Go ahead, you explain this one to me. That’s Halle Berry, Gabriel Aubry, and their kid, last Sunday at the Topanga Days County Fair in Topanga, California. Six days later (last night,) Halle Berry was honored with Spike TV’s Decade of Hotness award. Jamie Foxx presented Halle Berry with the - let’s admit it - meaningless award. What happened next can only be explained, jaw dropped, with pictures..

I can’t count the number of times over the past year I’ve seen pictures of Halle Berry and asked where her baby daddy was? Their couple/family shots are spotty at best. I wondered if they were still together. Guess not. Seriously, does she go home/take the call and tell Gabriel to relax, it’s just show biz? Halle must be working on that second Oscar: Jamie’s cupping ass, she’s cupping jewels.

Maybe there was something to this random Halle Berry/Jamie Foxx sighting at the Soloist premiere.

I’m sure they will both be asked what the deal is, sooner than later. Til then, you can blame it on the goose, gotcha feeling loose ...

If you were going to a party this weekend, last night was the night to do so. Tyrese and Toni Braxton were among many people celebrating Memorial Day — Sunday night style — at The Bank Nightclub at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Tyrese must have had one hand on a drink and his Blackberry/iPhone in the other. Only one hand necessary for him to caption the picture up top.. “Poppin with Sexy Ass Toni Braxton!.. Damn I Love my life!.. She has unbroken my heart!.. LoL!..”

He got that right, can you believe Toni Braxton is 41? Sitting next to Toni is her 29-year-old sister, Tamar. Not much of a drop off. Ha!

*Bang!*

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Images: (Truscello/Wireimage)

With people worldwide laughing and pointing fingers at Charles Hamilton getting his chin checked, the people over at Hood News decided to bring their cameras back in focus to let everyone know two things: Briana is his girlfriend and they made up shortly after the clip faded to black. Also, Charles found his canine tooth. I’m sorry, that joke was *right there*

Although I joked about Chris Brown, dude is right, it’s a good thing he didn’t lump her up in return. It was clear, during their back and forth, she was stung by his words. So as a man, you take that one. That said, look at Briana while Charles is searching for the right words to apologize with. She switches from hot to cold at a snap of a finger.
Charles, be nervous, be very afraid and very nervous. Next time it’s not gonna be a punch, you’ve got a potential family jewel snipper/glue it to the leg type chick on your hands.

I’m guessing he’ll just watch his mouth. Ha!

What’s more humiliating for Charles Hamilton? While wearing pink accessories, a chick who doesn’t rap (‘I write poetry’,) beats him in a freestyle or the same female gives him a five finger biscuit to the face? Either way it’s not a story he’ll want to tell. In this clip, Charles Hamilton and “Briana” are talking on the street. Even though it’s midstream, by the conversation it’s clear they recently had a little tumble in the sheets, which also has given birth to the one-sided idea that they now have a budding relationship. Ah, young love.

Charles Hamilton asks Briana how great it is for her to bask in his vanglorious aura. A question she answers by saying she’s sick of his game playing and whips out her Blackberry. To vent her frustration about his ‘games’ she wrote a poem/rap.

Let’s battle!

Charles didn’t have to worry about Briana’s freestyle, she had nothing for him there, but he wasn’t ready for what would happen after he spit lines like..

“Ok, call me irresponsible and immature, but you’re beautiful, what the hell else would I hit it for?”..

and reminiscing about diving in sans Lifestyle, Trojan, you know, without…

*POW*

Yo, I laugh at this after every replay. Charles looks stunned, slightly wobbly, he’s checking for blood and stammers the obvious.. “You punched me, though..” Well.. “How could you put my f*ckin business out there like that?”

This guy is no Chris Brown; she was in his face until the fade. Ha!  I think Charles will be reevaluating those ‘Brooklyn’ girls or at least ducking the next time he talks slick.

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith were guests at a Turner broadcasting industry event last night, held at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. Be honest, outside of the Obamas, they are easily the best looking black celebrity couple on the map. You know, it’s that positive glow. On the action/cut side aka how they eat for a living, Jada will executive produce/star in the hospital drama Hawthorne on TNT premiering June 16. Jada plays Christian Hawthorne, the Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital. Get your sneak peek on over there.

On the big screen, Will Smith’s Overbrook Ent. and Sony Pictures are all set to revisit New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The movie will tell the story of John Keller. A hulking 6-foot 7, 260 pound,  ex-Marine, John Keller helped rescue 244 people after Hurricane Katrina wiped out the city. Will Smith is only listed as a producer for the project, but a snapshot of Keller’s story from Nola.com reads like it’s perfect for him..

Yeah, that’s a Will Smith movie.

If you look around the room during President Obama’s White House meetings, you will see a few fresh, young faces. One that’s front and center every morning is Darienne Page, President Obama’s receptionist.

At 27 years old, she’s already a military veteran. After high school, Darienne joined the Army, sort of a family tradition. She worked as a paralegal in Iraq, taking depositions at the infamous Abu Gharib prison. Lucky for her, she wasn’t involved in any of the back room shenanigans.

Darienne made it back home in time to stumble upon Barack Obama’s then fledgling campaign. One night during 2007 she and a group of friends were having dinner in Chicago restaurant and saw a man with a “Veterans for Obama” t-shirt. A conversation began. Hey, she’s a vet too. She asked him about the campaign and a few months later volunteered to work in Barack Obama’s operations department.

Impressed with her work, when the time came, Barack Obama brought Darienne along for the trip to the White House. He calls her ROTUS. An awkward way of saying: Receptionist of the United States. What is her day like? The NY Times has the particulars..

“She is on hand to greet nearly every official visitor who has an appointment with the president or his top advisers. She oversees the front of the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, serving coffee to former Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, making small talk with a delegation from Kazakhstan and trying to chew a mouthful of almonds quickly before saying hello to Tiger Woods as he stands at her desk.”

Speaking about that meeting with Tiger Woods, Darienne said..

“I tried not to be very star-struck. I’m usually not, but I was caught completely off guard. All of the people that come in, I think, are humbled by the office, so they are all very nice.”

Question: How much do you think a White House receptionist makes?

$52k.. $45k.. Try $36,000.

I’m guessing her bump the fist closeness with the prez and other high profile contacts she’ll make during his term(s) will pay off in dollars and cents in the coming years.

Check the audio/pic flip book at - “Receptionist of the United States”