TYRA 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.