IT'S 'GAME' TIME
Now that CW's series "The Game" is back with all new shows it's moved to a new time on Sunday's. You definitely don't want to miss the next episode in which NFL star Chad Johnson and Serena Williams guest stars. Here is a preview of what's to come:Malik (Hosea Chanchez) asks his publicist to set him up on a date with Serena Williams. Things go well between them until Serena mistreats one of Malik’s friends at a party. He considers breaking up with her, but Tasha (Wendy Raquel Robinson) asks Malik to hold off since she is trying to sign Serena as a client.
At Serena’s request, Tasha takes her to a Sunbeams meeting, where Serena is rude to everyone, causing Tasha to decide she no longer wants Serena as a client. However, Malik has decided he wants to continue dating Serena.
Malik schools Derwin (Pooch Hall) on the kind of girl he should be dating now that he’s a football star.
E3 FLASHBACK FRIDAY
TYRA BANKS 'NOT QUITING' TOP MODEL
As E3 promised an update on Tyra Banks leaving ANTM
Retired supermodel and TV host Tyra Banks has dismissed reports she is to leave her reality show America's Next Top Model. Banks' spokesperson insists the reports are wildly inaccurate.
The representative tells Usmagazine.com: "The rumors about Tyra leaving and the fight with Jay are not true!"
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E3 RUMOR CONTROL
Usher Denies Wife's Alleged Video Set Feud:
He says, "Keri could not have been happier with Tameka's choices in the styling, hair and make-up. Jamaica was flown out and arrived a day late to do Keri's choreography, and was on-set at all times. The shoot itself went brilliantly."
TYRA IS LEAVING 'AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL'?
The word on the curb is that Tyra Banks is set to leave America's Next Top Model to concentrate on her popular talk show. Friction with the show's co-host is being cited, by reports, as the reason for Banks' rumored departure:
OK! magazine reports that Banks isn’t getting along with photo shoot creative director Jay Manuel, and her days on the show could be numbered. “It’s gotten so bad that Tyra and Jay aren’t speaking,” an insider told OK! magazine. The selective silent treatment isn’t limited to Manuel, either. “Tyra barely interacts with the contestants and only wants to show up on judging day,” the source told the magazine.
KANYE WEST SUED OVER SONG
Rapper Kanye West is facing legal action from a songwriter in Maryland, who has accused the star of stealing his hit song "Good Life." The "Stronger" hitmaker is being sued by songwriter/producer Dayna 'D'Mystro' Staggs for copyright infringement, claiming West "didn't obtain a license" to sample his record "Volume of Good Life" for the track.
LAILA ALI PREGNANT
Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila is pregnant with her first child. The boxing champion and her husband, ex-football player Curtis Conway, reveal their baby news in the forthcoming edition of Essence magazine. She says, "I don't know yet if we are having a boy or a girl, but I'm excited that I have a life inside me that my husband and I created. I am 100 percent undeniably happy. I've never been able to say that before."
NEW MUSIC FROM BEYONCE
“Beautiful Nightmare” seems to be a teaser track from Beyoncé, just a taste of what’s going to be on the upcoming album. What do you think... JAM IT or SLAM IT?
NOW SEE THIS: KEYSHIA COLE
NOW HEAR THIS: SOLANGE
Singer, songwriter and actress, Solange Knowles is trying to make a name for herself by stepping out the shadow of her big sister's shadow. Solange has already moved to Los Angeles and has signed with a new label and has announced that her sophmore album Soul Angel and the Hadley Street Dreams will be dropping this summer. God Given Name a track off the upcoming album has leaked onto the net which gives listeners a taste of what to expect on the new album.
NOW HEAR THIS: CASSIE
2008 is set to be the year that the ladies of Bad Boy make their return. With Cheri Dennis and Danity Kane having released their albums early in the year, Bad Boy artist Cassie is positioned to drop her sophmore album this summer. The singer/model turned actress hopes for a sophmore success with the rumored lead single Thirsty. The flirtatious and uptempo track was one of the first songs Cassie recorded last year. Written by Eric Hudson and Cory Williams, Thirsty is set to be a summer jam.
KELLY ROWLAND HEADING TO BROADWAY
R&B star Kelly Rowland wants to follow in the footsteps of her former Destiny's Child bandmate Michelle Williams and take to the New York stage. The R&B sunger is reportedly keen to try her hand at acting on Broadway, and has instructed her manager, Matthew Knowles, and his team to help her land a role in a hit show.
E3 FIRST LISTEN: BRANDY
HOSEA CHANCHEZ: GQ WITH AN IQ
Hosea Chanchez currently stars as “Malik Wright” on The CW’s hit sitcom “The Game,” which has started airing new episodes. Chanchez’s acting talent, and instinctive sense of humor have made Malik a truly multidimensional character, a star NFL quarterback who is a player on and off the field. Chanchez opened up to Variety.com by answering a few questions on who gives him inspiration to what are his favorite books.
Best hangover remedy? Spicy Bloody Mary
GARCELLE IS A MILF
Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon is featured on the cover of the upcoming issue of Jet Magazine and discusses her decision for posing nude in Playboy at the age of 40 and being pregnant back in July:
“I knew I was trying to get pregnant, I said who knows how my body will look, maybe we should document this now. I wasn’t doing this for anyone other than to prove I could do it. Then they offered the cover, which they don’t normally do for Black women. That made it credible"
MASTER P & ROMEO LAND JOINT MOVIE ROLES
CORINNE BAILEY RAE'S HUSBAND FOUND DEAD
British soul star Corinne Bailey Rae's musician husband has been found dead of a suspected drugs overdose. The body of saxophonist Jason Rae, 31, was discovered in a Leeds, England apartment on Saturday.
THE GAME IS BACK AND BRAND NEW
When Jason (Coby Bell) confesses that he's not ready to give up steroids, Kelly (Brittany Daniel) realizes she has no other choice but to take Brittany (Erica Gluck) and leave Jason. A gorgeous girl (guest-star Megalyn Echikunwoke) catches Derwin's (Pooch Hall) eye, but when he tries to give her game she schools him on being real.
Source: cwtv
A RISING STAR
Actress Meagan Good recently sat down with DeWayne Rogers of Rolling Out magazine to talk about her new production company, Freedom Bridge Entertainment, a labor of love with partners Ty Hodges, Tamara Bass and Marlon Olivera. Good discussed how she is finally taking her career into her own hands to break free of streotypes and her plans to create opportunities for not only for herself, but for other African American actors and actresses. You can read all of what Meagan Good had to say at Rolling Out plus photos from her exclusive photo shoot with the magazine can be viewed below.
Make sure to catch Meagan Good in the Love Guru with Mike Myers, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Alba, due out in theaters this Summer.
Source: rolling out/Images: scott herbert