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Zoe Saldana Named NEW FACE Of L’Oréal Paris

Zoe Saldana has landed a new gig! L’Oréal Paris has announced the Rosemary's Baby star as their new celebrity spokeswoman.

The 35-year-old hottie dished to PEOPLE on how every woman can rock a rep lippie and having to go through trial-and-error when finding your perfect shade.

She said:

“In the years I’ve been on this planet, I’ve grown to believe that every woman on this earth can rock a red lip,” she says. “It doesn’t matter how big or how thin their lips are, how dark their skin is, or yellow or light or pink, there’s so many shades of red, you can find the right shade. Women just look so beautiful and powerful when they’re wearing red lipstick.”

The newlywed is super ecstatic about her new title saying, “It puts the stamp on, like, ‘Congratulations, you’re finally a real woman!” She joins other L’Oréal spokeswomen Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez. Nice.

Josh Elliot to quit GMA for NBC Sports after 'he tried to negotiate raise following Robin Roberts $14m

GMA star Josh Elliott is quitting America's top rated breakfast show for NBC sports. The 42-year-old news star, who has helped GMA take the ratings crown from NBC's Today Show is leaving ABC and signing with the rival network after weeks of negotiations.

He will anchor NBC's highest-profile sports including Sunday Night Football, the Olympics and Triple Crown Racing.

Josh battled to get a huge bump in his salary after his popular co-star Robin Roberts signed a deal believed to be worth $14million.

A source said: 'Josh knew that he wasn't going to get that amount - but what he wanted was an increase that was proportionate to Robin's boost.'

Josh's move to NBC means that he will be well lined up for the anchor role on the Today Show when Matt Lauer eventually leaves.

Matt's $25 million contract is up later this year and while he may sign an extension to his contract - he may well depart within the next year or two, leaving the job wide open for Josh, according to TV sources.

'While the clear lead anchors on the Today Show are Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, on GMA, Josh shared duties with Robin, Lara and George Stephanopoulos and they all pull their own weight together.

Meanwhile, ABC's Amy Robach, who is currently batting breast cancer, will replace Josh Elliot, it was announced inside the network today.

Josh has just weeks left on his GMA contract and will follow weatherman Sam Champion, who quit GMA for NBC-owned The Weather Channel.

Today, an NBC Sports source said the deal would be finalised this week, adding: 'Josh is going to be working on our highest profile sports coverage.

'He will be an addition to our team including Bob Costas - not a replacement.'

Josh leaves as his colleague Lara Spencer secured a lucrative multiyear deal announced on Thursday.

Spencer, meanwhile, seemed elated about her new deal, worth an estimated $2 million annually.

'You know you’re in the right job when getting up at 4 a.m. is a joy,' she said. 'This was a simple decision; I love what I do, and I adore the people I work with. I am thrilled to be on this team and look forward to many more years.'

It was reported that Josh was reportedly demanding more than $8 million a year — a whopping increase over his current annual salary of around $1 million.

He will be leaving as ABC news boss Ben Sherwood takes over as chairman of Disney/ABC TV group and last week said he hoped to keep Josh at the network.

Yung Joc Joins “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” Season 3 As Karlie Redd’s Boyfriend

Atlanta rapper Yung Joc recently announced that he will be joining the cast of VH1′s hit reality show “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” next season, and to make things even more interesting, he’ll be starring alongside his “GIRLFRIEND” Karlie Redd!

Joc made a trip to BET’s “106 & Park” to do a throwback performance of his hit song “It’s Going Down,” and while there, he confirmed that he will be appearing on LHHATL with his “girl” Karlie and we just “gotta watch.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, yes I am on Season 3 of Love & Hip Hop [Atlanta], my girl is Karlie Redd, so you know, y’all just gotta watch,” Yung Joc shared on the music countdown show.

When 106 host Bow Wow asked Yung if he was going to be involved in any of the show’s infamous fights and conflicts (like the huge brawl this past February), Yung simply replied, “Ya’ll just gon’ have to watch,” adding, “it kinda shows you what goes on in regular life, you know, not celebrity life… It’s going to be really interesting to see how I handle everyday situations because I’m a little a little ‘throw it off’ at times and the world don’t really see that on me, so they will when they tune in.”

We don’t know how Karlie Redd continues to maintain her relevancy enough to hold on to her highly coveted spot on LHHATL, but she continues to do it every season, and for that, we salute you Karlie, even if you still lie about your age.

As for Yung Joc, the soon-to-be 31-year-old spoke to Bossip and talked about how much he loves Karlie and how they are the real deal.

“The best thing about Karlie Redd is I like the fact that she’s a little throwed off and will jump off a building for me,” he noted.

Joc also explained why he decided to appear on “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” alongside that crazy Karlie Redd woman:

“By joining season 3 of Love & Hip Hop it allows people to see how Joc would handle some every day sh!t….Just because you’re on a reality show doesn’t mean it’s the best fit for you.

“Just because cameras are on her (Karlie Redd) — as an actress, she’s a great actress I’ll give her that hands down — but when cameras are on you and you’re forced to handle a decision that could be detrimental to how people view you, I don’t know if she’s the best candidate for handling that in front of a camera sometimes because I’ve seen her handle situations off the camera more professional.

“That’s why I had to have these meetings because people were like, ‘You don’t want to go in there and your girl start trippin’ on you, how you gone handle it?’ so when we started having real-life situations I was like this ain’t how you handle it on TV and that made it a lot easier to say, ‘I’ll accept the challenge of joining Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta Season 3.”

Ex-FAMU band member sentenced in Robert Champion hazing death

One of the former Florida A&M University band members who beat Robert Champion in the infamous hazing homicide was sentenced on Friday to a year in jail.

Jessie Baskin became the first FAMU student to be sentenced to jail time for his role in the hazing death of the drum major when he was ordered to serve 51 weeks in the county jail, sentenced to five years of probation and given 300 hours of community service for participating in the beating death of Champion, 26, in November 2011.

Fourteen other former band members were charged with manslaughter and hazing in Champion’s death. Seven have been sentenced to combinations of probation and community service. One other defendant, Caleb Jackson, 25, has pleaded no contest to manslaughter and is awaiting sentencing.

Champion’s death brought dark clouds that hovered over one of the most successful institutions within the HBCU ranks and led the temporary disbandment of arguably the best band in the country. The tragic episode also led to the departure of the band’s longtime director and the abrupt resignation of the university’s president.

In the Baskin hearing that lasted nearly three hours, Baskin’s attorney called several character witnesses from the 22-year-old’s family, including his mother and father. He also submitted a brief that contained letters pleading for leniency.

Baskin, who faced nine years in prison after pleading no contest to manslaughter in November, was emotional throughout, several times wiping away tears, and other times trembling in his seat.

“I’ve sentenced a hundred people to life in prison. This is one of the hardest sentences that I’ve ever had to deal with,” Judge Marc Lubet said. “No matter what I do, I can’t bring Robert Champion back.”

Champion, a native of suburban Atlanta, died during a hazing ritual aboard a bus parked outside an Orlando hotel. Champion collapsed after prosecutors say band members beat him with fists and instruments.

Champion’s parents – Robert Sr. and Pam Champion – also testified Friday, as they had at previous sentencing hearings. Both expressed their ongoing grief, with Pam Champion encouraging Baskin to “make positive choices going forward”

“You did wrong … you must pay the consequences for what you did,” she said.

Before Lubet imposed his sentence, Baskin himself offered a statement, at one point turning toward Champion’s parents and giving a tearful apology.

“I apologize that this happened. I apologize for how this has affected you,” he said through a wailing voice. “I’m not over it. It has affected me too. Robert was a good man and we know that …. We did not intend for this to happen.”

Pam Champion said though she believes Baskin’s sentence was too light, it won’t deter her family and a foundation started in her son’s name from trying to stop hazing nationwide.

“Clearly the sentence doesn’t fit what was done, including another opportunity to send a strong message,” she said. “We have to talk to everyone, because what happened at that school was allowed to happen…But the message of the foundation is to say `No more.’”

NYC Man Found In Trash Bag Allegedly Killed For Snitching

A 33-year-old NYC man who was found brutally murdered inside a trash bag last week may have been killed for the age-old violation of the street code known as "snitching."

News outlets this past Monday, March 24 prematurely reported that former NBA basketball player Quinton Ross was found decomposing in a shallow grave. Clarity later surfaced to find that it was actually Quynton Ross, a photographer from Jamaica, Queens.

When Ross didn't come home that Sunday night, his mother used the "Find My iPhone" app to trace his phone and it when it came up on a boardwalk she notified police. After his body was discovered, police did some digging and found that a YouTube rap video contain vital information for breaking the case wide open.

Via DNA Info:

The execution-style murder of a photographer whose body was found in a trash bag in the Rockaways may have been revenge for “snitching” on three men who robbed him several years ago, DNAinfo New York has learned.

Law enforcement sources say Quynton Ross, 33, the father of a 4-year-old daughter, was the target of an ominous YouTube video that denounced him as a “snitch” and graphically depicted the street justice he should face for putting a trio of home invaders in state prison.

The video begins with a knock on the door of what is described as Ross' home.

With rap music thumping in the background, the video presents a poster-like photo of Ross, with the words “Big Time Snitch” on it along with a Free Dictionary explanation that a “deponent is someone who gives evidence or acts as a witness.”

The video then shows someone flipping through pages of the 2011 indictment against the three suspects, accompanied by the muffled voice of an ominous narrator who says Ross “used to be their homeboy.”

A year earlier, Ross was robbed of cash, a watch, diamonds, earrings and his iPod inside his own home along with another man. Four months later, he and the other victim cooperated with authorities to help track down the armed robbers after they continued to pull heists in the nearby areas.

Somewhere in the list of Biggie's popular song "Ten Crack Commandants," consequences of snitching is eerily detailed similar to the instances in this murder.

Nonetheless, it is still a tragic story.

Chris Brown is on his way to DC by way of EXTRADITION!

Last week it was reported that Chris Brown's legal team was desperately trying to work on a settlement with the victim in his Washington D.C. assault case hoping to have the case thrown out. Well the judge just approved an order to have Chris Brown transported to D.C., so the whole let's-settle-out-of-court thing didn't work out...

As it stands Chris Brown will be escorted to Washington D.C. by U.S. Marshal courtesy of D.C. taxpayers and housed in the county jail.

Breezy's lead attorney Mark Geragos has filed for an emergency hearing to halt the transport by Marshal and request that Chris be released to his custody and that he be responsible for transporting him to D.C. and to court each day.

The trial in D.C. is set for April 17th.

Terrell Owens' Wife Of 2 Weeks Claims He Leaked Nude Pics Of Her

Terrell Owens is obviously hurting in the attention department and he's making a cry for help in an assortment of way.

First there was an inexplicable video of him claiming he could beat Michael Jordan in basketball. Now Rachel Snider, the woman who felt like two weeks were much too long to be he his wife, is accusing him of leaking nude photos of her online.

Snider isn't disputing that the raunchy pics aren't of her. But she's saying that they were exclusively sent to him during their short-living rendezvous and the pickings are very slim for guilty parties.

Via TMZ:

Nude pics of Terrell Owens' estranged wife have popped up on the Internet ... and she's hinting that T.O. may be responsible for leaking them.

The photos of Rachel Snider hit Twitter showing the ex-postal worker posing for bathroom selfies ... some topless, some bottomless ... and some that look like they're straight out of Hustler.
Check out the NSFW but censored pics of Ms. Owens Snider

Gotta say ... some of 'em do make ya think T.O. should try to patch things up.

Snider confirmed the pics are definitely her, but adds they were taken for T.O. ... and intended for his eyes only.

Translation: she thinks he could be connected to the the Twitter handle sending out the pics.

Rachel says she's contacted Twitter HQ to report the user behind the x-rated tweets, but so far they're still up.

T.O.'s rep hasn't responded to our calls for comment.

‘Singer Raphael Brown of ‘NEXT’ Wife Claims He Kicked Her While Pregnant!!

The estranged wife of Raphael Brown – one of the members of the 90s R&B team Next — claims he viciously kicked her although she was expecting and brutalized their daughter.

Juliette Gil-Brown got a restraining order against Raphael — obtained by TMZ — in which she claims on multiple occasions he hit and shoved her, grabbed her by the neck, punched her in the mouth and kicked her in the stomach … and some of the violence occurred when she was pregnant.

Juliette also statements final thirty day period Brown turned enraged at their 4-yr-aged daughter right after she refused to kiss him on the mouth. She says he yelled at the kid and shoved her into the auto seat. She states he then started yelling about not getting herpes, even though no 1 introduced up herpes.

And Juliette states Raphael looked at porn on the computer system when their kids had been in the area.

LaLa Anthony Signs Her "Playbook" In Atlanta

LaLa Anthony kept it cute while signing copies of her NY Times bestseller "The Love Playbook: Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness" in Atlanta.

While in Atlanta, LaLa received a special honor from Mayor Kasim Reed. She tweeted, "So amazing to be honored by The Atlanta City Council! #pricelessmoments #grateful #blessed #theloveplaybook"

The reality star's son Kiyan was there to support this mom.

Nice!

Tameka Raymond Honors Late Sons Memory, Hosts ‘Kile’s World’ Foundation Event

Tameka Raymond, honored the memory of her late 11-year-old son, Kile Glover.

Last year, Kile died after a watercraft accident on Lake Lanier. And in remembrance of his life, Tameka launched the Kile’s World Foundation. The foundation will offer art- based camps with multiple workshops including general instruction in the areas of acting, singing, dance, painting, illustration, music production and digital media.