Back in the day [read: 2002] Brandy announced she’d secretly wed some music producer no one had ever heard of named Robert Smith the year before - just four months before giving birth to their baby girl, Sy’rai. The happily married couple even fronted for cameras on the MTV series Brandy: A Special Delivery, which documented their daughter’s birth.

After the couple called it quits in 2003, Ol’ Bucky Beaver went running his trap and told a radio station the marriage never happened, much to Mama Sonya’s chagrin.

“I lied because of the fear of what people would think and the pressure to be a good role model,” Norwood, 29, reveals to Us Weekly in her first interview on the topic.

“Our relationship was very real, we just weren’t legally married,” she adds.

Norwood also admits she kept her daughter in the dark about the 2006 multicar collision she was involved in that left a 38-year-old woman dead.

“It was a very tough time, and I still have never talked about it with Sy’rai,” she says. “I had to be a mother and stay strong for her. I’d cry when she’d go to sleep so she wouldn’t see me like that - I had a responsibility to her.” [continue reading]

Its okay Brandy. Everybody who tuned into your little show knew something in the milk wasn’t clean the first time the camera panned in on Robert’s face, we were just waiting on you to confirm.

Greeter at Wal-Mart game proper.

Although hat boy set my window licker radar off like a troop of screeching banshees I was curious to know if what my best friend told me in my pubescent years about boys in special ed having a big peen was true.

If so, I understand the dynamic of the hook up.

If you watch the first 30 seconds of the video for Mya’s “Paradise” on mute you probably would mistake it for some type of commercial for a hair product. Dr. Miracle perhaps?

I don’t feel like processing what the fuck she is harmonizing about ["listen to the beat of the congo"] but I’ve heard a lot worse. Skeet or delete?

With her former 3LW band mate getting caught with her panties down, Naturi Naughton’s King cover couldn’t come at a better time than this.

But there’s just this one little problem I am having. Why does it look like the editors selected a bootleg photographer / style team from Model Mayhem to shoot this shit? Derek Blanks and his crew can’t be everywhere at all times [they're too busy snapping important people like Mashonda and the Desperate Housewives of Bankhead] but hiring the chick from Sear’s portrait studios? C’mon now.

Peep a side by side comparison of Naturi’s cover with the real thing [oxymoron] after the jump.

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Halle Berry, in Canada shooting her latest movie, was seen with her daughter. Here’s the description from Just Jared: “Halle is starring and co-producing the psychological drama, which follows a young woman struggling with multiple personality disorder. Halle, who plays both Frankie and Alice, is torn between who she is and a racist Caucasian alter-personality that preys upon her mind.”

Sounds like Monsters Ball 2: Crack Is Whack

- - Mook

Are peace signs are the secret official hand gesture for irrelevancy?

First we had Blackberry Molasses come by and sweep the floor with his pussy now Cheri Dennis and Yung Wyndex make a cameo at a fashion show. Today has really shaped up to be pretty fucking awesome, right?

Cheri escaped Diddy’s tooth pick crypt long enough to make an appearance at the Southpole Stay In School Fashion Show in New York City. Let the record show that no one over the age of 18 years old should ever be caught rocking that shit. Email me for more rules and guidelines.

But I digress.

Cheri still has that cherry kool-aid hued hair and mean mustache. I’m mad her top lip has more hair than all the members of Team Wackout.

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Now I won’t go in too hard on this celebrity weekend luncheon since it was to benefit sickle cell patients and what not but I will take this opportunity to bitch about other so called celebrity events. I don’t know how many times I have been invited to a party that initially boasts a real guest list and get there to discover the remaining cast members of 227 standing around drinking cocktails. That shit ain’t right!

I’m not saying that I am too good to mingle with, um, throwback entertainers but if that’s the only people you could confirm for your little shindig just tell me in advance. I still got a lot of love for each and every person who appeared in Meteor Man.

Beyonce looks like she just heard an earful of bad news about _________________ in these pictures.

Not that I have a problem with Nick Cannon wanting to step his grown man game up by wearing suits more often but does he have to look so lame in them?! Memo to Mr. Cannon: You can put lipstick on a pig and marry her but you can’t ever fully escape from your own duckness.