Did You See? Vogue Italia Printed a Blank White Cover!
With storefronts closed, photo shoots canceled, and workers furloughed, the future of the fashion industry seems bleak. In the best of times, fashion magazines sell fantasy and entertain. But what should they look like now?
One answer: a blank white page, which is what Vogue Italia put on the cover of its April issue. As the virus continues to devastate Italy, the publication is taking it seriously. “To speak of anything else — while people are dying, doctors and nurses are risking their lives and the world is changing forever — is not the DNA of Vogue Italia,” wrote editor-in-chief Emanuele Farneti.
Farneti had three goals for the issue: to imagine life after the pandemic without self-pity, to gather a community of artists stuck at home to create a snapshot of living in this new world, and to print a completely white cover for the first time in the magazine’s history.
Vogue Italia chose white as a symbol of a brighter future. White is the color of the uniforms worn by medical workers on the front lines putting their lives at risk to save others, and a blank space for future creative endeavors. “Above all: white is not surrender, but a blank sheet waiting to be written, the title page of a new story that is about to begin.”
#RHOA: Kandi Burruss Says The ‘Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ Virtual Reunion Was So Dramatic That ‘People Walked Out’!
Just because they weren’t in each other’s physical presence didn’t mean that the recording of the Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 12 virtual reunion was any less spicy or messy.
According to castmate Kandi Burruss, the show (taped on April 23 and set to air May 10) was wild. “I think some people still have more to say. Some people walked out,” Kandi told Hollywood Life. And while she said she couldn’t dish on any more details, Burruss did explain how the reunion got to a point where cast members felt compelled to walk away from their computer screens.
“I’m not going to lie. Well, for me, it was aggressive,” she said. “I would say aggressive because I mean the arguments were going so crazy sometimes that [host] Andy [Cohen] is trying to get us to stop and he can’t because we’re not in the room with him so nobody can stop us from talking or saying what we need to say, so people are just going for roadkill when they say what it is they need to say until finally some of us had to be muted.
Kandi says the “arguments” escalated to the point of everyone “yelling and screaming.”
“It was hurting my ears. I literally had to send production a text like please turn down my headphones,” she revealed. “That was stressing me out, and then when we got off, I just felt exhausted. I talked to a couple of the girls afterwards. I know I talked to Marlo [Hampton]. Marlo was like, ‘Girl! I need a drink! I am done! I need a whole relaxation moment.’”
Part One of Season 12’s virtual reunion show will reportedly air on May
#NewMusicVideo from Ledisi – ‘Anything for You’!
Ledisi has just released the visual for her latest single “Anything for You“. The ballad released a couple of weeks back and is a beautiful love
The singer makes the best of the opportunity to shoot the video despite the social distancing we’re all facing. The video was directed by Ron T Young and is a simplistic concept that really complements the song well and allows the beauty of it to come out.
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Ledisi commented about the video: “Thank you Ron for making something so simple work. You, me, one camera, a studio, and a beautiful song.”
Stay tuned as Ledisi is currently working on her next album
#HipHopNews: Lil Cease Says Biggie Thought JAY-Z Was A Better MC!
Smoke DZA chopped it up with Lil Cease during a recent Instagram Live session where, naturally, the subject of The Notorious B.I.G. came up. At one point, they started talking about JAY-Z and Biggie’s relationship with the billionaire Hip Hop mogul.
Cease, who was a member of Junior M.A.F.I.A. and Biggie’s cousin revealed Biggie always thought Hov was the superior MC.
“Once Big met him at the Palladium, and they bonded on some g-shit ’cause they respected each other as men and they respected each other as artists,” Cease said. “Big wasn’t afraid to tell him … Big thought [JAY-Z] was doper than him. Big used to say, ‘Yo, that nigga nicer than me.’
“These are straight facts. When JAY-Z said that line on ‘Dead Presidents,’ ‘Niggas take a freeze off my kneecap, niggas believe that?’ Big was like, ‘Yo, he got me.'”
Cease thought Biggie was “buggin'” though and explained he found Big’s content more relatable.
“I adapted to Big’s shit because it was more my lane,” he continued. “Jay was digging in the books saying some other shit. I had to go get a dictionary like, ‘The fuck is he talkin’ bout?’ You know what I’m saying? We wasn’t tappin’ into it ’cause we was some young, bad ass kids. But I adapted to Big ’cause I feel like Big was just more direct.”
The Notorious B.I.G. recorded two classic albums before his 1997 murder, Ready To Die and Life After Death.
André Leon Talley Wants You to know Even though He’s dragging Anna Wintour His Memoir Is Not About Her!
André Leon Talley’s new book won’t be out until September, but many are already feasting on the fallout he had with his former Vogue boss Anna Wintour.
Penguin Random House has pushed back the release of “The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir” to September. But The Daily Mail’s recent recap of the book exposed how the two high-powered friends and ex-colleagues have fallen out. In an interview Friday, Talley, Vogue’s former creative director, detailed his side of the back story, and emphasized how his upcoming tome centers on his career in fashion journalism, not just his years of Wintour.
Talley said, “I do not consider this to be a vengeful, bitchy tell-all. When the galleys were finalized and printed, the first person I gave the galley to was Anna Wintour. I sent her an e-mail saying, ‘if there is anything that you see in the galley that you would like to be removed, please tell me and I will be happy to do so.’”
Talley said that he and Wintour “had a conversation” and she asked that passages about her daughter Bee Shaffer’s wedding and a few other private references be removed. “This is not a vengeful book about Vogue and Anna Wintour. There are parts in the book where I say that some of the best years of my life were at Vogue. And the career beginning in 1983, basically I owe it to Anna Wintour.”
That said, he added, “From a humanitarian perspective, she left me with psychological scars. I was often left blowing in the wind without any explanation, which I think perhaps she should have given me.”
As for what Wintour might find most hurtful, Talley said, “If I had said to her, she’s vain. She’s not vain. But she’s very occupied with her looks. I don’t know. I didn’t write the story, thinking, ‘How can I hurt Anna Wintour?’ That was not my intention. My intention was to do a story about me, an African-American man, coming from very humble beginnings, who came up to New York, went to Brown University on scholarship, got a job with Andy Warhol, went through the highest ranks of fashion through Women’s Wear Daily [under] John Fairchild, Diana Vreeland [as a volunteer at The Met’s Costume Institute], Vogue.”
A source close to Wintour said that she had asked for certain references to be removed from the book because they involved members of her family, who didn’t choose to have aspects of their lives made public. They added that Wintour considered Talley a friend for more than three decades and was saddened by the way he chose to portray many aspects of their friendship, but he is entitled to tell it as he remembers it and she wishes him the best.
Interestingly, Talley is still listed as a contributing editor on Vogue’s masthead, alongside the likes of Grace Coddington, Lisa Love and Lauren Santo Domingo.
Response to the 2017 documentary, “The Gospel According to André,” is what gave Talley the confidence to write the book. “I felt it was very important for future generations as well as the generation of today to tell the story in an honest way and in a compelling way,” he said. “Although the things (in the book) that have been picked up by The Daily Mail are objectively true and factual, any powerful person, be it a man or a woman, they have many sides. They have extraordinary sides. Anna Wintour is a brilliant editor. She is a powerful woman, I do not take that away from her. At the same time there are sides that do not rise up to the standards.”
As close as Talley and Wintour were, “the relationship has eroded into nothing” and Talley said he is “very hurt by that.” From his view, the doors for communication were shut down by Wintour after she read the galley in January. Any e-mails sent to the Condé Nast leader are answered by a third party. “I wish her well. This book is not there to say, ‘This is how I feel about Anna Wintour — she’s cruel and mean.’ I just feel that Anna Wintour mishandled our relationship and perhaps it was a lack of communication on my part as well as hers.”
Ageism and his appearance were other factors in his departure, said Talley, who has struggled with his weight. After he was pulled from hosting live chats on the red carpet at the Met Gala in 2018, his absence was noticed by Jennifer Lopez’ agent, he said. “They replaced me. Yes, things can change but the way that it was handled hurt me. That’s what I felt had to be told. Very often the Condé Nast protocol is brutal — absolutely brutal and cruel. And the fish head rots from the top, OK?”
Talley continued, “As soon as they fired Diana Vreeland, they had to lock the door. They did not want to tell her that she was fired. They just told her she had to go. Then she came to work, the door was locked and they changed the office from red to beige. They’re cruel. It’s a cruel world. I guess it’s no more cruel than any other world, but it’s not a humane world. It is not a world of kindness.”
While many imagine what it might be like to be on the inside at Vogue, Talley said, “It’s very hypocritical. It has the veneer of being very polite, courteous, well-groomed and polished. When you are in the halls of Vogue, there is a certain standard of politeness, education, kindness, just human correctness. But that doesn’t go to the core of people. People are treated and mishandled terribly at Condé Nast and it starts at the top.”
Talley described Wintour as a woman of very few words, and “sphinx-like silence.” He dismissed the suggestion that the environment he portrayed is indicative of corporate America. “No, I think the world of Vogue is a unique culture. I think the world of publishing is unique. I have worked at other places like Women’s Wear Daily, and I worked with Andy Warhol. I never had that kind of experience…It’s a culture that was engrained in the issue. This is the way things were handled. Decisions were made for you — good or bad. You just had to go with them without any explanation — the benefit of a discussion or debate.”
The former Condé Nast-er acknowledged that he does not consider himself to be a perfect person. “To put up with me at Vogue, at Women’s Wear Daily, I’m sure was not an easy thing. I take total responsibility, too. But I’m not going to be a victim of Anna Wintour. I am not sitting here crying, saying, ‘Woe is me. Anna Wintour has ditched me and pushed me to the curb,’ which I feel she has done. But I’m strong enough to overcome that.”
Having been awarded a Dame Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth and the Legion of Honor by France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy, Wintour remains British to the core, according to Talley. “Maybe it is the British culture. She never knew how to say to me, ‘André, I need you.’”
Reminded that some people are just not that way, Talley agreed, adding, “I accept that because they are not my boss. She gave me the highest accolade I could have — creative director of Vogue, a black man named the creative director of Vogue. But she did not show me unconditional love that other bosses had — Andy Warhol, Diana Vreeland. There are people who love me for who I am. I have all the faults. I am overweight. People do look at me and say I love you. People respect me. I am not the only overweight person in the world, but maybe to her it was repulsive. I don’t know. She never said that to me. I’m not trying to put words in her mouth.”
Had the tables been turned and Wintour had written a book, Talley said he would not have reacted as Wintour has. “Yes, I would have been upset if I were in her shoes. I would be hurt. But I would call out to say, ‘Why did you do this or what did I do wrong?’ I would have apologized I didn’t know that I behaved…I would have tried to reach some sort of resolution.”
Talley’s career included runs at WWD, Vanity Fair, House & Garden and Vogue. The book also addresses some of the racism he faced along the way. In the mid-Seventies, he was told that Clara Saint, the former public relations officer of Rive Gauche at Yves Saint Laurent, was calling him “Queen Kong, which was the most racist thing that I could think of,” he said.
Talley and Wintour once had “a very deeply close personal relationship,” but it’s been radio silence since January. Talley said he sent her an e-mail of support after learning her son Charlie Shaffer had COVID-19. Talley said, “Not a word. Not an e-mail at all. But this is the way she is. She simply has become insulated in her own power. Perhaps she thinks that people like me who are really loyal friends, or were loyal friends — I can’t say that now we are friends because she doesn’t even speak to me in public — the last time I saw her in public, I said hello to her and she turned her back on me. I guess she was upset.”
Despite this great divide, Talley reiterated what he wrote in the book — that should he ever be sick in the hospital, “God forbid, I would hope that she would come to say thank you. I am a forgiving person and I believe in God. My life is structured on my faith. I believe in forgiveness. I do not hold any grudges.”
Acknowledging how Wintour has done a lot for the fashion industry and continues to do so, Talley cited her championing A Common Thread, raising money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “great philanthropic work” and supporting fashion through her tenure at Vogue. “This is her greatness,” he said.
Referring to their closer days, Talley said, “As a person who knew her closely and escorted her to her mother’s funeral in London during a blizzard and as a person who hugged her after eulogizing her mother and walked her to the car as she was having an emotional breakdown due to the death of her mother, this is a friend. I went with her on the plane to Paris and the next morning we were at the Givenchy appointment during couture,” adding that Wintour’s husband and children were unable to fly due to the blizzard. “I have gone through many significant family moments with Anna Wintour. I was at her wedding and I was the only person invited from Vogue except her two assistants.”
As for the adage that business is never personal, Talley said, “No, no, sorry not buying it. Business, unless you are a robot or an algorithm, if you’re a human being, it’s got to be personal. If you’ve got any sense of humanity — no matter how high you go corporate — it’s got to be personal. Part of the magic of the Vogue culture was that it was very personal,” he said.
He and his colleagues would attend funerals for family members of staffers, together even ones that were held in the middle of the workday. “We didn’t take these things for granted.” Talley said. “If it was business as usual, she wouldn’t have paid for the intervention and the Duke Diet and Fitness Center [for him]. That was all paid for by Condé Nast. Don’t tell me that was corporate. She was concerned, maybe trying to save me. Because she probably considered me a talent then. When I got to be 70 with this weight problem, she thought of me in a different light. She may have cared, but she saw me in a different light. And yes, there was ageism.”
Above all, the book is meant to show readers how Talley survived in “this rarified atmosphere and culture of publishing of fashion in Vogue magazine.” he said. “Through a career in fashion journalism, I hope that it will impart to future generations that you can survive as long as you are strong and that you believe in yourself. It is my goal that when I am gone of this earth, people will go to the library, pick up the book and be inspired by it.”
Both of 2 Chainz Atl Joints Will Not Reopen!!!
That didn't take long. Less than 24 hours after 2 Chainz's business partner and co-owner Snoop Dillard told us they were going to reopen their ATL joints, they're now saying it's a no-go. Dillard said"After careful consideration, we are not going to open our restaurants on Monday. It has not officially been decided when we will start having dine-in service."
Smart move.
Escobar season has returned for 2 Chainz ... the rapper is reopening his Atlanta restaurants for sit-down service, and he says he has a plan for keeping folks safe from COVID-19.
Both of 2 Chainz's joints, Escobar Restaurant and Tapas, are serving dine-in meals starting Monday -- his business partner and co-owner, Snoop Dillard, says they're making public safety a top priority.
Escobar restaurants were strictly doing take-out orders due to coronavirus restrictions, but with Georgia's Governor paving the way for businesses to reopen -- in many cases recklessly -- 2 Chainz is getting people back to work.
We're told sales at both locations have been down 95% during the shutdown, and the restaurants were forced to furlough around 80% of its staff.
With dine-in service coming back, Snoop says they're planning to bring back 65% of restaurant staff -- 80 people -- and the hope is to have everyone back at work eventually.
As you know ... a debate is raging over Georgia's plan to reopen its economy. Governor Brian Kemp is giving the green light, but Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is urging people to be responsible and cautious and stay home.
2 Chainz's restaurants are trying to have the best of both worlds, and they think they will be able to host sit-down service safely.
Any staff member showing coronavirus symptoms will be asked to go home and quarantine for 14 days.
2 Chainz and Snoop donated hundreds of meals to medical workers on the frontlines ... and we're told they're planning to give more free meals to workers at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Piedmont Atlanta Hospital
Mister Rogers Advised Officer Clemmons Actor to Not Come Out as Gay!
Francois Clemmons, the actor who played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, is opening up about his coming out experience and why Fred Rogers told him to stay in the closet.
The 75-year-old actor is releasing a new memoir and he writes about the day he was called into Fred‘s office.
He says that Fred told him, “Franc, you have talents and gifts that set you apart and above the crowd. Someone has informed us that you were seen at the local gay bar downtown. Now, I want you to know, Franc, that if you’re gay, it doesn’t matter to me at all. Whatever you say and do is fine with me, but if you’re going to be on the show as an important member of the Neighborhood, you can’t be out as gay.”
Francois told People, “I could have his friendship and fatherly love and relationship forever. But I could have the job only if I stayed in the closet.”
“‘You must do this Francois,’ he told me, ‘because it threatens my dream,’” the actor added.
He says that Fred also told him, “‘The world doesn’t really want to know who you’re sleeping with — especially if it’s a man. You can have it all if you can keep that part out of the limelight.’”
Francois also claims that Fred suggested to him that he marry a woman.
“By the time I left his office, I had made up my mind to marry La-Tanya Mae Sheridan. At the wedding reception, Fred and Joanne approached me and my new wife. It felt as if Fred and I were sealing some kind of secret bargain,” he wrote in the memoir. The marriage only last six years and he began living life as a gay man after that.
Despite all of this, Francois says that he forgives Fred.
“Lord have mercy, yes, I forgive him,” he said. “More than that, I understand. I relied on the fact that this was his dream. He had worked so hard for it. I knew Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was his whole life.”
Tyler Perry Reportedly Plans To Restart Production With Advantage Of Sprawling Studio!
ATLANTA — Tyler Perry has plans to start up his TV and film production taking advantage of his sprawling 330-acre Atlanta studio, according to TMZ.
Perry doesn’t have a specific time frame when he’ll actually restart his shows, which air on OWN, Nickelodeon and BET (including its streaming service.). Among his series are “The Haves and the Have Nots,” “Young Dylan,” “Ruthless,” “Sistas” and “The Oval.”
The TMZ story outlines that Perry would test all the cast and crew before they could work. Those that are cleared can stay and live at the studio the entire run of the show.
His operations used to be part of Fort McPherson, an Army base. It has 141 usable barracks, 40 habitable historic homes and 30 homes he built that are also livable. Perry could shoot all his shows without ever leaving the studio.
He also has on-site restaurants, a bar, a gym and a hospital set that could be used with on-site medics.
‘Real Housewives of Potomac’ Season 5 premiere pushed due to COVID-19!
Fans were looking forward to spending the quarantine season bingeing on various ‘Real Housewives’ franchises. With ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ and ‘Real Housewives of New York’ already on air, they felt that the addition of ‘Real Housewives of Potomac’ would be cherry on the cake. So when Bravo too announced that Season 5 of ‘RHOP’ would premiere on May 3, they were over the moon. The excitement was shortlived for the network recently announced that they have pushed back the premiere of Season 5 to “late summer” without sharing any details of the release date.
When fans began questioning the network’s decision to postpone the release date of their beloved ‘Real Housewives’ franchise, executive producer Andy Cohen himself came forward with an explanation. He said, “The virus has shifted production schedules for all our show. There are currently two great Housewives series running. Would rather have fresh content later than none."
‘RHOP’ fans were looking forward to catching up on the legendary Monique Samuels-Candiace Dillard fight, which was set to be shown this season. The housewives were in news last October when they two got into a huge brawl while filming the show. Both the housewives filed charges against each other and things got very messy before the charges were dropped in December.
When fans heard that they might have to wait a little longer to witness the epic fight, they took to Twitter to express their displeasure over the show’s release being postponed, and also blamed coronavirus for causing havoc. A fan tweeted, “Ugh, I was really looking forward to #RHOP!!! "Real Housewives of Potomac": Season 5 Premiere Pushed to Summer Due to Coronavirus Pandemic.”
A High Number Of Calls Into The New York’s Poison Control Center Over Possible Household Products Injection!
After Trump’s ridiculous claim that bleach or disinfectant products could cure coronavirus in a minute, New York’s Poison Control Center says a high number of calls over fears that someone injected household cleaners.
Thursday evening, between 9 p.m, the Poison Control Center managed 30 cases of disinfected exposure, according to a spokesman for the New York’s Health Department on Friday.
Out of the 30 cases, none required immediate hospital attention. Nine where possible Lysol injection, ten regarding bleach, and eleven regarding household cleaners, the spokesman added.
Thursday evening at a coronavirus briefing, Trump suggested injecting disinfectants like bleach could defeat the coronavirus.
”Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs so it’d be interesting to check that … It sounds interesting to me.”
Trump claimed his dangerous suggestion was a joke. “I said it sarcastically,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Facebook Is Taking Aim at Zoom With New Video-Conferencing Features!
Facebook published a press release on Friday announcing the launch of Facebook Rooms -- a video live-chat service that will allow people to conduct calls with up to 50 people simultaneously. Calls on the service will have no time restrictions and can be accessed through either Facebook's namesake social media platform or Messenger -- and later, Instagram Direct, WhatsApp, and Portal.
Rooms may not wind up being a big revenue generator for Facebook but could generate valuable data for other projects at the company and make it harder for specialized video-conferencing companies such as Zoom Video Communications to continue rapidly expanding their user bases. Zoom stock fell roughly 6% in Friday's trading.
What's next for Facebook in video communications?
Facebook's massive global user base and wealth of resources put the company in good position to be a long-term leader in video conferencing. The video-communications space is growing quickly but also becoming increasingly crowded. While specialized providers like Zoom may continue to see strong user growth and engagement, they'll have to contend with tech titans that can tie video services to larger software and hardware ecosystems.
Facebook Rooms will use artificial intelligence (AI) to enable 360-degree panoramic backgrounds and generate lighting effects and will also have support for augmented reality (AR) filters like those popularized on Instagram and Snap's Snapchat. The company's Rooms press release notably mentions that virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality will provide more immersive platforms for visual communication in the future.
There's a good chance the social media giant will use experience and data from operating its current video-chat services to inform and support upcoming ventures in VR and AR.
Kanye West Is Officially A Billionaire, Forbes Says - But Rapper Claims Publication Is Still Low-Balling Him!
Kanye West has amassed a $1.3 billion net worth, officially making him a billionaire for the first time, according to Forbes.
But the rapper-turned-sneaker-mogul is claiming the publication is still off -- by $2 billion.
Forbes announced this week that West, 42, was initially left off its annual billionaires list released earlier this month because the Yeezy founder was unable to provide up-to-date information about his net worth.
Not making the annual list left him irate, the publication said, to the point where Kim Kardashian's husband sent a text to Forbes and accused it of "purposely" leaving him off of the list because of his race. Meanwhile, younger sister-in-law, 22-year-old Kylie Jenner, made the list as the youngest self-made billionaire for a second year in a row.
"In the process, we can now share more details about Yeezy then ever before revealed," Forbes announced this week, explaining that the artist finally was able to provide more documents about his stake in Yeezy.
Thanks to "internal documents" provided, the publication now claims West's net worth is "$1.3 billion."
While this number makes him officially $300 million richer than his sister-in-law, the publication revealed that West still wasn't happy with Forbes' analysis. He sent another text to Forbes this week to let them know.
"It's not a billion," Forbes claims West texted the outlet. "It's $3.3 billion since no one at Forbes knows how to count."
Forbes likened West's pompous reaction to President Donald Trump. It claimed that, like Trump, they are taking their word over his.
"For years, Forbes had an informal “Trump rule”—take whatever the future president insisted he was worth, divide by 3, and start honing from there. Like mentor, like mentee. Welcome to the ten-digit club, Kanye. You may not like our number, but you’ve joined the highest company in that regard," Forbes concluded.
Kobe Bryant Memorabilia Offered At Online Auction!
Nearly three months after the NBA great's death, the largest collection of Kobe Bryant memorabilia ever assembled in one place has become available for auction online.
Some of the 86 items available for bidding include game-worn shoes from the NBA Finals, warm-ups, game-used jerseys, NBA championship rings and a 14-karat gold ring featuring eight diamonds that commemorates the United States' 8-0 record and gold medal at the 2012 Olympics.
Vanessa Bryant pays touching tribute to Kobe on wedding anniversary
Five per cent of the auction's sales will go to the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation, which Bryant's wife, Vanessa, created after her husband and daughter, Gianna, died in a helicopter crash along with seven other people in January.
Ken Goldin of Goldin Auctions told ESPN, "We expect the price points in here to go from as low as $500 to potentially over $100,000."
The item with the highest bid as of Thursday was a pair of autographed Adidas shoes that Bryant wore in an NBA Finals Game Five victory over the Philadelphia 76ers in 2001, selling at the time for $28,000.
The championship ring given to the Los Angeles Lakers star after the 1999-2000 season, which Bryant gave as a gift to his mother Pam, was carrying a price tag of $20,000 and features 40 diamonds placed in 14-karat gold.
Bryant had threatened to sue Goldin Auctions in 2013 when the auction house attempted to sell hundreds of items from his parents. The Bryants reached an agreement outside of court, and only six items were sold, including the 2000 NBA championship ring. That auction raised over $62,000 for The Bully Project – a charity Bryant supported.
Goldin Auctions had been collecting rare items for months in anticipation of selling them when Bryant’s induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame was announced
Nickelodeon Announces Virtual ‘Kids’ Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together!
According to Entertainment Tonight, Nickelodeon has announced a virtual edition to the Kids’ Choice Awards titled, ‘Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together.’ The show will premiere on Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m. ET/PT with Victoria Justice leading the evening as the host.
Other expected celebrity appearances include Lil Nas X, Dwayne Johnson, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Holland, Ariana Grande, BTS, Kristen Bell, Camila Cabello, Bill Fagerbakke, Josh Gad, Millie Bobby Brown, Shawn Mendes, Dove Cameron, David Dobrik, Tom Kenny, SSSniperWolf, the cast of Avengers: Endgame and more.
The annual awards ceremony was previously postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nickelodeon has since moved forward on making it possible to broadcast the show virtually while practicing social distancing. Winners will be announced during the live broadcast after kids place millions of votes for their favorite movies, shows, celebrities, games, music, and more.
The family network announced ahead of the star-studded event that LeBron James is scheduled to be honored with the 2020 Generation Change Award. The well-deserved award celebrates James giving back to his community in a big way through his charity The LeBron James Family Foundation and other programs, which reflects his passion on making positive changes in the world.
There will also be fun segments throughout the broadcast, which includes JoJo Siwa discovering slime secretly placed in multiple areas of her home as well as fans getting an exclusive view of Nick’s Slime in Space voyage.
Asher Angel is also scheduled to perform his hit single, “All Day,” during the live broadcast.
The ‘Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2020: Celebrate Together,’ will be supporting those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic with the network donating $1 million to a nonprofit organization called No Kid Hungry. The organization helps millions of children and families affected by childhood hunger and poverty in the U.S.
Congrats To Chris Pratt And Katherine Schwarzenegger As They’re Expecting Their First Child!
Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger are expecting their first child together.
Author Schwarzenegger, 30, is pregnant with her first child with husband Pratt, 40, People has confirmed. The “Guardians of the Galaxy” star shares 7-year-old son Jack with ex-wife, Anna Faris.
While promoting “Lego Movie 2: The Second Part” in 2019, Pratt told Entertainment Tonight that becoming a father again was a priority.
“The future? Oh. Lots of kids,” he told ET. “Maybe less time spent working, more time spent enjoying life.”
The couple wed on June 8 of last year.
“Katherine and Chris have been very open about wanting kids soon,” an insider told E! News last month. “She’s expressed she’d love to be pregnant in early 2020. Chris has a busy year coming up with filming, but both of them are ready to start this next chapter and bring a baby into their happy marriage.”
Jennifer Williams' Range Rover Allegedly Stolen by Conman!
Jennifer Williams shared her recent misfortune on social media. The former "Basketball Wives" star took to her Instagram account on Friday, April 24 to share that a conman took away her Range Rover.
Posting a side-by-side photo of herself and the man she is accusing of stealing from her, the TV star pleaded, "I'm asking for some help finding my Range Rover that this man, Aaron Nichols, stole from me. He goes by many alias including Nick, Daniel or Chris."
She alleged that she wasn't the only victim, saying, "He has conned many women and men too out of vehicles and large amounts of cash." She went on to spill more details about the man, "Lives in the Atlanta area and frequents Detriot, Houston and Vegas."
"If you have seen him or are a victim of his antics please DM me, email my attorney, Jamie Hernan, at jamie@hernanfirm.com or contact the Smyrna Police Dept in GA as there is an active investigation going on. Thank you in advance," she concluded.
Fellow celebrities reacted to the post with "The Breakfast Club" co-host Angela Yee commenting, "This is crazy!" Someone else also offered to help spreading "this around to my atlanta folks. Oh hell no. He is not getting away with this."
Other people in the comment section, meanwhile, asked Jennifer to share more details about how that happened. "Please let us know the scam. Your car is insured. But how did he con you and so many others? What is his business dealings? Who are his associates. This will protect us more," one user urged. "We need the back story.. Who is he to you? Spill tea!" added a user.
Another comment read, "What??!!! Please explain his MO because how does someone con you out of your car? Is he a fake mechanic????" Seeing the trolling comments, one person asked others to be easy on Jennifer. "Y'all take it easy on J. We have all been scammed by a no good nicca before!! I hope you get your car back girl. Life has some tough lessons for us to learn," the person wrote.
AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
‘CEREAL KILLER’
Just better hope Count Chocula doesn’t have the Rona.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK AHEAD ALL!!!
EFREM
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