CELEB CANDIDS: GOLDEN BROOKS & HER BOO; ARETHA FRANKLIN DOES MARIAH; BRANDY IN PHILLY; T-BOZ IN NYC.

Former Girlfriend Golden Brooks was spotted out on the town with her white boyfriend last week.

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Tionne 'T-Boz' was lensed by the paparazzi while leaving her hotel in Manhattan. As reported earlier on RealGossip 101, Tionne's in the Big Apple filming the new season of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice.

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Look at her. Seriously? Now I respect my geriatric elders but for real, what would it take for Aretha to invest in a better bra?! Jill Scott got an entire new line available at Ashley Stewart and I know she can afford one...or a batch. I mean really Retha! Here she is leaving a celebrity roast for Matt Lauer in New York City.

She may look a mess occasionally...or quite often, depending on who you ask. But one thing's for sure, she can still blow...even if it's some other diva's song. Below, peep the videoclip of Aretha doing her own rendition of Mariah Carey's Touch My Body.

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Brandy continues to pound the promotional pavement before the release of Human, her first album in four years. Below the singer makes an appearance at Philly's 100.3 The Beat earlier this month. B Rocka signed autographs and posed for pictures with fans.

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RANDOM PICS OF MADNESS: GOLDEN BROOKS & SOLANGE KNOWLES.

Would it kill people to take at least 10 seconds out of their day to take a glance at themselves in front of a mirror before leaving their homes? Would it? Pure, unadulterated f*ckery at its very finest is what you'll find below. And that's really all I have to say about that.

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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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NEW PICS: NAACP IMAGE AWARDS NOMINEE LUNCHEON IN LOS ANGELES. (2.9.2008)

The NAACP Image Awards Nominee Luncheon took place last night (February 9, 2008) at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Celebrities in attendance included: Duane and Tisha Martin-Campbell, Tichina Arnold, Terry Crews (with his wife), Wendy Raquel Robinson, Tia Mowry, Golden Brooks, Keesha Sharpe, Journee Smollett, J. Holiday, Loretta Devine, Sean Levert (with his mother), Tracee Ellis Ross, Eva Marcille and her boyfriend actor Lance Gross and more.

The NAACP Image awards will air live on Fox on Thursday, February 14, 2008 from 8pm-10pm.

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CANDID PICS: TRACEE ELLIS ROSS SPOTTED IN HOLLYWOOD; GOLDEN BROOKS ON THE WRITER'S STRIKE'S NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON 'GIRLFRIENDS.'

Girlfriends star Tracee Ellis Ross was spotted walking her little doggy after having lunch at Fred Segal in West Hollywood, California yesterday (January 28, 2008). We very rarely see candid pics of our favorite black sitcom stars such as Tracee. But there's a reason for that. The ongoing writer's strike has forced a lot actors (specifically those who are a part of a sitcom and/or drama series) into an unintended temporary leave of absence. So, don't expect to see any new episodes of Girlfriends or any other sitcom or drama-related television series any time soon.

According to Ross' co-star Golden Brooks (who plays Mya Wilkes on Girlfriends), non-working actors equals non-paying actors as well. And although Brooks or her co-stars aren't getting paid their contractual salary, she still supports the writers. "Look, I agree with the strike. This needed to happen because the writers are just not protected and they're not treated with the respect and the value that they should be. Let's say Snap Back (the episode Brooks wrote) airs and it airs over and over and over again and I don't get any type of compensation for that rerun or for that DVD. It all comes back. And everyone — from craft services to grips — needs to be protected, respected and taken care of. And that's what it is at the end of the day."

The cast last day on the Girlfriends set was Friday, November 9, 2007.

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