Trey Songz Warns Fans About Fake Skype Accounts Somebody has been makin love faces with Trey Songz fans on Skype…..but it wasn’t Trey. He recently put the perpetrators on blast via his Facebook page. Trey Songz says that purportedly some individual(s) are impersonating him on Skype in the hope of getting attention from women. In a news statement earlier, Trey Songz said that he has learned about the trouble. “If you think you are skyping with me, you are wrong” the hitmaker told his female fans today. He advised news about the troubles of social networking and celebrity impersonation. “Fans please be cautious while socially networking.” Trey Songz added that he is perplexed how loyal fans would mistaken his face with some other guy. But he added “Don’t understand how something so visual can be mistaken”. He added simply “be safe.” The singer posted to his Facebook account the names of two Skype accounts he claims were used to allegedly impersonate him. We’re glad Trey put these fakes and their man-thirst on blast and everything, but we’re kind with Trey on this one. How can you be fooled on Skype??? Has this ever happened to you, Bossip readers? Source
In 2009, Daniel Mustard went viral when he covered Radiohead’s “Creep” on the Opie and Anthony Show. What made the performance (below) so noteworthy? Mustard was living on the streets at the time. Now cleaned up and no longer living in the New York City parks, Mustard resides in homeless shelters and is asking for your help: he’d love to release an album if he an get it funded.
‘We’ll just leave right now,’ Nicky Byrne jokes when told Westlife are facing Beatles in third round of Battle of the Boy Bands. By Christina Garibaldi Westlife and The Beatles’ Paul McCartney and John Lennon Photo: Getty Images MTV’s Battle of the Boy Bands is certainly heating up. We have seen some shocking eliminations throughout the first two rounds, with the Backstreet Boys , ‘NSYNC and New Kids on the Block all making early exits in the competition. And as we head into the Final Four on Wednesday, fans will be tirelessly voting for their favorites to move on, hoping to land a spot in the championship matchup. A clear fan favorite in this battle has been Irish boy band Westlife . The group so far has taken down the Backstreet Boys and O-Town, but in the Elite Eight round, they are up against the original boy band, the Beatles . We spoke to Westlife member Nicky Byrne via Skype from Dublin, Ireland, as the group rehearses for their final farewell tour, and he told us what he thought their chances were for beating their latest opponent. “We’ll just leave now, we’ll just leave right now,” Byrne laughed when told he was facing the Beatles. “The only thing we have in our favor is that our fanbase would still be very, I suppose, relatively young and want for Westlife to win. I mean, it goes without saying the Beatles are the ultimate boy band and nobody is ever going to take that crown.” Westlife still have a good chance of advancing to the next round. And if they continue to maintain momentum, they could ultimately face the new wave of boy bands, which Byrne admits he is a fan of. “You’ve got the Wanted coming through and One Direction , and it’s brilliant for them. I’ve met the guys, both bands, lovely guys, an Irish guy in each band, which is great,” Byrne said. “It’s brilliant for pop music. The Wanted, they’re supporting our stadium shows here in Ireland, so they’ll be our support band, so that’s pretty cool. I suppose a little bit of me probably thinks I wish I was 20 again to do it all over again. But you have to hold your hands up — we’ve had a wonderful time and it’s time to pass the reins on to someone else.” Voting for the Elite Eight in MTV’s Battle of the Boy Bands runs until noon ET on Wednesday, May 2. Winners are determined by fan votes, so if your favorite band made the cut, make sure you keep voting. Tune in to AMTV and MTV Hits for their boy-band video takeovers each day and make sure to spread the word on Twitter using the hashtag #BBB and like us on Facebook for updates! Vote for your favorite band, discuss and share on Facebook and Twitter in the MTV Battle of the Boy Bands interactive bracket! Related Videos Battle Of The Boy Bands Related Artists Westlife The Beatles
The stirring 2009 documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty took us behind the scenes at Disney Animation to reveal what it’s like when good things happen to good people. But before that, there was The Sweatbox , the 2002 doc that exposed how bad things happen to good people at the notoriously demanding studio — a revelation that virtually ensured the film would never see the light of day. The crackdown worked once and may yet work in the future, but for now, YouTube has all 95 unfinished minutes available for a rare look. John-Paul Davidson and Trudie Styler were granted full access to the Disney process — the dark-arts cauldron comprising writers, directors, animators and executives — as it applied to the doomed project Kingdom of the Sun . The results featured below aren’t especially flattering (particularly to the executives), and Styler’s husband Sting walks his customary line between introspective and pretentious, but as a cautionary tale of snuffed-out Hollywood idealism alone, this one’s worth viewing. What the hell else are you doing with your Friday? [via /film ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
If you happen to live in a neighborhood with no Jehovah’s Witness ladies around to remind you that we’re living in the last days, wackadoodle director Abel Ferrara’s latest, 4:44 Last Day on Earth , is here to drive that truth home — or at least make you think about it just a little bit. Willem Dafoe plays an actor, Cisco, facing what he, and everybody else, knows is the Earth’s last day, thanks to an ozone layer that dissolved faster than anyone expected. He spends that last day writing in his journal, watching video footage of some fake-inspirational guru-dude, reaching out to his daughter and assorted pals via Skype and, most importantly, making sweet, crazy, soft-core love to his dishy, much-younger girlfriend, painter Skye (Shanyn Leigh), in the couple’s artsy, faux-ramshackle Manhattan loft. What a way to go! And yet, for an Abel Ferrara movie at least, 4:44 Last Day on Earth is surprisingly restrained. It doesn’t have the loosey-goosey dress-up-box vibe of the director’s 2007 Go Go Tales (also starring Dafoe), or the lackadaisical silliness of his 2005 Blessed Virgin thriller Mary (which featured a post- Big Fish , pre- La Vie en Rose Marion Cotillard, though I don’t remember a thing about her performance). 4:44 is, like the aforementioned movies, often laughable — watching the excessively craggy Dafoe and the excessively nubile Leigh roll around on their pre-Apocalyptic mattress was certainly good for a giggle. But the picture is also weirdly compelling, maybe most notably for the way Dafoe’s character — who is, in this respect, perhaps a stand-in for the Bronx-born Ferrara — seems to be grappling less with the idea that the world is ending than that the city is ending. Ferrara integrates lots of — perhaps too much — found TV footage of people around the world worshiping, lighting candles, and doing whatever it is people would be likely to do on the Earth’s last day. This stuff is boring and kind of dumb. But Ferrara brings some surprising gracefulness to the mix too: At one point Cisco and Skye order take-out, as any red-blooded New Yorker would do — when the world is ending, who has the energy to cook? When the Vietnamese delivery boy shows up, Cisco asks him, patronizingly, if he knows what’s going on. (He also tips the kid what might be $40 or $60, because, well, why not?) Then he asks, more kindly, if he can do anything for the boy, who responds by indicating that he’d like to contact his family back home via Skype. He speaks with them for a few minutes, but the movie’s sweetest moment comes just after he closes the lid of the MacBook: He stoops down to kiss it. Ferrara has some fun exploring both the high-tech and low-tech ways in which a human being, on the last day of mankind’s existence, might reach out to others. At one point Cisco steps out on his roof deck and lift a pair of field glasses to his eyes, the better to peep through his neighbors’ windows: He sees groups of people huddled together quietly; he also sees a man who’s just cooked a steak for himself, cutting a portion for his begging dog. In the city, looking through other people’s windows is sometimes voyeurism (benign or otherwise), but often it’s just a casual means of human connection, a point Ferrara makes beautifully here. And then there’s the Internet, which connects us all for better or worse. Ferrara can’t seem to get enough of Skype — but then, who among us can? After Cisco and Skye have a lover’s spat that really might be the end of the world, she rushes to her computer to Skype with mom, and what should pop up on the screen but the blessedly unfixed and unadorned face of Anita Pallenberg, who, in a voice that sounds either like the Devil or a lifetime of too many cigarettes (or both) tells her daughter how much she loves her and that she’s proud of her. She also tries to comfort her in the world’s last moments with a piece of advice that’s halfway between outright howler and sage mommy wisdom: “Just go to another sphere and it will be all right.” That’s sort of a metaphor for the act of watching Ferrara’s movies — going to another sphere is always required. At least in the case of 4:44 Last Day on Earth , it really is kind of all right. Read Movieline’s profile of 4:44 Last Day on Earth director Abel Ferrara here . Follow Stephanie Zacharek on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
New Orleans rapper Mystikal was at the height of his career when he was sentenced to a six-year prison term. Several labels were interested in signing Mystikal after his release from jail in 2010, but the rapper ultimately decided to stay close to home and sign with Cash Money Records . We’re not sure when Mystikal’s dropping a new album, but he just released a new song and video, “Original,” featuring Lil Wayne and Birdman . Check it out: WARNING: EXPLICIT CONTENT RELATED: Mystikal On Signing A Deal: “Everybody’s Interested!” [EXCLUSIVE] Lil Wayne & Dhea Spotted At Lakers vs. Heat Game [PHOTOS] AUDIO: Mystikal Released From Prison VIDEO UPDATE: Mystikal Explains Skype Scam VIDEO: VH1 Hip-Hop Honors “Dirty South” Tributes
Troubled Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans is reportedly “devastated” after learning the truth about her young son’s paternity, according to the UK’s Mail Online . Andrew Lewis, not that douche Kieffer Delp , is listed as the father of Jenelle’s son, Jace, who’s currently is in the custody of her mother, Barbara Evans. However, birth certificate be damned, she claimed she cheated on him and was unsure who the father was … until only recently finding out he is the dad. A friend says Andrew Lewis recently took a paternity test which proved 100 percent that he is the father , and that Jenelle has not taken kindly to this. “Andrew always knew deep down he was Jace’s father, but it’s a relief to actually prove it to Jenelle and finally get Jace back in his life,” the friend said. “Andrew broke down in tears when he found out and he cried when Jenelle finally let him see Jace via Skype for the first time in almost two years.” Jenelle Evans ‘ mother Barbara has custody of Jace due to her daughter’s troubled life, which includes many run-ins with the law and a stint in rehab. Jenelle has not yet revealed to little Jace who his father is. The Mail claims Andrew and Jenelle were Skyping on Christmas and when Jace asked who was on the screen she replied, “Nobody important.” This devastated Lewis, who “just lost it and broke down into tears; it was affirmation just how horrible of a mom Jenelle is,” his friend said. “It breaks Andrew’s heart having to watch his son grow up on TV, but Jenelle said that the only way he can have a relationship with Jace is if he films for Teen Mom so he signed a contract with MTV and has already filmed for next season.” “After confirming and documenting the DNA test Jenelle and her mom Barbara promised to send pictures, post cards and let Andrew fly to North Carolina to see Jace, but every one of his calls has gone unanswered so far.” “He’s trying to have a relationship with Jace so he can someday regain custody, but Jenelle and her mom are making every effort to continue to shut him out.” Guess we’ll be watching this play out in the coming months … on MTV.
Would you let your kids see this nasty character??? Jerry Sandusky , the former Penn State assistant football coach charged with child molestation, asked for court permission on Friday to see his grandchildren. Under conditions of his bail, Sandusky is currently prohibited from visiting his 11 grandchildren. A motion filed in Centre County court seeks to allow Sandusky to contact his 11 grandchildren by email, phone, text and Skype, and to let them visit his central Pennsylvania home if accompanied by a parent. Authorities allege Sandusky sexually abused 10 boys over a 15-year span. Sandusky has said he is innocent. He is currently under house arrest and forbidden from having contact with anyone under 18. “Jerry’s grandchildren want to see him, and he very much wants to see them,” Sandusky’s lawyer, Joe Amendola, wrote in an email to The Associated Press. A 12th grandchild is expected “in the near future,” according to the motion. They shouldn’t allow him to see nothing but the four walls of a jail cell! Source More On Bossip! EWWWW!!! What In The Everloving Hell Is Dripping Down Christina Aguilera’s Leg?!?!?!?! Little Guys With Big Swag: Men Of Miniature Proportions Who Stay High On Self-Esteem Lemme Check Your Phone: People That Were Always Jealous Of Their Boo Thangs So What If They Have Issues…The Hottest Pictures Of Women That Have Been Chopped Down By Athletes Pt. 2
Evelyn Lozada from VH1′s “Basketball Wives” found her famous finance Chad Ochocinco by connecting with him on Twitter , but there are other couples that have found love on this social network. They initially began tweeting each, then started flirting via Skype, and then made their relationship physical on an episode of “Basketball Wives.” Will Ochocinco & The New England Patriots Win The Super Bowl Evelyn and Ochocinco have their own reality show in the works, and you can see who else found love on Twitter right here . RELATED POSTS: #TUDTV: Reality Recap “Love & Hip Hop,” “The Family Hustle” & “The Game” Erica Mena & Somaya Reece Throw Shots On Twitter
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien investigates how African-American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley struggle with racial bias, financial security, . While much of the country struggles to emerge from a recession, California’s Silicon Valley is booming, and technology companies like Facebook, Skype, and Apple are seeing their valuations soar. CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien reports that the ownership of this digital bloom is mostly young, white, and male. For her fourth Black in America documentary, O’Brien asks why, according to industry analyst CB Insights, less than one percent of all venture capital money went to digital startups with African-American founders in 2010 – and she profiles a unique, technology-focused “accelerator” developed to help African-American digital entrepreneurs secure funding to establish their businesses. Black in America: The New Promised Land – Silicon Valley will debut on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 8:00p.m. ET & PT and replay on Nov. 13 at 11:00p.m. ET & PT. It will also replay on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 8:00p.m. and 11:00p.m. ET & PT on CNN/U.S. The NewMe accelerator program, founded by friends Angela Benton and Wayne Sutton, is a collaborative of African-American start-up founders with Internet-based businesses – the first such business accelerator of its kind. NewMe’s ultimate mission is to diversify the technology industry by accelerating the participants’ business ventures. Participants seek venture capital investment and are mentored by prominent people from within the industry. O’Brien follows the progress of the eight former strangers after they were selected to live together for nine weeks in a modest, three-bedroom house in Mountain View, CA, from June to August of 2011. The entrepreneurs were provided with free office space and attended regular networking events hosted by NewMe’s sponsors. The participants come from varied backgrounds and experiences. It’s kinda like “The Real World”, “The Ultimate Hustler”, and “African-America’s Next Top Techie” all in one show. Should be interesting… Source
