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TO HATERS – KISS MY ‘BOOTYLICIOUS’
A**: Talk show host gets personal at Daytime Emmys;
Kristoff St. John wins his first grown-up Emmy.
The 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday started
off with a win for Tyra Banks in the category of Outstanding
Informative Talk Show, which offered one of the more
memorable acceptance speeches of the evening.
“They said that ‘The Tyra Banks Show’
would last two weeks and we are entering our fourth
season this September,” she told the crowd gathered
at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. “I just have
a message for everybody out there: When you have a dream,
there are going to be so many people out there who tell
you you cannot do it, that you are not good enough.
And I want you to tell them to kiss your dimply, flat,
juicy, bootylicious, skinny, jiggly, saggy, fat ass!”
Kristoff St. John of CBS’s “The Young and
the Restless” won for Outstanding Supporting Actor,
giving the daytime drama three wins overall and the
soap star his first Emmy in the adult category. His
1992 win was for Outstanding Younger Actor.
The night’s big winners were Ellen DeGeneres,
who won her fourth consecutive Emmy for Outstanding
Talk Show Host; and Rachel Ray, whose Oprah Winfrey-produced
program upset “Ellen” to take the Outstanding
Talk Show prize.
Although Winfrey has taken herself out of the running
since 1999, her presence at the Daytime Emmys was felt
in various forms throughout the ceremony. Banks also
said in her acceptance speech: “I want to thank
Oprah Winfrey for her inspiration. She is the queen.
She will always be the queen.”
Also, DeGeneres addressed talk that she should follow
in Oprah’s footsteps and withdraw her name from
contention after winning best talk show host four years
in a row.
“I’m not going to take my name out,”
DeGeneres told reporters backstage. “Oprah has
made so many bad choices. Look at her career.”
Regis Philbin, a lifetime achievement award recipient
Friday, began his acceptance speech by saying: “What
a night. Tyra Banks told me to kiss her big beautiful,
and I found out that I’m older than the ‘Guiding
Light.’”
Sherri Shepherd and Cameron Mathison served as co-hosts
for the evening. The complete list of winners is listed
below.
• Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Gina Tognoni,
“Guiding Light.”
• Talk Show — Informative: “The Tyra
Banks Show.”
• Younger Actor in a Drama Series: Tom Pelphrey,
“Guiding Light.”
• Younger Actress in a Drama Series: Jennifer
Landon, “As the World Turns”
• Talk Show Host: Ellen DeGeneres, “The
Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
• Drama Series Directing Team: “One Life
to Live.”
• Legal/Courtroom Program: “Cristina’s
Court.”
• Supporting Actor in a Drama Series: Kristoff
St. John, “The Young and the Restless.”
• Drama Series Writing Team: “One Life to
Live.”
• Talk Show — Entertainment: “Rachael
Ray.”
• Lifetime Achievement: Regis Philbin.
• Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Jeanne Cooper,
“The Young and the Restless.”
• Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Anthony Geary,
“General Hospital.”
• Drama Series: “General Hospital.”
JANET JACKSON TO STAR IN MTV
REALITY SHOW: Singer to mentor aspiring singers and
dancers.
Janet
Jackson is the latest celebrity to step into the world
of reality television. The superstar is joining 25/7
Productions to develop an as-yet-untitled music competition
series for MTV, reports Variety.
The show, which has already begun casting, will feature
Jackson mentoring a group of aspiring singers and dancers
in the months leading up to her world tour, which launches
on Sept. 10.
“It’s really about finding who’s the
next Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake or Usher,”
executive producer Dave Broome tells Variety. “And
we’ll find it from a pool of people who you wouldn’t
typically find it from. We’ll go to YMCAs, church
groups, local community centers and try to cast the
show.”
The program will be shot in various street locales,
rather than on a studio soundstage. Producers are still
ironing out the prize - but it could potentially relate
to Jackson’s tour.
FEDS WANT SNIPES TO PAY FOR
HIS PROSECUTION: Actor receives bill totaling more than
$217,000.
Federal
prosecutors sent Wesley Snipes a “cost of prosecution
bill” that demands repayment for the money they
spent convicting him on tax charges.
The government wants Snipes to pay $217,363 –
which includes $21,052.19 for the time and travel expenses
of witnesses, many of whom were IRS employees; $193,716.98
for the cost of scanning, printing and copying documents
used in the case (including 260 boxes of documents seized
from the Florida firm that prepared Snipes’ responses
to the IRS) and $2,456.40 for daily trial transcripts,
according to the report sent to the judge.
Additionally, $138.18 is owed by Snipes for making certified
color copies of trial exhibits, the report says.
The Orlando-born actor was convicted on three misdemeanor
counts of failing to file a federal tax return for the
years 1999, 2000 and 2001 and sentenced in April to
36 months in federal prison. He remains free while his
case is on appeal.
MICHAEL BAISDEN’S ‘DARK’ DAYS LOOK
BRIGHT: New season of ‘Baisden After Dark’
starts Saturday.
Radio
bad boy Michael Baisden sparks his second season of
his late night series “Michael Baisden After Dark.”
Rejoined by his accomplices, comedian George Wilborn
and music artist Morris Day, the new season begins on
TV One on June 21.
The panel-formatted talk show and its host have been
known to bounce around some hot topics and pertinent
issues, and Baisden told EUR’s Lee Bailey that
fans can expect even more exciting and engaging shows
this season.
“It’s hot. I love it,” he said of
his sophomore season on TV. “This is a lot of
fun. It’s a great way to put a face to the voice
for them and chance for me to see them. What’s
better than that?”
Not just another talkathon, the variety show features
a panel discussion with celebrity guests around hot
topics such as obesity, the price of success, and the
new kings of Hollywood. Each episode also features musical
performances, audience interaction, and comical man-on-the-street
interviews by Wilborn.
This Saturday, the panel gets heated with singer/songwriter
Tamia, music producer Irv Gotti, and inspirational author
Iyanla Vanzant. The musical guest will be R&B group
Midnight Star. The episode starts the season off with
quite a bang thanks to some aggressive banter between
Gotti and Vanzant, with Gotti looking like the bad guy,
er boy.
“It just turned out that way,” Baisden said
of how the show went down. “I had no preconceived
idea of what the interview would be like. It just evolved
into what it evolved into. But he stayed cool.”
The show host said that it didn’t get too out
of hand on the set, because of the overall respect the
parties had for one another.
“Whatever happened on the show, once it was over
there was no carryover,” he said. “It was
just a good exchange. It was good TV.”
With that, Baisden guaranteed that there were many other
exciting episodes to match this season’s initial
show.
“Oh, they’re all good,” he said. “From
the first season, one of the things that I wanted to
make sure that happened was that we had the right guests.
I was not happy with some of the guest that were chosen
in the first season. With this season, everybody –
all the artist, all the guests – we were able
to get people who were more consistent with my radio
audience. Morris Day and the Time performed, which was
the first time, I believe, they’ve performed on
television in 15 years. It’s very exciting.”
Baisden said that there are very few changes in the
TV show. However, some fans might say that the theme
of the TV production feels a bit more like his popular
radio show. Still, Baisden assures that that’s
just happenstance. He said that he considers the shows
two completely separate entities.
“The [radio] show begins with the news. If the
news is not hot, we move on to other topics. The TV
show is what it is and the radio show is what it is,”
he said.
“The one thing you don’t hear me talking
about on my television show is my radio show because
I want people to focus on TV,” he continued. “If
I wasn’t doing TV I’d want it to have the
same impact and allure if I wasn’t on radio. I’m
glad I have the audience. I can direct people to see
the show, but I want people to see the TV show because
they want to see the TV show.”
Baisden said that he only plugs the TV show occasionally.
He believes that mentioning his other projects, such
as his four books or “Baisden After Dark,”
isn’t very professional.
“I don’t feel comfortable doing that. I
want people to focus on what I’m doing, not what
I’ve done,” he said.
For more on Michael Baisden and his radio show “The
Michael Baisden Show,” check out www.michaelbaisden.com.
For more on “Baisden After Dark,” go to
the TV One site at www.tvoneonline.com.
“It’s great,” Baisden said of the
show. “It was incredible. People are really going
to enjoy it.”
WOMAN WITH PACMAN DURING MELEE FOUND DEAD: Stylist Sadia
Morrison believed to have been thrown off Bronx building.
Fashion
stylist and publicist Sadia Morrison, the woman who
was with NFL star Adam “Pacman” Jones during
his Las Vegas strip club melee last year, was found
dead in New York on Friday after possibly being thrown
from a roof.
Police are still investigating the June 13th death,
saying they are “looking at any and all possibilities.”
But various media outlets are quoting sources who say
she was tossed from a building in the Bronx.
Morrison is a Fashion Institute of Technology graduate
and has worked with such artists as Kanye West, Young
Jeezy and Fantasia. According to TMZ.com, she had recently
organized a celebrity PlayStation tournament at Jay-Z’s
40/40 Club to raise funds for at-risk youth.
Her funeral service was held yesterday (June 19) in
the Bronx.
Morrison had pleaded no contest to her role in the Pacman
Jones brawl that left a security guard shot and paralyzed
from the waist down.
CHARLIE SHEEN CALLS EX DENISE THE N-WORD: Actor issues
public apology – especially to his black friend,
actor Tony Todd.
Charlie
Sheen had a combination Michael Richards/Dog the Bounty
Hunter moment and dropped the N-word on his ex-wife
Denise Richards during a tirade left on her voicemail
three years ago that emerged this week.
The audio recordings are from April 2005, when the former
couple was going through a nasty divorce. He ends one
of his voicemail messages by telling Richards: “I
hope I never f**king talk to you again you f**king c**t.
You’re a coward and a liar and a f**king n**ger
alright, so f**k you.”
Sheen’s use of the racist term, as well as the
C-word and F-bomb, were fully documented in court papers
at the time, but the leaked audio this week has prompted
the “Two and a Half Men” star to issue a
public apology.
“I deeply apologize by my choice of words to all
I have obviously offended, especially to Tony Todd,
an African American, who was my best man at my first
two weddings,” Sheen said in a statement released
Wednesday by his publicist. “And for the record,
my children did not show up today for a custodial visit
without explanation. So three and one-half years later,
the reasons that caused the anger and frustration displayed
on that voice mail continue to be manifested on a daily
basis.”
Richards told “Access Hollywood’s”
Billy Bush that she has nothing to do with the release
of the voicemails, and has no idea who’s behind
it.
Celeb blogger Perez Hilton posted a transcript of Charlie
Sheen’s offensive voicemails, which are listed
below.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Message Received at 12:46pm
• I guess I should just get used to the fact that
you know, you fire off your nonsense and you’re
lawyer bullsh** and your f**king emails and then you
don’t answer the phone, and you know, you don’t
have the f**king courage or the wherewithal to like
confront me or deal with me or just be f**king honest.
And the forthright and I guess I just gotta stop being
disappointed by that because that’s just who you
are and what you do. And I guess once I accept that,
I won’t be frustrated by your chicken sh** f**king
behavior, so whatever. I’m just really f**king
mad and you owe me a phone call. Okay. Cause again,
if I did the same sh** to you, you’d be f**king
furious. Alright, so whatever.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Message Received at 1:00pm
• Yea, I just got your other email and I am a
little confused because you told me that was something
you only told a couple of people, and this and that,
and I just, again you continue to be deceitful and mischievous
and sneaky, and you’re a f**king liar. Okay. You’re
a f**king liar. So, you know what it’s like, f**k
you. Okay, I hope you rot in f**king hell. You’re
a piece of sh** f**king liar and I hope you f**king
rot in hell. So f**k you. I hope I never f**king talk
to you again you f**king c**t. F**k you. You’re
a coward and a liar and a f**king n**ger alright, so
f**k you.”
BYNUM-WEEKS MESSY MARRIAGE DONE:
Divorce granted Friday, but not before surprise admission
by prophetess.
The
six-year marriage of prophetess Juanita Bynum and Bishop
Thomas Weeks is now officially over.
The proceedings were stopped at one point when Bynum
revealed the two had sex after their separation.
What’s not known is if the couple had sex after
the now infamous assault by Weeks on Bymum. The judge
in the case, Debra Turner, left the courtroom to research
whether the divorce could be granted under Georgia law,
which, in part, sees sex by separated couples as a act
of reconciliation.
“My understanding is you can no longer have marital
relations based on the date of separation that you file,”
Turner said.
However, Randy Kessler, Weeks’ attorney, said
that the couple had been living in separation and that
Bynum filed for divorce after the sexual encounter.
“The fact that they had sex before she filed for
divorce is an amendable defect,” said Kessler,
meaning the conjugal coupling should not void the divorce.
Later, after a recesss, Judge Turner agreed to push
the date of separation up to September to circumvent
the reconciliation issue.
YOUNG BUCK ADDRESSES LEAKED PHONE CALL: Rapper records
dis track after tape of him crying to 50 Cent is exposed.
Young
Buck hurried up and recorded a track that disses 50
Cent and G-Unit in the wake of a leaked phone conversation
in which he sobs while begging 50 to allow him back
into his G-Unit rap group.
The song, titled “Taped Conversation,” includes
the lines: “B**ch n**gas do b**ch thangs/ Look
at 50, what he do just to get fame/ Record my phone
call when I spoke from the heart/ That was a year ago,
this was a joke from the start/ You a ho, I know/ The
only people that record conversations is 5-0.”
Addressing his emotional breakdown, Buck raps in the
song: “If a real n**ga cry then it’s real
pain/ So on the real, my n**ga I don’t feel ashamed.”
Buck’s response also jokes that 50 and G-Unit
member Tony Yayo are having a love affair, and that
Lloyd Banks, also of G-Unit, has issues with the group
but is too afraid to speak up.
As previously reported, 50 Cent released the taped phone
conversation Tuesday via his Web site.
GOLF SEASON IS OVER FOR TIGER WOODS: U.S. Open winner
to have major surgery on knee aggravated at Torrey Pines.
Turns
out Tiger Woods’ historic performance at the U.S.
Open over the weekend was his last for the season. The
world’s No. 1 golfer announced Wednesday that
he will soon undergo season-ending surgery on his damaged
left knee.
The procedure will address a torn ligament that he injured
10 months ago. It was compounded when he also suffered
a double stress fracture of his left tibia two weeks
before the U.S. Open. But, he ignored doctors’
advice to take a six week break so the injury could
heal. Instead, he played what ended up being 91 holes
over five days at Torrey Pines in San Diego –
winning in a sudden death face-off against Rocco Mediate
on Monday.
“Now, it is clear that the right thing to do is
to listen to my doctors, follow through with this surgery
and focus my attention on rehabilitating my knee,”
Woods said on his Web site.
He had arthroscopic surgery April 15 to clean out cartilage
in his left knee, bypassing ACL surgery with hopes it
could get him through the 2008 season. But the stress
fracture and a ligament that could no longer sustain
a powerful swing made it impossible to keep going.
“Although I will miss the rest of the 2008 season,
I’m thrilled with the fact that last week was
such a special tournament,” Woods said.
The golf star will miss a major for the first time in
his career — the British Open next month at Royal
Birkdale and the PGA Championship in August at Oakland
Hills, where Woods is the two-time defending champion.
He’ll also miss the Ryder Cup in September.
MATTHEW KNOWLES RELEASES ESSENCE:
CD of triumphant music festival now available.
Essence Music Festival, Volume 1" was released
on June 17, 2008 on Mathew Knowles’ Music World
Music.
The CD features studio recordings of music performed
at the Essence Music Festival’s triumphant 2007
return to New Orleans, LA last year.
This release is the first in a series of CDs and DVDs
featuring music and live performances from Essence Music
Festivals from the past, present, future as well as
other compilations that will be sold exclusively in
store at Wal-Mart nationwide through July 28th; as of
July 29th the release will be available at all retailers
as well as many digital retailers online.
“We are excited about this new partnership with
ESSENCE magazine. They have always signified excellence
and have been an incredible voice for women around the
world. Music World has had a long-standing relationship
with ESSENCE, our artists have supported and participated
in the festivals throughout the years, so it is great
that we are collaborating on this exclusive music venture.
This will allow us to capture and make available to
everyone, through retailers and online, some of the
greatest music and performances from the Essence Music
Festivals over the years. We look forward to continuing
a long term relationship with Essence”, says Mathew
Knowles, President and CEO, Music World Entertainment.
“ESSENCE is thrilled to partner with Mathew Knowles
‘ Music World Entertainment and Wal-Mart for the
release of ‘Essence Music Festival, Volume I’,”
says Michelle Ebanks, President, Essence Communications
Inc. “Music World Entertainment is a dynamic force
in the music industry and the release of these recordings
will undoubtedly enhance our efforts to bring New Orleans
and the magic of the Essence Music Festival directly
to the homes of those who may or may not have had the
opportunity to witness it live.”
The A-list lineup on Volume 1 includes Beyoncé,
Mary J. Blige, Chris Brown, Kelly Rowland, Ne-Yo, Ciara,
Robin Thicke, Lyfe Jennings, Solange, Common, Maze ft.
Frankie Beverly, The O’Jays and newcomer, Brian
Courtney Wilson!
The Essence Music Festival is the nation’s largest
annual gathering of African-American musical talent;
featuring an unprecedented three days of cultural celebrations
and empowerment seminars and three nights of performances
by some of today’s greatest African-American artists.
The Essence Music Festival started in 1995 as a one-time
event to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ESSENCE magazine.
Now the Festival has been heralded as one of the country’s
“Top 10 Leading Brand Events” in 2007 by
Advertising Age; highlighted prominently among well-known
consumer events such as NASCAR and Spring Break. The
Essence Music Festival has featured a host of legendary
performers over the years, including Alicia Keys, Aretha
Franklin, Beyoncè, Chaka Khan, Chris Brown, Destiny’s
Child, Earth, Wind & Fire, Gladys Knight, LL Cool
J, Jamie Foxx, John Legend, Kanye West, The Isley Brothers,
Lionel Richie, Luther Vandross, Mary J. Blige, The O’Jays,
Prince, Stevie Wonder, Toni Braxton, Patti LaBelle and
Yolanda Adams, to name a few.
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