This past week and weekend have been filled with so much messiness that I can’t even wrap my head around so without wasting any time let’s get straight into it.
First off let’s start with great news.Princess Mimi just scored herself another engagement and hopefully marriage with her billionaire boyfriend James Pecker. I hope the third time is a charm with Mariah – she needs a lover boy in her life. Too bad she traumatised Nick Cannon of getting married ever…well according to his last interview. Mazeltov to the future Pecker.
Zendaya snatched a new deal for herself as the latest face of American cosmetic company, Covergirl. The young actress joins a big names like Queen Latifah as part of the brand ambassadors of this cosmetic giant. Kudos to her, well I haven’t seen what she’s been in in a while and also I am not familiar with her music so I guess that modelling direction might a great one for her. Go ‘head with your easy, breezy, beautiful self!
Model, Jourdan Dunn is not covering one but two versions of VOGUE Brasil and she brings out her ‘fro. I am loving this cover and good for her. What do you think?
Rapper LL Cool J received his Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star this past week. I have to say I was so happy for him, ladies do love cool James! I love how his career has transformed over the years and I have to say he is one of those people that are so instantly likeable. I don’t remember much of his music except for HUSH and most of collabs but he’s easy on the eyes and ears and a super nice guy. I also love that he’s still with his high school sweetheart and has all those yummy babies pictured above. He is winning!
Over to the mess…
The Oscars…
Enter Jada Pinkett-Smith – we all know by now that Jada made that video blasting the Oscars for lack of diversity and stated that she will not attend this year’s Oscars due to the obvious. While I got her points I also got confused by the fact that she’s bringing up a race issue after Will Smith commented about race not being an issue in Hollywood a few weeks back during his Concussion press promo…something fishy?
Enter Aunt Viv (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) – Janet Hubert – Janet who’s known not to be a fan of Will Smith or the Smith’s in general responded to Jada’s video by saying that (in a nutshell as there was a lot of shade thrown too) she’s upset because her husband did not get a nod in what was supposed to be the performance of his life. Also that she’s only complaining now only because of this but in essence she does not care because they have made a lot of money and she would not fight of equality and wages as Will did not back in the day during the Fresh Prince run.
Enter Alexis Arquette – Just when we thought there was enough drama coming to the Smiths. Singer/Actress Alexis Arquette speaks up and claims that Will Smith’s marriage to his first wide ended because he was caught in bed with his sugar daddy, Benny Medina (celebrity manager, JLo/ Mariah etc). Alexis also blatantly accused Jada and Will of being gay. GASP!
Enter Sheree Fletcher – Will Smith’s first wife then came out of the wood works to check Alexis and also explain why her marriage to Will never worked out. In a nutshell she said that will was straight in the 90’s and is straight now and that she has no gag order so she would speak if there was something that she wanted to say. She also mentioned that their marriage did not work cause they were young and could not handle the problems. Convenient much? Was she sent to cover the “said” known secret?
Enter Will Smith – Jada got a lot of backlash for her stance, people accusing her of being a hypocrite and also boycotting because Will was not nominated and that this was personal for her. To absolve her Will gave an interview and said that Jada would have made that video regardless of if he was nominated or not and that he will stand with his wife and WILL NOT be attending the 2016 Oscars. Phew – DRAMA!
Enter Stacey Dash – is she still as clueless as ever? Amidst all this Oscar racism/ lack of diversity drama. Actress Stacey Dash had an interview with BET and claimed that black Americans are just segregating themselves and that the way to go is integration and not separation as she felt like stations like BET perpetuate segregation of the black community. Basically she sent black America up in roars with her anti-Black movement statement so much that BET claimed back their check for The Game on social media to which she later retaliated by asking what top shows are on BET and that no one ever remembers BET shows because…well…they are on BET! Ouch! I generally can’t with Stacey so I will leave it there.
Enter MOnique – Now Oscar winning actress, Monique said something that made sense. When asked about this Oscar debacle the actress mentioned that she does not see why black people should be crying over nominations and wins when they should firstly be crying over and trying to win fight against equal pay, opportunity and treatment in Hollywood. (Slow Clap) with regards to Will and Jada she said that they have already won regardless of being nominated or not. She says if Will was making $20 million per motion picture ten years ago then there’s no need for much – he has won. I completely agree with Monique!
Enter The Oscars – This boycott fiasco has sent the Academy Awards committee in a spin so much that they are trying to get prominent black celebrities to present at the Oscars namely for Best Picture award and they are looking at people like Oprah Winfrey and Morgan Freeman. Tjo – it looks like the blacks are always being targeted to serve.
In more lighter news, Jennifer Lopez’s new hit show, Shades of Blue has started. JLo plays a cop and apparently she is brilliant and the show is not too bad. Have you seen it? It’s being reported that co-star Ray Liotta almost left the show after she found out that JLo would be in the TV show as he thought that her work might not be great and felt like her pop star image/persona would get in the way…looks like all turned out well. I generally prefer JLo’s acting to her singing and is it me or does Ray Liotta always play a cop/detective or something?
In ratchet TV news; if you watch Love and Hip-Hip New York you’re probably familiar with the Peter Gunz, Amina Buddafly and Tara Wallace love triangle. Basically “rapper” Peter Gunz dated and had children with baby mama Tara (left) for about 14 years and cheated on her with Amina (right). He then married his side chick while still staying with the main chick and baby mama. Whoosah! Now the baby mama, is pregnant with his baby and she’s claiming that Amina who’s originally from Germany only married Peter to get US citizenship. I cannot. At what point do you move from being main-chick to side-chick and still sleep with and get knocked up by a man who wifed-up his side chick he cheated on you with and think that’s okay? Can someone please explain?
I hope y’all have a spanking fresh week!