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It was a 3-day weekend filled with fashionable celebs as several of your favs attended the 2019 Trifecta Gala during Kentucky Derby weekend.
Attendees included: Steve & Marjorie Harvey, Chris Tucker, Ray-J & Princess Love, Cynthia Bailey, Mike Hill, Nene Leakes, Tanya Sam, Paul Judge, Quincy Brown, Vivica A. Fox, Star Jones, Phaedra Parks, Michael Colyar and more.
Check out a few photos from the festivities below… Continue Reading…
Remember Phaedra Parks? We don’t really hear too much about the former ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ cast member these days, but she was among the guests who attended Star Jones’ birthday/wedding last weekend.
Jones married Ricardo Lugo aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise in the Bahamas surrounded by family and friends. The lengthy cruise also provided the couple an opportunity to celebrate Jones’ 56th birthday.
Details + photos below… Continue Reading…
Jennifer Hudson was all smiles Friday morning as she hit the Summer Concert Series stage on Good Morning America…
[READ: Spotted Jennifer Hudson & Baby David at GMA ~ PHOTOS + VIDEO]
Immediately following Jennifer’s crowd pleasing performance, things took a change for the worst when she was suddenly stricken with severe stomach pain.?
She was rushed to the hospital and her scheduled performance on the CBS Early Show was cancelled.
A rep for the Academy Award-winning singer confirmed that Hudson fell ill and was taken to a New York City hospital.
?After performing on ?Good Morning America? earlier today, Jennifer Hudson went to the hospital due to severe abdominal pains,” the rep said in a statement. “She was treated for food poisoning and released.?
It didn’t take long for the rumor mill to start buzzing about Jenn’s “stomach ailment,” with many concluding she was suffering from complications related to a lap-band surgery or gastric bypass procedure.
It also didn’t take long for Hudson’s camp to speak out.
Here’s what they had to say…. Continue Reading…
While Beyonce and the billboard awards held our attention, NeNe Leakes and Star Jones faced off one last time during the finale of Celebrity Apprentice.
Star Jones managed to take a biting parting shot at her arch nemesis, basically calling NeNe an embarrassment to educated Black women everywhere:
Star: “NeNe has used this platform to attack every Black woman on the show.”
NeNe: ?It?s not about black, it?s not about a racial thing! YOU used this platform to be very backstabbing and very manipulative!”
Jones — who had to talk over Leakes’ loud squawking — said that as a professional, she was highly “embarrassed” by Leakes’ behavior.
Well apparently it’s not just a “Black” thing. NeNe is reportedly still raising hell on Celebrity Apprentice even after walking out on the show.
Leakes, who is reportedly seeking therapy for an “Anger Management” problem she claims not to have, even came to blows with yet another Celebrity Apprentice cast member during the Finale after party!
Details below: Continue Reading…
So apparently loud mouth NeNe Leakes is a quitter. Whoodathunkit? 😕
During last night’s Celebrity Apprentice (which I refuse to watch on the grounds that I can’t stand Donald Trump), Leakes reportedly walked out without nary a word to her teammates!
Leakes, 41, left her team which consisted of John Rich, Lil Jon and La Toya Jackson (who was brought back after being fired a few weeks ago) high and dry without an explanation.
Lil Jon and NeNe’s bff La Toya both tried to reach her by phone with no success. Later, Trump even dialed her up himself…
“I’ve never called anybody but I’m calling you because I think you have great ability,”
Trump, 64, told Leakes in a last-ditch effort to keep her around. “If you quit, it’s going to follow you for the rest of your life. For you to quit at the end is stupid.”
Well “stupid” is as “stupid” does…. because she definitely didn’t come back! Quitting way before she got a chance to hear Trump yell,”You’re Fired!”
NeNe’s surprising explanation of why she chose to walk out on her charity and her teammates below: Continue Reading…
So apparently NeNe Leakes has been spending a bit of quality time with Star Jones’ ex-husband, Al Reynolds (affectionately known as ‘Big Gay Al’ on the net).
Although Reynolds has been haunted by gay rumors [WATCH: Al Reyonds Says He Ain’t GAY! VIDEO], rumor has it he’s been getting quite cozy with his ex wife’s nemesis.
As you know, Star and NeNe have been going head to head in the press, with Star even claiming to have hired security to protect her from her “Celebrity Apprentice” teammate.
Al tweeted out the distorted photo above after hanging out in New York with NeNe and his friend Jennifer Williams of VH1’s Basketball Wives.
According to several online sources, Reynolds and Leakes dined at STK in NYC on March 9 and eyewitnesses claim the two “looked very cozy”. Afterwards, they danced the night away at Haven before hopping in the same cab at 4 a.m.
[Sidebar: and we all know how NeNe loves the Gays and the Gays love them some NeNe… but I digress!]
By the looks of this recent tweet by Al, date No. 2 is already in the works:
It’s unclear how much time the two have actually been spending together, but Star is supposedly having a hard time coping with the thought of them becoming buddies, especially since NeNe continues to bash her online and off.
Watch NeNe bash Star (again) during a recent appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show PLUS read what Star is rumored to be saying about her ex and her new found enemy’s unlikely union: Continue Reading…
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