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Beyoncé's First-Ever Movie Is Coming To Netflix, And Millennial Twitter Is Freaking Out
'Love & Hip Hop' Couple Lyrica Anderson And A1 Bentley Call It Quits
LYRICA AND HUSBAND A-1 BENTLEY
Another Love & Hip Hop couple has reportedly split.
According to theJasmine- BRAND.com, A1 Bentley and Lyrica Anderson from the Hollywood spin-off are sepa- rated.
The site reports that the two, who have been married for two years, allegedly split due to ru- mors of infidelity. While the details remain scarce at the moment, it is reported that A1 — real name Floyd Bentley — had an inappropriate rela- tionship with Summer Bunni who will reportedly ap- pear on the forthcoming sea-
son of Love & Hip Hop: Holly- wood.
Sources reportedly told the site that Anderson has al- ready moved out of their fam- ily home and Bentley's alleged infidelity is set to un- fold on the reality show.
The couple is yet to confirm the reported status of their re- lationship, but have unfol- lowed one another on Instagram and removed all photos of them together.
A1 and Lyrica wed in 2017 and recently welcomed a baby boy, Ocean Zion Bentley, in November 2018.
La La Anthony Lands Her
Biggest Role Yet In This ’90s
Classic Series Reboot
La La Anthony continues to win in Hollywood. The ac- tress, known most recently for appearing in the popular Starz drama Power, is confirmed to star in a recurring role on Fox's six-episode summer drama, BH90210.
According to Deadline, An- thony, 39, has been cast as Brian Austin Green's wife, Shay, in the series, which serves as a reboot to the classic '90s show Beverly Hills, 90210. The site describes her character as a "superstar hip- hop/pop artist" who is the "breadwinner of the family." Green, who plays her hus- band in the series, will play a stay-at-home dad to their three kids.
The actress recently took to Instagram to share her excite- ment about being involved in the major project.
LA LA ANTHONY
"90210 IS BACK!!" she wrote. "I'm so honored to be joining the cast of 90210!! It's gonna be crazy! Excited to play the wife of the original Beverly Hills 90210 star Brian Austin Green. Let's gooooo!!"
Bey season is pretty much a year-round affair, but things have been especially active in the Hive these past few weeks. Fresh off of the masterpiece that is Homecoming, Bey- oncé is returning to Netflix with another gift: the re-re- lease of her 2001 TV movie, Carmen: A Hip Hopera.
The streaming platform's Strong Black Lead arm, con- sisting of a group of Black ex- ecutives, officially broke the exciting news on Thursday via Twitter. The announcement explains that Carmen: A Hip Hopera will stream for the en- tire month of June, and is a part of a "rotation of throw- back films" Netflix will be fea-
CARMEN: A HIP HOPERA
turing throughout the year in an effort to expose and stream more classic Black films.
For those who somehow aren't aware — sis, where've you been? — the made-for- MTV musical film is based on
Georges Bizet's opera Car- men and marks Beyoncé's of- ficial film debut.
Directed by the incredible Robert Townsend, the movie also stars Mehki Phifer, Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), Joy Bryant, Da Brat, Jermaine Dupri and Bow Wow. It originally premiered on the cable network back in 2001.
The film served as a spring- board for Bey's movie career, seeing her go on to star in a slew of blockbuster smashes including Austin Powers in Goldmember, The Fighting Temptations, Dreamgirls, Cadillac Records and Ob- sessed.
Newly-Released Documents In Jussie Smollett Case Show Inconsistencies In Chicago Police Department’s Statements
Jussie Smollett’s hate crime case came to a end this past March, when the actor had all 16 felony accounts against him dropped. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Mayor Rahm Emanuel were outraged. However, it appears the shock from the CPD may have been overdramatized — as were, it seems, many of the details of the story shared by CPD.
New revelations in the case come from hundreds of pages of investigative records that were released to the public by
JUSSIE SMOLLETT
CPD on Thursday (May 30).
The dump of documents comes a week after a judge or- dered the records in Smol- lett’s hate crime case be unsealed. The documents re- veal a number of inconsis- tences from previous reports, both by official statements from CPD and leaked informa- tion from unnamed sources within the department. While the newly-released informa- tion doesn't appear to contain any smoking guns exonerating Smollett, it does add a lot more credibility to his side of the story.
Offset In The Clear In Fan iPhone Case
SANDY SPRINGS, GA – After facing a felony for clearly breaking an Instagram-mo- ment-seeking fan’s iPhone, Offset won’t have to worry about seeing the incident on his criminal record.
phus tendered $160.92 to re- pair the phone screen — the full cost of the repair — and clearly indicating the warrant should never have been issued as a felony in the first place.”
TMZ has learned that the Migos star has agreed to pay to fix the damaged screen.
Findling continued, “Im- mediately after paying, a Ful- ton County Judge signed an order setting the warrant aside.”
“On May 20, the warrant was set aside after extensive good faith conversations with members of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office,”
OFFSET
Junior Gibbons, the fan whose phone was broken, is re- portedly “happy” with the de- cision.
Drew Findling, Offset’s at- torney, tells TMZ. “Mr. Ce-
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