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In October I blogged about the film Couples Retreat and it’s suspect promotional material. Click here to read.

The international poster promoting the film (also seen here in Britain) does not feature African American actors Faizon Love and Kali Hawk.

However the US poster does feature both actors but they have both been deliberately placed right at the back.

Since then our very own Daily Mail has picked up on the story and featured this article via their website on Monday.

In response to the controversy Universal Pictures said, the poster had been changed to ‘simplify’ it for the UK and international market outside America. The studio added that it regretted causing offence and has abandoned plans to use the revised poster in other countries.

They cannot be serious……

Spotted @ C&D

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Graham Norton – TV Presenter

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There are no words……

LOL!!!!

If you’re not familiar with this story then click here to read all about the shambles that was the Miss Black Britain beauty pageant, and please take time to read the comments left by contestants, sponsors and members of the public.

American actress Nia Long was also present at the event (she was supposed to be hosting it) but walked out in disgust an hour later.

Embarrassing!

A reader has now kindly forwarded on the email that he received from the organisers, which attempts to explain Saturday’s shenanigans.

[Thanks Frank].    

Hello All,

Saturday evening was a very stressful evening for all members of the Miss BB Team.

Having no access to the venue for everyone due to the Lords mayors show impacted the entire event. The artist were  unable to get in to complete their sound checks on schedule this applies to the dancers, the sound engineers, the makeup , hair team, support staff, the live band , the hosts for rehearsals in the day the list goes on etc ,  CARS WERE UNABLE TO ACCESS THE BUILDING . With this in mind food and drinks for you guys could not be delivered and other crucial things that we needed to be delivered. We could not have changed this and had to deal with this the best possible way we could. This had huge implications on our months of endless planning and efforts.

Due to the ‘playing catch up’ we did not get to give you girls the rehearsal time that we would usually allocated.

All have you have attended the heats and the castings for Miss Black Britain and there is no doubt that our standards are a fully professional, these were very unfortunate circumstances for us.

We apologies for the lack of preparation time but this was out of our hands due to issues explained above.

We wish you all the best of luck for the future.

Thank you participating in the competition

Miss BB Team

Hmmmmmmm……..

The father of the 13-year-old boy who accused the late Michael Jackson of sexually molesting him in 1993 was found dead in his home earlier this month.

Evan Chandler, father of Jordy Chandler, apparently committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

Click here to read more…

Now what could have  possibly pushed him to take his own life?

Antoinette Davis (left), her daughter Shaniya (centre) and Mario McNeill

Via The Metro

A missing five-year-old girl suspected of being prostituted by her mother has been found dead.

The body of Shaniya Davis was found in woods 65km (40 miles) from her home following a five-day search by police and volunteers.

Officers arrested Antoinette Davis shortly after her daughter’s remains were found on Monday and accused her of pimping her child.

The 25-year-old appeared in court charged with human trafficking and child abuse. She did not enter a plea. Continue Reading….

I have been following this story and hoped that they would find Shaniya alive.

Pure evil! I hope the individuals responsible for Shaniya’s death are all sentenced to death.

Click here to read more about this case…..

Rest In Peace Shaniya Davis.

The Miss Black Britain beauty pageant took place over the weekend in London, and my sources tell me that it was a complete and utter shambles.

I’ve been told that the event started 2 hours late, that the night’s host American actress Nia Long walked out in the middle of proceedings and UK artist Young Nate who had been invited to perform was asked to leave the building.

Those who were in attendance also had this to say:

Via Facebook Forum 

Tantastic Sam - My group and I paid over £1100 for our supposedly VIP tickets. We were told we would get a champagne reception, canapes and front row seats. We were sitting at the back! No champagne and couldnt even buy ourselves a drink after the interval. What an absolute embarrassment. As a young black woman, I was really up for supporting our own but instead I got robbed by our own! When I tried to complain, I was told that the organisers did not want to talk to us and had then left the building! Better they would have charged everyone £35 and done. I will be going to the papers, the radio and the BBC if I do not get a response and a refund from someone soon.

 Ala Raney – The organiser of this competition did not even have the decency to thank the other contestants who took part, instead she walked past them. The show was two hours late, Nia Long did not look impressed, and to be honest this competition took advantage of young women and was just a money making scam. 50 girls in the final each paying £200 sponser fee which to me sounds like they just needed enough girls to pay for Nia Longs fee.

Zoe Briggs – This whole competition is an absolute piece of rubbish. I am thankful to God for allowing me to be in this competition however I am highly unimpressed with the way the whole compettion was organised. WE Contestants were made to wait in the reception for at least two hours, and the organiser did not arrive until much later in the day. However it was blamed on the fact that there were train delays, which is totally understandable but how on earth did we then manage to get there before the organiser herself? She came and just casually said ‘Oh did you guys get delayed as well’?

We didn’t get anything to eat, instead we had to contribute £3.00 if we wanted KFC. So if we didn’t contribute £3.00 we couldnt eat. We didn’t rehearse till the last 45 mins so everything was chaotic. So much pressure was put on us girls to find sponsors not knowing it wasn’t even that necessary when some people were allowed to not have sponsors just because they couldn’t find one. To make maters worst the sponsor had to pay £200.00. Texting cost £1.00. It was said that the five girls with the highest number of votes would be fast tracked to the final round. I wonder when and how that was counted/organised to come to a final decision. People were made to wait outside including my pregnant aunty. The whole thing was disorganised from start to finish.

Tara Nelson – This is going in to the newspapers,  TV, Yahoo Group. MISS BLACK BRITAIN Has done this before. and this time was REALLY BAD the worst one!! WRONG MOVE this TIME. MISS BB is OVER. ”ALL I’M SAYING EVERYONE WILL GET THEIR MONEY BACK” in a legal WAY… PROMISE!

The organiser should be ashamed of herself!

But the sad thing is none of this surprises me…..

We need to do better people!!!! 

Who won this year?

N-Dubz

Via Digital Spy

Police have appealed to N-Dubz stars Dappy and Fazer to contact them as potential witnesses to an alleged rape.

According to the BBC, officers want to interview the pair over an incident that took place following an N-Dubz gig at Butlins holiday camp in Skegness last Saturday. Continue Reading…..

Butlins holiday camp……… Oh dear……..

Hmmmmmm…….. Lady GaGa looks odd and Beyonce gone over the edge….

Your thoughts please. Hit or Miss?

The Daily Mirror has reported that rapper/businessMAN Jay-Z wants to kick start singer/X-Factor judge Cheryl Cole’s career Stateside.

Click here to read more….

Cheryl Cole is the ”nations sweetheart” a ”national treasure”. She can do no wrong!!!

US stars like Jay-Z and Will I.AM should do their research first before jumping on the Cheryl Cole bandwagon!

If this story is true then I wholeheartedly agree with fellow blogger Marvin Sparks who said today “Jay’s on some wasteman vibe”.

Sophie Amogbokpa

People here have short memories but not me!

Cheryl’s flawless L’Oreal fake mask will slip again!

Last night (November 16th) I attended Rihanna’s highly anticipated show at London’s O2 Brixton Academy in association with Nokia.

The event was billed as being a private gig (invite only) that was due to be hosted at a private location.

I initially thought that it would be taking place in a sophisticated dark intimate setting in some trendy night club. But I almost choked on my D&G Grape Soda when I heard the words “Brixton Academy”.   

“Private” and “invite only” were both thrown out of the window when it was later announced that Nokia would be giving away tickets (only if you owned a Nokia phone) at their London store on Regents Streets, and when I arrived in Brixton there were posters stuck on lamp posts outside the venue promoting the event.

This was an interesting turn of events…

Anyway the excited crowd that gathered to see the singer perform tracks from her new album Rated R were on a whole an eclectic mix of competition winners, industry folk and B/C -list celebrities.  

Rihanna (who I sometimes affectionately call  ‘The Dark Priestess’) appeared on stage at around 8.15pm clad in a black leotard and got straight down to business.

She sang some of her old hits which included, Disturbia, It’s Over Now, Umbrella and then performed new tracks The Wait Is Over, Russian Roulette and Hard featuring rapper Young Jeezy.

Jeezy walked on to the stage dressed in all black and dripping in diamonds. It looked like he had spent the last month raiding diamond mines in Angola courtesy of those crooks De Beers.

Then towards the end the Dark Lord himself Jay-Z stepped out from beneath the shadows (I gripped on tight to my crucifix when he appeared) and performed Run This Town with Rihanna.

This as you can imagine brought the house down.

Now I am not a big Rihanna fan but I did enjoy the show and her live vocals have improved immensely.  She engaged with the audience and did a pretty good job of holding my attention for 45 minutes.

My only gripes were her live band. The music was far too loud and drowned out her vocals throughout, and Rihanna slightly caressing her crotch area.  You really don’t need to go down that road Rih Rih!