Tag: TV

Tyra Banks is looking for plus size models

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Hey girls!  If you’re between the ages of 13 and 19, wear a size between 12 and 20 and are 5’9″ to 6’1″ in height, then Tyra Banks wants you!  The finalists for the first “Fiercely Real Teen Model Search” will be announced during “The Tyra Show” March 2 and the winner crowned the next day.  She will receive a one-year modeling contract and photo shoot with a magazine.
 
“I’ve always felt it was my mission to expand the narrow perceptions of beauty,” she said.  “Plus-sized tends to have a negative connotation and I want young girls to realize that what’s considered plus-sized is the average American woman. That woman is healthy, fit and beautiful. Adolescence is such an impressionable time in a young woman’s life, and I hope this contest helps teen girls discover their own beauty from the inside out.”
 
Interested? Click here for more info.


Chris Brown, Mary J. Blige to perform at BET’s Haiti Telethon

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Celebrities are lining up to lend their support to “S.O.S. Saving OurSelves: Help for Haiti,” which is a three-hour fundraising concert to benefit Haiti relief organizations such as Yele Haiti, CARE, and Project Medishare.  Mary J. Blige, Pharrell, Ludacris and Robin Thicke, Chris Brown and Ciara are some of the artists that will perform and appear at the event.
 
Queen Latifah and Diddy will co-host the telethon from Miami and will air Friday, Feb 5 at 7 p.m. central time on BET, Centric, MTV and VH1.

Video: Maxwell and Rihanna perform on Oprah’s Haiti special

 
Maxwell and Rihanna performed Wednesday on Oprah’s show dedicated to the crisis in Haiti.  Check out their performances below. Maxwell gets even better with age!   He looked great and gave a stirring performance.
 
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Boris Kodjoe goes ‘Undercovers’

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The hotness that is Boris Kodjoe will star in the new NBC series “Undercovers,” which is about married CIA agents brought out of retirement and re-activated.
 
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British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw who starred in “Doctor Who” will play his wife.  J.J. Abrams co-wrote and will direct the pilot, which is the first he has steered since 2004’s “Lost.”

Rihanna, Maxwell and Wyclef Jean to appear on Oprah’s Haiti special

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 Oprah Winfrey will give special attention to the crisis in Haiti Wednesday.  Rihanna will sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” and Maxwell will perform “Fistful of Tears.”  Wyclef Jean will also give a first hand account of the devastation in his homeland and will show footage of the destruction.  He will also address the recent concerns of fiscal mismanagement within his Yele Haiti organization.

‘Pants on the Ground’ on American Idol

 
This week on American Idol, General Larry Platt, 62, sang his original creation,”Pants on the Ground”  to guest judge Mary J. Blige and the other AI judges.  Check it out…
 
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Fantasia’s series premiere episode

In case you missed the premiere episode of the VH1 reality series, “Fantasia For Real,” check it out here.  The episode starts around the 3:16 mark.

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Martin Lawrence producing TV One comedy series

Martin LawrenceMartin Lawrence will executive produce a new comedy series, “Love That Girl!” that will premiere Jan. 19 on the TV One Network.  The show is described as a sexy comedy following a young divorcee who returns home to Southern California and takes a job in her father’s real estate business and lives with her unemployed brother.  Tatyana Ali (“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”) stars in the series.

Series writer-director Bentley Kyle Evans and other executive producers such as Raphael Saadiq self-financed four episodes of “Love That Girl!” on a shoestring budget of $1.2 million.

“It’s great to be back in the television game and working with a network like TV One,” Evans told Reuters. “If executed properly, this will represent a whole new model for producing and delivering quality scripted series to the television market at a reasonable cost.”

Blagojevich, Sinbad and Cyndi Lauper join ‘Celebrity Apprentice’

celebrityapprenticeThere is an interesting cast of characters lined up for Donald Trump’s reality series, “Celebrity Apprentice,” which premieres March 14 on NBC.  Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, comedian Sinbad, actress Holly Robinson Peete and pop star Cyndi Lauper are a part of the cast this time around.  Other contestants include:  “Rock of Love” Bret Michaels, Sharon Osbourne, lingerie model Selita Eubanks, track and field Olympian Michael Johnson and former baseball star Darryl Strawberry.