RANDOM CELEB PIC: GUESS WHO THIS PLATINUM BEAUTY IS!

GUESS WHO DIS IS RIGHT HERE?

HERE ARE A COUPLE OF HINTS:
1. Although the woman in the picture heavily favors the person you probably think it is...well, it ain't her!

2. She's a former model-turned-actress whose well known in the media and fashion industry, married to a successful and rich Black man and considers herself supreme royalty.

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No, Kimora Lee Simmons doesn't have an identical twin sister...thank God for that. I don't think we could deal with 2 versions of her! LOL! The platinum-blonde, golden-tanned beauty in the above picture is none other than the First Lady of Turks and Caicos, LisaRaye McCoy-Misick. A spitting image of fashion icon, Kimora Lee Simmons (at least in this photo), McCoy-Misick's longtime stylist photographed the self-acclaimed epitome of Princess Grace Kelly a few winters ago on the beautiful white sand beaches of Turks & Caicos Islands.

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THE CW OFFICIALLY CANCELS 'GIRLFRIENDS' BUT WILL GIVE SHOW A 'PROPER SENDOFF.'

Fans who wanted to see the return of favorite, Toni Childs Garrett (played by actress Jill Marie Jones) will never get that chance. Yes, it saddens me too. After opting to cancel its long-running sitcom Girlfriends and scrapping production on the remaining 9 shows of its scheduled 22 this year, the CW brass and Girlfriends creator Mara Brock Akil are reportedly considering giving the show "a proper sendoff" by airing a special Girlfriends retrospective episode paying tribute to the show's history. Last Monday night's two new episodes marked the end of the road for Girlfriends. Hours earlier, the CW told writers that the show would not return for a ninth season. Girlfriends star Tracee Ellis Ross also made her directorial debut on the 9:30 p.m. episode, which ended up being the series swan song. Girlfriends has quietly made a mark as the longest-running live-action comedy currently on network TV.

"Although it's always difficult to say goodbye, I choose to focus my energy on the history that Girlfriends has made, the human stories that we told, the beautifully complex images that we projected and the blessings 172 episodes bestowed on us, both personally and professionally," Girlfriends' creator and executive producer, Akil, said in a statement Thursday. "I am immensely thankful to the amazingly talented cast, writers, directors, staff and crew for their endless dedication and hard work for eight seasons, to the network that always wanted us and the studio that always supported us," said Akil. "But mostly to the audience, especially African-American women, who took the time to tune into us every Monday night at nine to have a dialogue with us and who have been our partner in this journey."

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As for the fate of the CW's other top black comedies, Everybody Hates Chris has wrapped production of a 22-episode season before the writer's strike kicked in. And the network is looking to crank out eight or nine more episodes of The Game.

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RIHANNA CELEBRATES HER 20th BIRTHDAY WITH FRIENDS, FUN & A FOOD FIGHT.

Rihanna celebrated her 20th birthday last Tuesday night with a birhday bash at Les Deux in Hollywood among celebrity friends--such as Kanye West, Wilmer Valderrama and Chris Brown--and a cupcake fight. The Umbrella singer - who doesn't turn 20 until next Wednesday (20.02.08) - was partying with friends when the food fight began took place. According to several reports, West and Valderrama were among the guests who began pelting people with cupcakes. "There was frosting all over Rihanna's face and the group was hysterically laughing to the point of almost tears," a witness told People magazine.

Brown, who is rumored to be dating Rihanna, was later given a standing ovation after he sang her an acapella version of Happy Birthday. Despite Chris insisting he and Rihanna are "just friends", onlookers at the exclusive club said the pair were "cuddling and acting very cozy all night".

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IN TODAY'S 'THIS NIGGAH, HERE' NEWS: DIDDY SAYS HIS ASSAULT VICTIM'S JAW 'RAN INTO MY STATIONARY OPEN HAND.'

Have you ever read something that some celeb has said that was so outrageous, outlandish and unbelievable, it made you wanna just throw your hands up in frustration and exclaim to anyone within earshot and yell out, 'This niggah, here!' Well, that's what I did when I came across the following article.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has defended himself against accusations he assaulted a man at a post-Oscars party last year (2007) - by insisting the alleged victim ran into his "stationary open hand". The rap mogul stands accused of punching Gerard Rechnitzer in the jaw after the 27-year-old objected to Combs' attempts to woo his fiancee at a Roosevelt Hotel party in Hollywood in February 2007.

Last month (Jan '08), four people came forward with eyewitness accounts backing Rechnitzer's claims. But in legal papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Combs argues that all he did was try to protect himself from Rechnitzer, who is seeking unspecified damages in a lawsuit filed in March 2007. Combs' documents, obtained by website TMZ.com, read: "(Rechnitzer) continued moving toward me and, without warning, lunged at me. "Instinctively, I outstretched one of my hands, which hand was not closed-fisted (sic), to shield myself... "Any contact between Mr. Rechnitzer and myself was caused by his forward motion against my stationary open hand."

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IN TODAY'S 'T.M.I.' (TOO MUCH INFORMATION) FILES: 'MY SEX LIFE IS BETTER SINCE TURNING 40.'

Actress Mo'Nique loved turning 40 - because the older she is, the better her sex life gets. The larger-than-life star hit the landmark age in December (07), and she is already reaping the benefits. She explains her midlife joy: "I'm experiencing something so different and liberating. Everybody says 40 is the new 20. But I don't want it to be the new 20. Everything is so better now. At 20, sexually, you don't know what you're doing. You look for it, you find it, you lose it a few times."

Blech!

The actress currently stars alongside Martin Lawrence, Cedric the Entertainer and Nicole Ari Parker in the hilarious comedy, Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, in theaters now.
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BEYONCE AND JAY-Z ON HOW THEY SPENT VALENTINE'S DAY, TINA'S LEGS & BEY & TINA'S GRAMMY PEFORMANCE.

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Beyonce spent Valentine's Day gorging herself with chocolate because the special day falls at the end of a lengthy diet. The singer admits she has been watching what she eats for the past two months - so she'd look trim and sexy next to Tina Turner at the Grammy Awards. And now the big event has passed, Knowles plans to celebrate the most romantic day of the year in style. She explains, "I dieted before the Grammys because, after the holidays, I needed to drop a couple pounds. So, now I can eat whatever I want. I want a lot of chocolate. A lot of carbs." Other than that, she planned a quiet night in with boyfriend Jay-Z which included a 'great movie and a great meal.'

Speaking of Jay-Z, when asked who has the better legs between his girl Bey and Ms. Tina Turner, the rapper replied, "You have to say Tina Turner. Tina Turner's a classic." Beyonce somewhat agrees. "I pray that when I'm her age, that I'm exactly like her because I've never met anyone so supportive of the younger generations. It just was such a beautiful, inspiring experience," Beyonce says of her performance with Turner.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MISSED THEIR UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCE, WATCH IT BY CLICKING HERE

In related news, check out Beyonce in this recent print ad for House of Dereon.

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THE GAME SENTENCED TO 60 DAYS IN JAIL, 3 MONTHS OF PROBATION ON FELONY GUN CHARGES.

The Game has finally pissed off enough law officials to have his ass thrown in jail for pulling some of his most stupid-ass antics. The rapper, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor, has been sentenced to 60 days in jail after pleading guilty to felony gun charges. The dumb-dummy entered his plea in a Los Angeles courthouse and a judge immediately ordered him to spend 60 days in jail and to carry out 150 hours of community service. The Game faced three counts of making criminal threats and possessing a firearm in a school zone during a fight in the middle of a basketball game last year (2007). Two charges were dropped as part of a plea agreement. The rapper, who was also placed on three years probation, has until March 3, 2008 to turn himself into authorities to begin his sentence, reports TMZ.com.

Last week, The Game claimed he planned to plead guilty to save the expense of a lengthy trial that could put him behind bars for five years. He said, "The crazy part about this is that I've had guns before in my life. But this time I didn't have a gun. Because one person said I had a gun and coaxed his homies into saying that I had a gun, I'm in a predicament where I'm asking, 'Do I want to spend another million dollars to fight this trial, so who knows what jury's gonna come in and say I'm guilty? Or do I want to save my money, go sit down for four months and accept this felony they're trying to give me for no reason?'"

Mmmmm-hmmm.
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GARY COLEMAN REVEALS HIS MARRIAGE & THE LOST OF HIS VIRGINITY TO A GIRL HALF HIS AGE.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know I'm mad late with reporting this one, but after posting about Katt Williams little self, I was reminded of this 'exclusive' story regarding Gary 'What Chu Talking 'Bout, Willis?' Coleman's secret marriage of six whole months to a girl old enough--or is it young enough?--to be his daughter. Either way, I'm pretty sure no one saw this coming. EVER. Anyhoo, the 4'8" actor married the 5'7", 22-year-old Shannon Price last August atop a mountain somewhere in Nevada on her 22nd birthday after she proposed to him. The newlyweds met on a film set on Price's 22nd birthday and the pint-sized Diff'rent Strokes admits the ceremony was a very private affair. He says, "Nobody was around but the minister, preacher, the videographers, the photographer, the helicopter pilot and us." Coleman insists the 18 years between them means nothing - even though Price had no idea who he was when they first met last year. He adds, "I don't have issues with age, I have issues with intelligence and she's more intelligent than I am, and that's what matters to me."

But Price tells People magazine that she knows she has a testing time ahead of her as the temperamental actor's young bride: "He lets his anger conquer him sometimes. He throws things around, and sometimes he throws it in my direction. I don't like the violence. I really don’t. He’s got to damage something before his anger stops. He actually got a disorderly conduct ticket one time because we had gotten into an argument, just a minor argument in Provo. The guy gave him a ticket and he freaked out and he was on six months probation." Well, heffah, why the hell did you marry his lil angry ass?! I mean, really. But wouldn't it be just grand to see these two in their own reality show? Before their marriage bites the dust, of course...because yall know as well as I do that this union will not last long.

Besides, the reason he stays so damn mad all the time may be due to the fact that he was a 40-year-old virgin until after his marriage to Price.

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Coleman, who turned 40 last week discussed his virginity to The Insider: “It’s my business, it’s my issue and I really don’t think it’s a problem. I don’t choose to be one, I just am. I have love in my heart, I have the desire; I just don’t know what it is. It’ll happen when it’ll happen, and it’ll happen for all the right reasons.” However, since becoming a married man, things have changed. Price happens to wear the title of being Coleman's first love and romantic interest. “I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone before Shannon. I wasn’t saving myself. She just happened to be the one,” he said.

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KATT WILLIAMS 'THANKS' HIS LOYAL FANS BY DOLING OUT C-NOTES DURING A STAND-UP SHOW.

Even a pint-sized standup comedian can use a good prop, and Katt Williams had one of the best — a briefcase stuffed with cash. While he cracked jokes at the Laugh Factory last Sunday night, the comedian with a taste for fedoras, wide lapels and luxurious hair stunned fans when he handed out $100 bills to everyone in the audience - leaving him $29,000 out of pocket. Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada explained how Williams wanted to show he had not forgotten his roots and gave out the large bills as a 'thank you' to his loyal fans. He adds, "You should have seen it. Some people were crying. They came to see the show and they got $100." Well, at least those folks at the Laugh Factory got their money's worth as well as a Big Ben from Williams. Unfortunately though, fans who attended the comedian's It's Pimpin' Pimpin' Comedy Tour stop in Chicago late last year can't say the same. After Williams admitted to giving a drunk-and-high-as-hell piss-poor performance at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago, the petite pimp promised his fans that he'd give them their money back and a free copy of his new cd.

According to one concert goer: The show was so bad that Katt was having conversations with members of the audience. Whatever the people were saying he said that he wanted to leave us with something good, his new cd for free and a full rebate on our tickets. I was so happy to hear that I would be getting my $160 back, considering I really didn’t enjoy the show. When he said that we would be getting our money back, he meant it. Even his manager didn’t believe it and he apologized to us and told us he was completely serious and to speak to the people at the box office. When we left I was happy to be getting something out of the night. We reached the box office with our free cd to find the security telling people that there would be no refunds handed out and that Katt Williams was full of shit.

Dude, I just want my money back for a shitty performance.

Ain't that a kick in the head?
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NE-YO ON HIS LAWSUIT AGAINST R. KELLY: 'I'M NOT GONNA DO A DIS RECORD ABOUT HIM...IT'S APPARENT HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH ME.'

R. Kelly has caught hell something proper-like this past week. R&B singer Ne-Yo is refusing to dwell on his public spat with R. Kelly, choosing to let his legal representatives tackle the issues. Kelly kicked Ne-Yo off his recent tour amid reports the headliner didn't like the way the Grammy award winner was stealing his limelight. But Ne-Yo is now keen to move past the controversy and concentrate his efforts on his songwriting. He tells MTV News, "That's something that my management and my lawyers are doing. Me personally? I've let it go. I'm not the hold-a-grudge guy. I'm not gonna see R. Kelly in the street and run up on him and swing on him. I'm not gonna do a dis record about R. Kelly. It was what it was. It happened. For whatever reason, he...felt threatened by me and kicked me off tour. Life goes on. I don't have a problem with the man. It's apparent he has a problem with me."
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BRITNEY SPEARS TO HAVE A LOS ANGELES LAW NAMED AFTER HER.

California officials are putting the smack down on those pesky paparazzi folks. And it's all because of Britney Spears. The tormented singer may have a new law in Los Angeles named after her - because it was her $24,000 police escort to hospital last month which prompted councilmen to propose the amendment. The troubled pop star was taken from her Coldwater Canyon home to UCLA Medical Center on January 31, in an ambulance with a motorcade from the Los Angeles Police Department. The job of the motorcade, which included more than 20 police officers, a helicopter and a team of intervention specialists, was to block off traffic ahead and behind the ambulance carrying Spears to hospital, and to keep the paparazzi at bay.

The move has inspired L.A. City Councilman Dennis P. Zine to propose a safety zone be set up to protect areas around celebrities, hospitals, traffic, businesses and homes. The bill also suggests all members of the paparazzi get licenses to take photographs in the protected zones - with those breaking the law having their license revoked and royalties from the picture confiscated. He says, "The straw that broke the camel's back (idea that prompted the law) is the $24,000 we spent to escort an L.A. City ambulance to the hospital. I'm not infringing upon the right to take a picture. I'm concerned about the impact they have on the general public."

Councilmen will vote on whether to adopt the new 'Britney Law' on March 1, 2008.
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OPRAH OPENS HER NEW STORE IN CHICAGO.

Now, everybody can get a hold of some of Oprah Winfrey's favorite things at her new Chicago shop. The media maven's store opened last week on 37 North Carpenter, near Harpo Studios on the city's near West Side. Winfrey fans can snap up the star's favorite books, music, shirts and items -- all with the Oprah label. You can also buy accessories, handmade house wares and items from Oprah's own closet which include $8 handmade keychains, $300 Gianfranco Ferre brown crocodile ankle boots, velour and jogging suits. Polo shirt/leash outfits are available for those die-hard dog lovers. You can also get items such as Passion Journals, which isn't a journal you use to keep track of soap operas, it has more to do with dreams and self-expression and all of the other Oprah-ish things you hear on her show every afternoon. You also get to watch Oprah on TV screens located around the 5500 square foot store.

A statement from Winfrey's publicist claims the shop is a "specialty store full of merchandise that represents the style and taste Oprah celebrates and shares on The Oprah Winfrey Show."

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