Source: Sonia Moskowitz/ Heidi Gutman / Getty Whoopi Goldberg Pisses Off Dana Gasby Dan Gatsby ‘s daughter is NOT HERE for Whoopi Goldberg or anyone else criticizing her dad’s new relationship. The family fell under criticism recently when the story of her dad moving his girlfriend into the home where his wife battled Alzheimer’s spread . On a recent episode of The View , Whoopi was uncomfortable with it, calling B a friend. ““I didn’t want to see B look like that,” said Goldberg. “I didn’t need to see that.” Dana Gasby , 32, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, her step-mom is a “physically strong toddler who speaks in gibberish,” who sometimes needs to be forced to shower and use the toilet. She wants Whoopi and others judging to HUSH with their judgment. “These fraudulent friends know nothing. I have not seen them here,” says Dana, who moved back home three years ago to care for Smith. “They don’t call my family. I see them talking on TV and how do you know what your supposed ‘friend’ would want?” Dana fully supports the relationship between her father and Alex, his girlfriend. She says she hears Goldberg’s criticism of the video showing Smith’s day-to-day reality and wonders: is it “because you’re getting older and not happy with your health or whatever and you decide it’s not ok? Guess what—this is what aging is.” Thoughts?
Source: Matt Dinerstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank / Getty LaRoyce Hawkins Stars And Eriq LaSalle Directs “Chicago P.D.” Episode About Police Involved Shooting NBC is set to air an especially sensitive episode of “Chicago P.D.” Wednesday night called “Night In Chicago,” where Detective Kevin Atwater goes undercover to bring down a dangerous drug lord and ends up in a difficult situation after a traffic stop turns into an officer involved shooting! Eriq La Salle, who directed the episode, spoke with BOSSIP exclusively about working on the show. “The first thing I told LaRoyce [Hawkins, who plays Det. Atwater] was we owe it to a lot of brothers and sisters who can’t tell the story,” La Salle told BOSSIP. “It’s our responsibility now to make sure that we tell the story right and that we represent that. That was really the start for me.” Source: Matt Dinerstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank / Getty “I’ll never forget that call,” LaRoyce Hawkins told BOSSIP about his initial conversations with LaSalle about the episode. “What I love about working with Eriq La Salle is his excitement for the job. This was a story that really touched him, written by Ike Smith who is a Chicago native, and actually I am from the Chicago area, and Eriq La Salle thought it was really important that we made this story so authentic and real to the people who have actually been in those experiences, to the people who have actually been pulled over, to people who haven’t been pulled over to the people who don’t understand and the people who do. I like to think we tell stories for everyone’s perspectives, even the people you might not like in this episode. Atwater gets jammed up and the struggle for power gets political and uncomfortable but at the end of the day it’s a night in Chicago that I don’t think anybody can really run away from.” With a plot that feels pulled straight from the headlines, the show ventures into some complicated waters, particularly after some of Atwater’s superiors try to place the blame for the shooting on him, saying he should have disclosed his undercover status to diffuse the situation. “I think when these kinds of things happen, officer involved shootings, now there is somewhat of a vulnerability or a perception of a vulnerability because people are becoming more vocal and things need to be criticized,” La Salle told BOSSIP. “We’re not telling anybody how to think… We’ve become so segregated and divided, not to point out the obvious, but things become very black and white. If you’re from the black community you see it this way, if you’re from white community you see it this way. That’s not necessarily true, people have their own opinions. We don’t try to force feed any of our stories, we basically just put it out there and let the audience decide which side of an issue they fall on.” One of the cops who makes the traffic stop is blatantly racist — something that viewers will likely grapple with while watching. The other, La Salle says, is simply doing his job. At the end of the day, Atwater will play a major role in deciding whether or not to publicly burn the offending cop. “The piece of advice that Atwater takes to heart is from Voight, when he tells him ‘Win lose or draw, you have to live with yourself at night. Whatever is going to allow you to go to sleep peacefully is ultimately the best decision or the right thing to do for you, that might be the truth, that might not be the truth,’” Hawkins told BOSSIP. The highly acclaimed Wendell Pierce has a crucial guest role on the episode, as a local Alderman whose own political agenda only further complicates matters for Atwater. Both Hawkins and La Salle heaped praises on his performance in the episode. “Wendell and I go way back, we went to college together,” La Salle told BOSSIP. “He’s an amazing actor. For me it’s just bonus when you get to go basically play with one of your boys who happens to be extremely talented. He makes us all look good and I’m thankful for him and appreciative of what he contributes. I think his character having the potential mentor role over an Atwater in this episode is really interesting, but it’s really about Atwater finding his own way and being his own man and standing on his principles and what he believes is right no matter what. He’s really torn, he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place. Wendell represents the community… so if Wendell is saying ‘Maybe you should lie a little bit,’well you have to decide where your moral compass is. That’s a major theme of this episode.” Hawkins told BOSSIP he saw the opportunity to act in a scene with Pierce as a dream come true, especially because it coincided with other meaningful milestones for his character. “The relationship with Wendell Pierce’s character Ray Price and Atwater is really interesting,” La Royce Hawkins told BOSSIP. “I’m excited about where that relationship can go. That was my first scene with him… Just off the strength off the relationship, I think that Atwater respects Ray Price, even though he knows that Ray Price is a politician. I just appreciate Wendell Pierce for being so gracious in that scene and not just running circles around me because I am a big fan of his work. He’s a dynamic actor… It’s a lot of dreams come true for me on this show. This episode brought a lot of those things out, like I’ve always been a fan of Wendell Pierce, to be able to work with Mikelti Williamson and be directed at the same time by an Eriq La Salle. That’s pretty amazing for me as a young black man, so I learned a lot.” La Salle and Pierce weren’t the only pair of longtime friends on set either. Hawkins told us he and the actor who played the racist cop, Officer Doyle, have a lot of history. “Actually I met the cop that plays Doyle, who is the racist cop, I met him in high school,” LaRoyce told BOSSIP. “We used to compete against each other in speech. We ended up going to college together, he’s actually a real good friend and he was probably the perfect person for us to explore that energy with because he and I were so close. But he’s a great actor, he did his thing, I believed him, but for topics this sensitive it was almost extremely perfect for me to be working with a homie like that.” Source: Matt Dinerstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank / Getty Fans of “Chicago P.D.” know that this isn’t the first time the show has touched on such sensitive matters, particularly when it comes to race, and Eriq La Salle said it’s not just coincidence. He credited “Chicago P.D. writer and showrunner Rick Eid for not shying away from tough conversations. There’s a moment between Det. Atwater and Officer Adam Ruzek where Ruzek acknowledges his whiteness will never allow him to truly experience what Atwater has to deal with, but he pledges to have his back regardless of his lack of understanding. “I think that to me sort of represents what I was saying about Rick Eid,” La Salle told BOSSIP. “We gotta just start having honest conversations about race and gender if we hope to make any progress. A man has to be able to talk to woman, a white man has to be able to talk to a black man and so on. We have to be able to talk and we have to be willing to own what we don’t know and that’s what I love about that conversation between Ruzek and Atwater. ‘I don’t know and I’ll never know but I got your back’ We have to be able to say what we know and what we don’t know and that scene is my relationship to a degree with Rick. He teaches me certain things and I teach him certain things but we both respect each other as men. One happens to be black and one happens to be white and we respect each other as men that we’re able to have conversations.”
Jennifer Lawrence has struck a deal with a very special high-end art dealer: She has agreed to marry him! Indeed, according to multiple outlets, the Oscar-winning actress is now engaged to someone named Cooke Maroney. (We guess she isn’t so gross after all, huh, Lala Kent? ) The 28-year old actress was spotted out and about in New York City over the weekend wearing what Page Six described as a “massive ring” while dining at Raoul’s, an upscale French restaurant. “It was a giant rock. They seemed like they were celebrating and people were talking about it,” a source told this section of The New York Post, adding: “The ring was very noticeable. They were sitting back in a corner. She was wearing a cute black dress with white polka dots.” A few days prior to this outing, Lawrence and Maroney were seen in The Big Apple’s West Village, also looking like two people very much in love. News of Lawrence and Maroney’s romance went viral in June of 2018, making this a semi-fast engagement. They’ve only been dating for about six or seven months. The two were subsequently spotted together in Paris, Rome and New York on multiple occasions, with one insider saying the following to Us Weekly about the relationship: “They definitely appear to be in it for the long haul. “Cooke plays very coy when speaking about her to his friends and colleagues. He is clearly smitten about her.” The beloved Hunger Games star was previously linked to Nicholas Holt from 2011 to 2014… Chris Martin in 2015 … and director Darren Aronofsky from 2016 to 2017. This bombshell report now raises a very obvious question to readers and fans: Who the heck is Cooke Maroney? A few facts about the future Mr. Jennifer Lawrence: – As mentioned above, he works as an art dealer. Specifically, he works at the Gladstone 64 gallery in New York’s Upper East Side — and one of the gallery’s biggest clients is Lena Dunham’s artist father, Carroll Dunham. – His parents own a farm. For real! According to Cosmopolitan, Cooke’s mom and dad, James Maroney and Suki Fredericks, own Oliver Hill Farm in Vermont, where he grew up. – He isn’t the jealous type. This is just an assumption, but Lawrence brought Maroney as her date to the September premiere of The Favourite, the Oscar-nominated movie that stars her ex, Hoult. But Lawrence has said on record that she remains close to all of her exes. “I don’t think that you can have any sort of bad relationship with anybody if you’re just blunt,” she told Marc Maron on a podcast in February 2018. “Everybody always knows how you feel at all times and there’s no lying, it’s just honesty. Everybody’s a good guy to each other. … Every time I go through a breakup, it’s not like my heart isn’t broken. They just never did anything to like, devastate me. They were just good people.” Well, she’ll never go through a breakup again. Hopefully. Congrats to Cooke Maroney and Jennifer Lawrence!
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It has been nearly a month since Larissa Lima and Colt Johnson's toxic marriage came to a violent end. It's been weeks, but these troubled 90 Day Fiance exes continues to lob accusations at each other. Larissa says that Colt deactivated her phone and robbed her blind . But some have accused Larissa of only having gotten with Colt in the first place because she was fishing for a Green Card. It's been known to happen, but Larissa says that she was never in this relationship for US citizenship. In a lengthy essay, she explains it all, and you have to admit that her argument makes a lot of sense. Larissa's real reason for getting with Colt might be a little hard to believe, but she swears that it's true. 1. Was Larissa just with Colt for a Green Card? That would explain why she put up with him for as long as she did, and why she got with him in the first place. But as people claimed that this was her goal all along, Larissa hit back. In an Instagram essay shared by blogger John Yates, Larissa made it clear that she wasn’t after a Green Card — and she shares the unbelievable REAL reason she got with Colt. 2. First of all … “My former husband is the one who came to talk to me,” Larissa writes. “And chased me for days online before I gave him any attention.” 3. “I did not want to talk to him,” she says. Larissa explains that she was reluctant “because I could not communicate in English. I never put myself out there on dating sights to find an American guy.” 4. Even their initial chats didn’t always go so well “I found the communication really hard with him,” Larissa admits. “And I even blocked him a couple of times and talked to him again weeks later.” (Pro-tip: if you’ve blocked a guy more than once, maybe your marriage isn’t meant to be) 5. It was, she says, all Coltee’s idea “He was the one who insisted to meet,” Larissa writes. “And made all arrangements for the first meeting in Mexico.” This photo is from that meet-up. 6. Larissa explains how her Green Card scheme WOULD work “If I had a dream of coming to the US,” Larissa explains. “I would create a profile on dating sights and target a wealthy man, like many women do.” View Slideshow
Source: Apple Music/Beats 1 Radio / Apple Music/Beats 1 Radio Nicki Minaj Talks Kenneth Petty On Queen Radio Nicki Minaj had another episode of Queen Radio on Beats 1 on Apple Music this weekend and she spoke on a number of topics. The rapper dropped two new freestyles for her Barbz; “Barbie Drip”, a freestyle over Lil Baby/Gunna’s “Drip Too Hard” and “Barbie Goin Bad”, a remix of Meek Mill’s “Going Bad” track featuring Drake. She also spoke with blogger Kyle Anfernee about her personal life and confessed that she’s in the “best place” partially because of her man Kenneth Petty. Onika admitted that while yes, they really do have sex four times a day , their relationship is much deeper than that. According to her, he “empowers her.” “If I’m being honest, spiritually, I’m at the best place I’ve been in a long time. I think who you have in your life determines how you feel spiritually. I’m happy now with or without a man, but it just so happens the n*gga in my life, he’s known me since I was 14. He knows the real me, I don’t have to pretend. We can be around each other all day and not get bored. I know I say we f*ckin’ 4 times a day, but that’s not all we do. There’s a different level of friendship and passion I’ve never had before. So nurturing and knows just what to say to make me feel empowered.” She also added that God has a strong presence in her life—and joked about being pregnant. She also acknowledged that she might be ready to have Kenneth children despite not being ready for motherhood in the past. Outside of that, God is always the head of my life. With or without a man, God is the head of my life. If didn’t believe in God, I wouldn’t be here still. I would be Amy Winehouse, or Marilyn Monroe. Both those women remind me of myself. You just never know. I’ve been in the healthiest place I’ve been in years. Mind, body, spirit. (*Nicki then jokes that she’s pregnant*). Anytime a guy asks me to have his baby, something just never felt right. But I definitely know that … you know? You know. Ohhhhh really??? Looks like Onika’s in it for the long run with this one. Source: Apple Music/Beats 1 Radio / Apple Music/Beats 1 Radio Nicki clearly doesn’t GAF what anyone thinks about her new bae —should she? Source: Apple Music/Beats 1 Radio / Apple Music/Beats 1 Radio Hit the flip for more from Queen Radio.
Source: Paramount Pictures / Paramount Pictures Win tickets to the HOT 107.9 screening of “What Men Want” starring Taraji P. Henson, Tuesday, February 5th at 7:00PM at Regal Atlantic Station. _____ ____ WHAT MEN WANT (Paramount Pictures) Release Date: Friday, February 8th Rating: Rated R (for language and sexual content throughout, and some drug material) Directed By: Adam Shankman Produced By: Will Packer and James Lopez Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Richard Roundtree, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Tracy Morgan Source: Paramount / Paramount Synopsis: Ali Davis (Taraji P. Henson) is a successful sports agent who’s constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When Ali is passed up for a well-deserved promotion, she questions what else she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world… until she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts! With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest (Aldis Hodge) to the test. WHAT MEN WANT is the latest comedy from director Adam Shankman (HAIRSPRAY) and producers Will Packer and James Lopez (GIRLS TRIP), co-starring Tracy Morgan, Richard Roundtree, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Josh Brener, Tamala Jones, Phoebe Robinson, Max Greenfield, Jason Jones, Brian Bosworth, Chris Witaske and Erykah Badu. #WhatMenWant
Source: Mindy Small / Getty Bow Wow Is Back With His Ex-GF Kiyomi It’s been a few months since Kiyomi told us that she and Shad Moss called it quits…but now they seem to be back together. Bow Wow and Kiyomi were spotted out and about in Atlanta yesterday, enjoying Super Bowl freebies. The couples stopped by a designer pop up to grab a gift bag full of clothing. Both Shad and Kiyomi took photos with the owner of the shop, posting it to social media. This is a sign that things are probably going well again for the couple, who sought therapy when their relationship was on the fritz. Previously, Kiyomi said she’s been concentrating on getting her music out to the world, and soaking up modeling opportunities. Seems pretty predictable that these two slid back, after cooling down for a bit. Are YOU here for it?
Move over, Tom Cruise! There’s a new Hollywood deadbeat dad in town, and he’s not blaming his negligent ways on commands issued by his alien overlords. According to Radar Online, Brad Pitt recently reached a painful milestone: The site claims Brad has not been spotted in public with his kids in 900 days. Now, that’s not to say he hasn’t seen any of his kids. In fact, he’s probably spent time with all of them at one point or another over the course of the past two and a half years. But it is to say there are some seriously high tensions, and Brad’s relationship with his children is not what he would like it to be. Allow us to explain: As you may recall, Brad’s contentious relationship with son Maddox, 17, was at the center of Pitt’s divorce from Angelina Jolie . Jolie decided that Maddox is old enough to decide for himself if he’d like to continue having a relationship with his father, and he chose not to. Maddox’s younger brother Pax, 15, has also opted out of spending any time with Brad. Maddox and Pax’s younger siblings have not cut Brad off entirely, but it seems the actor sees very little of them — and that’s just the way Angelina likes it. “Angie secretly delights in Maddox and Pax refusing to see Brad. Besides that, she doesn’t stop them when they badmouth and complain about him,” a source close to the situation tells Radar. “Not stopping them from blasting Brad plays into her mind games.” And it seems Brad has resigned himself to the fact that he’ll never be able to mend fences with Maddox — but he wants a chance to “Brad knows his relationship with Maddox is irreparable, but he deserves a chance with the younger ones,” the insider says. “He’s tried his best to clean up his act,” the source adds. “Brad’s sober and healthy and ready to be the best dad in the world. “But Angelina refuses to give him a chance at redemption. It’s sad and frustrating.” Sounds like Angelina’s holding all the cards and Brad’s got his work cut out for him. But hey, at least if those George and Amal Clooney divorce rumors are true, he’ll have someone to commiserate with. View Slideshow: 13 Reasons to Be Glad You Never Slept With Brad Pitt
