On Saturday, Kobe Bryant celebrated a special moment in Hollywood. He was the first athlete to have his hands and feet imprinted at the Grauman Chinese Theatre. The hand and footprint ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. The ceremony is usually reserved for celebrities, an exception was made for the basketball great. Bryant signed his name in wet cement in front of the Grauman Theatre and underneath the signature were imprints of his hands and feet with his jersey number 24.
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CIARA SHOWS OFF KILLER BOD
Ciara showed off her incredible body at the “2 Kings Dinner” in L.A Saturday night.
NBA ALL-STAR PHOTOS
The celebrities were out and about last night at the NBA All-Star Game. Everyone from Rihanna, who celebrated her 23rd birthday to Beyonce and Lil Wayne were in the building.
RIHANNA TO HEADLINE NBA ALL-STAR HALF-TIME SHOW
World-wide pop star, Rihanna has announced she will be the headliner of the NBA All-Star Game airing live from LA’s Staples Center, next Sunday (Feb. 20).
Janet Jackson Jams in Jakarta
Janet Jackson zoomed into the future during her first performance in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday (Feb. 9). The iconic pop star, dressed in a metallic body suit accented by knee-high stiletto boots, shoulder pads, and a high-waisted belt, opened the show with a medley of some of her biggest hits including “Pleasure Principle,” “Control,” “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” and “Feedback.”
Currently on her global “Number Ones: Up Close and Personal Tour,” the sexy singer is also scheduled to appear in a candid interview with NBC’s Meredith Vieira. During the chat, Janet discusses her new book True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself and touches on her difficult childhood, self-esteem issues, and her weight struggles.
“I would literally bang my head up against the wall because I didn’t feel attractive… There was a lot of pain in my life,” she revealed. “And I still have issues with it. I don’t bang my head up against the wall, but I still have those moments. And I think it’ll probably continue but at least I know how to deal with it now. And I’m in a much better space.”
The tell-all interview is set to air this Friday and Monday on “Today” and Sunday on “Dateline NBC” at 7 p.m. EST.
Nelly & Kelly Rowland Shoot ‘Gone’ Video
Check out out Nelly and Kelly Rowland posing it up on the set of the video for ‘Gone’ in Cancun, Mexico. Rowland shared the snaps with her fans on Twitter, after wrapping the Marc Klasfeld shoot.
Kanye West’s Full V MAN Spread
Here is Kanye West’s full spread in V MAN magazine. The photoshoot was directed by none other than famed photographer Karl Lagerfeld.
Chris Brown, Usher & Others Attended Justin Bieber’s ‘Never Say Never’ Premiere
Chris Brown attended the premiere of ‘Justin Bieber: Never Say Never’ at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles yesterday. Other artists at the event included Usher, Willow Smith, Will.i.am, Toni Braxton and her sister Tamar.
Fantasia Lands New Movie Role
The Huffington Post reports:
Fantasia Barrino has had her problems over the past year, but unintentional weight gain is not one of them.
The “American Idol” winner has been seen with extra pounds of late, but she says it’s on purpose — she’s getting into character for a new movie, in which she’ll star as soul singer Mahalia Jackson.
“In fact, she’s just signed on to play the lead in Mahalia and has been told to gain 30 to 45 pounds for the role,” her rep confirmed.
The Euzhan Palcy directed movie begins shooting in April in Chicago and is slated for release at the year’s end. As relates to the story, the film is an adaptation of Jackson’s 1993 autobiography – ‘Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel’.
Penned by James Evering, the big screen flick will chronicle the singer’s life; from her early years in poverty-lashed New Orleans to her rise to stardom. An early and avid advocate for the late, great Martin Luther King Jr, Jackson was also a major supporter of the Civil Rights Movement.
Juelz Santana Vows to Fight Drug and Weapons Charges
Fresh off his drug and weapons arrest yesterday afternoon, Juelz Santana is out on bail and already talking about the incident. The Dipset rapper called into Hot 97’s Angie Martinez to clarify his legal situation and proclaim his innocence.
The 28-year-old MC, who was arrested after two fully-loaded 9mm handguns and 17 bags of marijuana were found in his New Jersey studio, confirmed that he was just released on $125,000 bail. “I’m a free man out on bail,” said the Harlemite. “I’m just doing my regular thing, I’m still me. It’s just an unfortunate situation, got caught up.”
Santana explained that there was some janky business on the police’s behalf. “They raided my studio, said things was going on. The charges was just kind of crazy,” he told Angie. “For one, I wasn’t even in my studio when they raided. They raided my studio, they found whatever they want to say they found, and they just put a bunch of charges on me.”
When he turned himself in, he was ready to be freed on bail, but the cops alleged that the snowstorm was to blame for his delayed release. “They had a warrant out for my arrest since last week,” he continued. “I had just turned myself in and I was supposed to be out right there because he had the bail money already on standby for whatever, but once I get in there, they’re like, ‘Oh, the computers is down because of the ice storms and all that.’ I’m like, ‘Wow.’”
Maintaining his innocence, Juelz assured listeners that he wasn’t going to take this lying down. “I’m definitely going to be fighting this, because like I said, they didn’t catch me with nothing. My studio is a place where a bunch of people come in and out. They put me out as selling dime bags of weed. That’s a joke!” he exclaimed. “I wasn’t even there. Never in the case of history would you find Juelz selling no dime bags of marijuana.”
Dre Black So Fresh 