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Audio: Mona Scott-Young Talks About The ‘Love & Hip Hop 2′ Reunion Special

Posted by Fresh on February 9, 2012

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Power 105’s on-air personality Cherry Martinez chatted it up with Love & Hip Hop executive producer Mona Scott-Young about her decision to choose a “Barbara Walters” interview format, why Teairra Mari wasn’t apart of the reunion special, rumored cast pregnancies, Somaya Reece calling her a bitch and more.

“It is what it is. And listen, the thing about it is I’m probably the closest person to them, right. I’m the person drawing stories from them, communicating with them. There when things go bad, there when things are great,” says Scott-Young about the cast coming across as resentful on the reunion special.

“So, I actually see them calling out my name not as them being resentful as much as this is the person that they turn to for everything with the show. So, you know I definitely accepted that responsible and that role.”

Listen to the full audio below.

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Quick Quotes: Octavia Spencer

Posted by Fresh on February 3, 2012

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Jezebel – Actress Octavia Spencer has been the toast of the town since getting a heap of award nominations for her role in The Help, but, much to her dismay, a lot of the conversation in the press about her has involved her weight. She took to Facebook to air her frustrations and set the record straight.

After being honored by my Guild on Sunday, I was whisked to the Press Room where one of the first questions I was asked (by Ted Casablanca) was ‘what I felt about underweight women’. (i’m paraphrasing here) I’m thinking….this is relevant because… Then I started thinking, would these questions ever be asked of my male counterparts? Better yet, underweight actors or actresses? Nah, I don’t think so!

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Quick Quotes: Tameka “Tiny” Harris

Posted by Fresh on February 1, 2012

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After calling out his “chauvinist ways” to Sister 2 Sister magazine editor Jamie Foster Brown during the couple’s cover story interview, America’s favorite Curious Case of the Cottles was just as eager to come to her “overbearing” husband’s defense. The Queen of the South has spoken, peasants.

Honestly, one thing I can say about T.I. is he has made all my dreams come true. Everything I have ever asked him for, everything I say I want to do, he makes it happen . . . Sometimes he can be a little overbearing ’cause he wants to know your every move, what’s going on and why ain’t you here.

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Quick Quotes: Amber Rose On Being Viewed As ‘Sloppy Seconds’

Posted by Fresh on January 29, 2012

“Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery,” Ambot told the New York Post over dinner at West Village’s popular restaurant The Lion. “I didn’t just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary. It fucking sucks.”

Oh, gworl.

amber wiz Quick Quotes: Amber Rose On Being Viewed As Sloppy SecondsToday, she lives in LA with current squeeze, rapper Wiz Khalifa, the 24-year-old who shot to mainstream fame with his ode to Pittsburgh, “Black and Yellow” last year.

After the Kanye breakup, Amber “totally separated myself from hip hop,” she said. “I didn’t listen to the radio, I just totally got out of the world. I listened to heavy metal.”

But she was single for only a few months before she met Wiz Khalifa via Twitter.

“I was scared, because he’s four years younger than me, and he’s in the same industry as Kanye and I was so over all that,” said Amber. “All odds were against him, but I couldn’t fight the feeling. Wiz is the better man.”

The couple has been dating for a year — they have each other’s names tattooed on their hands — and Amber said they’re thinking about marriage, babies, and buying a home together.

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Quick Quotes: Sanaa Lathan, Wale and Drake

Posted by Fresh on January 27, 2012

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Do you think Sanaa’s initial reaction was out of pocket or understandable?

Ebony Magazine: You recently got caught up in a nasty rumor with Kobe Bryant, that you were somehow the reason for his marriage ending after you two were seen in the same VIP section at Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne concert. I have to say I absolutely loved your response to the rumor on Twitter.

[Sanaa tweeted: "Anybody who pays attention knows I’m not his type… Blank stare. #blackgirlsrock #dontbelievethelies" We adore!]

Sanaa Lathan: I probably shouldn’t have said that because I don’t discriminate when it comes to dating. I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.

But I was so annoyed because I was having such a great time at the concert and Kobe happen to be standing next to me, and then all of a sudden I was tied to his break-up. That’s absurd, and I tweeted that in the moment, and I regret it.

But to each its own. It’s just funny that if it’s written people believe it, and even though I have said I have nothing to do with him, people are still saying when the baby is due?

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Mary J. Blige “Confused” By Oscar Snub

Posted by Fresh on January 26, 2012

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Check out more flicks of the 9-time Grammy Awards winner on the set of ‘Watch What Happens Live’ below.

Under normal circumstances the Original Song category for the Oscars sees four to five nominations, but only two contenders were announced this year — “Real in Rio” from “Rio” and “Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets” — leaving tracks from Elton John and Lady Gaga, Pink, will.i.am, Elvis Costello, Zooey Deschanel and Mary J. Blige out of the race.

“It hit hard. It was kinda rough. I must say,” MJB told ‘Watch What Happens Live!’ host Andy Cohen on Tuesday night about her song “The Living Proof,” for the film “The Help” being snubbed.

“I’m confused. I don’t know what to say except for I just gotta keep doing what I do and look at this as a battery in my back to keep striving and be thankful for the lesson, count it as a blessing.”

“I think the lesson is to just keep going. Don’t let things make you spiral down,” she said. “The positive side is that there’s obviously something better” for me.

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Chelsea Handler Explains Break Up With 50 Cent

Posted by Fresh on January 24, 2012

Chelsea Handler revealed to Howard Stern on his Sirius XM satellite radio show on Monday that her romance with 50 Cent was finito after a heated argument over one of his ex-girlfriends — a Tire Kingdom stock clerk masquerading as a R&B singer named Ciara.

Omarion and Bow Wow would never let scrotum come in between their friendship but they are obviously the exception. Besties!

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Sister 2 Sister –“So you’re telling me that this girl wants to get back together with you, but she’s upset that you’re dating me?” Chelsea said to Howard, recounting her conversation with 50.

Coincidentally, the G-Unit founder decided to give Chelsea this information right before Ciara was set to make an appearance on her show. He wanted to make a 3-way call to prove to Chelsea how things were. Chelsea fired back stating, “Curtis (she called him by his first name), honestly, this is eighth grade…” At the end of the phone call, Chelsea said some words to 50 Cent that were very offensive and then she hung up on him.

So, how was the sex you’re wondering?

“The sex was okay. It was just normal, it was fine. It wasn’t mind blowing.” She continued: “I’ve had much better sex with other people, but it was good.”

Check out a clip of Chelsea dishing about her relationship with Curis below.

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Quick Quotes: Oprah, Spike Lee and Michael Ealy

Posted by Fresh on January 24, 2012

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I am not the marrying kind. I know that in a country like India where women have arranged marriages that turn into love, it may seem like a mystery as to why. But if we [Stedman Graham] were married, by now we would be divorced.

– Lady O tells a crowd in India at the Jaipur Literature Festival why she and longtime beard beau Stedman Graham have yet to jump the broom

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Don’t Make Taye Diggs Come For You Over His Woman

Posted by Fresh on January 23, 2012

taye Dont Make Taye Diggs Come For You Over His WomanTaye Diggs took to his Twitter account over the weekend to defend himself against misleading blog headlines that suggests he only knocked up wife Idina Menzel for the sole purpose of creating yella babies to bequeath all his corniness to one day.

“Once again I have been misquoted. To be clear, my mother has never thought she wasn’t ‘black enough,’” he wrote.”And I did not marry a white woman to have a ‘light skinned baby.’ Come on, people. I’m promoting a book about self esteem, self love and affirmation. Let’s lift each other up, not tear each other down.”

Never one to leave a fellow chocolatier assed out Tyrese then proceeded to perform a soul stirring rendition of “We’ve Come This Far By Faith” via UStream. Inside my mind at least.

Diggs recently credit model Tyson Beckford with helping him love the skin he is in.

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Quick Quotes: Brandy Will Appreciate It Greatly If The Stans Would Stop Comparing Her To Other Artists

Posted by Fresh on January 20, 2012

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Brandy is over messy queens who insist on comparing her vocal capabilities (and lowkey edges) to other female R&B contemporaries.

She tells TrueExclusives.com: “When you put competition in the midst of what’s so unique and so different about every artist out there, it keeps you from appreciating everybody. Everybody has their own tone, their own sound . . . nobody can be Beyonce better than Beyonce, nobody can be me better than me, or any of these other great artists.”

Watch video of Brand Nu driving her points home by talking with her hands over at The Fury.

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