoken out against accusations that Jackson was a child molester. She told Radar Online that numerous parents wanted their children to spend all this time with the legendary artist and he did not want to disappoint anybody. “His problem was that he couldn’t say no to anybody – especially kids,” she said this spring. “He was just so sweet and kind. He could never say no and when he finally did, parents would become upset.” Shana Mangatal now works as an actress and talent manager. Her book went on sale yesterday. Along with these personal tidbit, she also writes that Jackson was a master in marketing. When it came to his professional life, for example, Mangatal says Jackson was the person who came up with his nickname, the King of Pop. He insisted that others refer to him that way at awards shows or on MTV for a very specific reason: branding. Here is how Amazon describes her MJ-themed memoir: During her seven years working for Michael’s personal manager during the prolific period of the 1990s, Shana witnessed the scandals and the lawsuits, the release of groundbreaking albums and the subsequent world tours, the making of big-budget short films, and the addictions. It was through this business relationship that their trust and love for each other grew. Shana kept a meticulous diary throughout it all. Her story is rich with every little detail. Will you purchase it? Michael Jackson would have been 58 years old yesterday.
It's OK to shift the blame to you kids from time to time, like if you fart in public. It's not ok to blame them for forcing you to buy yourself an engagement ring , as much as Farrah Abraham would like to believe. Abraham explained to MTV why she ended up buying a ring that she thought off-again boyfriend Simon Saran was going to A) propose with B) pay her back for. Welp, neither happened, and Abraham is now the reluctant owner of a 14-carat ring. Abraham explained that she and her daughter, Sophia were on a Disney cruise in the Bahamas for Sophia's birthday. While they were docked at one of the cruise's port-of-calls, they perused the jewelry stalls together. Sophia said she wanted Abraham to get an engagement ring, so Abraham did the logical thing and called Saran to see if he was open to making it official. “He had pictures, he was seeing it [the ring]…he was talking to the owner of the store,” Abraham recalled. “I was left with the impression that he was really buying it, and it wasn't a big deal that I purchased it.” If I could just interject…if Saran was actually serious about proposing, why would he allow Abraham to purchase something in another country? That might be beside the point. Carry on! “It was a great thing that he was involved,” Abraham said “And my daughter and I got to make something special so that she felt she was involved in an engagement.” Alas, nothing is as it seems, and for all their oohing and aahing over a piece of jewelry, the engagement has yet to happen. “But it turned out not being as nice as I thought it was,” Abraham said, looking disappointed. Exactly how much did Abraham end up spending on her ring? “It's was $64,000 initially, though he got it down to $36,000,” she said with a laugh,”and I thought I was going to be paid back. “But we're not dating anymore and I don't really care.” It's unclear where Saran stands on this purchase, and why he allegedly gave it the green light.
When Katy Perry found out that Spencer Morrill was fooled into believing that have an online relationship that lasted six years, her heart broken a little. Morrill, who lives in Knoxville, TN, appeared on MTV’s Catfish: The TV Show ‘s August 17th episode, in which wanted hosts Nev Schulman and Max Joseph to help him meet Perry in perso n. Morrill explained that he and the pop star communicated via email, text, messaging apps and even spoke on the phone once. It turned out that Perry was actually a Canadian woman named Harriet, who was based in London). Perry was asked about the episode on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up earlier this week, and she admitted that even though someone sent her the article, she didn’t read through the whole thing because it bummed her out. “Somebody sent me a link,” Perry, 31, said. “I didn’t actually read through it, because I just think it’s really unfortunate and really sad.” The hosts tried to joke about the whole ordeal, but Perry didn’t find any of it funy. “You know, like, my heart goes out to him actually, because anybody that’s been fooled like that or just, you know, people have dreams, and people live in different parts of the world where not everything is always so accessible,” she said. “Like, we live on the coast, and we, you know, we get stuff in a way that some other people don’t get, and I feel bad for him, and so I didn’t really like to indulge in that, because my heart … I empathize.” I have no idea what she’s talking about, and I think she just referred to Morrill as a hillbilly with dial-up internet, but I do respect that she has empathy for him. Morrill was looking forward to finally seeing his beloved, he told Schulman and Joseph. “I would like to meet face to face and see if there’s a future here,” “She’s awesome. Katy’s funnier than I am, she’s smarter than I am. I don’t know how many people give her credit for that, but she’s very intelligent. Katy’s full of life, huge heart.” Why would someone mess with another person like this? Meri Brown on Catfish Relationship: I Never Crossed a Line!
Soulja Boy Threatens To Kill Nia Riley And New Boyfriend Soulja Boy has already made it clear that he is BIG MAD about his ex-girl Nia Riley getting over him and moving on with a new boo. But Soulja Boy is taking things a step further now…letting his pain push him into making extremely violent threats against her new man AND Nia herself. Via TMZ : Soulja Boy is making disturbing threats against the guy he thinks took his place … with his ex-girlfriend. The “Crank That” rapper made the vicious threat Friday in a video post … waving and pointing what appears to be a Glock with an extended magazine. It’s unclear why the threat’s being directed at Nia Riley and her BF. Not the smartest move — especially considering Soulja’s on probation for a weapons charge But Nia says the whole thing is a big misunderstanding…and she isn’t scared of shooters pulling up in her driveway: Nia tells TMZ she’s NOT calling cops to report Soulja. She says she doesn’t have a BF, and the person he threatened is just an Internet troll trying to piss off the rapper. A rep for Soulja claims the gun was a fake, and adds he’s already reached out to Nia to apologize. Well he’s lucky she decided to leave the cops out of this one…because public threats like that are a quick pass to the county lockup… WENN/Splash
Innclusive Set To Open For Travelers By The End Of The Month Have you ever felt a bit unwelcome in your vacation ‘home’ away from home? Innclusive founders Rohan Gilkes and Zakiyyah Myers know exactly how you feel and came together to help facilitate a more diverse and ‘inclusive’ experience for travelers. Check out our exclusive interview with co-founder Zakiyyah addressing how Innclusive came to be and what it means to support Black business… It all started when Rohan was trying to book an AirBnB for a trip to Idaho: Long story short what happened was the lady at the place accepted his invitation. He sent her a nice warm and fuzzy message to her saying it’s probably just gonna be me maybe one other person. Looking forward to your beautiful place. At that point she must’ve gone to look at his picture and said ‘oh hell no’. Can you guess what happens next?? Maybe something like this? The room is still available for the dates that I requested smh. #AirbnbWhileBlack pic.twitter.com/Z3JtLnAEwP — V Del Rossi (@V_DEL_ROSSI) August 1, 2016
By know, most of us know Boomer Phelps as that adorable little chunker who snoozed through most of his dad’s Olympic races. Boomer is just over three months old, and has replaced Kate Middleton as the most popular celebrity at any Olympic Games ever. Last night, Boomer got decked out to watch dad Michael Phelps go for the gold once again, one upping his outfit game from the night before when dad won his 20th and 21st Olympic gold medals. “Wait to go daddy!!!” the caption for the photo read, earning over 76,000 likes and a slew of positive comments. Boomer has has own verified Instagram account, with over 277,000. The Olympic swimmer did prep everyone for Boomer’s sartorial splendor. “He’s going to have some cool outfits on, that’s for sure. You’ve got to check him out,” Michael told reporters before his August 9th races. “I’ve gotten some photos of him — Boomer will be dressed to impress in the stands, that’s for sure.” View Slideshow: Michael Phelps: #PhelpsFace Memes Take Over Social Media Boomer’s mom is former Miss California Nicole Johnson. She and Michael got engaged in February 2015 after 8 years of dating on and off. Boomer was born May 5th of this year. “It’s been a really fun journey over the last couple of years, and a journey that I think has made me the person who I am and helped me transform to me just being me,” Michael told USA Today a few months after their engagement. “Nicole and I are so stoked.” U.S. Swimmers Take Carpool Karaoke to Olympic Heights “I said to a couple of my friends if I ever had the chance to get her back, that would be it,” Phelps said Wednesday, a day before competing in the Arena Pro Swim Series here. “She was the one I loved the most.” Michael’s gold medal tally in Rio is at three for Men’s 4x200m freestyle relay, Men’s 200m butterfly, and Men’s 4x100m freestyle relay. Tonight, he’ll swim in the Men’s 200m individual medley. View Slideshow: Rio Olympics: NBC Makes Divers Look Naked, Internet Doesn’t Complain
Israel Houghton Defends Adrienne Bailon And Says Marriage Is Over Tuesday Adrienne Bailon and Israel Houghton both made a very public declaration of their love, posting near identical photos of them kissing while flanked by two of his kids. While many of their friends and followers liked the photo and left supportive messages, a few people voiced their feelings in Israel’s comments — and were surprised when he answered! If you watch “The Real” you’ve heard Adrienne talk about her faith plenty. Are people wrong to be questioning her? Then there are the folks who are still #TeamWife. Well… Israel has an answer for them too. This exchange should probably put to rest any questions about whether or not his marriage is truly over. Seems like it’s a wrap according to Israel. Despite getting an answer, this particular commenter stuck around to beef it up some and nearly got blocked. Apparently she didn’t take too kindly to this person’s remarks… What do you think about Israel defending his relationship on his Instagram? Right place or wrong? Whatever the case may be or how much flak they got, that didn’t keep Adrienne from posting a new picture today. Hit the flip to see it. Instagram
