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The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Lisa Wu Hartwell says this week’s scandal over her foreclosed home is nothing compared to Thursday’s episode.
“You haven’t seen nothing yet!,” Wu Hartwell shared with PEOPLE early Wednesday.
“I’m watching like, this is crazy,’ Hartwell says of the fight between Kim Zolciak, Sheree Whitfield and NeNe Leakes that began [...]

Keyshia Cole and Monica have so much in common this year. Not only has the duo collaborated on the single “Trust” but, they both have BET related reality tv show related projects and new albums on the horizon.
First up for the dynamic singers is this weekend’s BET Awards. Slated to air Sunday, June 28, [...]

Queens-bred rapper turned preacher Reverend Run, who’s also the star of MTV’s “Run’s House,” and his wife, Justine, got down and dirty for a good cause—building playgrounds in the neighborhoods that need them the most.
Today, the Simmonses teamed with KaBOOM, Kool-Aid and The Odyssey House  to lend a helping hand in the Bronx, New York, [...]

You may remember Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas from her days as one-third of the Grammy Award-winning group TLC. We haven’t heard much from Chilli since the group fizzled after the death of member Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. Now we’ve caught wind of a VH1 casting call for “Atlanta’s hottest men to compete for a chance at romancing Chilli.” [...]

She’s made men fight over her, women hate her, and an entire state her stage name; but for vh1 reality TV icon, Tiffany Pollard, aka New York, her career is just getting started.
You may have wondered why Tiffany hasn’t been seen chain smoking, per usual, on her new series “New York Goes to Hollywood.” She [...]

The I Love New York star has given a verbal lashing to former second-season suitor David Otunga and third-season American Idol finalist Jennifer Hudson, his new wife-to-be.
“He’s really loving being Mr. Jennifer Hudson. I think he’s loving the lavish things she brings to his life, he’s seeing the world due to Jennifer’s success,” Pollard told In Touch Weekly in a [...]

Jennifer Hudson got a big surprise on her 27th birthday: an engagement ring.
Hudson’s beau, David Otunga, popped the question while celebrating the actress-singer’s big day in Los Angeles on Friday, her publicist, Jessica Kolstad, said Monday.
The couple have not yet set a wedding date, Kolstad said.
Hudson won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2007 [...]

With a fleet of cameras following her throughout the Hollywood hills on her new reality show, “New York Goes to Hollywood,” it’s clear that Tiffany Pollard aka New York has moved on. But there’s life after the reality starlet for Tailor Made, too.

SOHH caught up with the winner of New York’s heart from the last [...]

*Will Oprah Winfrey grace the 2008 Emmy Awards stage this year? E! Online is reporting that the talk show tycoon is set to open the Sept. 21 ceremony at the new Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles.      
       “It’s still unclear what the talk-show queen will do, but she has agreed to be on stage for [...]

Back in the day, before you could shrug your shoulders at an overtly suggestive song such as Lil’ Wayne’s ‘Lollipop,’ Luther ‘Luke’ Campbell was hip-hop’s Hugh Heffner. A former member of 2 Live Crew, Luke helped pave the way for freedom of lyrical expression by challenging the American justice system. Now removed from his bad [...]

Toni Braxton seems to be getting back into the swing of things.
Or at least her name is.
The Grammy Award winning singer, whose long running Las Vegas show hit the skids due to health problems earlier this year, is reportedly getting ready to appear in the new season of the hit ABC dancing competition, ‘Dancing with [...]

As we reported previously, fans will be getting the scoop on the relationship of Tiffany Pollard, also known as New York, and I Love New York season 2 winner Tailor Made when the spin-off series New York Goes to Hollywood premieres on August 4.  However, it looks like fans don’t have to wait for much [...]

Omarosa sure knows how to shake things up.
Ask Wendy Williams – who witnessed the reality TV vixen in all of her fierce glory during a live taping of her brand new daytime television talk show on July 21.
The ‘Apprentice’ star was there to promote her forthcoming book, ‘The Bitch Switch,’ and Williams was there to [...]

Akeelah and the Bee” star Keke Palmer has scored the lead role in Nickelodeon’s new live-action pilot “True Fashion, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
 
       The project, described as “Big” meets “The Devil Wears Prada,” centers on a 15-year-old (Palmer) tapped to head the teen division of a major fashion label. She has a passion for [...]