Tyler Perry Has Always Hated Playing Madea & Can’t Wait To Hang Up His Wig
It’s a wrap for Mabel Simmons.
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She may have helped Tyler Perry build a $2 billion franchise, but Mabel Earlene “Madea” Simmons is a character that the media mogul can’t wait to see in the rearview mirror. For years, Perry has shared that he was giving up his beloved Madea character to work on other projects, but after fans publicly expressed how she impacted their lives, Perry continued on with the character.
However, all good things must come to an end, and Madea’s final days are quickly approaching. In an interview with Level, a publication geared toward men of color over 30, Perry was asked if he misses Madea. “Nope. I don’t,” he said matter-of-factly. The interviewer wanted to know if there was even a little part of Perry that wanted to revive his character for one more ’round. “No. We have a few more weeks of the Farewell Tour and then I’m done.”
Madea may have brought in the laughs—and a good-sized bankroll—but she was never a favorite of Perry’s. “It was never something I enjoyed doing,” he said. “My hand to God. I hated the costume, the wig, all of it.” The only reason Perry even thought of doing a female impersonation in his act was because of the successes of another comedy actor.
“I was scared to death!” he said of creating Madea and donning the wardrobe for the first time. “I watched Eddie Murphy and how he did his female characters. I said I’ll try it once and that’s it.” The rest is history. Are you a Madea fan?
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Rev Run Surprised Daughter Angela Simmons Isn’t Dating: “Is It Really That Crazy?”
Getting back into the dating game is difficult enough after a breakup. However, if you’re ex-fiancé-father of your child was also murdered, finding love once again may prove to be a near-impossible feat. Angela Simmons has been squarely focused on single motherhood since her ex, Sutton Tennyson, was gunned down in front of his home back in November 2018, but her father wants to know when she’ll take another shot at love.
She’s been rumored to have been romantically tied to Bow Wow and Romeo Miller, but Angela is flying solo and shared that it’s been a struggle finding a man. “I’m in an industry that’s very like, small, kind of,” Angela told her dad on Growing Up Hip Hop. After agreeing with her, Angela continued, “Your options are limited and I’m always working. Where am I going to meet anyone?” The scene cut to the green-screen interview where Angela added that being the child of a preacher comes with expectations to look and act a certain way. “There’s a certain way to walk with Christ but like, my way is not always your way.”
Rev Run suggested to Angela that she could go on a dating app, but she said she already tried it. The app she used was specifically for industry professionals and invite-only. Still, she couldn’t find anyone worthy of her attention. “Is it really that crazy?” Run asked. “I think the world has changed. Back when I was in, well, 10th, 11th, 12th grade, it was never a pretty girl that would think about, ‘I have to go find a guy.’“
“A girl like that would never be on an app, so I just don’t know what happened between when I was young—” Run continued before Angela interrupted and said, “Instagram!” She tried explaining why DMs are the downfall of dating, but Run didn’t understand. “That should fix it,” he said. “Someone should be able to get in your DMs.”
Angela complained that “serial dating” is also a problem because people date more than one person at a time without commitment. “I’ve got [my son] on my mind and anyone who comes around me has to be triple amazing for him,” Angela said. “He’s impressionable.” Check out the clip below.
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Oprah says Russell Simmons ‘attempted to pressure’ her out of producing sex assault documentary
Russell Simmons tried to force Oprah Winfrey out of working on the documentary about his sexual assault allegations but it wasn’t his efforts that caused her to ditch the project, the television icon has revealed.
Winfrey announced last week she was stepping away from the “On the Record” project as its executive producer, nearly one month after receiving backlash from Simmons. She also shared that it will no longer air on Apple TV+.
Now, in a new statement to Fox News, Winfrey revealed what exactly was going on behind the scenes and detailed Simmons’ attempts to stop her involvement.
“He did reach out multiple times and attempted to pressure me,” Winfrey told Fox News through a spokesperson on Saturday.
The spokesperson added that Winfrey’s decision to separate herself from the documentary was not due to Simmons’ incessant attempts. Instead, Winfrey found inconsistencies in the reporting for the “On the Record” documentary, specifically with the story coming from one of the music producer’s accusers, Drew Dixon.
Despite her exit, Winfrey’s spokesperson confirmed the media mogul believes Dixon as well as the other women who come forward in the film.
“First and foremost, she believes all of the women,” the spokesperson told Fox News.
The spokesperson added that Winfrey felt the film did not need to be rushed to the Sundance Film Festival, scheduled to premiere on Jan. 25.
Winfrey announced her decision to step down as the documentary’s executive producer in a statement to Fox News last week.
“I have decided that I will no longer be executive producer on the untitled Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering documentary and it will not air on Apple TV+,” Winfrey shared in a statement. “First and foremost, I want it to be known that I unequivocally believe and support the women. Their stories deserve to be told and heard. In my opinion, there is more work to be done on the film to illuminate the full scope of what the victims endured, and it has become clear that the filmmakers and I are not aligned in that creative vision.
“Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering are talented filmmakers. I have great respect for their mission but given the filmmakers’ desire to premiere the film at the Sundance Film Festival before I believe it is complete, I feel it’s best to step aside. I will be working with Time’s Up to support the victims and those impacted by abuse and sexual harassment.”
Dixon is one of the multiple women who made sexual assault allegations against Simmons, 62. The famed record executive was accused of rape by at least three women in 2017 and adamantly denied the allegations.
Simmons penned his own message to Winfrey last month maintaining his innocence, which he reposted again following the news of Oprah’s exit.
“Dearest OPRAH, you have been a shining light to my family and my community,” he wrote. “It’s so troubling that you choose to single me out in your recent documentry [sic]. I have already admitted to being a playboy (more appropriately titled today ‘womanizer’) sleeping with and putting myself in more compromising situations than almost any man I know. … So many that some could reinterpret or reimagine a different recollection of the same experiences.”
“I have taken and passed nine 3-hour lie detector tests,” he added. “These stories are UNUSABLE.”
Rapper 50 Cent also previously called out Winfrey via his social media accounts.
“I don’t understand why Oprah is going after black men,” 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, wrote on social media. “No Harvey Weinstein, No Epstein, just Micheal [sic] jackson and Russell Simmons this s–t is sad.”
In a joint statement to Fox News, Simmons’ silence-breakers and survivors said: “We are more than victims of rape. We are Black women. We are mothers, daughters, sisters and friends insisting on our right to live and work free from sexual violence and abuse. We will not back down, and we will not be silenced. We are not afraid. When we raised our anguished voices to say, ‘No! Stop! Don’t’ to Russell Simmons, he ignored us.”
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Deaf man sues Porn Hub over lack of closed captions
NEW YORK – A New York man is suing Pornhub’s parent company Mindgeek for allegedly failing to provide proper closed captions for deaf and hearing impaired pornography consumers.
Yaroslav Suris, who is deaf, says he was denied equal access to such titles as “Sexy Cop Gets Witness to Talk,” “Hot Step Aunt Babysits Disobedient Nephew” and other videos on Mindgeek sites Pornhub, Redtube and YouPorn, according to a court filing with the Eastern District of New York.
“Without closed captioning deaf and hard-of-hearing people cannot enjoy video content on the Defendants (sic) Websites while the general public can,” the court document reads.
The Brooklyn man’s attorney noted in the filing that hearing impaired Pornhub viewers would also like to access premium and subscription content, but it wouldn’t be worth it without closed captioning.
“The Websites (sic) numerous videos which cannot be accessed by deaf and hard of hearing individuals are in violation of the ADA (American’s with Disabilities Act) and New York laws,” the court document reads. “Videos include most of the Websites (sic) videos in addition to the videos the Plaintiff tried to access mentioned herein.”
In a statement to TMZ Friday afternoon, Pornhub Vice President Corey Price said:
“We understand that Yaroslav Suris is suing Pornhub for claiming we’ve denied the deaf and hearing impaired access to our videos. While we do not generally comment on active lawsuits, we’d like to take this opportunity to point out that we do have a closed captions category.”
Suris seeks full compliance with the ADA and New York law, as well as unspecified damages.
via: https://fox2now.com/2020/01/17/deaf-man-sues-pornhub-over-lack-of-closed-captions-tmw/
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Woman stuffs 6 pounds of ham in skirt, walks out of store
(KFOR/CNN) – Surveillance video shows a woman stealing an entire 6-pound ham by sliding it down her skirt at a grocery store in Oklahoma City.
Alex Kotlovenko, who owns the Europe Oklahoma Store, said he noticed some items missing on Sunday. When he checked the security cameras, he couldn’t believe what he saw.
“It’s magic, it is literally magic,” Kotlovenko told KFOR-TV. “We never witnessed it happening, so it’s really hard to track someone down and stop them at the door.”
The video shows the woman and two other men looking at a cooler. The woman then pulls out a ham, looks around, and puts the entire ham into her skirt.
Kotlovenko said she did the same thing with several packages of bacon.
“It was a surprise moment more than anything. That you can walk out of a store, that’s 1000 square feet,” he said. With seven or eight pounds of stuff in your skirt.”
After getting a good look at the people in the video, Kotlovenko said he’s pretty sure he’s seen them in the store before.
“I feel like I’ve seen them specifically around. One of the cameras caught the front of the SUV,” he said. “I feel like I’ve seen them in the parking lot in passing.”
To keep this thing from happening again the store owners said he wants to put up a sign banning baggy clothes. But a lawyer said he has to be careful — only refusing service strictly on clothing and not by race, color, creed, or religion.
“As long as the denial of service is uniformly applied, and not based on one of those prohibited categories or protected categories. Then, a business owner is within his rights to set certain standards,” attorney Casey Davis said.
Davis said fortunately for the European Store Oklahoma, “ham-burglars are not a protected class.”
The surveillance footage provided a good look at the woman’s face, but there’s no word on whether police have opened an investigation into the theft.
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Michigan Man Returns Over $43,000 Found in a Couch He Purchased From a Thrift Store
What would you do if you found $43,000 in a piece of furniture you purchased from a thrift store?
It happened to one Michigan man, and he decided to return all the cash.
Howard Kirby likes to shop at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Owosso, located about 30 miles west of Flint.
He purchased a couch from the store in December for his man cave, but this weekend he made a shocking discovery.The couch was filled with thousands of dollars in cash.
“I still have to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming or something,” he said.
Kirby said he had the ottoman for a few weeks before noticing it was uncomfortable. That’s when his daughter decided to open it up.
“That’s when she started pulling out this,” Kirby said.
A total of $43,170 was found in the ottoman cushion.
Kirby said he didn’t feel right keeping the money. So, he reached out to the store to find out who had donated the couch.
It turns out, it was Kim Fauth-Newberry. The couch originally belonged to her grandfather, who died last year.
“It’s just crazy,” Fauth-Newberry said.
On Jan. 16, the ReStore held a big surprise for Fauth-Newberry to give back every penny found in the cushion.
“It’s completely awesome,” she said.
Kirby said an attorney told him he had no legal obligation to give the money back, but he felt he had to for moral reasons.
That is something Rick Merling, the ReStore manager, thinks is heartwarming.
“To me, this is someone that despite what they’re going through – and in spite of their own needs – says ‘I’m just going to do the right thing,’” Merling said.
Kirby said he could’ve used the money – he needs a new roof badly – but he feels better knowing the money is in the rightful hands.
“I always thought, ‘What would I do if that ever happened?’ Now I know, and it makes me feel good,” Kirby said.
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Wisconsin Man Allegedly Sold Marijuana Mixed With His Dead Mother’s Ashes
A 26-year-old man is accused of selling drugs that were mixed with his mother’s ashes.
Police said Austin Schroeder, of Menomonee Falls, admitted to investigators he cut the drugs using his dead mother’s cremated remains.
But he didn’t explain why.
Investigators said they received a tip about Schroeder and his girlfriend selling drugs out of their apartment.
According to a criminal complaint, twice last week, investigators sent an informant to the apartment.
They said the informant was able to buy marijuana.
A few days later, police returned and searched the apartment.
Investigators said they found 70 grams of marijuana, a small amount of MDMA, bongs and a drug scale.
According to the complaint, Schroeder tried to explain the “large amount of unknown powder and vegetable material located in the apartment,” saying he “mixed these substances for a variety of reasons.”
Schroeder said his mom died a little more than a year ago, and, according to the complaint, “Schroeder indicates he took some of her ashes and mixed them with a variety of substances, some of which he ultimately ingested.”
The complaint doesn’t indicate if he mixed the cremated remains in any of the drugs he’s accused of selling.
Schroeder and Kaitlin Geiger, 21, of Menomonee Falls, each face felony drug charges.
There’s no explanation in the complaint for why he allegedly admitted to ingesting his mom’s ashes.
The couple appeared Tuesday in Waukesha County Court.
They were released on a signature bond and scheduled to be back in court Jan. 28.
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WeHo Man, that goes by “Sexy Vegan”, Convicted of Disturbing Peace After Alleged Dog Sex Assault Posted on Social Media
A West Hollywood man named Sexy Vegan who was arrested last year on suspicion of sexually assaulting his pit bull in a video posted to social media pleaded no contest Friday to a charge of disturbing the peace, prosecutors said.
Vegan, also known as Hansel DeBartolo III, 37, was immediately sentenced to two years of summary probation and ordered to complete 100 hours of community service, as well as a 52-week sex offender program, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
“In addition, the defendant’s dogs which were previously seized will not be returned and he will be prohibited from owning any new animals during his probationary period,” prosecutors said in a written statement.
Vegan was arrested in September, three weeks after officials said he made the disturbing post online.
“Vegan posted a video on social media depicting a pit bull licking the defendant’s rear end,” according to the statement.
If he had been convicted as initially charged, Vegan could have faced up to a year in county jail.
He was released from custody on a bond pending legal proceedings five days after his Sept. 26 arrest, records show.
Vegan has twice appeared on “Dr. Phil,” where family members complained of unusual behavior such as publicly dancing in little clothing, carrying a full-length mirror around in public and troubles with the law.
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Man Fatally Shot by LAPD Sergeant in Culver City Wielded ‘Bicycle Part,’ Not Gun
A man shot and killed by a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant who was responding to reports of a “man with a gun” on the border between Culver City and Los Angeles’ Palms neighborhood was holding a bicycle part in his hand when he was shot, not a gun, as initially believed by the officer and witnesses, police said Friday.
The police shooting took place about 12:40 p.m. on Jan. 11 in the area of South Sepulveda Boulevard and South Venice Boulevard, LAPD said in a written statement. A supervisor assigned to the LAPD’s Pacific Patrol Division identified by the department as Sgt. I Colin Langsdale was the first to arrive at the scene where witnesses reported seeing an armed man.
“The supervisor stopped his police vehicle, exited and immediately observed the suspect pointing what he believed to be a handgun at him,” according to the police statement. “A nearby witness also observed the suspect and believed the item in his hand was a gun as well. An (officer-involved shooting) occurred and the suspect was struck by gunfire. He fell to the ground and was then taken into custody without further incident.”
The wounded man was taken to UCLA Medical Center, where he was soon pronounced dead, officials said. Coroner’s officials had yet to formally identify the man Friday.
“A bicycle part was located in the suspect’s hand and was recovered as evidence,” the police statement said.
No officers or bystanders were hurt.
In addition to a LAPD investigation into the shooting, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is also reviewing the shooting, as is common practice.
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