UK News

UK ANTICS: AFRO MODEL AWARDS 2013

August 8, 2013

Sultry Simone  model, dancer and star of the Bubble Butt and Twerk It music videos, came to London, UK, in May 2013 to host the Afro Model Awards Show (www.afromodelawards.com). She was also nominated for Best Behind and it came as no surprise that she won.  Surprise surprise the “nominee” who flew to London to host this event won. Did the owner of the “UK’s number one ethnic model agency” Charles Nunoo  fork out for her plane ticket? [Thanks Lorraine] Just when […]

UK NEWS: FORMER CORONATION STREET STAR ZARAAH ABRAHAMS CAST IN NEW SPIKE LEE FILM

August 6, 2013

The British Blacklist reports that former Coronation Street star Zaraah Abrahams has been cast in a new Spike Lee film. Lee announced the news on his Kickstarter page. English Actor, Ms. Zaraah Abrahams has been offered the Woman Lead in my New Film here on Kickstarter. I first saw Zaraah in Black Girl in Paris, this is a NYU GRAD Thesis Film Directed by Kiandra Parks, a Student of mine. I remember Kiandra screening a rough cut of her film in my NYU Office, as I watched I […]

UK ANTICS: RAPPER MIKE GLC DEFENDS FORMER X-FACTOR JUDGE AND N-DUBZ STAR TULISA CONTOSTAVLOS

August 6, 2013

Since The Sun newspaper’s alleged ‘drugs sting’ expose in June involving 35 year old rapper Mike GLC and 24 year old former X-Factor judge and N-Dubz star Tulisa Contostavlos,  Mike has been quite vocal at times about the alleged sting and continues to defend his ‘good friend’ Tulisa. In a recent tweet the rap star and entrepreneur said: I think people are forgetting what going on for me and they think it funny and all you lot taking the piss out of Tuliesa […]

VIDEO: ALEX WHEATLE ON THE GENTRIFICATION OF BRIXTON

August 4, 2013

… Alex mentions the school Dick Shepherd at the start of video and later goes on to say it was a good school. This made me laugh because I went to Lambeth College and met several former pupils who went to that school and I always remember them telling me that they had the time of their lives at “dirty dicks”.  They just remembered having loads of fun, witnessing bad behaviour and not learning very much. The school closed in 1994. Anyway […]

UK FILM: ‘IT’S A LOT’ (TRAILER)

August 3, 2013

Written and directed by Femi Oyeniran. Starring Femi Oyeniran, Jazzie Zonzolo, Red Madrell, Kojo, Eddie Kadi, Ellen Thomas, Vas Blackwood and Tim Westwood. Shaun’s a lucky boy — growing up he’s had the right education, parents that loved him and he’s never been short of cash. But as he gets older, he finds he doesn’t fit into this world, especially with the self-righteous and entitled kids at his posh private school.  Deliberately deceiving his family, he enrols at his cousin’s college where […]

BRITISH ACTRESS SOPHIE OKONEDO TO JOIN DENZEL WASHINGTON IN ‘A RAISIN IN THE SUN’ ON BROADWAY

August 2, 2013

The British Blacklist reports that British actress Sophie Okonedo will be joining  Denzel Washington, Diahann Caroll and Anika Noni Rose to star in the classic play ‘ A Raisin In The Sun’ on Broadway in New York City. According to Broadway.com the production will be directed by Tony Award-nominee Kenny Leon. Previews begin March 8, 2014, with opening night on April 3, 2014 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street), where the original production of A Raisin in the Sun opened 55 years ago. A […]

UK ARTIST: GEORGE THE POET – PERFORMS ‘GO HOME’ / ANNOUNCES SIGNING TO ISLAND RECORDS

August 2, 2013

Performance artist George the Poet takes on the government’s campaign against illegal immigrants, in which a mobile advertising hoarding is driven around diverse areas of London. George Mpanga, the son of immigrants, grew up in Stonebridge Park, north-west London, and recently graduated from the University of Cambridge. … That was really good! George also announced today that he has now signed to Island Records. https://twitter.com/GeorgeThePoet/status/363351064189214721 https://twitter.com/GeorgeThePoet/status/363351499138543616 Hmmmm…. It will be interesting to see how major label Island Records plans to promote and market an […]

FAMILY MEMBERS OF MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING TYRELL MATTHEWS-BURTON APPEAL FOR WITNESSES TO COME FORWARD ON ‘DAYBREAK’

August 2, 2013

British teenager Myles Litchmore-Dunbar, 19, is accused of stabbing a fellow holidaymaker to death and  faces a one year wait in a Greek prison cell until he gets a trial. He will appear in court on Monday in an attempt to get bailed back to the UK. 19-year-old Tyrell Matthews-Burton was stabbed to death during a terrifying 30-man brawl outside a nightclub in the holiday resort of Malia, Crete, last Tuesday morning. Litchmore-Dunbar denies stabbing Tyrell and says he has no idea […]