Showing posts with label Janet Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Janet Jackson. Show all posts

Friday, September 27, 2024

I Didn't Say It ...

Lady Gaga, on why she chose not to speak out against the rumors that she was transgender:

"When I was in my early 20s, there was a rumor that I was a man. I went all over the world. I traveled for tours and for promoting my records, and almost every interview I sat in, they said … there was this imagery on the internet that had been doctored … the reason why I didn't answer the question is because I didn't feel like a victim with that lie. I thought: What about a kid who is being accused of that would think about a public figure like me feeling shame? In that case, I tried to be thought-provoking and ... I tried to use the misinformation to create a disruptive point." 

It goes back to being called gay and thinking it an insult … it’s not, and to think of it that way is to feed into the homophobia.

Gaga did that same thing for transphobia; it’s not a horrible thing, it’s just a ‘thing.’

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Markwayne Mullin, GOP senator from Oklahoma, on if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power.

“It’s hard to say what you’re going to do or what you’re not, because my job is to make sure that irregularities are within the standard that the federal government puts out in place, which is us. The federal government sets irregularities as to how far those can go. So is it going to be less than 1% or is that less than a half percent? Whatever those regularities are, we’ll take that case at a time.”

That’s a word salad saying, ‘I will do what’s best for the GOP taking control and mask it as patriotism because I’m a fucking traitor.’

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Janet Jackson, proving money and success doesn’t make you intelligent, speaking on Kamala Harris’ race:

“She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian. Her father’s white. I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.”

Harris’ father is Jamaican while her mother is Indian, but far be it from Janet to investigate the story  herself and just take what she ‘heard’ as fact.

PS A spokesperson for Jackson says the comments were “based on misinformation” and “she deeply respects Vice President Kamala Harris and her accomplishments as a Black and Indian woman … Janet apologizes for any confusion caused and acknowledges the importance of accurate representation in public discourse. We appreciate the opportunity to address this and will remain committed to promoting unity.”

PSS Now reps for Jackson say the "apology” for the singer’s ill-informed comments was made by a person who is not the singer’s manager, as he had claimed, and thus was not authorized to speak on her behalf.

So, Janet is still an idiot? Okay. Maybe she needs to exert some Control over what she hears and what she says and what people say for her.

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Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin GOP Representative, admitting that he had no evidence of his claims of voting fraud regarding federal elections:

“Well, obviously, it would take, you know, 10,000 inaccurate ballots or 20,000 ballots to turn things around ]and] no, we don’t have evidence of that. But who knows? If you find a little bit of cheating, who knows if you had the time and resources to look around for more. Who knows what you’d find.”

You’ve had years asshat; years!!! And you’ve found nothing and yet you’ve wasted and continue to waste taxpayer money to appease a rapist racist traitorous con artist grifter because your entire party is spineless.

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Miranda Devine, Fox contributor, lying … because it’s Fox:

“These people have pulled out no stops, all stops, to portray January 6, 2021, the riot at the Capitol, as being the worst terrorist attacks since Pearl Harbor, worse than 9/11. This was completely ignoring the BLM Antifa violence that terrorized American citizens for months in 2020 and, you know, as opposed to what was really just an inconvenience for some members of Congress for a few hours at their workplace. But they have not stopped and what [White House press secretary] Karine Jean-Pierre and all of those, that montage of talking heads you just played, what they show is that they are going to double down and in Orwellian fashion they are blaming the victim, [The Felon], for instigating the violence that they have instigated.”

Hey Miranda, how would you feel if a bunch of people carrying flag poles as weapons broke through the windows of your house, stole your personal property including private papers and computers, shit on your walls and threatened your life?

Would it be just an inconvenience, you Low IQAnon fool?

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Tracee Ellis Ross, on those so-called “childless women”:

"As a 51-year-old childless woman, I wanna say to the people who think a woman's worth is measured in her baby count—I mean, shoutout to all the amazing mothers—but childless women have been mothering the world and elevating culture as aunties, godmothers, teachers, mentors, sisters, and friends … the list goes on. You do not have to push out a baby to help push humanity forward.”

Miss Ross is brilliant and thoughtful and spot on.

Women have been caring for all of us forever, and without women, we, none of us, would be here.

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Saturday, March 23, 2019

I Ain't One To Gossip But ...


What do you do when you were a semi-celebrity known for being an anti-vaxxer, and now you’re no longer relevant? Why, you drag your former boss through the mud. Amirite, Jenny McCarthy? Jenny is dishing the dirt from her time on The View, which if I recall correctly, was about ten excruciating minutes six or seven years ago.

McCarthy, out promoting a book called Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story Of ‘The View’ compares Barbara Walters to Mommie Dearest and claims there was a power struggle between Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara, with Whoopi basically telling Barbara when and where she could speak.

But Jenny’s first Babs spat was when she guested on the show to promote her book, Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism, and Babs let her have it:
“I walked into her dressing room and she blew up at me. She was screaming, ‘How dare you say this! That autism can be cured?’ My knees were shaking. I remember my whole body was shaking.”
When Jenny said she never used the word cured to describe Evan’s condition, Babs shrieked:
“You’re such a liar!”
Yeah, that totally sounds like Barbara Walters. I mean, because a few years later we’re to believe that Barbara Walters actually hired the liar? Uh huh. Jenny also claims that when rumors swirled that Barbara was ‘retiring” Whoopi was actually pushing her out to pasture … from the show Babs created.

Lastly, Jenny plays the Doddering Barbara card again about the day she mentioned Katy Perry in Hot Topics:
“I saw Barbara’s face with her big saucer eyes look at me, then we went to a commercial. She said, ‘Who is it that you’re talking about and why are you bringing her up?’ And I’m, like, ‘That’s Katy Perry. You interviewed her last week!’”
Jenny admits it was the wrong thing to say and then declares that the other hosts were kicking her under the table because that’s what they did as a signal of how to deal with Barbara. Funny, though, Jenny, that you can totally see under the table and I don’t recall anyone ever kicking you … though I bet they wanted to. But then your memory is probably fuzzy because you only had that job for a hair’s breadth and haven’t really done much since… except “write” a book to make a few coins.

PS Jenny also relays a fabulous story about the time Barbara Walters demanded that she flush a tampon down the toilet.

Tampon is a euphemism for Jenny’s career.
Oh, those Kardastrophes. They love posting pictures of themselves on social media, but just can’t get the hang of PhotoShop.

This time is lesser known Kardastrophe sister, Kourtney, who has been promoting some mysterious brand of hers called Poosh, and used that picture as her latest promo shot.

Sad thing is that the face seems pasted onto the body, and part of her left leg is missing, and there’s some kind of growth on her hand.

Seriously, can’t That Woman get them an update on PhotoShop?
Speaking of PhotoShop, Miss Jackson, if your ego is bruised, needs a lesson or two herself.

It appears that Janet Jackson tried to “edit” a poster for this summer’s Glastonbury Festival to give herself top billing ... the original is on the left, the Jackson version is on the right.

Days after the British festival officially announced that the singer had been added to the lineup for the five-day music event—headlined by The Killers and The Cure—Miss Jackson tweeted out an image of the poster that gave herself top billing.

Yes, she did.

Nasty.
And perhaps Janet or Kourtney could give Michael Feinstein a lesson in Facebooking, after a misleading post by Feinstein left some fans thinking he’d stolen an Oscar from Hollywood royalty, Gay Icon, and Judy’s daughter, Liza Minnelli.

Feinstein and his husband, Terrence Flannery, have been all up in Liza’s business since she moved from New York to Los Angeles four years ago, and on the night of the Oscars this year, Feinstein posted a photo of a gold Oscar statuette and identified it as Vincente Minnelli’s 1959 Best Director Oscar for “Gigi” saying:
“Vincente gifted me this beautiful statue many, many year [sic] ago. It remains on the mantel in my bedroom, so I may appreciate it and Mr. Minnelli’s immense talent, daily.”
Liza fans, or fan, were immediately suspicious since nothing is more sacred to Miss Minelli than her daddy, and his Oscar. Even Liza friends, like pianist Billy Stritch commented:
“Wow I didn’t realize that was your Oscar! So nice of you to let Liza display it in her apartment for all those years. Bet you’re glad to have it back in your bedroom!”
Stritch later deleted the comment; perhaps after Feinstein cleared up the confusion by editing his post to blame an “assistant in my employ” for the “misinformation”:
“The photo was taken a few years ago during construction at Liza’s home. I kept it for safekeeping while workers and strangers had full run of her home during a remodel. Upon construction completion, the Oscar was safely returned to Liza’s possession.”
Wait, so your friend’s house is being remodeled and you ask to hold her Daddy’s Oscar but not Liza FREAKING Minelli?

What kind of old school, gay are you, you monster?
Roseanne Barr, who lost her career and her TV show for being a racist asshat and has since gone on a world tour blaming anyone and everything for her stupidity, now has a new target: it’s Darlene’s fault.

Yes, Roseanne’s pretend TV daughter, Sara Gilbert, ruined her career and destroyed her life. It wasn’t the Ambien and your talent for talking when you should shut up? What?

Although Roseanne was warned by ABC bigwigs many times about her Twitter usage, even before the reboot aired, she repeatedly ignored requests to shut her effing mouth, and so Sara Gilbert stepped up to end it all for her.

Roseanne says it’s because, on May 29, 2018, about 30 minutes before ABC announced the death of Roseanne, Sara Gilbert tweeted that Barr’s comments were “abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show” and that’s what ended it:
“She destroyed the show and my life with that tweet. She will never get enough until she consumes my liver with a fine Chianti.”
Um, Roseanne, do you even know Gilbert? She’s a vegetarian, fer chrissakes!
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Saturday, September 08, 2018

It's Snarkurday!


I’ve heard of Cardi B, though I couldn’t pick her out of a lineup or a playlist, but apparently, she’s good for some snark.

It seems new mom Cardi is ALLEGEDLY annoyed with Jade, a bartender at New York’s Angels Strip Club, for ALLEGEDLY sleeping with her husband, Migos rapper Offset. And Cardi is, again ALLEGEDLY, so perturbed by the thought that she has ALLEGEDLY ordered a beatdown of both Jade and her sister, fellow strip club bartender Baddie Gi.

Jade and Baddie ALLEGE that Cardi had been threatening them with bodily harm for months and ALLEGE that when they ran into Cardi in an Atlanta hotel in June, Cardi ALLEGEDLY accused Jade of getting it on with Offset and threatened to whoop her ass, though nothing seems to have come of that.

Then, in August, Jade says that she was tipped off that she was to receive “a beatdown” and, regular as clockwork, the beatdown happened. Jade ALLEGES that five of Cardi’s people viciously attacked her, grabbing her hair, punching her and hitting her with an ashtray; Jade and Baddie G also ALLEGE that they were both attacked at the club at the end of August and that Cardi herself ALLEGEDLY came to see it.

The sisters ALLEGE that in addition to screaming “I’m blood I’ll fuck you bitches up!”, Cardi threw a bottle at them and so they’ve hired a lawyer and are ALLEGEDLY filing a police report—though that should have been step one, ladies.

Now, my question is a simple one: Cardi thinks her man is dipping his wick in a bartender and threatens to beat up the bartender and her sister, who didn’t get dipped into, and then, ALLEGEDLY, has her minions do the beatdown, but why didn’t Cardi give a beatdown to her man? I mean, he was attached to the penis that dipped into Jade, wasn’t he?
Last week we talked Drake giving smack to Kanye while performing onstage, but I always wondered, what was the beef between the two. Was it Kim? Are the rumors true?

Did Kim Kardastrophe cheat on Kanye with Drake?

See, there are conspiracy theorists who say that Drake’s last album, Scorpion, is full of shady references to the idea that he’s holding back on telling Kanye about how he did the deed with Kanye’s porn star, media whore, wife.

But Kardastrophe sources—and you know it’s That Woman and her Flying Monkeys—say Drake and Kim have mutual friends and have a casual, social friendship, but that they’ve “never had a personal friendship or relationship” and Kim “has never slept with Drake…didn’t happen while she was married and didn’t happen before.”

Kim also took to Instagram to say:
“Never happened. End of story.” 
But … Drake started following Kim on Instagram on Labor Day and we all know what that means.
It’s no secret that Chris Brown loves to fight; normally he uses his fists, but now he’s using the legal system to fight with Nia Guzman, the mother of his 4-year-old daughter Royalty, over child support.

It all began when Guzman has hired an attorney to change her current child support agreement. Right now, she gets $6,500 a month for herself … $2,500 in child support …and another $4,000 for a nanny, who happens to be Nia’s mom. Kinda looks like having Chris’ baby turned into a windfall for Nia and her family, eh? But I digress …

Well, that court order is two years old and now Nia wants more coins because Brown earned an average of $4,269,067 a year—roughly $350,000 a month—and she’s entitled to a percentage because $13,000 a month isn’t enough to live on. So, she wants a raise to $21,000 and retroactive child support in the amount of $250,000.

She is claiming poverty—13K a month is poverty level, you know—and says she cannot afford to pay some of her bills, like $3,300 in rent, $3,500 in food, and $4,500 in clothing for her four-year-old child.

Recently, a judge sided with Nia, and she’ll be getting the extra coins, though Chris, and I …yes, I’m siding with Chris Brown …think this is just a coin grab and is fighting back. And he’s using Nia’s own words as a weapon: one of Nia’s examples of being a broke-ass single mother is the claim that she had to ask a friend to take Royalty to Six Flags, because she didn’t have extra money in her budget for the outing.

She couldn’t scrape together the cost of a ticket from Royalty’s $4,500 a month clothing allowance? There weren’t extra coins from her mother’s nanny salary? Nia couldn’t have skipped a meal?

Perhaps Nia should shop at Once Upon A Child and save some money for trips to amusement parks; or maybe, fire the nanny/mommy and take care of her own child on 13K a month.
Oops ... and ha-ha!

Gwyneth Paltrow’s company Goop has agreed to fork over a $145,000 to settle a false advertising lawsuit filed against them over the jade vagina egg.

Goop started selling a $66 vagina egg that promised to balance hormones, regulate menstrual cycles, and prevent depression. To be fair, the egg was basically a paperweight, and so Goop got schooled and fined by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office for false advertising. They were concerned about the claims made for the health benefits of the eggs, as well as a $22 Inner Judge Flower Essence Blend … flower water … that claimed to “prevent” shame spirals and “depressive states.”

Goop agreed to settle the lawsuit for $145,000 and will refund any customers who wish to get their money back. The egg is still for sale on the website thought the ad now says:
“Used by women to increase sexual energy and pleasure, this nephrite jade stone helps connect the second chakra (the heart) and yoni for optimal self-love and well-being.”
Still sounds like a Goop-styled scam to me.
Celebrity divorces are almost always drama-filled, but the one between Geena Davis and Dr. Reza Jarrahy might just be the biggest scene of ‘em all because he might not even be her husband!

Escandalo! Reza filed for divorce back in May and asked for joint legal and physical custody of their three children, as well as spousal support; he also asked a judge to block Geena from asking for support from him. 

Well, now Geena has filed and she’s asking the judge to dismiss Reza’s divorce petition, because she now claims they were never legally married.

Oh, there was a ceremony, and cake and dancing, but now, seventeen years later, Geena says their marriage license was never properly returned to the court clerk and under New York law—they “wed” in the Hamptons—that means they aren’t technically married. Geena doesn’t say why their license was never returned, but that it was an “intentional” choice.

Maybe that’s because now Geena can claim that since they were never legally wed, they can’t split any property and she doesn’t owe spousal support. She says that whatever they personally bought, they own, and claims that they always filed their taxes as “single” or “head of household.” As for their money, Geena says they kept separate bank accounts and credit cards.

And as more proof, in 2012, Jarrahy applied for a home loan and reportedly confirmed that he and Geena were “cohabiting” and not legally wed. But he does want spousal support because, he says, they had a wedding and acted like husband and wife, and that’s basically the same thing.

Now, if you’re thinking Common Law Marriage, think again. Geena and Reza live in California, which doesn’t recognize common law marriage.

Reza might try that old standby, palimony, but then Geena could whip out the tax forms where he checked the ‘single’ box.

I’m kinda getting the idea that they never returned the marriage license just in case they ever split, so Geena could keep all of her coins.

Sly devil.
Les Moonves, facing his own #MeToo scandal, has another scandal to face: from Janet Jackson. And we’re learning about it from that Ronan Farrow New Yorker exposé on Moonves and sexual harassment.

It appears that after that Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake fiasco at Super Bowl XXXVIII Moonves ALLEGEDLY plotted to destroy Janet. Y’all remember that when Justin sang the words “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song” while closing out the halftime show he ripped the top of Janet’s outfit exposing her breast on national TV.

The world went crazy; and so did Moonves.

Timberlake later said that the plan was to rip part of Janet’s costume and reveal a piece of red lace, but we got boob and nipple jewelry instead. And apparently Moonves was incensed by the display and vowed revenge because he just knew it wasn’t an accident, and that Janet and Justin did it intentionally, and also believed Janet wasn’t contrite enough.

Janet and Justin were banned from the 2004 Grammys, which were scheduled to air a week after the Super Bowl, but Justin made a teary apology, and Les accepted it and let him on the show. 

But Janet’s ban remained because she didn’t shed any tears and so Moonves ALLEGEDLY ordered VH1, MTV, and Viacom-owned radio stations to stop playing Janet’s music and music videos. With her album Damita Jo being released a month later, a blacklist would prove costly. 

And it was; then, sources say, Moonves helped to craft the story ALLEGING that TittyGate was all Janet’s fault. And even seven years later, when Janet released the self-help book True You through CBS-owned Simon & Schuster Moonves ALLEGEDLY went apesh*t again.

Now, I am not one to make huge leaps, but a man who might punish a woman because she didn’t bow down to him and kiss his ring over an ALLEGED accident boob baring, might just be the kind of man who thinks women are to be used for his own pleasure.

I’m just saying, Moonves sounds like a typical white privileged male misogynistic pig.

Saturday, June 10, 2017

It's Snarkurday!

Well, well, well, while y’all were watching the Comey testimony you completely missed that other yuuuuge scandal of the week: HugGate!

Yup, at the National Night of Laughing and Song last week in DC Jerry Seinfeld was giving an interview when Kesha raced up to him, interrupted, and asked for a hug.

Jerry said no; Kesha tried again.

Jerry said no ... again ... and backed up.

Kesha squealed and ran off.

And then Kesha fans tried to come for Seinfeld on Twitter while Jerry, old school comic that he is, simply gave a statement ... with a side of shade:
“I’m 63. I don’t know every pop star ... In my reality I don’t hug a total stranger. I have to meet someone, say hello. I gotta start somewhere. Hug isn’t first moment of a human, two humans ... I got a borderline harassment case here.”
He totally Mimi-I-Don’t-Know-Her’d Kesha!
Poor JLo. It appears that while she can get any man she wants, once she gets them, they ... ALLEGEDLY ... cheat on her.

True; Alex Rodriguez has ... ALLEGEDLY ... been sexting with another woman while he was banging Jennifer Lopez and even tried to arrange a date with his secret love.

The National Enquirer—remember they got the John Edwards story right—says they have the sext messages between A-Rod and fitness model Lauren Hunter, included naked pictures of her sent to the former baseballer.

Hunter claims she and Rodriguez began dating back in 2011—while he was dating Cameron Diaz ... how’s that for an STD cesspool—and have been in touch ever since. And so, after A-Rod began banging dating JLo in March, he and Hunter ... ALLEGEDLY ... “began FaceTiming again three or four times a day and [Hunter] was sending him explicit messages and photos.”

Then, the Enquirer says, “on On May 10 [Rodriguez] told [Hunter] he missed her ... and asked her to send a video of her [doing a sex act].”

A couple of days later A-Rod asked Hunter to fly to Kansas City where he was doing on-air commentary for Fox, while JLo was in New York filming. Hunter didn’t make the trip because she couldn’t arrange child care.

A source close to Rodriguez—possibly JLo herself in Damage Control mode—says:
“He and Jennifer are together all the time. Every week the magazines write something ridiculous about their relationship, last week they were getting married, she’s pregnant. It’s laughable.”
Well, together except for that time he was in Kansas City and she was in NYC and he ... ALLEGEDLY ... tried to arrange a booty call.

But this all boils down to one question: why do the men JLo dates, and marries and marries and marries and marries, cheat on her?
Okay, so Katy and Taylor ... the feud continues.

Katy has a new album out and to promote it she is talking incessantly about BackUpDancerGate and the feud it ignited, but Taylor has ... ALLEGEDLY ... been taking the high road and refusing to comment on a fight that started over two years ago and inspired Swifty’s “Bad Blood” and Katy’s “Swish Swish.” 

But secretly, TayTay is seething ... and friends of Swifty say she’s livid and refusing to bury the hatchet:
“That is SO not going to happen. Taylor believes that Katy is using their rivalry for press, just like Kanye West and Kim Kardashian did.”
Cuz Taylor Swift, who never had a personal moment she didn’t turn into a song for coins, is the victim, y’all. But, and this gets dishy, Friends of Taylor also say she is petty and cannot let go of the fight either:
“She has been like this since high school. She is sort of a gaslight bully, playing the victim when in fact she is the one likes making others look bad, instead of having a private conversation with them ... Taylor will never let this go.”
At least not until she’s got an entire concept album about it.
I guess divorce, for some, is a career move.

A few months ago Janet Jackson took to social media to announce her divorce from billionaire Wissam al Mana and now she’s trying to turn the divorce—from which she’s expected to receive about a half billion dollars in settlement—into a TV show.

Yup, Miss Jackson is kinda nasty about the breakup and is said to be planning a docu-series on Netflix ... a “ten-part documentary and will feature recording sessions in the studio, co-parenting her child with Wissam and preparing for the European and Asian legs of her tour. Netflix are [sic] negotiating a big sum for the rights to the show as they expect it to perform well.”

You know, because a half-billion dollars to a rich Jackson is just not even coins and so why not sell yourself, and your third failed marriage to the highest bidder?
Looks like Tracy Morgan won’t talk about that horrific bus crash if there isn’t a paycheck involved ... the former 30 Rock star is refusing to testify under oath in an insurance dispute against Wal-Mart’s multimillion-dollar payout to the comedian over that 2014 truck accident that left him injured and killed Jimmy Mack.

Wal-Mart’s insurer, Ohio Casualty, is demanding Morgan appear for a deposition to prove its claims that he exaggerated his injuries to get the payout, reported to be about $90 million.

And Tracy isn’t talking this time because it might cost him money instead of pad his bank account.
Oh lord ... just say No.

Kanye West is trying to seal a deal with Calabasas High School to design their sports uniforms.

Seriously.

As part of the deal, Kanye would also make a sizable donation to improve school facilities—including major upgrades to the gym which might then be called The Kym? And he also wants to change the name of their sports teams from the Coyotes to the Wolves—which just happens to be the name of one of his songs—and would like to change the school’s colors from black-and-gold to ... flesh?

Does any school, even a school in Calabasas really want to look like this when they take the field?


Even the drama club should stop taking his calls.

Just say No!