April 22, 2005
Bobby Brown's Affair
Last week, The National Enquirer ran a story about the King of R&B Bobby Brown and a young girl he was allegedly having an affair with named Samara Emmanuel. According to the story, Bobby was in Antigua to lend support to his wife Whitney, who is in rehab on the island. Apparently in his spare time he was cavorting with the help at this hotel, as 19-year-old Samara was a waitress at the St. James Hotel where Bobby was staying. The Enquirer also included the hotel room number the couple was staying in.
After reading this story, radio personality Wendy Williams got the telephone number to the hotel and placed repeated on-air phone calls to the hotel. She called, asked to speak to Samara and they told her that Samara wasn't there at the time. That was fine with Wendy. She began questioning the person who answered the phone about Samara and Bobby Brown, they didn't seem to understand what she was talking about. She hung up, called back, spoke to a different hotel employee who had the nerve to be even more clueless than the person she had spoken to previously.
She called again and asked to speak to Bobby. She was told that he was not accepting phone calls at the time, so she hung up and called right back. She then said that she was his sister and they patched her right through to his room. He picked up, she told him it was Wendy Williams and he hung up. She called right back, told the woman who answered the phone that she was with Bobby's brother and needed to speak to him right away and again they transferred her to Bobby's room. Again, he picked up and this time when she announced that it was Wendy Williams he said, "If this is Wendy Williams, you look like a bag of knuckles." She responded saying something even nastier to him and he again hung up.She called once more and was immediately put through to his room. This time he chatted a while longer. He apologized for calling her a bag of knuckles and claimed that he thought she was his brother and sister playing on the phone. She asked him about his album and he claimed to have been in Antigua working on his album with people who "love music". Due to these people loving music he wasn't paying them, nor was he paying for studio time, or so he said.
He was very excited to tell her that he was working on his music in Antigua because it was free. God knows who these people are that he's working with. If they were any big names, surely Bobby would have mentioned them. Wendy brought up an upcoming New Edition reunion special on VH-1 and he claimed that he would be there to participate. Wendy then told him that the special was already taped *oops*, then he offered to do her VH-1 show for a fee. She told him that she doesn't pay guests. She asked him why he was asking her for money when his wife was loaded and he got upset. He started saying that she shouldn't be talking about his wife like that, that the sistas listening to her radio show were probably mad at her for trying to dog Whitney out.
Had Bobby not spent more than half his life being "loaded!" with booze and alcohol, he probably wouldn't have misinterpreted Wendy's usage of the word.
He bypassed questions about being with Samara Emmanuel and told Wendy that he thought they were cooler than that for her to try and swoop down on him live on the air, and if she needed to talk to him, she should just call him when she's off the air. Apparently their level of cool was all in Bobby's mind, because Wendy needed to remind him that they were not cool and she has no number where she can reach him. He then told her to call Jamie Foster-Brown of Sister 2 Sister magazine and she would put Wendy in touch with Bobby.
He begged for money again, gave a shout out to the tri-state area (he obviously has no idea that Wendy's into big things and is now nationally syndicated) and hung up.
Samara Emmanuel sold her story to the National Enquirer, in this week's issue they published the exclusive interview, where she recounts the events that took place during what is being called "Bobby's Wild Sex Romp." Before we go any further into the story, the article includes pictures and Bobby and Samara look a mess. Samara is not so great looking, but we must not forget that Bobby is no prize either. Anyway, Samara claims that the two had sex, but his performance was less than exciting and of the experience Samara said, "His magician wasn't performing any tricks that evening." She recounted the story, "We were kissing, groping a bit and then he performed oral sex on me for 5 minutes. Then he got on top of me to have sex with me for maybe 10 or 15 minutes, but he couldn't manage. I don't know why, I think he was drunk."
According to Samara that incident was the one and only time the two attempted sex, she says, "After that incident we never crossed that line again. We'd go to bed, watch TV, kiss, then hug a bit and fall asleep." Samara says that Bobby told her how much he loved his wife and that he hoped Whitney would be straight again once she got out of rehab.
When the Enquirer contacted Bobby about this story, he was also begging them for money. He told them, "I've got a lot to say and the media portrays me as this horrible person, but I'm not. And I'll be glad to sit down and talk to you face to face, but it's gonna cost ya. For $1 million cash I will sit down with you and tell you anything you want to know."
Bobby has since checked out of the hotel he was staying in and hasn't been heard from since, but I'm almost positive that this is not the last we've heard about this debacle. I don't even know where to begin. First of all, Samara Emmanuel should get herself together. There's no way in the world any woman should be bothered with Bobby Brown. That is just ridiculous. Bobby Brown has so little to offer anyone and I was certain that Whitney was the only woman who wanted him. I was wrong. Bobby seems to be sober. In all of this brouhaha, there was no mention of him being on drugs. When he was on the phone with Wendy, he sounded far from sober, but I'm sure that can be attributed to all the brain cells he killed over the years when he was abusing drugs. He sounded like a poor and desperate man when he was begging Wendy for all that money. Maybe he thinks or knows that Whitney plans to leave him once she gets out of rehab this time. I really hope she does, only because their relationship seems toxic and two recovering drug addicts are just not good together. As we can see, with them, one of them is always on drugs.
As for Bobby working on an album, he should just shut the hell up. He's been working on an album for the past 15 years and I've heard absolutely nothing. I'm glad that he hasn't, but he is not coming out with an album, so he should stop pretending that he is. As the king of r&b, he should be dropping albums like Mariah back in the day, 4-5 times a week, but he is not and he really shouldn't be anyway.
Samara should be ashamed of herself for sleeping with Bobby Brown. I can't believe she was bold enough to actually sell the story to a magazine. I hope they didn't pay her much, because it's not much of a story and it won't get interesting until Whitney gets out of rehab and gets involved in the whole mess. Bobby seems like he is dying to do some paid interviews, but that doesn't seem very likely. Nobody cares what he has to say about anything. I cannot believe he told the Enquirer he wanted a million dollars cash. I am just wondering did he want them to deliver it to him, literally, in cash in like a brief case or something? He's so out of it he may have expected it in traveler's checks. He just seems really burnt out, the poor dummy.
I've got $10 I'll give him, if he wants to sit down for an interview with me. I might even give him $20 if he has some good stories to tell, but he is not worth any more than that, as he'll soon learn when nobody offers him any cash for the what he has to say.
Whitney is crazy, I wonder how she'll react to this situation. She was recently released from rehab, but I'm sure they are keeping this from her. Now is not the time for her be dealing with this bullshit, she's still adjusting. Maybe if she comes out rehab with a clear head, she'll just get rid of Bobby. He's never done her any good. He was like another child. She had to give him allowance, pay his child support, and pretty much pay for anything that he did.
Puffy Signs With Warner Brothers
Bad Boy Entertainment founder Sean "Puffy" Combs has recently signed a 50/50 joint venture deal with Warner Brothers Music Group. In a released statement, Puffy said: "I am thrilled to be working with Lyor Cohen and the entire WMG family. It was important for me to have the opportunity to grow Bad Boy, and I can do that with WMG. This is a perfect situation for me and Bad Boy, and I can't wait to get out there and continue making music history."
This is expected to be a wonderful marriage between Bad Boy and Warner Brothers. Though Bad Boy has not been cranking out the hits lately, the company has sold over 75 million albums since it's inception in 1994. I imagine this is a very good thing for Diddy. I am not certain how good it will be for Warner Brothers in the long run. I mean Puff hasn't put out a hit in a while and it's been even longer since he put out a big hit.
The last thing I've seen from Bad Boy were some group called B5 or something. You guys know those little boys that remade Troop's "All I Do is Think of You", they're like the younger, mixed race version of B2K. Well we all see where B2K went and how fast they got there: the middle of nowhere at light speed, for those that were smart enough never to follow the careers of B2K. I can easily see B5 going the same place at the same extremely alarming rate as B2K.
Mario Winans had that one good song, but he sounded like a howling wolf every time he tried to sing it live and I haven't seen him since. Some tragedy or other seems to befall Bad Boy's artists at some point or other.
Mase tried to make a comeback, but apparently, we the people, were having none of that. Loon may very well just be a loon, last I heard about him, he was involved in some stabbing. Total was a total disaster the whole time they were on Bad Boy, their demise may be the greatest thing that happened for Bad Boy, and probably for the women of Total as well. Faith and 112 have run as far and as fast as they possibly could have, their success without Diddy still remains to be seen, but I think Faith and 112 both have the talent to pull it off. Though talent is like last on the list of things you need to be a successful recording artist in this day and age, so they may not fare so well.
I am still looking for Carl Thomas and would really appreciate a new album from him in the near future. I have no idea what else Puff has going on over at Bad Boy these days, but he knows what he's doing and I don't, so I'm sure he'll be just fine in spite of it all.
Miss Info
Miss Info, former co-host on NYC's Hot 97 morning show will be returning to Hot 97 after a long hiatus. Let's take it back a little. A few months ago all of the morning show personalities were suspended because of the "Tsunami Song", which poked fun at the tsunami victims and degraded Asians in general. A few weeks later, everyone returned except comedian Todd Lynn, who was fired, and Miss Info, because she still had issues she felt needed to be addressed. She and Miss Jones, the leader of the crew, were constantly at odds and Miss Info who is Asian felt that Hot 97 needed to do something about the situation. Racial slurs were being thrown her way left and right and apparently the powers that be at Hot 97 didn't find it to be problematic.
Well Miss Info did and took them to task. She was threatening to file a lawsuit against Hot 97, but apparently all is well again and she will now have her very own show. Miss Info's new show will be heard on Hot 97 on Saturday mornings from 8 am to 12 pm She will also provide her celebrity drama commentary during Flex's show during the week Monday thru Thursday. Miss Info, whose given name is Minya Oh says, "I am looking forward to being back at the No. 1 hip-hop and R&B station." Miss Info will return to the station on April 30.
I am so happy that Miss Info is returning to Hot 97, but I am still sleeping at 12 pm on Saturdays, so I won't be able to listen. I loved her when she was on Hot 97 with Star and Bucwild and she was the most normal aspect of the morning show. Once Miss Jones came back, Miss Info seemed to play more of a background role in the morning show and their was obvious tension between her and Miss Jones. She was my favorite personality in the morning.
I still listen to the morning show on Hot 97, because it is funny at times and I find it much more interesting than the other morning shows on at that hour, but I really wish Miss Info was going to be returning to the morning show. I liked it so much better. She was like the voice of reason in the midst of all the ignorance and chaos that goes on in the mornings. It looks like Hot 97 did not want it with Miss Info because she would have had a pretty strong case against them. It also appears that they've given her this new show to pacify her and it would be all good, but damn it, that is the worst time slot in the world.
I say she just take them to court and take all of their money. Or better yet, I'd love to see her move over to Power 105.1 with Star and Bucwild, the girl they have there now is insufferable and she needs to go. I wish Miss Info lots of success with the new show and I hope everything works out for her, so if you live the NYC area, be sure to listen to her show on Saturday mornings.
Chris Tucker Arrested
Actor/comedian Chris Tucker was jailed briefly on Sunday morning after being pulled over by Georgia police for speeding. Chris was going 109 mph in his 2005 Bentley on Interstate 20 and did not immediately pull over for the police. 33-year-old Chris spent about 30 minutes in jail before being released. He was charged with reckless driving and fleeing to elude police. The mugshot can be seen here. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/christuckermug1.html
When I heard this story I was like damn. I figured the mugshot picture would be awful. We haven't seen much of Chris Tucker over the past few years, so I immediately thought he would look bad. I though maybe his hairline would be receding or maybe he was fat or looked high. I was pleasantly surprised. He still looks very good and he took a very nice mugshot. He looks like he was on his way home from church or something. I'm glad to see he is still doing well.
It was recently rumored that he was dating Michelle from Destiny's child, but that doesn't sound true. Never mind the rumors, when the hell is he going to do another movie?
Paris and Nicole Break Up
It's been rumored that socialite turned complete media whore Paris Hilton and her "Simple Life" co-star Nicole Richie are no longer friends. The rumors have been swirling for months that the two were no longer friends, they were often spotted in the same places without even acknowledging one another. Paris released a statement saying that she and Nicole are no longer friends because of something unspeakable that Nicole did to her. Paris won't say what the offense was, but it's speculated that during a movie screening for Paris, Nicole switched the DVD with Paris' sex tape titled "One Night in Paris". Nicole's camp says that the girls have simply grown apart and have different interests and that is the reason they no longer associate with one another.
Nicole will be replaced on the "Simple Life" by Paris' friend Kimberly Stewart, who is a model and the daughter of musician Rod Stewart. Fox is rumored to be giving Nicole her own show and she is also in talks about doing a show similar to MTV's "Newlyweds" that will focus on her relationship with her fiance D.J. AM.
I'm glad this friendship has ended. Paris Hilton is like the most famous person in the world and it's all for nothing, other than the fact that she's rich. Nicole and Paris together were this really dumb duo that made really stupid, yet interesting television. Lately Nicole seemed to be getting herself together. She got engaged, took all that tacky weave out of her hair, shed a few pounds and started dressing better. She looked like she was growing up, while Paris was still being Paris.
Nicole has been an off and on heroin abuser since her early teens and the recent weight loss has led to speculation that she was back in the habit. Nicole claims that she is clean and sober and has been for 2 years, she says her recent weight loss was due to diet and excercise. She tried to downplay the weight loss claiming it to be only 10 lbs, but in recent pictures she looks dangerously thin. To further support the drug rumors, there were pictures on the internet of Nicole and an unidentified man making an exchange that looked to be a drug deal. She really seemed to be getting her life together, so I hope she hasn't turned to drugs. Being that Paris and Nicole are Paris and Nicole, I'm sure there will be much more drama surrounding this story, so we will see what happens.
Rumors
Rumor has it that actor Ben Affleck, formerly one half of the Bennifer duo, proposed to his girlfriend, actress Jennifer Garner. Supposedly Ben proposed to her with a 4.5 carat diamond ring courtesy of Harry Winston. The ring is said to have set Ben back $500,000. Ben and Jen's reps deny this claim, but who knows?
Okay, Ben and Jennifer Garner have been together for a short while, but it appears that they're serious. They also seem much more evenly yoked than Ben and the other Jen ever could have been. If they're engaged congrats, I hope it works out. Jennifer Gardner was previously married to another actor, whom she divorced after having an affair with a co-star. She continued her relationship with the co-star and met Ben when the two filmed "Daredevil", they've been together ever since.
I'm not trying to scandalize Jennifer G. or anything, just stating the facts. On paper it doesn't look too promising, but it could work out very well for them. It's said that Ben's mother, other family and friends love Jennifer, which immediately puts her one step up on former fiance Jennifer Lopez.
Another rumor that's been floating around is that Oprah and actor Jamie Foxx are dating. As far fetched as it might sound, it could be true. Oprah did recently drop her long time boyfriend Stedman and Jamie Foxx's career is peaking right now. That would be interesting. At the same time there are also rumors that Jamie is dating actress Salma Hayek, but both of their camps deny this rumor. No one has either confirmed or denied the Oprah/Jamie rumor, so we'll see.
Another rumor is that Atlanta singer Ciara and rapper Bow Wow are dating. The two have been seen together courtside at Atlanta Hawks game and they worked on some music together. When Ciara was on "106 and Park" she was questioned about a relationship with Bow Wow, she claimed that they were, and I quote, "very, very, very, very good friends." I would also like to say that Ciara is a real live girl, she is not a transvestite or a hermaphrodite or any of the other things she is being called. Those rumors are simply ridiculous, but apparently some people don't think so.
I've seen pictures of Ciara and Bow Wow looking like a future Beyonce and Jay-Z, though they look very strange together. Ciara is like a whole foot taller than Bow Wow. When I saw them together the first thing I thought was, "Oh he must have an album coming out, so this is a publicity stunt." I have no idea how real their relationship is or if it even exists, but if they're happy, I'm ecstatic for them.
Rumor has it that R&B diva, Monica has given birth to a baby boy named Rodney Ramon. The father is said to be her fiance' Rocky, who co-owns Rowdy Records with Monica's "father" and producer Dallas Austin. Congrats to Monica for finally giving birth after all these years of rumored pregnancies, if in fact she has already given birth.
- reported by Keshawnta J.