Category: "On TV"
Saleisha Walks Her Way To 'America's Next Top Model'
Cycle 9 of America's Next Top Model ended Wednesday night with Saleisha Stowers coming out as the champion. Saleisha beat the brakes off of Barbie Chantal to take home the tiara in a rather so-so season of Tyra Banks' beauty comp.
Despite being forced to wear a Velma wig from the House of Scooby Doo collection, Saleisha's boss walk, cutesy looks and positive attitude sealed the deal for her. Or maybe it was the fact that she's been associated with Tyra numerous times before, having modeled on her daytime chat-fest and being a catwalker on a previous ANTM cycle? Unfair advantage or not, Saleisha ethered the competition--even weekly fan favorite, Heather.
Now she can look forward to being cast as "the girl" in music videos or direct-to-DVD movies, random red carpet photo ops and maybe even a layout in King and/or Smooth. Ah, welcome to the hood life.
Sopranos Movie Coming Soon? Fuhgeddaboutit!
Fans of The Sopranos need to savor the upcoming final season of the hit HBO show. Because to hear creator David Chase tell it, a movie adaptation of the mafia drama is a slim possibility.
According to Chase, "technical challenges" would nip a Sopranos movie in the bud. Although he doesn't totally put the kibbosh on a spinoff or film being made one day, we won't be holding our breath.
Michelle Williams Does Celebrity Duets
Beyonce and Kelly Rowland's backup singer Michelle Williams stepped to the forefront last night as one of the celebrity singers paired up with a non-singing celebrity on last night's premier of Celebrity Duets on Fox. She sang duets with Alfonso Ribeiro of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air fame and Jai Rodriguez from Queer Eye who was acting rather no homo last night.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Reality Bites
Tags: Flavor of Love 2
It's gonna be on and poppin' on the next season of Survivor. Looking to shake things up and add some much-needed diversity to the cast, the tribes will be divided along black, white, Latino, and Asian racial lines when it lands on the Cook Isands in the South Pacific.
This should be interesting. Not as interesting if Survivor were set in the ghetto, and contestants had to dodge bullets, avoid the po-po, and make a dollar out of fifteen cents, but it should make for some good TV and watercooler conversations.
Dividing the tribes up by race is fine and all, but VC would like to see a Black celebrity edition of Survivor one day. Can't you see Jay-Z , Beyonce, 50 Cent, and Kobe Bryant in one tribe with R. Kelly, Letoya Luckett, Vivica Fox and Shaquille O'Neal in another? Then again, there may not be any survivors on that island once it's all over.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Black Folks Plan Reality TV Takeover!
Tags: Fantasia, Jennifer Lopez
Wayne Brady is set to host Celebrity Duets, son! The new Fox reality show will pair up professional singers with non-singing celebs. Chaka Khan (Chaka Khan), Patti LaBelle, Brian McKnight, Macy Gray, and Carlton Banks Alfonso Ribeiro are all on tap to flex their vocal skills. VC just wonders if Wayne Brady will have to choke a bitch.
Although her UPN series South Beach flopped, Jennifer Lopez will try her hand at scripted television again. La Lopez is producing a comedy for F/X centered around L.A.'s diverse Echo Park 'hood. Mrs. Marc Anthony is also still busy fending off husband numero uno from publishing his book The Unknown Truth: A Passionate Portrait of a Serial Thriller, which details their spicy relationship. But aint it funny how all this would go away if Jenny from the block simply forked over a cool $5 million to pay her ex not to spill the arroz con pollo? Talk about hush money.
American Idol hopefuls are auditioning across the country as we speak, but season 3 winner Fantasia is the Idol all eyes are once again. Her TV biopic, The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life Is Not A Fairy Tale, hits the air this Saturday on Lifetime with Fantasia playing herself . We all know that Fanny can sing and slob Jamie Foxx down, but can she act?
Hush, Hush, Pass: Dance Mania!
Dancing is the new pink. Everywhere you turn someone is busting a move:
Step Up may not have taken the number one spot from Talladega Nights, but it made an impressive $21 million at this weekend's box office considering it's the 389th dance movie to come out in five years. At least all that dirty dancing paid off for the lead stars Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan who are now dating. VC hasn't seen the movie yet, but if the hot like fire soundtrack is any indication then this movie is a must see. (No bootleg.)
Yesterday the next round of has beens celebrities were announced who will be competing in the third season of ABC's reality hit Dancing with the Stars. Among the competitors are Mario Lopez from Saved by the Bell fame, former child star Joe (you'll always be Joey to us) Lawrence who was most recently seen on the UPN sitcom Half & Half, freak talk show host Jerry Springer, former Dallas Cowboy Emmett Smith who will be this year's jock to watch taking the reins from last season's standout competitor Jerry Rice, and 50's old jumpoff actress Vivica A. Fox. We all know that Viv can pop her coochie as seen on stage with Lil Jon at the 2004 MTV Video Music Awards, but can this Fox do a Fox Trot? VC just prays that Vivica doesn't have any wardrobe malfunctions.
The season finale of So You Think You Can Dance? airs on Fox Wednesday night. Musical guests include Ciara who is sure to one, two, step her way through her single "Get Up," and the first lady of the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie who will sing her number one stunna "London Bridge." Oh snap!
Hush, Hush, Pass: Chris Tucker, Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson, Snoop Dogg, Rick Fox
An older, broker, and heavier Chris Tucker is returning to his stand up roots. He's embarking on a short tour at small venues around the country, with more dates to be announced in the future. VC doesn't know if his routine is as funny as it was in his Def Comedy Jam days, but we hope so, man!
Halle (do we even need to say her last name?) not only turned 40 yesterday, but she got a new agent at ICM. As long as this one keeps her away from Catwoman 2 and a prequel to B.A.P.S., it's all good.
Samuel L. Jackson is the star of one of the most anticipated movies in a minute, Snakes on a Plane. In his downtime he likes to go incognegro and get his chat on in internet movie chat rooms. But if you don't want to wait to run into Gator Samuel L. in a random chat room, then you can get a personalized message from him thanks to the good people at S.O.A.P.
Art Imitating Trife - MTV Cartoon Disses Black Women
Can we really be mad at MTV for portraying black women on leashes and defacating on the ground in a recent episode of the cartoon Where My Dogs At? considering that we've witnessed live action versions of both courtesy of Snoop Dogg and Flavor of Love 2?
Flavor of Love 2 Premier: Foofy's Revenge
Tags: Flavor of Love 2
After watching the season premier of Flavor of Love 2 can I just say that I am so embarrassed to have a va-j-j right now.
Between the "That's my bed!" beatdown that Saaphyri gave H-Town near the beginning of the show to Somethin' taking a dump on the floor (and up the stairs!) at the end, this episode was one hot stinkin' mess after the other. These broads on season two already make season one's cast of characters look like nuns.
