Nicki Minaj nominated for fiddyleven BET Awards

Your favorite rapper without an album, Nicki Minaj has been nominated fiddyleven times for a BET Award recently. Minaj, who's done everything for BET, including hosted a fashion show, ramped up ratings for "106 & Park" and more, is finally getting the love in return.

In addition to three nominations with her rap supergroup Young Money, Minaj is up for Best New Artist and Best Female Hip-Hop Artist.
Also just when you thought things couldn't get any hotter for Nicki Minaj, there's rumors about a sex tape scandal. Whether it's rumor or not, Minaj has chosen not to confirm or deny the allegations which surfaced on a number of gossip sites.
The sex tape, if it exists, is said to be on sale for $100,000.
We doubt it.
Anyway, Minaj, whose debut album is yet to surface, is busy making hits, guesting on a slew of radio singles in play.


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Celebrity Style: Rihanna's 'neotard'

Okay, the girl has courage, that's for sure. Peep the latest outfit from Rated R. Cool or fool? Share

Celebrity style: Thandie Newton

How many actresses do you know have studied archaeology and anthropology in college?
How many of them can claim to be of royalty?
How many can say they named their daughter after the lead character in an alien film?
Thandie (/TAN-dee/) can.
Born to a Zimbabwean mother and English father, actress Thandie Newton grew up straddling two worlds. She claims her mother is from the reknown Shona tribe in Africa, and that she is a princess.
That makes Thandie royalty.
She has two daughters, Ripley and Nico, born of her marriage of 12 years to English producer Ol Parker.
One of her more interesting quotes from a while back was when she disclosed that she was gay as a teenager.
"We're all potentially bisexual," she told the Advocate. "It all depends on your circle, your upbringing and all kinds of things. Or maybe I'm just talking about myself. I could've easily fallen in love with a woman over a man."
That husband of hers just doesn't know how dramatically different his life almost was.


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Beyonce Kicks Off House of Dereon Ad Push

With a killer album done, a monster tour finished, and a gaga video all wrapped up, Beyonce is turning her attention to her mother's first love: The House of Dereon.
If a big ad campaign is any indication, the Creole-flavored fashion house is coming out this summer with a vengeance, and Mathew and Tina's eldest daughter will be the face of it all.
Look for sister Solange to lend an assist, but it will be just cursory compared to the glam that Bey and Mrs. Tina have in store.
This is not the first time that Bey has pushed TeamFamily. But Mama Tina Knowles, who filed for divorce last year, has had time to put alot of thought into the House of Dereon's spring and summer offerings.
Don't expect to see anything you've seen before, if Beyonce's recent fashions are any clue.
But then again, she has been hanging out with the fashion equivalent of an electric chair lately.



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Kelis rocks that 'Na'vi Steez'

Eva Mendes is going hard these days

We've all seen it before: Starlet does some pretty okay projects, gets noticed and starts to see her star rise. The names are legion: Beyonce, Alicia keys, Ashanti, etc.
But sooner or later the clothes start to come off the risque'-ness seems to take over. Rihanna, most recently comes to mind. How about Ciara? And now Eva Mendes. The Latin lover has been turning up the thermometer for a few years now since she starred with Denzel in that crime thriller "Out of Time". Ms. Mendes is back now with some seriously hot pics in the latest Calvin Klein advertisement, and well, can you say fuego?

Poll: Everybody Likes Michelle

Poll numbers schmoll numbers: Barack may be falling harder than a rock, but people think the world of Michelle, according to a new poll in the L.A. Times. That means former First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush evidently didn't have that twinkle in the eye that 'Chelle has displayed.
Sure, there has been hate, but Michelle has collectively given the naysayers the gas face -- and looked good in doing it.
How was she maintained such a positive image? She's simply remained herself, experts say. Meanwhile her husband has castigated Harvard cops for acting "stupidly," assailed Fox News and even called Kanye West "a jackass". Well, two outta three aint bad.

Celebrity Style: Alicia Keys boots up

Celebrity Style: Blonde 'Dashian

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Celebrity Style: Tierra Marie

Tierra Marie is about to blow up the music scene. We said that in 2007, but in 2010, we mean it. She's got some competition, and a few naysayers (but so did J.C.), but we're confident she can make her mark (or be part of a nasty supergroup). Or rock fierce outfits. Either will do.

Best of 09: Face Tattoos

Face tats were huge in 2009, with people covering much of the side of their faces with things from stars to animals.
It seemed like people either didn't care about getting a job or just didn't care about anything, but facial ink went mainstream in 2009. While the roots of this craze certainly can be found in the deep jungles of history, it's safe to say that people like Mike Tyson, and (gasp) Deranged, I mean, Danger, helped lead the way this time.


Face tats: Cool or Fool?

Celebrity Style: Moscow on the hood, son

Riri must have been freezing cold in London on Friday. She unveiled one of those Moscow on the Hudson joints. A raccoon family is without a father somewhere. Thanks, RiRi.

Jay-Z disses models for wifey?

Rapper Jay-Z is taking his vows to the stage with him. The New York rapper reportedly stiffed armed Victoria Secret models at a fashion show last week, refusing to be photographed with them out of respect for wife, Beyonce.
Evidently many of the girls were looking forward to getting snapped with the celebrity, but Jay had other plans. This follows photographs about a week ago of Beyonce getting out of a car--with paparazzi in position to snap crotch shots-- covering up her legs with a coat.
Kudos to them both. The couple is taking pains to respect each other in a hectic sex-starved environment. The only thing is, will Jay also refused to be photographed with Rihanna; will Bey refuse to let herself be groped on stage by her dancers?
How far will they take it?

Prince had a house party, y'all

The high-heeled Purple One -- the baddest man alive know that the King of Pop is dead, yes, i'm talking about Prince, the one and only -- welcomed people into his home this past weekend for what surely was a surprise as the bitter cold starts to envelope the Twin Cities.
Prince had a little free concert at his Paisley Park studios/home to bring attention to something we all need to be talking about: The needy.
The admission price was only canned goods and new and/or gently-used coats and winter clothes. NO word on how many attended, but it was a loving gesture, considering the economic mess going on these days. Sign O the Times?

Ciara: Braids are Back

Leave it to that ATL style maven Ciara Harris to bring it back to the Motherland with the braids.]
Ciara was seening out on the town in Los Angeles and then later via U-stream rocking the cornrow look.
For you history buffs, you may wonder, so who was the person who brought cornrows to the forefront of American celebrity culture?

Wikipedia says: A common way of styling hair among populations across the African continent, cornrows survived for centuries in the United States and other parts of the New World as a style of hair preparation among enslaved Africans and their progeny. In 1963, when most African American women were loath to be seen in public with unstraightened hair, actress Cicely Tyson drew immediate notice when she sported cornrows on the popular network television series East Side/West Side.
That's right, CiCi, the original CiCi did it first!

Christopher Brown: Revisited

Well, you knew it would come to this, didn't you?
The rehabilitation of Chris Brown is in full effect, with a new album ready to be dropped and a slew of marketing and promotion to do.
So, will you buy "it"?
No, not the fact that a mere adolescent is asking the world to forgive him for a crime that was made worse by the media's boundless publicity of it. It's not like Mr. Brown didn't have enough attention from some.
I'm talking about the album. I hear there's some decent numbers on there, including the pretty good "Crawl."
Will you be a Chris Brown fan again?

Zoe Kravitz shares skin secrets

The eccentric Zoe Kravitz, the lovechild of rocker Lenny Kraviz and actress Lisa Bonet, is sharing skin secrets with the world these days.
The "family" secret, which comes to us from Teen Vogue, comes from her mother, (remember her? The wayward Huxtable?).
Zoe says: "My mom told me to use coconut oil instead of body lotion. It makes my arms and legs feel amazing. I try to use products that don't have anything fake in them."
And there is nothing fake about coconut oil, as it has a variety of uses around the world from moisturizer to food.
People in tropical regions are no stranger to the benefits of coconut oil: It is the primary source of fat in the diets of millions of people.
Did we mention it is great for cooking and frying?

Eva and Tony in Sexy Photoshoot

Celebrity couple Eva Longoria and Tony Parker recently posed for a London Fog ad campaign.
London Fog is using celebrities as the holiday season ramps up, and the San Antonio Spurs guard and his television actress wife are the second high-profilers to be featured. Earlier this year, London Fog used supermodel Gisele Bundchen (who is married to another star athlete, the New England Patroits' Tom Brady.)
If you don't like the pics, Longoria says she's used to the haters: "I grew up as the ugly duckling. They used to call me 'la prieta fea,' which means 'the ugly dark one,'" Longoria said.
Not no mo!

Just How Ripped Can Your Jeans Be?

You've seen the look: Pants legs that look like they've been marinated in a Piranha bowl.
The "ripped jeans" fad seems to be a hard one to break. Like a good pair of Jordacheses (Jordi?) they just refuse to die.
But the varying degree to which some wear their "cut" brings the following question to the fore: Is there such a thing as too ripped?
If you're with somebody and vital "private" organs are falling out, is that a problem?
Some celebrities, in particular, sport jeans that are so shredded that they look like they fell in a blender. Others have cut marks superficially throughout the denim. What's the limit?
How far can you scar?
"Distressed" jeans have been around since at least the mid-1980s, growing in popularity from the country-western set (They started off with faded jeans). Now, there's just sloppy, in my opinion.
Ripped jeans can lead to new problems that will in fact destroy your denims.
Do you rock ripped denim?

Celeb Style: Naomi Campbell & BF in Miami

Who can it be chilling on the beach in mid-October? None other than supermodel Naomi Campbell and her Russian bilionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doroni,"The Moscow Trump". The love birds drank cocktails and basked in the scorching sun in Miami Beach this past weekend.
Atlanta "Housewife" Kim Zolciak aint the only one with a married Big Papa:
Wonder what Doronin's wife thinks about all this?