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Ciara On February Cover Of Cosmo S. Africa: Talks Music, New Baby
Ciara looks radiant on the cover of the February 2017 issue of Cosmopolitan South Africa!
In the forthcoming issue, the 30-year-old newlywed (and soon-to-be-mommy to her sec- ond child with new hubby, Seattle Seahawk Russell Wilson) talks motherhood, her journey from heartbreak to finding love, and more. The singer is glowing as usual, and looks no parts pregnant, at all! But that’s probably to be ex- pected, with her iconic, toned physique!
She’s also the new face of Revlon, and she’s reportedly prepping new music: that’s a lot for 2017!
Anita Baker Confirms She Is Retiring From Music
If you’ve been waiting on new tunes from Anita Baker, you’ll be waiting forever: the sultry-voiced songstress is hanging up the mic and leaving music for good.
Baker confirmed this on Twitter last week.
Granted, we hadn’t heard anything from Baker since her 2012 cover of Tyrese’s “Lately” and follow-up single “Sweetest Dreams” when they were thought to grace an album called Only Forever, the re- lease date which kept getting pushed back and eventually never came.
Anita Baker posted this photo of herself last week.
It’s unfortunate news for fans, but it’s good to see Baker in good health, good spirits and enjoying life!
Charity Auction Gives You A Chance To Have Valentine’s Date With Idris Elba?
Suzanne DePasse To Produce Michael Jackson’s Biopic For Lifetime
We all remember the abo- mination that was Lifetime’s 2004 made-for-TV movie “Man In the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story” star- ring Flex Alexander as MJ.
Well, Lifetime wants to take another stab at telling MJ’s life story with another “biopic” named “Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland.” Re- portedly, Navi (MJ’s most fa- mous impersonator), will take on the leading role, and the movie will be told from the eyes of his bodyguard.
While this seems like a shaky concept, there ARE a few peo- ple involved with the project who knew MJ personally, which should make this a more palpable film to watch. The film is based on Berry Gordy’s book Remember the
Berry Gordy, Michael Jackson and Suzanne DePasse when Michael and his brothers were with Motown.
Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days and will be produced by music and film producer Suzanne De- Passe, who developed Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5’s wardrobe and the act they took on the road.
She was a producer for the award-winning show Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, For- ever, 1992’s mini-series The Jacksons: An American Dream, the TV mini-series The Temptations, and even TV shows like Sister, Sister.
This Valentine’s Day you will have a unique chance to spend an evening with Idris Elba after he auctioned himself off to raise money for an African girls charity.
“I’d like you to be my Valen- tine. That’s right love, just you and me. No-one else around, just us,” Elba said while sip- ping champagne in a video posted on website Omaze, which raises money for chari- ties through celebrity experi- ences.
By donating money to char- ity W.E. Can Lead, members of the public are eligible to win a “candlelit meal” with the actor, according to Omaze.
Proceeds from the auction will help finance the charity’s aim of offering mentorship, ed- ucational support and leader- ship skills to teenaged girls in Sierra Leone.
The actor, whose father is from Sierra Leone, is one of the frontrunners to be cast as the next James Bond, the fic- tional British spy movie fran- chise.
Isha Sesay, founder of W.E. Can Lead, said Elba was a
Idris Elba could be your Valentines date.
“good sport” for being in- volved, and that the response to the campaign had so far been overwhelming.
“Idris and I were messaging earlier on and I said, ‘I think we may have a female stampede on our hands,’” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview.
“He said, ‘As long as we raise money.’ He’s completely com- mitted. He was a complete sweetheart.”
Go to omaze.com to enter.
Judge Okays New Trial For The Game Against Reality Show Contestant
A judge has given the green light to The Game’s bid for a new trial and lower judgment amount in his sexual battery case, according to Bossip.
Illinois Federal Court Judge Gary Feinerman filed that the rapper, who was born Jayceon Taylor, can seek a new trial and file motions to reduce the $7.1 million in da- mages a jury awarded his ac- cuser, Priscilla Rainey. The judge threw out his December decision to deny The Game a new trial and request for lower damage amount.
In November, a jury awarded Rainey, who appeared as a contestant on The Game’s re- ality dating show “She’s Got Game,” $6 million in punitive damages and $1.1 million in
Priscilla Rainey was a contestant on The Game’s reality show, ‘She’s Got Game.’
compensatory damages against The Game after she accused him of exposing her privates and molesting her in front of a crowd on stage.
In court papers, lawyers for The Game blasted the judg-
ment amount as “monstrously excessive,” and said the trial wasn’t fair to the “This Is How We Do” rapper because he wasn’t able to appear in person as he was recovering from emergency surgery.
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