Monday, March 3, 2008

LIL JON LAUNCHES HIS OWN NEW WINE LINE, LITTLE JONATHAN WINERY.

Producer Lil Jon (real name Jonathan Smith) has gone from selling Crunk Juice to fine wine. The wine, tentatively titled Little Jonathan Winery, reportedly includes a merlot, chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon and has already being distributed in California and will hit shelves within the next two months. "I love wine and I think that it's an untapped market for the urban consumer. I wanted it to be the best, so we chose a world renowned wine maker, Alison Crowe, to bottle and create my Little Jonathan Winery," the Atlanta-bred rapper told gossip columnist Jawn Murray recently. "My business partners and I were discussing the winter X Games events we were planning and the idea of making an exclusive wine just for those events came up. We thought it would be a cool option to have for people that didn't want to drink hard liquor or beer that weekend," he explained. "My partners are in the wine business and when they mentioned the idea to their friends, who are wine brokers, they loved it and suggested we make the wine available for the masses. Of course I was down with the idea!"

In January 2005, the rap mogul launched his energy juice, CRUNK!!! Energy Drink. The name of the drink was inspired by the hip-hopper's 2004 album, Crunk Juice.

In related news, the multi-platinum star is slated to release a new album, Crunk Rock at the end of this year. The tiny tycoon also co-hosts Pimp My Ride International, which is a version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride, along with rapper Fat(ass) Joe.

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TERRI J. VAUGHN ON HER HOW SHE COPED WITH THE FAILURE OF HER FIRST MARRIAGE & WHY SHE ELOPED ON HER SECOND.

Actress Terri J. Vaughn who is best known for her eccentric portrayal of Lovita Alize Jenkins Robinson on The Steve Harvey Show recently sat down with Essence.com and dished details on the failure of her first marriage and why she chose to elope in Las Vegas last month with her 30-year-old fiance of 15 months Karon Riley, a former NFL player. The couple, who are expecting a baby boy in May (Vaughn has a six-year-old from her first marriage) pulled a Britany Spears/Kevin Federline move by reciting their nuptials while wearing tracksuits. Let's just hope their marriage will never have to endure a tenth of the severe trials and tribulations which plagued the aforementioned former couple's marital union. Peep the excerpts from Vaughn's interview below.

Essence.com: Is it true you are expecting your second child and newly engaged?
Terri J. Vaughn: Yes, I am about to have my second boy and actually my fiance [Karon Riley of the Cleveland Gladiators] is now my husband. We eloped last month (January 19, 2008).

Essence.com: Congrats! Here you are trying to pull the okey-doke on the public. What made you decide to go to Vegas?
T.V.: Actually, it was actually his idea. Maybe two days before we started talking about it he was like, 'So you still want to get married?' I'm like, 'Yeah.' But really I was keeping it all low-key because after my first marriage failed I wasn't ever thinking about doing it again. So he says, 'You want to go this weekend?' and I'm like, 'Are you serious?' and the next day came and he booked a hotel room and we jumped in the car and drove to Vegas. I started to calling people on the road and four of his friends and two of mine met us there. The whole picture of planning your wedding is really for everyone else and not the couple because you have to be considerate of everyone else's feelings. I recommend eloping because it's so genuine and really is just about the couple.

Essence.com: Hey when it's right, it's right. How'd you two meet?
T.V.: We met when I was touring with the play Golddiggers, Men and Money, co-starring Robin Givens, Carl Payne and Tank. He came out to see Tank, who is on the record label that his family owns.

Essence.com: True love happens when you're least expecting it. So how long were you dating before you got engaged and then married?
T.V.: You're right. After nine months of dating we were engaged and then we got married six months after that. But it's truly amazing how you just know something is right.

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Essence.com: Did you have that same feeling with your first husband?
T.V.: With my first husband, I wasn't honest with him or myself for the seven years we were together. I was so busy trying to live up to the picture I had created in my mind of what I wanted "us" to be in the picture that I was presenting. I planned everything to a tee: when we were going to get married, how my wedding would look, when I wanted to buy a house, when I was going to get pregnant because it was my picture and I couldn't draw outside those lines. As long as I kept busy painting that picture I was fine, but the minute I was still, I had to face what was real and that was that I didn't want to be there, but I was too afraid to leave. I've always been a people-pleaser and the thought of being a black woman divorced especially after seeing my mom go through it, I just didn't want to wear that title or the guilty of another breaking up another Black family.

Essence.com: Yet that failed marriage didn't discourage you from taking the leap again?
T.V.: Trust me, I said I was never going to get married again because I had never tried or worked so hard for anything that didn't pan out. I kept asking myself, What else could I have done? My thought was, If I couldn't make this marriage work by doing all of this for [seven] years then I just can't be married. With Karon, it's different because I don't have a picture. We're just know following our hearts and being led by God. Before I got in this business and got married the first time, I remember being care-free and allowing myself to go wherever God was leading me. I was open but then I started trying to create this picture and that's when everything went wrong. Now, I'm back at that place, following my heart and not concerned about what people are going to say about it or about me. and the support and love and your friends of your family I'm not creating the picture.

SOURCE: To read Terri J. Vaughn's entire interview, click HERE

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NEW PICS: RIHANNA & CHRIS FLAUNT THEIR 'WE'RE JUST FRIENDS' RELATIONSHIP; RIH-RIH'S FAMILY NOT TOO FOND OF CHRIS?

Well, well, well, well, well, well, well. If I didn't know any better, I'd say Chris loves himself some Rihanna. So much so that he accompanied her at the John Galliano Paris Fashion Show in Paris, France yesterday. No need for me to sit here and describe how these two carried on when they thought no one was looking....or did they? One thing I can say though is ain't nothing 'we're just friends' about these pics.

In more Rihanna and Chris news, according to OK! magazine, Rih-Rih's family isn't too fond of Mr. Tall, Beige and Handsome. Rihanna, 19, took Chris home to Barbados last week to meet her family, including her two younger, protective brothers for the first time and before he left, the R&B star told a pal he was worried what everyone would think of him. “Rihanna is very close to her family,” the pal tells OK!. “But she knew they loved Chris as much as she does.” That didn’t stop one of her brothers from giving the Kiss Kiss singer a hard time. “He told Chris that PDA (public displays of affection) was tacky and said he may be a little too short for his sister!” Still, the pal adds, “Chris loved seeing all the pictures in Rihanna’s family home of her winning Miss Combermere, [a local beauty pageant she won at 16], lounging on the beach and singing in local clubs. He cares about Rihanna. Things have started really heating up from friends to something more.”





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CELBS CHILLING IN THEIR CAR CANDIDS: BOKEEM WOODBINE; WIL & JADA PINKETT SMITH.

Saving Grace co-star Bokeem Woodbine out and about in Hollywood on February 22, 2008.



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Actor Will Smith and wife actress Jada Pinkett Smith arrive at The Cut restaurant in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California to enjoy a dinner date with friends Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (2.27.2008).





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MARTIN LAWRENCE PAYS BACK TEACHER WHO INFLUENCED HIM THE MOST.

Heads up for you teachers out there who would rather send the class clown to the principal office when they act up. If you give them a couple of minutes to show off their talent, when they grow up and make it big, chances are they just might hook you up! For instance, Martin Lawrence bought his high school art teacher a new car after making in it Hollywood - because his success was all down to her. Lawrence claims Miss Henderson - who he nicknamed Froggy - gave him the opportunity to vent his creativity, and showed him a way to make money by being funny. He tells Maxim magazine, "The first person who encouraged me to get into comedy was my high school art teacher, Miss Henderson. I'd always disrupt her class, so she said, 'If you can just chill during class, I'll give you the last five minutes to make us laugh. Then one day she mentioned this open mic night at a club. "She said, 'If you become an actor, you can buy me a car. As soon as the cheques started coming in, I bought her a car."

Bless his heart.

Below are a couple of pics of Martin as he arrived at the MTV studios in Times Square last month.


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JENNIFER LOPEZ DENIES RUMORS SHE HIRED 6 NEW BODYGUARDS TO PROTECT HER BABIES.

Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony have denied reports they've hired six new bodyguards at a cost of $600,000 to protect their newborn twins. Lopez gave birth to a boy named Max, and a girl named Emme in Long Island, New York on February 22, 2008. The Chicago Sun-Times claimed the couple had employed six security guards to guard the babies at an annual cost of $600,000 because Lopez is "paranoid about a possible kidnapping". However, the Latina's representative says, "This story is ridiculous and without merit."

And in related news, Lopez's OB/GYN has heaped praise on the new mommy stating the singer/actress is the perfect mother. Dr. Anita Sadaty was with Lopez when her baby twins were born and she reveals the delivery was easy and uncomplicated. She tells Life & Style magazine the babies, a boy and girl, were both healthy - and Lopez is adjusting to her newest role as a mother well. Jennifer was amazing. She has this motherhood glow about her, very serene. Her boy and girl are healthy - and for that she feels so thankful and blessed. The delivery went without a hitch. There were no complications whatsoever. Marc was by her side. He and Jennifer are simply overjoyed."

The doctor also confirms the twins were both delivered by Caesarian Section, and entered the world 11 minutes apart - with Lopez's baby girl coming first. As previously reported, Dr. Sadaty sent Lopez home with her babies on Monday (25Feb08).
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NEW PICS: NIECY NASH'S 38th BIRTHDAY PARTY AT CLUB CABANA IN HOLLYWOOD (3.3.2008)

Actress/comedian Niecy Nash celebrated her 38th birthday with a soiree at the Cabana Club in Hollywood, California last night. Celebs in attendance included: model Eva Marcille and her boyfriend actor Lance Gross, Karrine 'Superhead' Steffans, the fabulous Norwood Young, Gina Ravera (Soul Food movie), Terry Crews (with his wife), Sherri Shepard, Melissa de Sousa and more.





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