Category: Drama

Childrens Shows, Drama, Failed Relationships, Homosexuality, Kevin Clash, Law and order, Scandal, Sesame Street, Sex

The Voice Behind Elmo Resigns…

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He had his dream job, the opportunity of a lifetime, yet the devil in the details “killed it” and it all came crashing down.

Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash has resigned from “Sesame Street” in the wake of an allegation that he had sex with an underage youth. In its statement Tuesday, Sesame Workshop said “the controversy surrounding Kevin’s personal life has become a distraction that none of us want,” leading Clash to conclude “that he can no longer be effective in his job.”

In a statement of his own, Clash said “personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work Sesame Street is doing and I cannot allow it to go on any longer. I am deeply sorry to be leaving and am looking forward to resolving these personal matters privately.”

As the announcement was made, a lawsuit was being filed in federal court in New York charging Clash with sexual abuse of a second youth. The lawsuit alleges that Cecil Singleton, then 15 and now an adult, was persuaded by Clash to meet for sexual encounters.

The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $5 million.

Clash, who had been on “Sesame Street” for 28 years, created the high-pitched voice and child-like persona for Elmo, a furry, red Muppet that became one of the most popular characters on the show and one of the company’s most lucrative properties.

Clash’s exit followed a tumultuous week that began on Nov. 12 with a statement from the company that Clash had requested a leave of absence following the charge by a man in his early 20s that he’s had a relationship with Clash when he was 16.

Clash denied the charge from that man, who has not been publicly identified, calling it “false and defamatory.”

Clash, a 52-year-old divorced father of a grown daughter, acknowledged that he is gay and the sex with the first accuser was consensual.

Controversy, Discrimination, Drama, Education/Schools, Election 2012, Politics, Prejudice, President Obama, Protest/Boycott, Racist

Mississippi Still Racist in 2012!

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About 600 ‘Ole Miss’ students gathered Wednesday for the “We Are One Mississippi” counter-protest. Racial slurs were used when about 400 students gathered to protest President Obama’s re-election Tuesday night. The Tuesday night protest grew to about 400 students after Obama was re-elected.

Some shouted, “The South will rise again” during the protest, eyewitnesses and university police officials told The Clarion-Ledger. Others used racial slurs. An Obama campaign sign was also burned.

University of Mississippi students held a candlelight march to protest a spontaneous anti-Obama demonstration on Election Night that turned ugly when some students shouted racial slurs.

Ole Miss is still grappling with its legacy as the setting of racial riots in 1962 after James H. Meredith was enrolled as the school’s first black student. Two people were killed in the violent protests, which forced President John F. Kennedy to send in federal troops.

“It just makes me angry that we’re celebrating 50 years of integration yet people decided to be stupid last night and throw a fit over the election,” student Jordan Price told WREG.

“There’s no place for something like this in our school,” student Mackenzie Widder said.

School and police officials told The Clarion-Ledger that some reports, including those describing the demonstration as a “riot,” were exaggerated.

Dean of Students Sparky Reardon said: “There were tens of thousands of other Ole Miss students who were studying or working for campus media or attending election watch parties. They were busy doing what Ole Miss does best”

 The school is working on an appropriate response to the incident.

All of this took place because President Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term? What did they do four years ago when he was elected?

Drama, Hot Mess, Reality Television, Whitney Houston

The Houston’s “On Our own” Airs tomorrow at 9:00PM

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Whitney Houston was the star and Whitney Houston was the legend, therefore I’m not interested in the private and personal lives of her family. I will always be a Whitney Houston fan but still not interested in her family’s reality television show.

And in spite of Whitney Houston being out of the equation, Lifetime television has apparently inked this deal for a reality show starring Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina, her grandmother Cissy Houston, her uncle Gary, his wife Pat and their daughter Rayah.

Although the Houston’s deny this reality show as exploiting the late singer’s death in order to make a profit, their claim is that Whitney was “onboard” with the show prior to her death last February.

“The Houston’s: On Our Own” which airs tomorrow night, will reportedly confirm Bobbi Kristina’s engagement to Nick Gordon; a young man who lived with she and her mother Whitney, supposedly raised as her brother and is now in the picture as the love of Bobbi Kristina’s life.

The anticipated show, which will follow the lives of the Houston family, released a series of clips from the show’s sneak peaks into the trials that come with trying to raise Whitney Houston’s only daughter especially as she tries to walk through life without her mother. In viewing clips for the upcoming show, it is painfully obvious that Bobbi Kristina’s had no discipline growing up with her mother.

I’m sure this show will be packed with plenty of drama!

Celebrity, Celebrity Kids, Celebrity Mess, Drama, What he said

Snoop Dogg Smokes Weed With His Son…

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A family that smokes marijuana/weed together, stays together?

Rapper Snoop Dogg (or Snoop Lion as he now prefers to be called) is defending the controversial photo (above) of his 18-year-old son Corde lighting his father’s bong. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the rapper says, “My kids can do whatever the hell they want. For me to say otherwise would be hypocritical.” So it’s safe to say his kids are raising themselves.

“A lot of motherfucker’s don’t have a relationship with their kids, and that’s when they get on drugs and have suicidal thoughts and drive drunk. Me and my son is mellow. I’m his father, so I wanna show him the proper way because he looks up to me. What better way to get it than from the master?”

When the THR reporter arrived at Snoop’s home for the interview, the teen (Corde) was sitting in the backyard rolling joints.

Wow!!!!!

But getting high isn’t Corde’s only pastime, Snoop’s son wants to be a rapper like his famous father. 

“He’s getting there,” Snoop says of his oldest child (he also has son Cordell, 15, and daughter Cori, 13), who has already written songs titled “Rollin, Rollin, Rollin … Stoned” and “Commemoration of Vaporization.” “I see myself in him, but he needs to walk in his own shoes.” Snoop says.

You can check out Snoop Dogg’s upcoming interview in The Hollywood Reporter.

Adultery, Celebrity Breakups, Divorce, Drama, Failed Relationships, Hot Mess

These are his confessions…Usher tells Oprah all!!

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If Usher’s ex-wife Tamika was watching him on Oprah’s Next Chapter last night, I know some of his confessions to Oprah were a complete BLOW to her heart.

The fact that Usher admitted that he shouldn’t have married the already mother of three, heralds one big regret after the other but to admit he cheated on her towards the end of the marriage is just unreal. Usher had absolutely no respect for the sanctity of his union to Tamika, then again I’ve heard she had absolutely no sanctity for hers when she cheated on her husband with Usher; so what goes around truly comes back around.

One of the more shocking revelations from Usher and Tamika Raymond’s bitter child custody battle was that Usher slept with one of the bridesmaids from his and Tamika’s wedding.

Usher also claims that, pressure from the public pushed their marriage over the edge and Usher’s mother admits; if she had it to do over again she’d STILL boycott her son’s wedding.

This was a real mess and yet they both went on with the marriage anyway. As a result they are now tied to each other for life (like it or not), through the lives of their kids.

Usher was nowhere near ready to be somebody’s husband.