Dancehallareaz.com Entertainment - Entertainment Talk http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum Anything Entertainment Related en Thu, 17 May 2012 13:27:56 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/images/vbseo_skin_2.0/misc/rss.jpg Dancehallareaz.com Entertainment - Entertainment Talk http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum See What Lark Voorhies Looks Like Now http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49810-see-what-lark-voorhies-looks-like-now.html Sun, 13 May 2012 22:07:37 GMT Image:...

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If the Bayside High Class of 1993 reunion ends up happening, Jessie, AC, Kelly, and Zack might have a hard time recognizing their old pal Lisa Turtle.

Now 38, Lark Voorhies--who played the spoiled Valley girl on Saved by the Bell from 1989-1994--recently sat down for an interview with Yahoo!'s "The Yo Show," setting the internet abuzz with chatter over how the actress has changed since her faux-high school days.

Voorhies, whose last major role was in 2001's How High, debuted a dramatically different hairstyle and a fuller face, heavily made up with poorly-matched shades.

During the chat, the actress and producer--who currently owns her own production company, Yo Soy Productions--opened up about what she's been up to lately, and more importantly, whether she and her former costars plan to reunite.

Though she wouldn't confirm if a reunion with Mark Paul Gosselaar, Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Tiffani Thiessen and Dustin Diamond was in the works, Voorhies did admit she would be interested in signing on.

"I really honestly believe that if it did happen, it wouldn't be a bad thing," Voorhies revealed. "We tend to circumvent and come back to this topic quite often . . .so I think the buzz might catch."


Whoa! See What Lark Voorhies Looks Like Now - UsMagazine.com
]]> Entertainment Talk MrCee http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49810-see-what-lark-voorhies-looks-like-now.html <![CDATA[Beyonce after birth of daughter Blue Ivy: I 'definitely' want to have more kids]]> http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49808-beyonce-after-birth-daughter-blue-ivy-i-definitely-want-have-more-kids.html Sun, 13 May 2012 21:38:07 GMT Image:...


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As though one media blitz wasn’t enough, Beyonce essentially said she’d welcome another by remarking at the Met Gala Monday that she “definitely” wants to have more kids.

“I don’t know how many. God knows. I don’t know yet,” the glowing songstress told "Entertainment Tonight" at the fashion event.

She added with a smile: “I don't know about soon!”

The 30-year-old singer stunned in a sheer Givenchy haute couture gown on the red carpet, though she insisted that she hasn’t really had “much time in the gym.”

“I lost most of my weight from breast-feeding,” she told "Entertainment Tonight." “I counted calories. I worked out maybe three to four times a week. I did a lot of walking in the beginning and now I’m running.

“But I had to work my way up. I couldn’t just go right from being pregnant to running.”

The new mother, who left baby Blue Ivy at home with husband Jay-Z and mom Tina Knowles for her glam night out on the town, also said she’s not in any rush to expand her brood just yet.

“I have such a full life,” she said. “I feel like now I know the reason that I was born.”

Beyonce after birth of daughter Blue Ivy: I 'definitely' want to have more kids* - NY Daily News
]]> Entertainment Talk MrCee http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49808-beyonce-after-birth-daughter-blue-ivy-i-definitely-want-have-more-kids.html <![CDATA[The Houston's Family Documentry To Air Later this year and Bobby Brown?s Album]]> http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49805-houstons-family-documentry-air-later-year-bobby-brown-s-album.html Sun, 13 May 2012 14:00:21 GMT Image:...

It was just a matter of time before the Houston’s Family joined the many celebrities to have a reality show. Lifetime has confirmed “The Houstn Family Chronicles”.

It will be a 10 episodes document to premiere later this year, touching the lives of pat Houston, Whitney’s sister in law and also manager along side her daughter, Whitney’s brother, Bobbi kristina, Cissy Houston. The whole family is trying to put the pieces back together after Whitney’s death, the support giving to Bobbi Kristina, managing the estate etc.

Lifetime’s EVP released a statement, here’s what he had to say :

“The tragic loss of Whitney Houston left a void in the hearts of people all over the world, but certainly none more so than her beloved family. In this series, the multi-generations of the Houston family will bravely reveal their lives as they bond together to heal, love, and grow.”

Pat Houston revealed, that It was always their plan to have sometime of reality show

“The unexpected passing of Whitney certainly affects the direction of the show. However, it is my hope that others will be enlightened as they watch our family heal and move forward.”

In related news, Bobby Brown has confirmed that he will be releasing his first Solo Album in 14 years.

“I simply wanted to create a body of work that will take listeners on a musical journey; the style of music that will allow people to get in touch with their highs and lows and their joys and pain of living through song. At the same time, I am hoping to bridge the gap between good old R&B and R&B of today.”

Hopefully he can help revive music…It’s lacking terribly. ]]> Entertainment Talk Mz K http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49805-houstons-family-documentry-air-later-year-bobby-brown-s-album.html <![CDATA[William Balfour found guilty on all counts in murder of Jennifer Hudson's family]]> http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49804-william-balfour-found-guilty-all-counts-murder-jennifer-hudsons-family.html Sat, 12 May 2012 10:39:27 GMT Image:...

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A Chicago jury on Friday convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors' described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband.

Hudson, who expressed her undisguised disdain for William Balfour when she took the witness stand and who endured weeks of excruciating testimony about the October 2008 killings, was visibly overcome with emotion as the verdict was read. Hudson's eyes filled with tears and she shook her head and bit her lip. Afterward, she looked over at her sister, Julia Hudson, and smiled.


Balfour, who faces a mandatory life prison sentence, showed no emotion.

Jurors deliberated for three days before reaching their verdict against Balfour, a 31-year-old former gang member who was the estranged husband of Hudson's sister at the time of the triple murders.

With no surviving witnesses to the Oct. 24, 2008, slayings or fingerprints, prosecutors built a circumstantial case against Balfour by calling 83 witnesses over 11 days of testimony. Witnesses said he threatened to kill the entire family if Julia Hudson spurned him.

Balfour's attorneys proposed an alternate theory: that someone else in the crime-ridden neighborhood on Chicago's South Side targeted the family because of alleged crack-cocaine dealing by Jennifer Hudson's brother, Jason Hudson. During the 30 minutes in which they called just two witnesses, however, they presented no evidence to support that theory.

Public defender Amy Thompson said she would appeal the verdict.

"It has always been our position and it still is that William Balfour is innocent of these murders," Thompson said.

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez reiterated to reporters what prosecutors had told jurors: that the evidence against Balfour was overwhelming.

Jurors said their deliberations were cordial and that Jennifer Hudson's celebrity didn't influence them.

The verdict came shortly after jurors sent the judge a note saying they were split, though they did not say they were hopelessly deadlocked. Jurors said afterward that it took some of them more time to piece everything together, and that a key was cellphone records showing Balfour was in the area when the killings happened.

Jennifer Hudson, who was in Florida at the time, attended every day of the two weeks of testimony, sobbing when photos of her relatives' bloodied bodies were displayed to jurors during closing arguments.

Alvarez, who spoke to Hudson after the verdict, said the star was visibly relieved. Alvarez said Hudson had been determined to attended every day of the trial out of a sense of obligation to her mother.

"She told me, 'If it was me (who had been killed) my mother would be here every day. So, I'm going to be here every day,'" Alvarez said.


Alvarez said Hudson would not speak to the media about the verdict but would release a statement "at the appropriate time."

The jury foreman said he hoped the verdict would bring Hudson closure.

"I hope she can put this thing behind her and get on with the rest of her life," Robert Smith, a 47-year-old employee at Chicago Public Schools told reporters outside court.

Hudson, 30, rose to prominence as a 2004 "American Idol" finalist. But she became a bona fide star for her performance in the film adaptation of the musical, "Dreamgirls," for which she won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Hudson was the first witness prosecutors called to testify, and during her more than 30 minutes on the stand she talked about her murdered family members and spoke endearingly about her nephew, Julian King, whom she called Tugga Bear. She said she knew Balfour since the eighth grade and always deeply disliked him.


The killings occurred the morning after Julia Hudson's birthday, and prosecutors said he became enraged when he stopped by the home and saw a gift of balloons in the house from her new boyfriend.

After his estranged wife left for her job as a bus driver on the morning of Oct. 24, 2008, prosecutors said Balfour went back inside the home with a .45-caliber handgun and shot Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, 57, in the back; he allegedly then shot Jason Hudson, 29, twice in the head as he lay in bed.

Prosecutors said Balfour then drove off in Jason Hudson's SUV with Julian — Julia's son, whom she called Juice Box — and shot the boy several times in the head as he lay behind a front seat. His body was found in the abandoned vehicle miles away after a three-day search.


The defense tried to counter the portrayal of Balfour as an embittered husband by noting Julia Hudson continued to have sex with him until just days before the killings.

In heated closings Wednesday, Thompson, almost shouting, said prosecutors had failed to prove their case. Prosecutor James McKay shot back that the defense was exploiting a popular misunderstanding that circumstantial evidence is lesser evidence.


TODAY Entertainment - William Balfour found guilty on all counts in murder of Jennifer Hudson's family
]]> Entertainment Talk MrCee http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49804-william-balfour-found-guilty-all-counts-murder-jennifer-hudsons-family.html <![CDATA[Stevie Wonder's nephew arrested for trying to extort star]]> http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49803-stevie-wonders-nephew-arrested-trying-extort-star.html Sat, 12 May 2012 10:31:17 GMT Image:...

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It's safe to say a family member's attempt to extort money from Stevie Wonder was something out of the blue. The legendary singer's nephew Alpha Lorenzo Walker and his girlfriend Tamara Eileen Diaz were arrested May 2 and charged with extortion for allegedly threatening to sell "embarrassing information" about Wonder unless he gave them an unspecified amount of cash, E! News has confirmed

Walker and Diaz reportedly tried to coerce the Grammy-winning musician to pony up $5 million by threatening to sell a story to the tabs.

The duo, who have been in jail since their arrest, pleaded not guilty to the charge, and are scheduled to appear in court May 16.

But this won't be the first time 38-year-old Walker and Diaz have seen the inside of a courtroom.


Last May, Walker racked up a grand theft charge, which he was on probation for when he was busted for extortion. Meanwhile, Diaz nabbed a charge for possession of marijuana with the intent to sell last February.


Walker is due back in court for violating his probation May 31.

Wonder's camp could not be reached for comment.


TODAY Entertainment - Stevie Wonder's nephew arrested for trying to extort star
]]> Entertainment Talk MrCee http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49803-stevie-wonders-nephew-arrested-trying-extort-star.html 2nd male massage therapist claiming John Travolta made sexual advances http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49798-2nd-male-massage-therapist-claiming-john-travolta-made-sexual-advances.html Wed, 09 May 2012 14:41:38 GMT Image:...

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A second masseur is accusing John Travolta of rubbing him in a very wrong way — and going berserk when he didn’t get what he wanted.

The man joined a $2 million federal suit filed in California, graphically alleging that the “Pulp Fiction” star groped him and tried to force a sexual encounter during a private massage in an Atlanta hotel.

The actor, who is married to actress Kelly Preston and has two children, has labeled his accusers liars looking for a big payday. Both accusers are listed as “John Does” in court papers — a fact Travolta’s lawyer seized on as evidence their tales are pure fiction.

The new accuser says Travolta had a “strange demeanor” and “bloodshot eyes” as he stripped naked in the 15th floor room during the Jan. 28 encounter, the court papers say.

He climbed on the massage table and asked for an unusual amount of “glutes” work on his buttocks — and then allegedly got physical with the massage therapist.

He started to inappropriately touch the therapist, says the amended suit.

With 15 minutes left in the session, Travolta started fondling himself and the masseur “hurried off” after the star “forcibly hugged him,” the suit says.

An angry Travolta came down to the spa and “demanded” the man “come back and do it again,” the complaint says. The plaintiff says he refused and complained to his bosses, who did nothing.

The new plaintiff is represented by Okorie Okorocha, the same California lawyer who filed a sexual battery suit May 4 claiming Travolta tried to have an encounter with a male masseur at the Beverly Hills Hotel Jan. 16.

In the initial claim, Travolta is alleged to have lashed out at accuser No. 1, calling him “selfish” after the man rejected his alleged advances.

And Travolta is said in the suit to have revealed how he “got where he is now due to sexual favors he had performed when he was in his ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ days.”

Travolta was sweating profusely and said he “wasn't even gay” when he started in the business but was “smart enough to learn to enjoy it,” the suit states.

Travolta allegedly picked up the California masseur in a black Lexus SUV, drove him to the Beverly Hills Hotel and then, in what is printable from the court papers, engaged in similar bad behavior alleged by the other accuser during their $200-per-hour session.

Both plaintiffs are listed as John Does in the amended $2 million joint complaint — an alleged bid for privacy that Travolta’s attorney labeled proof of a shakedown. Okorocha says he did not name the pair to protect their identity — the same practice he follows for female sex crimes victims.

“This second ‘anonymous’ claim is just as absurd and ridiculous as the first one,” the actor’s powerhouse lawyer Marty Singer told the Daily News.

He dismissed the first plaintiff’s claim as “totally false and fabricated,” saying Travolta wasn’t in Los Angeles the day of the alleged Beverly Hills encounter.

He said Travolta was on the East Coast working on a movie Jan. 16 and accused Okorocha of filing Tuesday’s new claim as a hedge after confirming Travolta was in Atlanta working on the Robert De Niro movie “Killing Season.”

“The claim by Doe No. 2 is just as fabricated as the claim by Doe No. 1. Our client will be fully vindicated in court on both of these absurd and fictional claims,” Singer said.

“We approached them two months ago and never heard the defense he wasn't in (Southern California),” Okorocha said. “There are pictures of him in Los Angeles the night of the 14th.”

Travolta and his wife were photographed at the 9th Annual G’Day USA black tie event in Hollywood that night.

“If he has evidence to prove he wasn't in town, great, then he has nothing to worry about,” Okorocha said. “We have enough of a story of when and where things happened that we can procure hotel and cell tower records. And I think there will be witnesses who saw things. This absolutely happened.”

In the second alleged incident, the amended suit also claims that the Georgia plaintiff asked a coworker to handle the Travolta assignment but the colleague refused, saying the actor had been banned from a spa where the coworker used to work in Los Angeles.

Travolta was seen dining at The Palm in Atlanta’s Buckhead area the evening of Jan. 24, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

“The conduct of the defendant ... was outrageous,” the suit states. “It exceeded all possible bounds of decency.”


*A second male massage therapist joins suit claiming John Travolta made crude sexual advances - NY Daily News
]]> Entertainment Talk MrCee http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49798-2nd-male-massage-therapist-claiming-john-travolta-made-sexual-advances.html <![CDATA[Utah trial over actor Gary Coleman's estate ends]]> http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49797-utah-trial-over-actor-gary-colemans-estate-ends.html Wed, 09 May 2012 14:16:18 GMT
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PROVO, Utah (AP) — It's now up to a Utah judge to decide whether Gary Coleman's ex-wife or an ex-girlfriend is entitled to the late child TV star's estate.

Judge James Taylor heard closing arguments Tuesday in Provo but didn't specify when he'll issue a ruling.

The "Diff'rent Strokes" actor died of a brain hemorrhage in 2010.

Shannon Price testified Monday that even though she and Coleman divorced in 2008, they continued to live together and present themselves in public as husband and wife.

Another woman, Anna Gray, says Coleman named her a beneficiary and executor of his estate in 2005. Gray managed Coleman's affairs for a number of years and was his ex-girlfriend.

It's not clear how much Coleman's estate is worth, but court papers mention a $324,000 house and a pension, among other possible assets. Coleman's ashes and the intellectual rights to some of his work also are at stake.

Utah trial over actor Gary Coleman's estate ends - Yahoo! News
]]> Entertainment Talk MrCee http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49797-utah-trial-over-actor-gary-colemans-estate-ends.html MJ Bodyguard Claims Singer Ordered Hit on Randy Jackson http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49796-mj-bodyguard-claims-singer-ordered-hit-randy-jackson.html Wed, 09 May 2012 07:38:19 GMT Image: http://ll-media.tmz.com/2012/05/08/0508-michael-randy-jackson-1.jpg ---Quote--- ...

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Michael Jackson's former bodyguard claims the singer was a paranoid maniac ... who ordered members of his inner circle to kill his younger brother Randy ... this according to The Sun.

In the interview with The Sun ... ex-bodyguard Matt Fiddes claims, "Michael was caught in a war with his brothers for years, They were desperate to sign him up to a $500 million deal for a Jackson 5 reunion tour."

Fiddes -- a martial arts expert who worked with MJ in the UK and in the US -- explained, "Things reached a head when Randy was trying to force his way past the bodyguards to speak to him in one of his rented homes. Michael ordered him to be shot."

Of course, no one shot Randy ... but Fiddes says, "Randy was so scared he got on the phone and threatened to call the Press. He told the bodyguards, 'If you shoot me the whole world will know about it.'"

Fiddes continued, "[Michael] was out of mind on drugs and luckily Randy was OK."

Fiddes has been dishing MJ dirt to The Sun for a while now ... just last week he claimed the singer despised Madonna and poked holes in a Voodoo doll of Steven Spielberg after MJ became a Nazi sympathizer.

None of Fiddes' accusations have been corroborated.

We reached out to the MJ Estate for comment -- so far, no word back.

Michael Jackson Bodyguard Claims Singer Ordered a Hit on Randy Jackson | TMZ.com
]]> Entertainment Talk MrCee http://www.dancehallareaz.com/forum/entertainment-talk/49796-mj-bodyguard-claims-singer-ordered-hit-randy-jackson.html