Source: VH1 / VH1 Van Helps T.I.’s Neice Honor Her Late Mother T.I.’s niece Kamaya visits 9MAG seeking a tribute for her recently deceased mother , Precious Harris. Precious, sister to Tip, passed away earlier this year suddenly. Van helps her daughter keep her spirit alive through a tattoo portrait. Meanwhile, Van is reflecting on his daughter’s plans to join the National Guard. Do you think he did a good job? Hit play.
Source: Lester Cohen / Getty Tiny Addresses Marriage Critics In a recent interview with WCGI , Tiny Harris was asked about how haters critiquing her T.I. relationship made her feel. And her answer was short: Most of those women talking, they still with a man that’s probably cheating every day, living their worst lives. Ouch! Tiny goes on to say that she doesn’t condone infidelity, of course, but the entertainment industry is a tough one for a healthy marriage. Long story short, she’s not leaving her husband anytime soon…so SHUSH! Hit play to hear it. View this post on Instagram #TinyHarris speaks on staying with #TI despite relationship issues @leonkendrakyle LINK IN BIO for the full interview A post shared by WGCI Chicago (@wgci) on Jul 24, 2019 at 7:27am PDT
View this post on Instagram Hump Day. A post shared by Danielle Brooks (@daniebb3) on Jul 24, 2019 at 11:28am PDT Danielle Brooks Shows Off Baby Bump Danielle Brooks is glowing and gorgeous. The “Orange Is The New Black” beauty who recently announced that she’s 5-months pregnant is showing off her burgeoning bump. Danielle shared behind the scenes photos from a shoot she simply captioned, “Hump Day.” View this post on Instagram Hump Day. A post shared by Danielle Brooks (@daniebb3) on Jul 24, 2019 at 11:28am PDT As previously reported Danielle’s dating a mystery man who’s presumably her child’s father. View this post on Instagram What I’ve always imagined love to feel like… A post shared by Danielle Brooks (@daniebb3) on Feb 15, 2018 at 7:53am PST See more baby bumpin’ Danielle Brooks on the flip.
Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty Even though Young Buck was a big part of G-Unit’s debut album Beg For Mercy it seems like his former boss 50 Cent is teaching him the meaning behind that album title these days. For months now the former comrades turned enemies have been trading barbs on social media but unfortunately for Buck the “Heat” rapper got all the ammunition he needed when a transvestite took to social media to call out Buck Marley for being in denial about their relationship . Just a few days after roasting Ja Rule and Irv Gotti for being denied entry into S.O.B’s, Fiddy once again turned his attention to Young Buck by bringing up his rumored sexual preference in a recent social media post. Taking to his IG page to let off another shot at the Memphis-Ten-A-Key rapper, 50 Cent posted a picture of a transgender woman in thigh-high boots apparently relieving herself on the street with a caption that read “Rare pic of Young Buck’s old lady LOL.” View this post on Instagram Rare pic of Young bucks old lady LOL#lecheminduroi #bransoncognac @piperboywilliams A post shared by 50 Cent (@50cent) on Jul 23, 2019 at 9:56am PDT Why 50 decided to continue to cut ass on Young Buck is anyone’s guess, but one can only imagine how the Southside Queens rapper would’ve used social media to burn down Ja Rule and Murder Inc. at the height of their rivalry back in 2003. Buck for his part had dropped a few diss tracks aimed at his former boss dubbed “The Story Of Foofy” and “Foofy Freestyle” but both cuts have since been taken down from YouTube since. We guess 50 flexed some muscle.
Source: Courtesy WeTV / Courtesy WeTV Life After Lock Up Deleted Scene Have you been keeping up with Love After Lock Up? Andrea wants to move her ex-con lover away from the hood that got him into the situation he’s in. So, she’s doing whatever it takes to sell Lamar on the state’s “popping” hip hop scene. Will Lamar be able to continue his music career in Utah, or will he live out his dreams in L.A.? Watch on Fridays at 9/8C! Hit play to peep the clip.
Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty Woman Gets A DUI After Pouring Taco Bell Alcohol In The Drive-Thru An Oregon sheriff’s department took to their Facebook page to share the details of its “weirdest DUI arrest of the weekend,” which involved law enforcement officials arresting a woman after she poured alcohol into a Taco Bell drive-thru employees mouth. The incident took place at around 1 a.m. on Saturday at a Taco Bell branch in Beaverton, Oregon, according to Washington County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect is 23-year-old Elianna Aguilar-Aguilar, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.12 percent, over the Oregon state limit of 0.08. The Sheriff’s Office wrote in its Facebook post that Aguilar poured the alcohol into the employee’s mouth “right in front of a sheriff’s office sergeant,” while she was “still in her car.” The Oregonian reported that the woman’s drink of choice was Hennessy Cognac, but Washington County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Brian van Kleef clarified that the Taco Bell employee didn’t actually consume the alcohol. “We talked to the employee after, and he said most of it was spilled on him and that he actually didn’t consume the Hennessy,” he told the publication. The driver and employee did not know each other. While the police posted and made light of the incident on their Facebook page, some people didn’t agree that it was funny and spoke out in the comments section about how it’s inappropriate for the police to joke about the young woman. “I understand this is comical but it’s at the expense of someone that made a mistake that will impact her life for a long time. Why are we shaming her?” one person wrote. “I’m disappointed that the sheriffs office thinks this is appropriate. People should still have to experience the consequence to their actions but kicking them while they’re down doesn’t seem like something that’s helping build community.” Aguilar-Aguilar was released from Washington County Jail on Tuesday. Taco Bell has not commented on the incident.
Anne Hathaway has once again experienced a miracle. Of modern science, that is. On Wednesday evening, the Oscar-winning actress announced she is expecting her second child with husband of nearly seven years, Adam Shulman. The couple became first-time parents in 2016 to now-three-year-old son, Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman. While confirming her blessed baby news, the superstar also expressed some special support for women facing fertility struggles, opening up about an issue both very personal and at times awfully painful. “It’s not for a movie… #2,” Hathaway wrote as a caption to the sweet image below, making it clear she was not in costume for any sort of role. She then added: All kidding aside, for everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies. Sending you extra love . Hathaway and Shulman began dating way back in 2008. They got married tied in September of 2012 in Big Sur, California — and they’ve made it a point to keep their child very far away from the glare of Hollywood. “I had never posted a photo of my son, and I decided to post a shot of the back of his head [in March 2017], and almost as soon as I’d done it, I wished that I hadn’t,” Hathaway explained told Jezebel later that year, continuing at the time: “I felt like I had broken some kind of a seal in inviting people into my life. “And even though I felt as though I had done it in as protective a way as I could, even though it was a moment I was incredibly proud of, I don’t know that I’ll ever do it again.” Hathaway earned an Oscar for her supporting role in Les Miserables and then earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame just this past May. She rarely talks about her marriage or her son, but previously spoke to The Sunday Times about how she has evolved as a person and a mother: ‘”I’m not perfect, but if I’m frustrated or distracted, I’m good at making sure he’s safe and walking away, calming down and then coming back to him.” The star said “telling that harsh voice to be quiet” is one of the difficulties of motherhood: “I fall short every day, but I’m not going to beat myself up about it, I’m going to learn from it.” Hathaway has not yet divulged her due date nor the gender of her impending child. But we send her our very best wishes for a healthy pregnancy and applaud her for addressing the subject of fertility problems. Congratulations to her and Shulman!!!!!!!
If you’re a Teen Mom OG fan, it probably feels like the show is a constant topic of discussion on social media and in the tabloids. So it can be hard to believe the long-running series pulls in far fewer than 1 million viewers per episode. Yes, that number may seem ludicrously low given the amount of attention the show continues to receive online, but it appears to be a case in which a very small group of people are discussing a subject so loudly as to drown out all other conversation. According to a new report from Radar Online ratings for Teen Mom OG started off low at the beginning of this season — and they’ve been plummetting ever since. Radar reports that the season premiere on June 10 brought in a respectable 990,000 viewers. On June 17, ratings dropped to 868,000 and they declined to 849,000 on June 24. The numbers have continued to sink from there, with the July 15 episode bringing in only 679,000 viewers. Of course, that wasn’t always the case. For the last season premiere in which the show still featured Farrah Abraham, 1,319,000 viewers tuned in, and ratings remained steady, as the season finale attracted 1,098,000 households. As you probably recall, producers decided to fire Farrah in December of 2017, and the show’s ratings have been declining ever since. In a new interview with Radar, Farrah reiterated her belief that the show “should be canceled!” “No one is believing the fake storylines,” she told the outlet. “These other parents are super fans of the OG girls and have been fans, planned pregnancy is not what Teen Mom OG was about and now it’s okay to keep planning pregnancies to get on TV? Sad mainly for the children.” Yes, Farrah Abraham, of all people, played the “think of the children!” card. She’s also claiming that she’s glad to have gotten fired, as like a cigar-chomping network exec from 1997, Farrah maintains that scripted drama is the way of the future: “I’m thankful I can bring a new element to unscripted and scripted TV soon, as a screenwriter, director and producer,” she told Radar. “I’m blessed for my 10 years and can’t wait to make TV that is original, better made, better talent and better executives.” We have no idea what sort of project Farrah is helming, but it’s almost certainly some sort of Skinamax-style softcore porn, and frankly, we can’t wait. As for TMOG, the show is hoping to get a boost by adding Mackenzie McKee to the cast for this season’s final episodes. Ironically, the other Moms were staunchly against the idea of MTV tinkering with the cast at all, but they may feel differently upon learning how close they are to extinction. The series will likely also receive a bump from Amber Portwood’s recent arrest for domestic violence , even though it doesn’t look as though that storyline will be featured on this season, and Amber didn’t even attend this year’s reunion special. Besides, producers can’t continue to rely on random acts of violence from the cast in order to sustain ratings. Unless, of course, they re-hire Farrah. Then there should be enough insanity to keep things going for another decade or so. View Slideshow: Andrew Glennon Responds to Amber Portwood: Enjoy Your Pity Party, Loser!
Demi Burnett found love in Paradise. That’s not much of a spoiler, since even the trailer showed Demi kissing her lady love . Unfortunately, Bachelor in Paradise reaching this long-overdue milestone of inclusiveness resulted in some bigoted backlash. See how Demi tastefully clapped back at what homophobes had to say to her: On Monday, July 22, Demi Burnett took to Twitter to officially come out. “Spoiler alert: I’m a queer queen,” Demi tweeted. Her announcement was not a total shock, given that she can be seen making out with a woman on the trailer for Bachelor in Paradise . Unfortunately, as you can imagine, she received some truly hateful, homophobic messages from various bigots. “The moment you described the relationship as disgusting,” Demi replied to one homophobe. “Is the moment you claimed yourself as homophobic” Some of the replies she received were too slur-filled to transcribe and have been removed by Twitter for violating a whole bunch of Twitter rules. Demi also received some considerably less hostile messages that, nonetheless, missed the mark. “I know you’re trying to mean well,” Demi wrote in response to a now-deleted tweet. “However,” Demi continued. “The goal is for the LGBTQ+ community to not be viewed as separate.” “Saying they need a “rainbow bachelor” is a bit homophobic,” she explained. “We are all humans.” “Segregation based on sexuality needs to die,” Demi affirmed. “Coexist motha f–ka.” That last line is very, very good. But Demi didn’t just want to highlight to hateful messages that she received. “My DMs are so blown up with love that y’all have drowned out all the hate,” Demi wrote to her fans and followers. “It’s 3am,” she tweeted. “And I’m going to bed with a smile on my face.” “Love you all so much,” Demi gushed. Following a double-heart emoji, Demi concluded: “Thank you.” We’re heartbroken that she received so much hate from people vowing to quit watching Bachelor in Paradise , but encouraged by the support she received. A few folks on Twitter expressed confusion after Demi came out. If she’s queer … does that mean that she wasn’t really that into Colton in the first place? Queer as a word within the LGBTQ+ community goes back to before World War I. Then, as now, it was used as an umbrella term. Someone who might identify as gay or bisexual or avoid a specific label might go by queer. So, too, might someone whose gender identity never really matched up with what was assigned to them at birth. And that’s not an exhaustive list. Decades later, queer became a slur, only to later be thoroughly reclaimed by the community. These days, it is an increasingly popular label, in part because of its inclusive nature. Labels don’t have to be divisive, after all. So yes, Demi was really into Colton Underwood. But it turns out to be a very good thing that she wasn’t his final choice. She ended up finding love all on her own. As we reported last month, Demi does more than just kiss this woman. Demi is part of the Bachelor Nation’s first same-sex engagement . Bachelor in Paradise has always seemed like a good setting for a more inclusive environment. It’s hard to tell an LGBTQ+ love story on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette — at least, so long as all of the contestants are women or men, respectively. And despite those shows being based upon dating multiple people, it’s not really a good polyamorous story if, in the end,, you just end up with a couple. But Bachelor in Paradise has a lot more options, a lot more chaos, and a lot more potential. This season, we’re getting a queer engagement. Maybe next season, an actual long-term throuple. It’s exciting to consider. That said, anything would be an improvement over last season’s painful drama. View Slideshow: Bachelor in Paradise Finale Tarnished By Texting Scandal … But Did Jenna Cooper Really Cheat?
Source: Sotheby’s / Sotheby’s Last week we reported that Sotheby’s and Stadium Goods nabbed $850K at an auction for a sneaker collection most collectors would kill to possess. Still there was one pair of kicks that were set to go on the block by themselves, a pair of 1972 Nike Waffle Racing Flat Moon Shoe which was limited to only 12 pairs and were expected to fetch a whopping $160,000. Well, it didn’t get the $160K everyone expected them to get. They sold for $437,000, though. According to Hypebeast the decades old pair of grails blew past its initial sales estimate and ultimately went to the man who purchased that aforementioned $850K collection, Mile Nadal. Of course, the Canadian investment firm founder isn’t planning on wearing the moon kicks to his next board meeting, but is instead planning to exhibit the sneakers at his private Dare to Dream Automobile Museum. Nadal’s purchase is one of 12 pairs ever made and is currently the only known pair to exist in unworn condition. Calling the sneaker a “true historical artifact in sports history and pop culture,” it was designed by Nike co-founder and track coach Bill Bowerman for runners at the 1972 Olympics trials. According to Sotheby’s, Bowerman found inspiration for the waffle sole traction pattern by pouring rubber into his wife’s waffle iron mold, subsequently creating its first-ever prototype. “I think sneaker culture and collecting is on the verge of a breakout moment,” Nadal said, with Sotheby’s eCommerce global head Noah Wunsch adding, “We are eager to see where this sale takes us, not only in future sneaker offerings, but also in other new luxury lifestyle areas.” Talk about styling on other sneakerheads. Nadal is out here copping exclusive collections to share with the people… kinda.
