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Janice aka Miss Mad News

‘LOVE & HIP HOP’ – THE UK VERSION APPARENTLY COMING SOON…..

When I first spotted the news on Twitter (where it all goes down these days) that there were plans to make a UK version of the hit US VH1 “reality” show Love & Hip Hop I thought it was a joke (I still do). But  they are in the process of casting for the show. So far America has brought us Love & Hip Hop (New York) and Love & Hip Hop Atlanta. I tried to watch the original show but lasted five minutes. I find it hard to []

UK MUSIC: CHERRI VONCELLE – ‘I MISS YOU’ (NAS DAUGHTERS REFIXX)

… This is why I grow to despise the UK music industry more and more as each day passes. Artists like Cherri Voncelle and Vula Malinga  to name but a few are talented, they can SING their backsides off and make good music, but industry executives in this country still continue to sign and push female singers to the forefront whose vocals/talent pale in comparison (An unfair decision usually based on race and on who they consider “marketable”). Anyway I like Cherri’s ‘I Miss You’ and I like how she sings in an English accent and then switches. Your thoughts please. Hit or []

UK NEWS: BRIXTON RESIDENTS VOICE CONCERNS OVER VIOLENT ARREST

Last night concerned residents stood outside Brixton Police Station and voiced concerns over the arrest of a mentally ill man in his fifties. The Brixton Blog reports that residents claim the police used “unacceptable” force while arresting a man in Windrush Square. Eyewitnesses said the man was put in a choke hold by officers. “Three officers were holding this man. They pushed him to the ground. “One officer choked him by holding his forearm across the man’s throat. Then another officer stamped on him. The []

UK CASTING CALL: PASS THE COMB (SHORT FILM)

Date: Wednesday 29th August, 7pm – 9pm Location: Theatre Royal Stratford East Pass the Comb is a 15 minute short film which tells the story of Jerome, a youngster in conflict and Chantelle, his older sister who uses her calming influence, reasoning skills and the cultural tradition of braiding hair on her younger brother.  Each completed corn-row demonstrates the benefit of Chantelle’s ‘hair therapy’, words of wisdom and advice. But how did Chantelle get so wise?  And is she really the picture []

UK NEWS: RIO FERDINAND FINED 45K OVER “CHOC ICE” TWEET

Fined 45k over a tweet he just replied to…. Via The Telegraph Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has been fined £45,000 after being   found guilty of improper conduct over comments he made relating to the John Terry racism trial on Twitter. Ferdinand appeared to endorse a Tweet by another user of the social networking   site which described Chelsea   defender Ashley Cole, who gave evidence on behalf of Terry in the trial, as  a “choc ice”, a term understood to mean someone who is black []

UK FILM: KIDULTHOOD STAR FEMI OYENIRAN’S FIRST SCRIPT ‘IT’S A LOT’ TO BE MADE IN TO A FEATURE FILM

Actor and star of hit feature films Kidulthood and Adulthood Femi Oyeniran has announced that his first script will be made in to a film. The urban comedy ‘It’s A Lot’ written by Oyeniran and Nick Walker ‘marries 1980’s classics Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with Risky Business’  and will be  Mirror Image Ltd Film Production’s first feature production. The shoot is scheduled to start in late September. Congratulations!

UK PR ANTICS: CHERYL COLE’S “NEW BOYFRIEND’S” MOTHER PLEADS ‘DON’T HURT MY SON’

It has been a slow news week and the country is going through post-Olympic blues (me included), so Cheryl Cole’s PR team has taken this opportunity to flood the media with more fiction involving the nation’s biggest fraud. Last week Cheryl was linked to the fastest man on earth Usain Bolt and now according to Cheryl’s head cheerleader and Daily Mail showbiz reporter Dan Wootton she is now dating African-American and Los Angeles based backing dancer Tre Holloway. Tabloid rag The Sun also reports that Tre’s []