It’s safe to assume Tom Cruise’s 50th birthday was not what he’d hoped for. According to Us’ cover story (below), he traveled from Iceland, where he’s been shooting the new film Oblivion , to the United States early July 3. If things had gone according to plan for Cruise, he’d have celebrated hitting the half-century mark in Iceland with wife Katie Holmes by his side. But since Katie filed for divorce out of nowhere last week, he was forced to make a last-ditch effort to save the relationship, only to be rebuffed. While Holmes, 33, was MIA from Rock of Ages premieres and other events, “he begged her to come to Iceland for one last try at reconciliation,” the insider says. Holmes, motivated by fears of Scientology corrupting their daughter Suri, had been secretly plotting to file for divorce and move into her own NYC apartment. She refused to go, and the pair had a “huge fight,” the source explains. Although Cruise was aware that things were tense and severely estranged with Holmes, “he was confident he could talk her out of it and keep her with him.” Holmes seeks sole legal custody of Suri, 6, and clearly filed in N.Y. State as a means of achieving that goal, as its courts are more likely to award sole custody. There’s a prenup in place, but regarding custody, it looks like a nasty split is on the horizon. Here’s hoping they can work it out quietly and under the radar. In other Cruise news, you can see him in the new Jack Reacher trailer .
Perhaps spurred on by Anderson Cooper , Frank Ocean has become the first hip hop star to openly address his bisexuality. In a Tumblr post this morning, the rapper – who is part of the group Odd Future and who worked with Kanye West and Jay-Z on “Watch the Throne” – wrote: Frank Ocean in Concert Four summers ago, I met somebody. I was 19 years old. He was too. We spent that summer, and the summer after, together. Everyday almost. And on the days we were together, time would glide. Most of the day I’d see him, and his smile. Sleep I would often share with him. By the time I realized I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless. There was no escaping, no negotiating to the women I had been with, the ones I cared for and thought I was in love with. I don’t have any secrets I need kept anymore … I feel like a free man. In response to the brave admission, Tyler the Creator has Tweeted: “My Big Brother Finally F***ing Did That. Proud Of That N***a Cause I Know That Shit Is Difficult Or Whatever.” We might have used different language, but we echo Tyler’s sentiment.
Dear Bossip , I need help. I met this guy maybe a two and a half years ago and fell deeply for him. We did everything together, and everything was going great until we broke up some time last year after I found out about him still seeing his baby mama. Now, from the beginning I knew of her and their past, and I had no problem with being second to his children. But, I refuse to be second to some woman, so I left. But, now after some time apart, I still think of him almost every day and I’m still madly in love with him. I tried my best to avoid any contact with him because he hurt me. But, after some time apart I began to date a new guy and I’m not happy and want out, however, I found out that I’m currently pregnant. Now, here is where my problems come in, my ex keeps popping up in my life and I kind of wanna see if now we can make things work. What should I do? Confused Heart Dear Ms. Confused Heart , Woman, please have some dignity about yourself and stop man hopping! Jeez! I don’t understand you people and bouncing from man to man, and woman to woman. You’re bed hopping, having unprotected sex, and then y’all wonder why all these infectious diseases are rampant, along with the high pregnancy rates and single mothers raising children ALONE! You have no self-respect or dignity for your body or selves. Just laying there and letting every TOM, DICK, and HARRY lay on top of you and do his business. (Nut rags!) Ma’am, you’re currently pregnant with your boyfriend’s child, but you want to reconnect with an ex that you broke up with because he was still sleeping with his baby momma. Sigh! Do you really want me to answer this? Do you really want to go there on this Fourth of July? Even on this Independence Day some of you don’t understand freedom, and celebrating new beginnings. You are determined to repeat your pasts, and stay bound to them all for some d**k! Just d**k-ma-tized tramps! If you broke up with him because he was still sleeping with his baby momma, and in your own words you said, “I refuse to be second to some woman.” Then why would you return to a situation where his baby momma is, and will always be in the picture, aaaannnnnnnddddd, I can guarantee you that he is still sleeping with her! Are you that brain dead? You see people, this is how your brain operates when it’s addicted to d**k, and you have no common sense, and, hell, you have no educational sense. Your coochie is connected to your heart, and your heart is connected to your brain. And, when you get some relatively good d**k, notice I said ‘relatively,’ then your brain goes haywire and you start doing and saying some stupid and dumb a** bull-ish and repeating old habits that you walked away from. Chile, you really want to play yourself. You really want the world to see just how dumb and retarded you are. You’re pregnant with another man’s baby, but want to reconnect with an ex? SMDH! Does your current boyfriend know that you are not happy and that you want out? Does your current boyfriend have any idea that while you were laying up with him having unprotected sex that you were miserable, and just wanted him for his seed? Because I don’t know any reasonable and intelligent woman who will continue sleeping with a man she doesn’t want to be with and is unhappy with, not unless she wants a baby and doesn’t mind taking his seeds only for the purposes of becoming pregnant. Now, what do they call those types of women? (I’m sure you can figure it out). I’m getting ready for a bar-b-que, so, therefore I’m going to tell you like this: Do not reconnect with your ex. It’s a reason he is an ex. You will only end up repeating the same drama you did with him before. It’s not worth it. Stop letting your coochie speak for your brain! His baby momma is not going anywhere. She will always, do you hear me, ALWAYS be in the picture. You will always, do you hear me, ALWAYS be the second woman. Nothing has changed. Why don’t you focus on your unborn child. Why don’t you focus on you and remaining healthy for your own sanity. Besides, you need to sit down with your boyfriend and talk with him, and if you’re going to end it, then end it. Stop playing with his emotions. He is invested in you and hopefully his child. But, perhaps if you communicate with him what you’re unhappy about, and maybe he will be willing to work on the relationship, and the two of you staying together as a family unit to raise the child. Yet, why do I know that you are not going to do that. You’ve already moved on, and pinning for your ex. So, uhm, yeah, good luck with that you second rate bird. – Terrance Dean Hey Bossip Fam, what do you think? Share your opinions and thoughts below! 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Kitty Litter Linked To Suicide in Women Kitty litter is some nasty isht. So nasty it can make women off themselves… Women infected with the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii are more likely to attempt suicide than non-infected women, new research finds. The reason for this connection, however, remains mysterious. T. gondii is a protozoa that prefers to infect cats, but can make its home in any warm-blooded animal. Humans can pick up the parasite from contact with cat feces, or by eating undercooked meat or unwashed vegetables. Once ingested, T. gondii can make a home for itself inside the brain and muscle tissues, protected inside cysts that are resistant to attacks by the host’s immune system. Some studies have linked infection by this parasite with a variety of mental health and brain problems, including schizophrenia, neurosis and brain cancer. But scientists aren’t clear on whether the parasite contributes to these problems or is a mere side effect. Someone with schizophrenia, for example, might struggle to keep up good hygiene, meaning the mental disorder could increase the risk for infection. The new study linking suicide and T. gondii has the same limitation. Researchers can’t say for sure whether the parasite somehow drives people to suicide. But in women with infections, they found, the risk of an attempt is 1.5 times greater than in women without. “We can’t say with certainty that T. gondii caused the women to try to kill themselves, but we did find a predictive association between the infection and suicide attempts later in life that warrants additional studies,” lead researcher Teodor Postolache, a psychiatrist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said in a statement. “We plan to continue our research into this possible connection.” T. gondii infection is likely not a random event, and it is conceivable that the results could be alternatively explained by people with psychiatric disturbances having a higher risk of becoming T. gondii infected prior to contact with the health system,” he said. If the parasite is found to be a cause, the next mystery to unravel will be how, Postolache said. It could be that the parasite acts directly on the brain in a way that promotes mental illness. Or perhaps it triggers the immune system to attack the brain somehow. Either way, he said, infection by T. gondii isn’t necessarily a mark of doom. For one thing, even with a 26 percent infection rate, the number of women in the study who attempted suicide was very small. For those who may be at risk, there may be treatments. “If we can identify a causal relationship, we may be able to predict those at increased risk for attempting suicide and find ways to intervene,” Postolache said. Gross. Let’s hope you cat lovers read this and teach your feline friends to use the toilet. SMH. Source
America’s Got Talent aired a two-and-a-hour episode last night, though a solid chunk of that was wasted by an extended introduction by Nick Cannon. To New York. Even though the show was airing from New Jersey. Darn the New York Football Giants for messing everything up! Now, on to the review… The Scott Brothers Perform on America’s Got Talent Distinguished Men of Brass – I didn’t understand the two sides with “fans” while they performed “Crazy in Love.” There were way too many colors, too many swoops, and the fact that they were wearing black, that I couldn’t appreciate their performance. I like them, but the producers didn’t do them any justice at all cutting away to such far shots. Grade: B Edon – There was something nice seeing Edon go from an audition with a keyboard to grand piano with fog all around him. He attempted “Titanium” but he was nervous in the verse where he warbled through the sections. I liked the fact the arrangement went to somewhere intense. Edon generally hit the right notes; I think that he needed to pick a song that had more lyrics so it wouldn’t have been as redundant. Grade: B+ Jarrett & Raja – The combined music/magic act has always been a good concept on paper, but the whole showering thing seemed dumb. I didn’t get the connection between the two and the appearance at the end was useless. Were we supposed to see the women’s feet under the towels? The crowd started to turn and I would have buzzed the two immediately. Grade: D+ Lil Starr – I liked the box concept because it helped show how she could spread to a large stage. I thought that the harem/MC Hammer pants made her legs look sloppy, but according to the sound of her shoes, she was on beat. Starr has personality and the fact that she didn’t start crying when Howard started to berate her gets points in my book. Grade: B Todd Oliver & Irving – Todd brought along Lucy to pair with Irving, but started with Irving alone. Irving seemed restless but by the time that Lucy popped up, Irving settled down. The attachment on Lucy looked more natural than it ever did on Irving. The act had weak material. Grade: C American BMX Stunt Team – The stunt team created their own ramps because of the stage. I would suggest all of the bicycles have some neon sidewalls so we could better see the tricks as they went by. The tricks were pretty passive for the first half of the routine, but they started to progress. By the end there was no defining trick. Grade: C+ Nikki Jensen – Nikki chose Coldplay’s “The Scientist” and had this awful arrangement to it. If she kept the song slow, she would have sounded like The Cranberries. Instead, she sounded like she was chasing the tempo of the song the whole way through. Grade: C The Scott Brothers – The brothers have been doing street dancing for 30+ years and understood that they can’t do flips and tricks. The two were really smooth and the simplicity of not having an extreme amount of lights helped them. The floating hat trick at the end was a very nice touch. Grade: A- Michael Nejad – Michael started with a clarinet/baseball bat and it sounded awful. The audience started booing as he switched over to the shovel/violin. There was something about his key that was off and sounded a lot like killing cats. He then went to the vacuum cleaner/harpsichord. While Howard and Howie buzzed him early, Sharon only buzzed him when he was done. Grade: D- 787 Crew – When I hear this group talk about limited opportunities I have to remind them that they lost America’s Best Dance Crew. Their opening choreography was the same as always. The swoops of camera made was distracting. Some of their formations were a bit too cheerleader instead of innovative. They had a lot of sloppy moments including the botched flip near the end. Grade: B Shanice and Maurice Hayes – There must be jealousy when Shanice gets solo time with her father because they are from such a large family. The two sang “There You’ll Be” from Pearl Harbor. I didn’t think anyone wanted to remember that movie. Shanice had a bit too much melisma, but Maurice had this great gruff. Once in a while there was a flat note, but I loved how their chemistry blended some mistakes. Grade: B+ David Garibaldi and His CMYKs – I am happy that the producers took a chance and gave David the pimp spot. David had a different technique for painting this time than the first two acts incorporating a circle with a more white background. Weirdly enough, the close up shots in the beginning didn’t do the piece justice. I credit the judges for having patience to get Mick Jagger at the end. Grade: A
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has just named its pair of the sexiest herbivores and no shock here, they’re celebrities. There were some downright good looking contenders for this year’s organically grown animal-friendly crowns including people across the age spectrum from Alyssa Milano, Anne Hathaway, Chrissie Hynde, Ashley Judd, Cloris Leachman, Ellen DeGeneres, Hayden Panettiere, Rooney Mara and Venus Williams among the women, while the hot veggie dudes include Casey Affleck, Bill Clinton, Forest Whitaker, Joaquin Phoenix, Jason Schwartzman, Mike Tyson, Moby, Mos Def, Prince, Richard Linklater and Tobey Maguire. In all 100 men and women were up for PETA’s “Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities” of 2012. And the winners are… Can you guess? Hint: the victorious herbivore hotties were not mentioned in the previous paragraph…. OK, congratulations to Jessica Chastain and Woody Harrelson, PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities of 2012. The meat free duo – in fact animal-product free – are both vegans and keep their stealth good looks on a diet sans cheese, milk and the like. Chastain, who received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress for her role in The Help has been vegetarian for 15 years and went full vegan five years ago. “I don’t want to torture anything,” she said. “It’s about trying to live a life where I’m not contributing to the cruelty in the world. While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here.” Harrelson, who will be 51 later this month hails from Midland, TX, but beef is a bonafide no-no for him. He has been vegan for three decades and said that his moment of veg-revelation came while working as an actor in New York. “I was on a bus and some girl sees me blowing my nose, I had acne all over my face, which I’d had for years and years. And she’s like: ‘Hey, you’re lactose intolerant. If you quit dairy, all these symptoms you got will be gone in three days.’ I was 24. And I was like, ‘No way.’ But three days later: gone.” PETA, which recently won assurances from Olympics opening night organizer Danny Boyle that its animals in the opening pageant will be treated to long lives, estimates that Chastain and Harrelson’s combined 45 years of living animal-free have “saved 4,500 animals from being neglected, genetically manipulated, put on drug regimens that cause chronic pain, and killed in gruesome and violent ways.” [ Source: PETA ] [ And who is your choice for sexiest vegetarian? ]
Nas To Perform At ESPY Awards Hot on the heels of a new album and release of a thought-provoking single that sparked heated debate among the babymama masses , Nas has confirmed that he will hit the stage at the 2012 ESPY Awards. Kicking off the release week of his 10th studio album, Life is Good, Nas is set to perform at the 2012 ESPY Awards on July 11 in Los Angeles. The Don took to Twitter to confirm his performance saying, “Hey young world… I’m performing live at the @ESPYS on July 11th!! #LIFEISGOOD717″ with a link to the official press release. With so many athletes with darling little daughters, we’re wondering if he’ll perform his single of the same name… Source
What happens in the dark, will come to light . English Mistresses Ambush And Confront Serial Cheater And Scam Artist Andie Nash first encountered Englishman Simon Reid when a friend sent her his online dating profile. “He was a nice looking guy, forty-two years old,” Nash recalled. “He was into travel, and his profile handle was ‘loving a full life.’” How full that life would turn out to be would shock the trusting Nash. Things progressed quickly in their relationship. By their second date, Nash says Reid wrote her a letter professing his love. “I feel like going against all convention and all common sense, and just stating how I really feel, which is that I love you,” Nash said Reid wrote to her. After eight weeks of seeing each other several times a week, her new boyfriend vanished. For three days, Andie frantically called and texted Reid’s cell phone. Then she got a call from a woman claiming to be Simon Reid’s wife. It seemed she was looking for him, too. Oh, but it doesn’t stop there… Devastated by Reid’s betrayal, Nash took to her blog, “Andiepants” to vent her frustration and warn other women of Reid’s cheating ways. The posting went up in August 2008 and about a year later Nash heard from a woman in England named Jo Ward who said she had also been wined, dined and dumped by Reid. Unfortunately, she had also given him money — somewhere in the neighborhood of $25,000. Nash commiserated with Ward but wasn’t sure how she could help. That was until she heard from another former girlfriend of Reid’s named Nicola Hillary who had been searching the Internet for Reid’s name. “And up popped Andie’s blog,” Hillary said , “And I nearly fell on the floor. She was calling him the anti-Christ, and I was like, “Oh my God!” Nash connected Reid’s two jilted lovers, who in turn discovered two additional women including one who was still dating Reid when they broke the news to her about his serial cheating. That’s when all the women hatched a plot to confront Simon Reid in person and on camera. “I think we all wanted to confront him and say, ‘Why?’” Ward explained. The four women gathered at the home of Laura Buckingham whom Reid was seeing in the summer of 2010. She had invited him over for dinner, but when he arrived Reid was ambushed by Hillary, Ward, Buckingham and a fourth ex-girlfriend who didn’t wish to be identified. For two hours they confronted him about his cheating ways and he admitted to deceiving them and also to being a compulsive liar. After it was all said and done, Reid admitted to being “ain’t isht” and even copped to defrauding out of her 25 racks. His excuse was pretty pathetic, yet honest. “I don’t really know what the truth is for me anymore.” confessed Reid on the videotape. “I know it’s wrong when I’m doing it. I just don’t seem to stop myself.” By the end of the marathon grilling session, Reid realized that his actions were not only hurtful but also illegal. “I defrauded you out of this money,” Reid admitted to Ward and then asked, “Are the police coming?” The police did come and Reid was arrested for fraud. He is now serving 30 months in prison in England. Have you ever come in contact with the woman (or man) that your significant other was cheating with? Did you ever plan any ambush confrontations like these women? If so, what happened? Image via NYDailyNews
Obviously now that she’s dating George Clooney, Stacy Keibler probably feels a whole lot of pressure to maintain a certain level of hotness, George tends to go through his women rather quickly, but I think this might be pushing it. Here she is looking as sexy as ever in her hot little short shorts, but what’s with the muscular Lance Armstrong thighs? Not cool. Those things look like they could wrap around me twice a squeeze the life out of me….. What a way to go. She should go to senior homes and offer her services. I’d do it.
‘The exes were the common denominator but not the show; they wanted to focus on us,’ Will Smith’s first wife, Sheree Fletcher, tells MTV News. By Kara Warner “Hollywood Exes” stars Mayte Garcia and Sheree Fletcher Photo: The stars of VH1’s “Hollywood Exes,” premiering tonight (June 27), knew they’d have to stand out from the pack of reality shows — and stand out they do. The show revolves around Nicole Murphy, Sheree Fletcher, Jessica Canseco, Andrea Kelly and Mayte Garcia. Their initial ground for group bonding is the fact that they all have famous ex-husbands. When MTV News caught up with three of the five lovely ladies, we asked what made them agree to let cameras into their personal lives. “The reason I decided to do the show was, first of all, the castmembers, the women,” said Garcia, who was married to Prince. “The idea that was pitched to me was it being about us. Yes, we were married to them, but we’re all individuals. I’m an artist, she’s an artist, she has a business. It’s about showing who we are, so I decided to do it. Especially after meeting [the show’s creators], I knew it was going to be good. I’m old enough now to trust my gut.” “I loved the vision of the creators,” added Fletcher, who was Will Smith’s first wife. “I loved their concept, like a sorority of sorts, women coming together with similar experiences, and that was kind of the common denominator. The exes were the common denominator but not the show; they wanted to focus on us. They wanted to see us in our many facets of life, be it moms or businesswomen or artists, what have you, and life after divorce. It’s got a lot of different dynamics, and I think it’s a very relatable show.” The ladies promised that the audience will get to see them go through good times and challenging times, and no matter what impression you may have had about them beforehand, they’ll win you over with their independent spirits, business savvy and strength. Watch “Hollywood Exes” Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT on VH1.
