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Tyra Banks Reveals She Is ‘Working on Life-Size 3’
Tyra Banks Reveals She Is ‘Working on Life-Size 3’
Nicholas RicePeopleFebruary 24, 2020
Twenty years after Life-Size was released, Tyra Banks says a third film is in the works!
The actress and model revealed during a guest appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen that she is currently “working on Life-Size 3.”
Banks, 46, was a guest on Andy Cohen’s show Sunday night alongside Real Housewives of Atlanta star Eva Marcille — who got her start by winning the third cycle of America’s Next Top Model — when a guest called in to ask the former ANTM host about her future endeavors.
After revealing the Life-Size 3 news to an uproar of applause from the studio audience, Banks went on to share that she is also working on a “huge Broadway play” — she wouldn’t say if she would appear in it — as well as a comic to go along with Modelland, Banks’ upcoming model-themed amusement park.
Banks first starred in the original Life-Size in 2000 alongside Lindsay Lohan before she brought back her iconic character, Eve, many years later in 2018 for a sequel.
The original Life-Size followed a young girl (played by Lohan) who saw her toy doll transform into a real woman after a wish gone wrong. The follow-up film featured Banks reprising her role, this time lending a (plastic) hand to a young CEO of a toy company struggling with her job.
Around the time of the Life-Size 2 premiere, Banks was asked about the potential of turning Life-Size into a trilogy when a fan asked, “Will there be a life size 3” during a Twitter Q&A.
The legendary supermodel responded in riddle, telling the Twitter user, “one, and done. two, thanks to you. three – we’ll see?”
At the end of Life-Size 2, Eve seemingly got her happy ending, which may leave one to wonder what direction a sequel would go in.
Cameron Fay, one of the second film’s writers, told TVLine that Hyde, Eve’s chef boyfriend-turned-doll, and his new life in Sunnyvale could certainly use some explaining.
“Do you think Hyde thought everything through before agreeing to go with Eve?” TVLine’s Andy Swift asked Fay.
Article via Yahoo
‘Ultimate modeling fantasy’: Tyra Banks’ ModelLand theme park has $1,495 tickets
Tyra Banks is opening a first-of-its-kind modeling theme park – but it will cost you.
The model, television personality and businesswoman, 46, is launching ModelLand an attraction in Santa Monica, California, that will “emulate a fantasy version of the modeling world with state-of-the-art interactive entertainment where beauty, fashion, tech, theatre, retail and an eating extravaganza collide,” her website describes.
Visitors can live their “ultimate modeling fantasy,” a press release explains, with the 21,000-square-foot, multi-level, story-driven attraction that features fashion, photo shoots, shopping and more.
Tickets, which went on sale Monday, are available beginning on May 1, when the attraction opens. Santa Monica is the first and permanent location, but there are plans for more locations worldwide.
If you want the ultimate experience, which Banks calls the “Fantascene Dream” ticket, it will set you back $1,495 (excluding a $4.20, $36.49 or $98.85 transaction fee, depending on ticket level), according to the attraction’s website.
The top-tier experience will let you experience your fantasy photo shoot in first class. You get veiled VIP seating, personal consultation with a ModelLand fashion and beauty expert (prior to your arrival), hand-crafted “ModelLand elixir” and assorted truffles, additional wardrobe changes, additional photographs from the shoot, a model goodies gift bag, a custom curated row for Instagram and more.
If you’re looking for a stepped-down version, you can get the $549 “Fantascene Photoshoot” package, which gets you the basic version of the top-tier experience, including a photo shoot conceived by Banks, magazine-quality photos, a professional make-up look, couture hair styling and wardrobe styling. This level also includes a signature blood orange beverage and tasty treats.
Still not sold on the price? The least-expensive entry is $59 for “General Access” or $39 for a child’s ticket (ages 3 to 12).
This ticket will get you a personalized digital look book with photos of you, access to an immersive theater, access to shop the ModelLand closets, posing tips and tricks and more.
Both higher-tier tickets will also get you access to everything included in the general admission.
Article via USAToday
Teen slaps mom’s breasts for clicks in bizarre TikTok stunt
Finally, a viral challenge so vile, even the most rabid TikTok watchers are talking smack about it.
Thought the “taste test-icle” challenge was weird? TikTokker Aiden Ridings, 17, devised an even more disturbing way to “rack” up social media views — by smacking his mom’s breasts to the beat of “Undercover Martyn” by Two Door Cinema Club.
The eight-second clip — posted Feb. 18 to Ridings’ now-deleted TikTok account — shows the teen trying to stifle a smirk before swiftly mauling his mom’s mammaries.
The video-sharing platform is infamous for its self-indulgent (and often dangerous) stunts — but this bizarre attention grab went too far for many fans.
Ridings’ clip sparked so many outraged comments that he yanked it, but not before it was pirated and uploaded to Twitter, where it has garnered nearly 4.5 million viral views and more than 160,000 highly suspect “likes.”
The Western Australia teen’s stoic matriarch barely flinches during her son’s bosom-beating, and even appears to share a laugh with him by the video’s end.
“My mother was open to doing it,” the teen, a diesel mechanic apprentice, tells Jam Press. “I thought it was really funny and I needed to do the video for laughs on my TikTok page.”
However, many Twitter critics don’t share his sophomoric sense of humor.
“White people let their kids get away with anything bruh,” tweeted one over Aiden’s mother being such a good sport.
“If my kids even asked me anything like that let alone did it — they would be slapped to the ground!!!” posted another.
“Alabama TikTok is wild,” quipped another, seemingly unaware the incident occurred in Australia.
Still, Ridings says he doesn’t “mind the criticism because that’s social media.”
“I thought it was funny and I posted it so others can think it’s funny too,” Ridings says. “And people say some stuff but I just choose to ignore it.”
Thumping chests for TikTok clicks isn’t a new phenomenon. The video-sharing app and YouTube are both inundated with clips of knuckleheads slapping their usually male friends’ nipples to the tune of “Undercover Martyn.”
This appears to be the first instance of a son engaging in a maternal mammary smackdown in order to boost his social media “clout.”
Still, in the realm of harebrained TikTok stunts, the aforementioned prank is arguably less dangerous than the “Cha-Cha Slide” challenge, which involves crazily swerving your car in time with music. Plus, the viral “penny challenge” has been slammed by firefighters as a fire hazard, while the “skull-breaker” challenge has been deemed deadly by doctors.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/02/25/teen-slaps-moms-breasts-for-clicks-in-bizarre-tiktok-stunt/
Photo Credit: Jam Press
School bus driver arrested for fatally mowing down 10-year-old girl in Brooklyn
The school bus driver accused of fatally mowing down a 10-year-old girl in Brooklyn early Tuesday has been arrested, police said.
Pedro Colon, 61, was slapped with charges of failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care for the 6:45 a.m. collision that left little Patience Albert dead, cops said.
Patience and her brother were on their way to school when she was fatally struck at the intersection of Wortman Avenue and Crescent Street in East New York, witnesses and police said.
When authorities arrived on scene, they found Patience lying unconscious in the street with severe body trauma and her 15-year-old brother with a leg injury.
Witnesses said the boy had glass in his bleeding leg.
The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad determined that Colon was traveling northbound on Crescent Street in the yellow school bus and attempted to make a right turn heading eastbound on Wortman Avenue at the time Patience and the boy were attempting to cross Wortman Avenue in the crosswalk.
The children were rushed to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center where Patience was pronounced dead.
Colon remained at the scene, and he was taken into custody.
The bus Colon was driving was a Department of Education-contracted vehicle, officials said.
Colon was suspended pending the outcome the police investigation, according to officials.
Photo Credit: Family photo; Paul Martinka
Queen Elizabeth desperate for ‘hurtful’ Megxit to be ‘over and done with’
Queen Elizabeth II is so hurt by Megxit, she hates it being brought up — and “just wants it over and done with,” according to a report.
“She generally doesn’t want to talk about it,” a source close to the Queen told Vanity Fair, insisting she takes it personally that grandson Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, quit royal duties.
“The Queen has been keen to get this resolved because she sees it is damaging to the monarchy, and on a personal level, I think this has been rather hurtful for her.
“She has got to the point where she doesn’t want to think about it anymore, she just wants it over and done with,” the source told the magazine.
While keeping open the door for their return, the Queen had to be firm in banning the couple from potentially exploiting their connection to the monarchy, banning the use of “Sussex Royal,” the mag was told.
“When something … is required in defense of the dynasty, she does what’s necessary,” former courtier Patrick Jephson told Vanity Fair. “People are reassured when she acts to protect the monarchy.”
Her decisiveness with Megxit — along with dumping Prince Andrew from royal duties over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein — show that the Queen is “fully engaged in her role,” royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith told Vanity Fair.
“For all the travails of last year and the early months of 2020, she continues to maintain her enviable serenity and carries out her duties in her unflappable fashion,” Smith said.
“Of course these family crises have been challenging, vexing, and sad. But in removing Andrew from his public duties and negotiating the tricky departure of Harry and Meghan from royal life, the Queen was decisive and sure-footed.”
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Wendy Williams Denies Having a New Boyfriend: ‘I Was with My Friend’
Wendy Williams is putting the latest rumors about her to rest.
After the daytime talk show host was spotted out with William Selby for a dinner date in New York City on Friday night, she is denying that the two are a romantic item.
“I had an interesting weekend,” Williams, 55, said on The Wendy Williams Show Monday. “It was all innocent to me but apparently it caused waves everywhere else. All I’m doing is being Wendy. So I met this young man that I really like. Not in that way, I was setting you up with dramatic effect, he’s this rapper from Philly.”
“His name is Black Papi. He’s 27,” she said. “Now, I went to a studio session because he’s working on his album and he’s working on it in N.Y. Now, I don’t know Black Papi but I was going along for a ride on Friday night. So Black Papi, 27, he’s from from Philly. He got his mom on the FaceTime. His mom and I are the same age. She and I are talking like we’re two homegirls. … I told Papi, ‘Look, your weight is not quite up for the Wendy Show. But one day …’ “
“I was only at the studio for 35 minutes,” Williams continued. “I was with my friend, who is also my jeweler, Will. But and whatever, here is the big [scoop]. Will is my friend, he happens to be a jeweler. I’m one of his probably low-paying clients. I’m not buying jewelry all the time.”
The mother of one said that Selby “fixes stuff, shines stuff, he’s made a couple of pieces for me” — and that she likes him “a whole lot.”
“Will is involved with his family, he’s got a whole ‘nother life,” she said. “No, we did not plan to dress alike. A lot of you all said we looked like a couple. No, we’re not a couple. I got on a beige negligee and threw on that [coat]. It was cold out. And then we get in the studio and I put it on my ‘gram.”
“Yeah, we’re huddled like this in the studio because it’s freezing in there,” she added. “It’s like five degrees, it’s colder in there than it is in here. The studio is only about the size of my chair, you know. Papi’s in the other room, rapping. I’m sitting there huddled. Belly full from meatballs and all kinds of stuff we ate earlier. And next thing you know there’s accusations being thrown.”
At the end of her lengthy monologue, Williams insisted that Selby is just her “friend.”
“We are not a couple and I do not have a boyfriend,” she claimed. “That’s it. If I did, I wouldn’t have been out with Will.”
Selby — a New York City-based jeweler who has worked with celebrity clients including Drake, 50 Cent and Rick Ross — has previously posted about Williams multiple times on Instagram, including for Valentine’s Day this month.
The jeweler shared a clip from The Wendy Williams Show in which Williams says a mystery man gave her a diamond heart-shaped necklace for the holiday.
“V-Day Special for the incomparable @wendyshow,” Selby captioned the clip.
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Tamar Braxton Finally Addresses Rumors That She And Boyfriend David Adefeso Split After Wendy Williams’ Actions
Tamar Braxton has decided to give her fans an update and some hope about her romance with Nigerian-born businessman David Adefeso.
The singer and reality TV star began dating Adefeso shortly after her divorce from her ex-husband and the father of her son, Vincent Herbert, but recently, she sent fans into a frenzy after she posted a cryptic message hinting at a split.
Braxton took to social media, where she appears to be referencing her relationship of almost two years.
She wrote: “If they don’t want you.there is no talking. No reasoning. Let it go and let God bring you the one who will be all that you need to accept all of you. Your flaws will not be your weakness, but it will be your strength and attraction to the one that is meant to be in your life.”
After her fans went insane and started bashing Adefeso, Braxton explained that what she wrote was a “typo” and confessed that she is having a great week.
Tamar called the mogul the love of her life and explained: “It was in the middle of the night sis. We all have typos. Calm down. My week is starting off GREAT, and God is too good.”
One follower said Wendy Williams is trying to solve the mystery and added: “No, they didn’t. Wendy Williams said that Tamar didn’t answer or call her back, so that was never confirmed. Tamar just called David the love of her life a few hours ago. The blogs were trying to report on something that was never confirmed.”
A second commenter added: “Exactly, she erased all her pictures of him, BUT he didn’t erase ANY of their pictures, they’re still together, they may just want folks to stay out of their business now, but again, they should’ve just kept THEIR lives together private, to begin with, and wouldn’t have to be going through this. When you give folks a glimpse into your life, it may Never be Enough, they may want more than what you’re willing to give, or you may want to keep giving just a tad bit more than you should so the more you give, the more some won’t, so just don’t give and learn to k6some things private. I still think they’re seeing one another and want the public out of their lives now, and this is their way of doing it without trying to hurt her fans’ feelings. Be real and tell them the truth; you now want your love life private.”
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Cara Delevingne calls Justin Bieber out after he says she is the least favorite of his wife’s friends
Justin Bieber should have just eaten the bull penis.That’s according to model and actress Cara Delevingne, who responded Friday after Bieber said she was the least favorite friend of his wife, Hailey Baldwin.The admission came on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” earlier in the week. It was all part of a show segment titled “Spill Your Guts” in which Corden asked Bieber personal questions. The singer had a choice: either answer the question or eat the food in front of him.
An innocent (ish) enough game. But then Corden asked Bieber to rank his wife’s friends from favorite to least favorite between Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Cara Delevingne. To deny the question, the young celebrity would have to eat the awaiting bull penis.
After a few seconds of thought, Bieber answered: “Kendall, Gigi, Cara Delevingne,” he said.
As the audience applauded, Bieber was quick to defend his statements.
“Here’s the thing, let’s go back to it,” he started. “I know Kendall the best. I’ve spent the most time with Kendall, you know, she’s a good friend of ours. I haven’t spent a lot of time with Gigi and I haven’t spent a lot of time with Cara.”
He said he had “nothing against those people.”But not according to Delevingne, who called him out on Instagram a few days later.
“If you have nothing against me, then why don’t you unblock me?” she asked in the caption for her post, which featured a clip of the moment, a photo of a young Bieber ogling Delevingne’s, uh, legs, and a selfie of the two together in matching NHL jerseys.”Love you @haileybieber – he should have just eaten the bull penis,” she finished.
As of Saturday, Bieber and Delevingne do not follow each other on Instagram.
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50 Cent slammed for joke about Dwyane Wade’s transgender daughter and R. Kelly
The Internet is not laughing after 50 Cent made a joke about Dwyane Wade‘s transgender daughter Zaya.
The “Power” producer shared a meme on Sunday that featured an image of Wade, 38, and R. Kelly during New York Fashion Week in 2016.
A talk bubble above R. Kelly reads, “Heard you had a daughter now,” while one above the former NBA star reads, “U touch her I’ll kill ya.”
“LOL NOW THIS SOME FUNNY S–T,” 50 Cent, 44, captioned the post.
R. Kelly, 53, has been accused of sexually abusing several minors. He also faces racketeering, sex-trafficking and bribery charges in Brooklyn federal court and other criminal charges in state courts in Chicago and Minneapolis.
Earlier this month, Wade confirmed his 12-year-old was transgender in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres. The former Miami Heat player said Zaya told him and his wife, Gabrielle Union, that she was “ready to live my truth.”
Several of 50 Cent’s followers thought his joke was in poor taste.
One person commented, “Uhm besides the fact that Zaya was brave enough to identify herself, Dwayne also has a little baby girl! So this is wrong on all levels.”
However, there were also several people who commented with crying and laughing emojis.
Wade did not immediately return our request for comment.
Wade and Union, 47, have not yet responded to 50 Cent’s joke on social media.
The couple has been extremely supportive of Zaya’s transition. In a video Union shared, in which she introduced Zaya to the world, Wade asked his daughter, “Even when people are being mean, and even when people are getting hurt because they’re trying to be themselves?”
Zaya responded, “I know it can get tough, definitely, but I think you push through, and you be the best you.”
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