UK ANTICS: LIVE MODEL PHOTOSHOOT @ JUMP OFF 2012 FINALS

Watch out Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Jourdan Dunn… … I love the first finalist’s (Salena Lima) answer to the question “What’s your nationality?” Answer:  “I’m born here… Brazil, Jamaica and lived in America for a while”.  Hahahahahahaha. Anyway congratulations to the winner Teisha Matthews.

STATESIDE NEWS: MAN KILLS GIRLFRIEND AFTER FINDING OUT SHE WAS HIV POSITIVE

A man has confessed to murdering his girlfriend after she revealed that she was HIV positive. Larry Dunn (36) allegedly confessed to stabbing Cicely Lee Bolden (28) to death after the mother of two revealed to him that she was HIV positive after they had sexual intercourse.  He then told police “she killed me so I killed her”. Bolden’s body was discovered by her 7-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter Watch the news report below: … Those poor children. Rest In Peace Cicely Lee Bolden.

FILM TO BE MADE TELLING THE STORY OF MIXED-RACE ARISTOCRAT IN 18TH CENTURY BRITAIN

Via Blouin Artinfo The second feature to be written and directed by the British filmmaker Amma Asante, “Belle” will tell the story of a mixed-race woman raised as an aristocrat in 18th-century England. Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761-1804) was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay of the British navy and an enslaved woman, herself known as Belle. The movie is partially inspired by the above painting (artist unknown), in which Dido, wearing a turban, stands to the right of her orphaned cousin, []

UK “REALITY” SHOW CIRCUS NEWS: CLUBLAND UK COMING TO SCREENS SOON…

Last month news hit the internet that the UK spin-off to the hit US structured “reality” show Love & Hip Hop was going to be coming to our screens soon and it was going to be called… wait for it…. Love & Hip Hop UK (click here to read). Then it all went quiet. But it has now been announced that the show will be called Clubland UK and according to the Twitter account: Love & Hip Hop Producers presents to you []

UK VIDEO OF THE DAY: YOUNG DON FEATURING FEKKY – WEATHER MAN

… This new video by rapper Young Don featuring Fekky had me in stitches today. Hahahahahahahahahaha – 90s gangster rap and video imagery has a hell of a lot to answer for. Men driving through London in high-end vehicles (with the top down) on what looks like a cold, wet and glum day in the city. Perhaps the director was expecting a heat wave on the day of the shoot. Then you have a bunch of video girls with blank expressions on their faces (I wonder if they were paid for this gig) posing with umbrellas and walking around a scrap []

UK NEWS: AIR NIGERIA PASSENGERS STRANDED AND ASKED TO PAY EXTRA FOR AVIATION FUEL

Linda Ikeji’s Blog reports that 190 Air Nigeria passengers were left stranded at Gatwick airport yesterday morning after they were allegedly informed that there was a ‘lack of fuel’ to fly the aircraft to Lagos. The madness continued when passengers were then asked to pay an extra £40 each for the purchase of aviation fuel. Click HERE to read more…. I knew the airline was troubled but this is just crazy.

VIDEO: TRINI TRENT TV – 2012 MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS REVIEW

Check out Trinidad based blogger Trini Trent’s (The Lava Lizard) hilarious MTV Video Music Awards review. The awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles on Thursday (September 6). Back in the day I would look forward to the MTV Video Music Awards and would stay up late to catch it live. But now when the ceremony comes around I barely pay it any attention. The MTV Video Music Awards used to be a major event on the music calendar but has now []

UK NEWS: FORMER CHELSEA PLAYER LEON KNIGHT SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER AFTER CALLING FOR MEN TO SEND HIM EXPLICIT PICTURES OF THEIR EX-GIRLFRIENDS

Former Chelsea FC star and now out of work footballer Leon Knight (29) has been suspended from the social networking site Twitter after encouraging his male followers to email him explicit photographs of their former girlfriends to humiliate them. After posting a few photographs Twitter intervened and shut the clown down after receiving a flurry of complaints. The born loser launched the campaign with the hashtag “Slag Alert Pictures” along with ‘It’s judgment day bitches’. He then tweeted to one user who opposed his campaign: “The thing is, your a boss when []