Beyonce, Upper Class? No No No...

Because the world needs more LaToya, less Beyonce...


Beyonce Knowles may want to think twice before she takes another jab at the Jacksons. According to the National Enquirer, Janet Jackson “blew up” when she heard what the “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” singer had to say about her family.

“I grew up upper-class,” Knowles recently told OK magazine. “Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”

Cue the feud, as Jackson considered those fighting words, according to an Enquirer source.

“Janet wanted to know why Beyonce had to mention her family,” the insider said. “They're not friends and barely know each other. She feels Beyonce went out of her way to tell the world she's from the upper class and the Jacksons were like a bunch of dirty gutter rats.”

Now Jackson’s allegedly ready to set the record straight and give Knowles a piece of her mind.

“Not only is Janet telling everyone who will listen that Beyonce has a lot of growing up to do and that she needs to stop trying to impress everyone, she's planning to confront Beyonce herself and read her the riot act,” the insider added.


Trust, Miss Jackson. Beyonce is just as trashy as you. At least you were smart enough to hide your baby when you got knocked up as a teen.

Did someone forget to relay that message to Solange?

Solange = LaToya = tired

J-Lo and Her Ass Divorcing?

Despite a new round of divorce rumors, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are still happily married and plan to stay that way. At least that’s the latest word from their PR peeps.

Responding to an item published in the New York Daily News, which predicted a post-Valentine’s Day breakup for the pair, Anthony’s rep said, “None of the rumors are true.”

As for Lopez, her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, put an end to the “one last duet before they say goodbye” story by telling E! News, “There is no merit to the article.”

Trust us Marc: it's definitely cheaper to keep her!

Listen Up, Teen Sluts: Pregnancy Pays!!!

When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin confirmed that her teenage daughter, Bristol, and boyfriend Levi Johnston were expecting a baby, the celebrity weeklies knew that the first photos of the Palin-Johnston baby would incite a bidding war. Baby Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, born Dec. 28, proved those editors right.

According to one source, bidding for the baby photos began at $100,000. People won out in the end, but In Touch was the only other weekly to make serious bids, according to several sources involved in the process.

The price didn't soar immediately, according to the sources, because Sarah Palin stories just didn’t sell all that well for the weeklies on newsstands.


I need a (legal) teen to help us out. We need to broaden our subscription!

Obama Nekkid

Now that we've gotten your attention...


Barack Obama isn't the first presidential figure to be photographed shirtless, and likely won't be the last. He is, however, the most physically-toned U.S. leader since JFK to be caught on camera bare-chested.


But inquiring minds want to know how the photographer from Bauer-Griffin – the same California-based agency who caught Halle Berry on a movie set this month at the precise moment of her wardrobe malfunction – was able to get the exclusive shot despite an army of security surrounding the beach resort where the president-elect is vacationing with his family.

Bauer-Griffin co-owner Frank Griffin said his photographer did absolutely nothing wrong.

"He had his equipment searched by the secret service and was restricted to a certain area of the beach," just like the other photographers, "before the president-elect walked into his view about a hundred yards away," Griffin told CNN.

"There was tacit approval that he was able to shoot what he could shoot, it's a public beach," Griffin told the Washington Post, adding that his snapper was not asked to leave the public beach from where he spotted Obama.

We cannot wait for the bottomless Obama shots.

Don't shoot, Michelle!

R.I.P., Miss Kitt

Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an international symbol of elegance and sensuality, has died.

Ironically, the singer, who recorded the classic "Santa Baby" in 1953, passed away yesterday, Christmas Day, at age 81.

Andrew Freedman says Kitt died of colon cancer and was recently treated at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.

Kitt, a self-proclaimed "sex kitten" famous for her catlike purr, was one of America's most versatile performers, winning two Emmys and getting a third nomination. She also was nominated for two Tony Awards and a Grammy.

MJ Dying AGAIN...

Who could breathe with a nose like that?

Oh, wait. We can ask Janat and Latoya, and Rebbie...


The author of a new biography on Michael Jackson claims the star is fighting for his life due to a rare respiratory condition, but a columnist who covers the singer closely says reports of the alleged illness are "extremely exaggerated."

As previously reported, author Ian Halperin told In Touch magazine and Britain's Sunday Express newspaper that the reclusive performer needs a lung transplant because he's suffering from Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, an occasionally fatal genetic condition.

"He's had it for years, but it's gotten worse,' Halperin told In Touch. "He needs a lung transplant but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping. It's the bleeding that is the most problematic part. It could kill him.'

Jackson "can barely speak" and "the vision in his left eye is 95 percent gone," Halperin added. The King of Pop's brother Jermaine didn't deny the reports, telling Fox News, "He's not doing so well right now. This isn't a good time."

Correction: NONE of you are doing well right now.

That includes you too, Janet!

This Is How To Treat Your Fans

Singer Akon pleaded guilty to harassment Wednesday for throwing a fan off stage during a concert last year in Fishkill, New York.


Under the plea deal, he will serve no jail time as long he performs 65 hours of community service and pays a $250 fine.

The 35-year-old singer tossed a teenage boy off the stage during a June 2007 concert at Dutchess stadium near Poughkeepsie. Another member of the crowd said she suffered a concussion when the teen landed on her.

Witnesses said a spectator threw an object at Akon during the show. After he asked the crowd to point out the culprit, a security guard picked up a 15-year-old boy and sent him up to the stage. Akon hoisted the teen onto his shoulders and flung him back into the crowd. The incident was caught on several camera phones and was posted on teh Internet.

Deep Throat Is Dead

Gotcha!

Close, but no cigar!


W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president, has died. He was 95.

Felt died Thursday of congestive heart failure in Santa Rosa after several months of failing health, said family friend John D. O'Connor, who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt's secret.

The shadowy central figure in the one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century, Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to The Washington Post.

Miss Jackson: Part Deux?

MediaTakeOut.com is claiming that "Renee," the rumored lovechild of Janet Jackson and James DeBarge, is "considering writing a tell all to clear the air."

The gossip site says "an insider" told them: "There's so much that nobody knows about what went on in Renee's life ... She wants to come clean about everything that she's been through."


While the source refused to confirm whether or not Renee was actually Jackson's daughter, MediaTakeOut quotes her as saying: "After the book comes out everyone will know the truth."


In 2005, James DeBarge's brother, Young Debarge, told New York's Hot 97 that Janet and his brother – married in 1984 – were parents of "Renee," a daughter the couple secretly sent to live with Janet's elder sister, Rebbie.


"Her birth was top secret," Young said of Renee, now 21. "James and the Jackson family kept everything real close, real tight. No one really knew how it was working out until things kind of surfaced."


Jackson denied the claims, stating in Nov. 2005: “I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false."

Madonna has settled her divorce with ex-husband Guy Ritchie by also parting with at least 50 million pounds ($76 million), the singer’s spokeswoman said Monday.

Liz Rosenberg told The Associated Press the settlement was in the range of 50 million to 60 million pounds ($76 million to $92 million) as part of their divorce agreement, a figure she said included the value of the couple’s country home, Ashcombe House in western England, which Ritchie will keep.

Rosenberg said the couple’s west London pub — the Punchbowl — would also remain with Ritchie.

The couple were reportedly worth some $525 million, the vast majority of which belonged to Madonna. Ritchie had an estimated $35 million fortune.

Their multimillion pound (dollar) settlement is about twice the size paid out in Britain’s latest high-profile celebrity divorce, that of former Beatle Paul McCartney and model Heather Mills.

“I’d assume it’s one of the largest payouts ever in a divorce settlement,” Rosenberg said.

Isn't it just like Madonna to find a record even in a situation like this?

Senator Kennedy: The Saga Continues...

Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of an American political dynasty, has decided she will pursue the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a person told of her decision said Monday.

The decision came after a series of deeply personal and political conversations, in which Ms. Kennedy, who friends describe as unflashy but determined, wrestled with whether to give up what has been a lifetime of avoiding the spotlight.

Ms. Kennedy will ask that Gov. David A. Paterson consider her for the appointment.

If appointed, Ms. Kennedy would fill the seat once held by her uncle, the late Robert F. Kennedy.

Looks like Fran is out of a job. This one is Caroline's for the taking!

Senator Fran?

Soon-to-be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn’t surrendered her senate seat yet, but actress and New York native Fran Drescher has high hopes of filling it.

“I was thinking I’d take the next four years to lay some groundwork, but I’m throwing my hat in the ring,” New York magazine overheard the former “Nanny” star boast during a party at Le Cirque last week.

According to Drescher, she’s qualified to make the big move to Capitol Hill because she’s “an authentic and honest person” who already has a few political baby steps behind her.

“I’ve just been given the appointment of U.S. diplomat,” Drescher said. “My title is public diplomacy envoy for women’s health issues, and I just got back from a four-country European tour of duty. I believe next I’ll be sent to the Middle East.”

A potential hot Senator?

We'll take it. That's just FINE with us.

Showgirls Pales in Comparison

WWND - What Would Nomi Do?

Probably not this...


Try this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna's Burgtheater, one of Europe's oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character's desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor's neck. But something's not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That's because the knife, and the harm that it's done, are both tragically real.

Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller's play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. Rushed to the nearby Lorenz Bohler hospital having sliced through skin and fat tissue but thankfully not his main artery, Hoevels was fortunate to survive. "Just a little deeper," said Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, "and he would have been drowning in his own blood."

Lindsay Lohan will do anything to get a new role - anything!

Ain't Too Proud To Beg!!

The mortgage meltdown has reportedly claimed another celebrity victim. TMZ.com is reporting that Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins-Rolison is about to lose her home in Georgia after falling behind in mortgage payments.

"We've learned a five-bedroom, nearly 10,000-sq. ft. house owned by T-Boz is about to go on the auction block in January 2009," the Web site reported Thursday, citing public records.

The singer is said to have defaulted on the original principal of her mortgage, which was about $530,000, according to TMZ.

The news comes days after the New York Post reported that Fantasia Barrino's $1.3 million Charlotte, NC home is in foreclosure, and that she is accused of defaulting on a $58,000 loan from a Florida corporation who loaned her the money to pay the IRS back taxes.

How do all these bitches go broke?!!!

Black Or White?!

A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama's racial saga: Many people insist that "the first black president" is actually not black.

Debate over whether to call this son of a white Kansan and a black Kenyan biracial, African-American, mixed-race, half-and-half, multiracial — or, in Obama's own words, a "mutt" — has reached a crescendo since Obama's election shattered assumptions about race.

Obama has said, "I identify as African-American — that's how I'm treated and that's how I'm viewed. I'm proud of it." In other words, the world gave Obama no choice but to be black, and he was happy to oblige.

But the world has changed since the young Obama found his place in it.

Intermarriage and the decline of racism are dissolving ancient definitions. The candidate Obama, in achieving what many thought impossible, was treated differently from previous black generations. And many white and mixed-race people now view President-elect Obama as something other than black.

So what now for racial categories born of a time when those from far-off lands were property rather than people, or enemy instead of family?

Debate over. He's black. We take him and Mariah.

The end!

Bettie Page: R.I.P.

Bettie Page, a 1950s pinup model who helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, has died. She was 85.

Her agent Mark Roesler says Page died Thursday night at a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart attack nine days ago. He says she never regained consciousness.

Page attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls across the country. Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.

Roesler says Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia and was about to be released when she suffered the heart attack Dec. 2.

Vertigo My Ass!

Celebrity snitches are dishing that forty year old Pop/R&B idol Janet Jackson is showing signs of pregnancy.

J.J is currently working on Tyler Perry’s upcoming feature film “Why Did I Get Married?” and there are whispers on the set that Ms. Jackson If Ya Nasty has a bun in the oven:

“Everyone on the set is whispering about it … Janet only found out 3 weeks ago when she took the film’s [mandatory physical exam]. We’re all pretty excited,” dishes an on-set tattle.

The tipster also spilled that Janet’s management team is working to have her filming schedule re-adjusted.

“They’re apparently trying to get things wrapped up for Janet as soon as possible … it’s getting really inconvenient - but I don’t care. I just want her to have a healthy baby.”


And the Jackson drama continues...

Trannies With Chirrenz?!

How is this possible?!! Modern science is a muthafucka!!

Usher is a proud father again.

According to sources close to the singer, Usher and his wife Tameka Foster-Raymond welcomed a baby boy around 3am Wednesday morning.

The newborn becomes Usher's second child and Foster's fifth child.

THE most fertile tranny on the planet, we tell ya!

J-Hud Back To Work

Jennifer Hudson will return to work next week to begin filming a video for her new single "If It Isn't Love," according to her label, J Records.


The singer was preparing to film the video in Los Angeles when her mother, Darnell Donerson, and brother, Jason Hudson, were discovered shot to death in their Chicago home on the city's South Side on Oct. 24. The body of her nephew, 7-year-old Julian King, was found in a sport utility vehicle three days later.


Hudson has kept out of the public eye since the murders, but she has issued statements periodically thanking the public for their support. Last week, she released a statement after she was nominated for four Grammy awards, including best R&B album for her self-titled debut.

"It's been a childhood dream of mine to release an album, so to receive four Grammy nominations is truly a blessing," she said. "I am extremely honored and humbled by the nominations."

Best wishes to Miss Hudson and the rest of her family.

Bad Year For Jacksons

First, Janet's album bombs. Her concert tour falters, and she fakes vertigo.


Michael loses Neverland and gets sued by a Sheik.

Then Jesse makes stupid ass comments about Obama on air, and now his son is getting in on the action...

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. held a press conference Wednesday afternoon to emphatically deny involvement in Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged "pay-to-play" scheme to fill President-elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat.


A lawyer for Jackson acknowledged earlier Wednesday that the Illinois Democrat is the so-called Senate Candidate 5 in the federal complaint against Blagojevich. Though the affidavit says Blagojevich named Senate Candidate 5 as an individual potentially willing to raise money for him in exchange for Obama's seat, Jackson said he was assured by federal prosecutors Tuesday that he is not a target of the investigation.

"I want to make this fact plain. I reject and denounce pay-to-play politics and have no involvement whatsoever in any wrongdoing," Jackson said at the press conference in Washington, D.C., calling on the governor to resign. "I did not initiate or authorize anyone at anytime to promise anything to Governor Blagojevich on my behalf."

Jackson's attorney, James D. Montgomery Sr., said Wednesday that Jackson learned he was mentioned in the complaint against Blagojevich the night before the governor's arrest on Tuesday.

According to the affidavit, in a Dec. 4 recording of Blagojevich with an unnamed adviser and unnamed fundraiser, the governor says he may be able to cut a deal with Senate Candidate 5 that provides Blagojevich with something "tangible up front."

The affidavit says an associate of Candidate 5 discussed raising $500,000, and then another $1 million, for Blagojevich. But Montgomery suggested Jackson could have been set up, and said he wasn't aware of any associates making such a proposal.

"I wouldn't put it past someone to be purporting to represent Jesse without authority," Montgomery said. He said Jackson is still interested in filling Obama's open Senate seat.

Beyonce Needs To Put a Check On It!!

Beyonce and her sister Solange have canceled their planned Houston concert to benefit victims of Hurricane Ike due to "a set of irresolvable scheduling conflicts," according to a press release.

The one-hour "Beyonce and Solange: Hope for the Holidays" benefit concert was to take place Dec. 9 at Houston's House of Blues.

The Knowles sisters' concert was supposed to debut on the Fuse network on Dec. 21, and was intended to benefit the Gulf Coast Ike Relief Fund to aid Texas victims of Hurricane Ike.

So you mean to tell me the Heir & The Spare cannot take time out of designing their atrocious House of Derriere Designs to put on a benefit?

Who wants to see Solange perform anyway?

Just pull out the checkbook and sign it.

If they can even fuckin' write to begin with!

He Finally Got It Right

I hope his pimp hand is strong when he slaps the shit outta Hasselcrack!

In a sermon delivered Sunday at his old stomping ground, Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright referred to one of his harshest critics, Elisabeth Hasselbeck of ABC's "The View," as "that dumb broad."


Speaking at Trinity United Church of Christ for its 47th anniversary, Rev. Wright included his trademark array of history lessons, mimicry and singing, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. His ire, however, was saved for Hasselbeck, who Wright twice referred to as a "broad," including once as "that dumb broad."


Wright expressed pride in Obama's longtime association with Trinity United Church of Christ, where he recently retired after serving 36 years as senior pastor.

The 'L' Is For Least Favorite Dyke

Showtime’s drama about a circle of lesbian friends and lovers is going to kill off one of its major characters on the premiere of its sixth — and final — season.

The victim is Jenny Schecter, Showtime has disclosed. Jenny, a would-be writer and accomplished two-timer, has long been embraced by fans as the character they most love to hate.

The episode, which airs Jan. 18, begins with a splash as Jenny’s body is discovered in a swimming pool. Accident, or murder — and whodunit? Viewers will have to wait for those answers.

We don't have to wait. We know what killed ehr ass.

Low ratings and viewer backlack. They should have killed her ass in season one before she got too attached to a steady income!

Oprah Can't Afford Lipo?!

The talk show queen continues the honesty, saying in the January issue of “O” magazine out Tuesday that she now weighs 200 pounds and has “fallen off the wagon” when it comes to healthy living.

“I’m mad at myself,” Winfrey writes in an article provided early to The Associated Press by Harpo Productions.

“I’m embarrassed,” she writes. “I can’t believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I’m still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, ‘How did I let this happen again?”’

In the piece, Winfrey, 54, details her recent struggles with an out-of-balance thyroid and how the condition made her develop “a fear of working out.” She says she’s added 40 pounds to her frame since she weighed 160 pounds in 2006.

“Yes, you’re adding correctly; that means the dreaded 2-0-0,” Winfrey writes. “I was so frustrated I started eating whatever I wanted — and that’s never good.”

We're embarassed FOR you, O. If we were billionaires, we'd have nymphs sucking the fat (and other parts) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!