John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston proudly showed off their newest addition to the A-list family, son Benjamin Hunter Kaleo, on the cover of the new Hello!magazine, and RadarOnline.com has all the scoop for you.
The Pulp Fiction star, 56, told the magazine “it’s been uplifting” to spend time with his infant son, “especially when he smiles at me and seems contented in my arms.
“He’s given the house a renewed spirit and purpose,” Travolta said.
The couple also said that Benjamin’s sister, 10-year-old Ella Bleu, has been quite the “mommy’s helper” since the baby arrived November 23, 2010, weighing a healthy 8 lbs., 3 oz at birth.
Benjamin’s the third child for Travolta and Preston, 48. The family looks to be on the road to recovery just more than two years after the tragic death of their beloved sonJett, who died at the age of 16 in January 2009 from a seizure at the family’s vacation home on Grand Bahama island.
Amber Rose has lost her modeling contract with Ford Models, but has confirmed that she will be filming a reality show with VH1. She’s really been putting in work to stretch her 15 minutes of fame into a lifetime.
We can’t hate on her for wanting to be more than Kanye’s ex-girlfriend, so she’s putting her entrepreneurial foot forward and opening her own vintage shades shop in Vegas. The reality show – titled “Behind Her Shades” – will center around Amber’s business venture.
Gotta love he hustle in her! And she looks real cute with the whole casual Tomboy outfit with Timbs on.
A new promo photo from Britney Spears upcoming project has just been released pictured above. Her new single “Hold It Against Me” is #1 on iTunes since being released Tuesday morning.
Congrats to the Princess oF Pop she’s bacccckkk …check out her single for her upcoming album below.
I’m like really half a billi n-gga, Really you got baby money, Keep it real with n-ggas, N-ggas aint got my lady money” – Jay-z
Kanye West and Jay-z released the first offering from their highly anticipated collaborative album “Watch The Throne” yesterday and critics are already dissecting the lyrics. Via Real Talk NY
On the track, released on Kanye’s Facebook page early Tuesday morning, Jay-Z complains that his competitors merely fantasize about what he does on a daily basis — including, but not limited to, schmoozing with Warren Buffet and Steve Forbes. He also cites this writer’s $450 valuation of his personal net worth, rounding up slightly to “half a billie,” before taking a shot at a fellow Hip-Hop Cash King or two: “Really, you got baby money.”
The line is a double entendre meant both as a general reference to the small amount of money that other rappers have in comparison to Jay-Z, and as a specific a reference to the wealth of rapper Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter, also known as “Weezy Baby,” and fellow New Orleans rapper and record executive Brian “Birdman” Williams, also known as “Baby.” – FORBES
In 2009, after Jay-z was crowned “Hottest Emcee In The Game” by MTV, Baby was quoted as saying:
I don’t think [Jay-Z] is the number one emcee in no kind of way. Wayne’s the best. He do the most and he make the most money. I don’t think no n*gga in the business make more money than us. How can you be the best if you don’t make the most money? And you don’t do the most? Lyrically, come on man, be for real, can’t nobody f*ck with Wayne…if you number one and you ain’t getting no money it don’t mean nothing.”Source:
** Hmm sounds like 2 boys competing about how much money they have I kinda though Jay-z was better then that ….stay modest no one needs to know what you have we see it home especially after buying wifey Beyonce 3 mill worth of Hermes bags!…just sayin!
Rihanna has confessed that she “can’t keep her hands off” rapper Nicki Minaj.
The What’s My Name singer, who has made UK chart history this week, took to Twitter to express her love for Minaj while shooting the video for the rapper’s new single, Fly. RiRi even fuelled rumours that she plans to move in with the Check it Out star, posting a photo on the social networking site of her and Nicki in their “new crib.”
The Only Girl (In Th World) hitmaker accompanied the snap with the post: “Me and Nikki in our new crib, lol! Gettin busy on set of FLY!!! It’s so hard to keep my hands off!”
The 26-year old rapper, responded to RiRi’s Twitter post, replying: “Lol. If we’re gonna liv 2gthr and hook up u gotta learn how 2 spell my name! Lmaooooooo Gossip Gossip ni#@a just stop it! ”
Rihanna then wrote back to Nicki, tweeting: “b**ch don’t u hear me askin what my OWN name is??? Lol! My bad, I’ll make it up to u *wink*”
Minaj previously claimed that she was “looking forward” to shooting the Fly promo with the Barbadian beauty, telling E! News: “I love RiRi! I mean, when she’s not grabbing my ass, she’s a sweet girl.”
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*Rihanna is too funny but hey she’s keepin it real!
New episodes of her show ‘The Game’ premiere tonight. Today, she also announced that she is pregnant on 106 & Park and on top of that gets her own reality show on the Style Network!
According to UsWeekly, Tia Mowry will soon be a mom. Mowry is due July 3, her rep confirmed to Us Weekly, out Wednesday. The baby will be the first child for Mowry, 32, and her hubby of two years, Battle: Los Angelesactor Cory Hardrict, 31, and the pregnancy will be documented by the Style Network for a show to air later this year. ”We are both so excited to be parents,” the couple tell Us in a statement.”We have been wanting this a long time!”
The bodies still being found in the rubble are a sign of how far Haiti must go to recover from a disaster that left the capital in ruins and is estimated to have killed more than 230,000 people. In the days after the Jan. 12, 2010 disaster, volunteers and hundreds of aid groups flocked in with food, water and first aid that saved countless lives. But the effort to rebuild has been dwarfed by the extent of the need and a lack of leadership — both in Haiti and internationally. President Rene Preval did not speak publicly for days after the quake, and many observers have criticized him for not spearheading a coherent reconstruction effort, or making the hard policy decisions needed to rebuild. Still, advocacy groups also blame the Haitian government’s weakness on an international community that is not keeping its pledge of support.
“The international community has not done enough to support good governance and effective leadership in Haiti,” the aid group Oxfam said in a recent report. “Aid agencies continue to bypass local and national authorities in the delivery of assistance, while donors are not co-ordinating their actions or adequately consulting the Haitian people.”
Street markets were soon up and running after the quake and Port-au-Prince’s traffic is worse than ever. On Tuesday, Preval, his wife and other officials lay flowers at symbolic black crosses marking a mass grave outside the capital where hundreds of thousands of earthquake victims are buried. But from the barren hillside, the destruction is clearly visible. The slogan “build back better,” touted by former President Bill Clinton and others, remains an unfulfilled promise.
Less than 5 per cent of the debris has been cleared, leaving enough to fill dump trucks parked bumper to bumper halfway around the world. In the broken building where the dead man was discovered last week, workers hired to clear rubble by hand found two other people’s remains.
About a million people remain homeless and neighbourhood-sized camps look like permanent shantytowns on the fields and plazas of the capital. A cholera epidemic that erupted outside the quake zone has killed more than 3,600 people, and an electoral crisis between Preval’s ruling party and its rivals threatens to break an increasingly fragile political stability.Ericq Pierre, Haiti’s representative to the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, said “the problem is that at a certain point the international community gave the impression they could solve the problem quickly. … I think there was an excess of optimism.”
In a statement before Wednesday’s anniversary, President Barack Obama praised humanitarian efforts to provide people with food, water and health care but noted that progress in reconstruction has been too slow.
“Too much rubble continues to clog the streets, too many people are still living in tents, and for so many Haitians progress has not come fast enough,” Obama said.
He said “Haiti can and must lead the way” but added: “The international community must now fulfil the pledges it has made to ensure a strong and sustained long-term effort.”
The slow progress starts with the omnipresent rubble.The U.S.-based RAND organization said donors and the Haitian government are responsible for more not being cleared. Haitian workers were not supplied with boots, gloves and hard hats while heavy equipment has been blocked by customs officials at the border, the report said. The government has also not designated sufficient dumping space.
“Unless rubble is cleared expeditiously, hundreds of thousands of Haitians will still be in tent camps during the 2011 hurricane season,” which runs from June through November, the report said.
Construction of new housing has barely begun. The core underlying issue of Haiti’s broken land ownership system, with multiple claims to the same plot of land, has not been addressed. Without sorting out land ownership, there is nowhere to build. Internationally financed inspectors have certified that some houses are safe for residents to return to, but few have. Many are merely moving their shacks closer to where they used to live, because they don’t want to risk another earthquake in their damaged homes. Meanwhile, only 15 per cent of needed temporary shelters have been built, with few permanent water and sanitation facilities. Owners of small construction material businesses, such as Justin Premier, 43, should be raking in money. But most people in his neighbourhood are just buying plywood to reinforce their tarps.
“It’s going to take a lot of time for us to come back where we were before,” Premier said.
The earthquake was an opportunity to completely remake a broken education system where only half of school-age children were enrolled, often in poorly performing private schools with predatory fees.
But plans by the Inter-American Development Bank for safer buildings and a unified Creole-language curriculum have not come about. The government education ministry, which lost its headquarters in the quake, remains weak. Instead, schools have opened here and there. About 80 per cent of children who attended school before the disaster are back in class again, said UNICEF Haiti Education Chief Nathalie-Fiona Hamoudi. UNICEF planned to build 200 semi-permanent structures to teach in, but only finished 88 by the end of 2010 because the cholera outbreak diverted its effort.The reconstruction effort overall is hampered by the failure to deliver or spend billions of dollars in promised aid. Americans donated more than $1.4 billion to private organizations to help survivors and rebuild, but just 38 per cent has been spent to provide recovery and rebuilding aid, according to a Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of 60 major relief organizations.Governments have not done better.
More than $5.6 billion was pledged at a March 31 donors conference for a period of 18 months. Only $1.28 billion has been delivered about a quarter of the public money not including debt relief, according to Clinton’s U.N. Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti. Some $3.2 billion in public funding is still owed. The United States had originally pledged $1.15 billion for 2010, but moved nearly its entire pledge to 2011 following delays in Congress and by the Obama administration.
Clinton was supposed to rally governments and co-ordinate international efforts. He has had three prominent, simultaneous roles in Haiti’s rebuilding: co-chair of the reconstruction commission with Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, U.N. special envoy for Haiti and head of his Clinton Foundation, a major donor. In July he told AP he would follow through with donors to remind them of their promises, and expressed frustration when payment was slow through the summer and fall.But as the year ended, the United States had paid just a fraction of what it promised. Clinton has blamed bureaucracy and the world’s financial troubles last year for the delay in securing the pledged funds. Bellerive said he is disappointed by the slow delivery of the money. He said the delays may be caused by uncertainty surrounding the question of who will succeed outgoing president Preval.
“Perhaps some donors say, ‘Let’s wait until we know exactly who will be there for the next five years,'” said Bellerive.”Everyone is talking about the resilience of the Haitian people, and everyone is taking advantage of that resilience,” Bellerive said. “Success for me is to do the basic, the minimum, so we can really build a future. And we have to do it right now.”In an Op-ed in Haiti’s Le Nouvelliste newspaper, Pierre asked that on the anniversary itself, foreigners leave Haitians alone.”I ask only one day per year, from 2011 on, to enable us to mourn our dead … to try to understand how and why we got where we are,” he wrote. “We need to find some peace.”
**As some of you may know I lost my Grandmother and Cousin in this tragic quake and it will be a year also of those deaths sadly my Grandmother was able to have a proper funeral but the other which is my cousin Natasha was not able to since she was basically buried where she was suddenly killed. My heart goes out to the families who have lost loved ones in this disaster we will never forget that day nor we will ever forget to give back! Its going to take a lot for Haiti to be where it can be but I know they are strong willed, its in their blood and my dad shows it everyday and instills it in me, we may all go through struggles which mean we should all fight for what we deserve and stay optimistic of a new day to come! This too shall pass…
R.I.P To my loved ones lost and to everyone else who felt the raft of losing family and friends in this devastating tragedy, I pray for all of you to have strength and positive spirits…we remember them in our hearts and minds forever…
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Simply Veronica! 