R&B singer Trey Songz is the newest artist added to Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 tour. The second leg of the tour begins Feb. 20 and ends March 27 in Las Vegas. Young Jeezy will also be on the tour, reports Honeymag.com. Here is Trey during a photo shoot for the cover of the publication.
[HTML1]
Rapper Lupe Fiasco is climbing the highest peak in Africa as part of a journey to focus attention on the need for clean water in developing nations.
“Summit on Summit” bring scientists and well known stars like Jessica Biel and Santigold together for a 50-mile route to the 19,340-foot peak Mt. Kilimanjaro. The trek, which began Thursday, can be followed on SummitontheSummit.com where participants will tweet and upload video and photos.
MTV will also air the journey in a 90-minute documentary March 14.
In the “Size Issue” of V magazine, the publication is celebrating women of all sizes. “Precious” star Gabourey Sidibe, 26 and Dakota Fanning, 15, are on the two covers hitting newsstands Jan. 14. In her V interview, Sidibe credits comedian and “Precious” co-star Mo’Nique for inspiring her as a plus-size actress.
“Growing up there weren’t a lot of actresses and singers that looked like me,” says the New York born-and-bred actress. “There were no real times that I thought maybe I can do it, until Mo’Nique came along. She’s a plus-sized woman who didn’t care about one day being skinny. All my life I’ve been hearing that I’ll never amount to anything until I am skinny. She disproved everything that everyone has ever told me.”
Sidibe is currently working on her second film, “Yelling to the Sky,” alongside Zoe Kravitz.
The accolades keep coming for the movie ‘Precious,’ which has already received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. The film now has received eight NAACP Image Award nominations for director Lee Daniels, star Gabourey Sidibe and supporting actors Mariah Carey, Mo’Nique, Paula Patton and Lenny Kravitz. “Precious” was also nominated for outstanding motion picture and outstanding independent film.
Other movies nominated include “Michael Jackson’s This Is It” and “The Princess and the Frog.” HBO drama “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” starring Jill Scott and defunct comedy “Everybody Hates Chris” are also nominees.
The 41st annual NAACP Image Awards will broadcast live on Fox Friday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. central time.
Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia star in “Our Family Wedding,” a movie about fathers who butt heads as their children (actors Lance Gross and America Ferrara) plan to marry. The flick is due in theaters this March. Regina King, Anna Maria Horsford, Taye Diggs, and Charlie Murphy also star in the film.
[HTML1]
According to Kanye West’s blog, the rapper helped feed the homeless during the holiday season. Here’s what Kanye posted along with this pic of himself:
The day after Christmas, Amber, my cousin Ricky, and I went to feed the homeless at the LA Mission. It was really humbling and emotional for us. I wanna thank Mari Ronquillo and the LA Mission for allowing me to participate.
Martin 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.”
New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush is on the February cover of Essence Magazine. Idris Elba, Lance Gross and LL Cool J will also be featured in the publication’s first “Black Men, Love and Relationships” issue, which will showcase a top 10 countdown of the sexiest men in sports, Hollywood and music.
There 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.
On the Feb. 2010 cover of Vanity Fair magazine, Tiger Woods is exposed both inside and out. With famed photographer Annie Leibovitz taking the pics, the publication delves into the secret world of the world renowned golfer. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
In an age of constant gotcha and exposure, he had always been the bionic man in terms of personality, controlling to a fault and controlled to a fault, smiling with humility and showing those pearly white teeth in victory or defeat, sui generis in the world of pro golf, where even fellow pros and other insiders didn’t really know him, because he didn’t want anybody to know him. With Woods, everything was crafted to produce a man of nothing, with no interior—non-threatening and non-controversial.
Read the complete story here.