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I remember years ago, when she was appearing on American Idol, there was the thought that maybe Paula Abdul was a little tipsy.
And maybe she still is, because last week, while performing the second date on her Straight Up 2018 tour, Abdul fell off the stage right in the middle of lip-syncing one of her, um, hits.
It all happened when Paula was dancing, er, walking, across a stage covered in billowing silk scarves. But that isn’t what tripped her up—see what I did there?—it was the fact that she just kept walking, off the edge and into the crowd.
This tour doesn’t look good for Abdul. The first show was cancelled due to what she claimed were production issues with the venue. It seems Abdul claimed the venue wasn’t big enough to hold some of her stage props, but shouldn’t that have been taken care of before, oh, I dunno, booking the venue?
Still, a bigger venue would have meant a larger stage and maybe Paula would have been able to stay Straight Up.
And see what I did there?
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Queen Latifah has been quite shy about her personal life, especially when it comes to the fact that she’s a lesbian. She has never acknowledged it, even though she’s been in a long-term relationship with former LA Lakers cheerleader Eboni Michaels. And even though there are all kinds of photos of Latifah and her, ahem, gal pal, getting cozy on a yacht a few years back. But how is she gonna spin this story, if she even deems to discuss it?
It appears that Eboni is with child and it is rumored that Latifah and Eboni might be headed to the altar as well.
Will she ever talk about it? I dunno, but it pisses me off because it continues the stigma that there is some shame involved.
Open your mouth, Queen, it’s fine out here.
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Megyn Kelly will do and or say anything to get people to watch her show, but she may have gone too far this past week when she said she saw nothing wrong with white people donning blackface for Halloween.
Kelly says she remembers a simpler time when white people could adopt another race because it was fun; kind of like that simpler time when white people owned black people?
To make matters worse she had a roundtable discussion of blackface with, wait for it, it’s totally Fox News-ish, four white people. She didn’t even think to get the opinion of a black person?
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Well, she did when the Today Show let Al Roker and Craig Melvin have a go at Kelly, whom many have now dubbed #BlackfaceBecky. The following day, during the first hour of Today, Melvin and Roker took Kelly to task for being tone deaf and, well, dumb.
Al said: “The fact is, while she apologized to the staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color round the country. This is a history going back to the 1830s minstrel shows to demean and denigrate a race. It wasn’t right. I’m old enough to know have lived through Amos ‘n’ Andy, where you had white people in blackface playing two black characters, just magnifying the worst stereotypes about black men—and that’s what the problem is. That’s what the issue is.”
Melvin said: “There was some criticism yesterday online that this was political correctness run amok. That’s silly. It’s disingenuous and it’s just as ignorant and racist as the statement itself. In addition to her being a colleague, she’s a friend. She said something stupid. she said something indefensible. A lot of folks don’t realize that Jim Crow is shorthand for the racist laws that have existed in this country for much of the last century, especially in the deep south; they termed Jim Crow from a minstrel show in the 1830s. I guess it was an opportunity for us to learn a little bit more about black face—but I think a lot of people knew about black face.”
And so, in order to keep her face, and racist asshattery in the news to drum up viewers, Kelly faux-pologized: “One of the wonderful things about my job is that I get the chance to express and hear a lot of opinions. Today is one of those days where listening carefully to other points of view, including from friends and colleagues, is leading me to rethink my own views. When we had the roundtable discussion … about the controversy of making your face look like a different race as part of a Halloween costume, I suggested that this seemed okay if done as part of this holiday where people have the chance to make themselves look like others. The iconic Diana Ross came up as an example. To me, I thought, why would it be controversial for someone dressing up as Diana Ross to make herself look like this amazing woman as a way of honoring and respecting her?”
Faux-pology; Kelly should have said “I was wrong. I’m sorry.” And then shut her cake-hole. Instead she rambled and then ended with telling the NBC News staff that she is “honored to work with all of you every day.”
Especially the black ones?
Still, it did speak volumes that NBC let two of their on-air talent take another, ahem, “talent,” to task for being tone-dead and brain-dead. But, Megyn probably scored a few more viewers for her show so she’s no doubt happy.
UPDATE: Megyn Kelly is out at NBC News, but she’ll be taking her full $69 million paycheck with her unless network bosses can prove she somehow violated her contract.
Oh NBC, between Lauer and Kelly you spend more money on firing asshats than you do hiring them.
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This kills me … That Woman is ALLEGEDLY bought Sheila Kolker, a close friend, a facelift.
Wow. Can you imagine that gift exchange? Kolker probably unwrapped the souls of dead babies for That Woman, and then That Woman says …
“You could use a nip and tuck.”
Everyone needs a friend like that. But, to be clear, Kim and Khloe and Kourtney and Kendall and Kylie’s Koven mother didn’t give the gift out of a sense of love, she gave it so it could be filmed as part of Keeping Up With The Kardastrophes. It’s all, and only, about ratings and ego.
And some kind of Devil worship, too, I imagine.
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Lastly … as the TV season began, the folks behind Modern Family said a “significant character” was going to die this season, which may, or may not, be the last for the series.
My money was on Manny, because he was cute as a kid, but as an adult …no so much. But it wasn’t Manny …and it wasn’t so shocking and it wasn’t a really significant character.
It was DeDe, played by Shelley Long, Mitchell and Claire’s mother, and Jay’s ex-wife. And she died off-screen before the episode even started.
Seriously? Calling Lon’s character “significant” is a bigger stretch than get Starr Jones into an evening gown. Long appeared in seven of the show’s more than 200 episodes.
The dog has had more screen time.
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I don't watch Modern Family, you know it has Sofia Vergara on it...beyond annoying.....but were they hard up for ratings to say a significant person was being knock off?
ReplyDeleteIt's beyond me why anyone would even hire Kelly...even to wipe the floor with her.
That woman would look a lot less bad if she wasn't wearing fake eyelashes. They even stick em on opera divas nowadays! ban the damn things; why would any sane woman want to look as though she has a hairy caterpillar pasted on her eyelids?
ReplyDeletekelly needs to siddown and shaddap...permanently.
ReplyDeletethe rest of the twats need to drop dead.
Queen Latifah needs to come out of her glass closet. Who DOESN'T know she's a lesbian?
ReplyDeleteGlad these folks provide Bob with
ReplyDeletefodder for Snarkaday :-)
I saw that about Abdul and was surprised shew as even touring... that must be one cheap ticket.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think we haven't hear much from the Queen because... well, I don't think she's been doing too much lately.
And, If Megyn Kelly remembers that 'simpler time' she's a lot older than she looks & maybe should be talking about her face lifts rather than Jane Fonda's.
The hype around that Modern Family MAJOR character death was insulting.
ReplyDeleteDeDe was the best on the show, and let's face it, Long needed the work. I was hoping it was the toddler, Joe. He's the Oliver of Modern Family.
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