Beyonce has joined the lineup of performers for the BET awards, which includes: Kanye West, Maxwell, Young Jeezy, Ne-Yo and Soulja Boy. The singer leads the pack with five nominations, including favorite R&B female and video of the year.
The BET awards will broadcast live from Los Angeles June 28. Jamie Foxx will host the event.
Beginning June 30, actress and singer Vanessa Williams will share some of her tips for success with a charitable education campaign that will benefit Dress for Success, an organization that provides professional attire and career tips to disadvantaged women trying to succeed in the corporate world.
It is official! With rumors circulating that Usher was divorcing his wife of nearly two years Tameka Foster Raymond, the R&B singer filed the petition in an Atlanta court Friday. Usher, 30, and Tameka, 38, have been living apart for several months now, reports People. The couple has two sons, Usher Raymond V, 18 months, and Naviyd, 6 months.
As Suite 411 reported earlier, Kanye West performed for Chicago public school children at the ”Stay in School” Benefit Concert last night. This event helped to benefit his charity, The Kanye West Foundation, founded in 2007 by his late mother, Donda, to help fight the dropout rate in America.
Two weeks after the accidental death of his 4-year-old daughter Exodus, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, 42, marries his girlfriend Lakiha Spicer, 32, in Las Vegas this past weekend, reports People.com. Spicer has comforted Tyson since the young girl was found strangled by the cord on a treadmill in her home.
The couple were married in the La Bella Wedding Chapel at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino at 10 p.m. Saturday after first picking up a marriage license at the county bureau. This is Tyson’s third marriage.
Do you want to feel the power of 50 Cent? Well, soon you can smell like the rapper, who is set to launch his first fragrance, Power by Fifty Cent, this fall exclusively at Macy’s.
Sherri Shepherd is in trouble with her nutritional coach and trainer. While getting in shape to pose in a bathing suit on The View Aug. 6, she mentioned on the social networking site, Twitter, that she cheated on her diet by eating fried calamari and buffalo wings. Unfortunately, her exercise team saw the message, reports People.com.
“Ain’t this a blip! I was planning on fibbing 2 my trainer & nutritional coach about what I ate this weekend – but they follow me,” she tweeted later that day.
“You just assume when you tweet that you’re tweeting to people far away, not the person – your neighbor across the hall,” Shepherd said on The View. “I wish my coach would have not tweeted because she’s coming here tomorrow to get on me about what I ate.”
School is out and the Obamas are taking a family vacation. President Barack Obama arrived in Paris Friday to meet his family that earlier in the day made a stop at the Eiffel Tower. The presidential family stayed at the U.S. Embassy, reports the New York Daily News.
After a trip to Normandy to attend the 65th anniversary of the World War II D-Day landings today, they will continue their Parisian vacation by visiting the Notre Dame cathedral. The President will return to Washington Sunday while Michelle and the girls stay in Paris until Monday and celebrate daughter, Sasha’s eighth birthday.
Michelle Obama had lunch with former First Lady Nancy Reagan Wednesday. This is the first time Obama has invited a predecessor to the White House, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. She called Reagan for advice during the Obamas’ move to Washington.
The diva with the golden pipes is set to drop her new release Sept. 1. Sean Garett, w ill.i.am, and Akon are some of the producers and songwriters that helped on Whitney Houston’s seventh studio album.
“The voice is there; I don’t think anyone could ever take that from her. As long as we apply that voice to hit records, she’ll be right back where she left off,” Akon told Billboard.com back in 2007.