Tamar Braxton Finally Gives Fans a Peek at Her ‘Fine’ Nigerian Boyfriend
Tamar Braxton has been doing a pretty good job of keeping her Nigerian boyfriend out of the spotlight but a recent video has given fans their closest look at him yet.
Braxton and her man, whose name is said to be Yemi according to the singer’s Tamar Chronicles fan page, went to one of the stops of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II Tour in September. As Bey sang “Young Forever/Halo,” Braxton swiveled her phone camera around to capture her and reportedly her new man rocking sunglasses and embracing as she caressed his face.
“I mean, he’s the real-life T’Chella,” Braxton told St. Louis, Mo.’s 95.5 The Lou recently, comparing him to fictional Wakanda native T’Challa of “Black Panther.” “He’s originally from Nigeria but he’s been here [in America] … he lives in California … He is fine.”
Braxton has recently been opening up more about her man, including when she visited “The Wendy Williams Show” last month. There, she echoed talk of how attractive her boo is.
“Thank you, God, he’s so fine! I can’t take it sometimes. It’s like a whole snack — a Lunchable!” she exclaimed.
Once fans saw the video, which was uploaded to Braxton’s page on Thursday, Oct. 18 before it was pulled down, they wholeheartedly agreed.
“? I just started to declare, I don’t date American Men no more, not at all. I’m trying be smiling like Tamar. Ijs, let me see your birth certificate and passport book, okkk. I’m not playing…?”
“Get yo ass a Wakanda ladies!!! You won’t regret it ?”
“Sheed I sware…. mane that’s I was when I first experienced an African man. Its was amazing until I realize he just like a nigga. Blessing. Happy for you❤️”
“Keep smiling boo!! Enjoy that ride, it’s your turn??””
“Yesssss im happy for my girl go boo keep doing you long as you and Logan is happy that’s all matter much love #teamtamar?????”
“Happy for you I love you how you feeling about that situation god blessing you girl god is really with you keep him don’t let him go have faith.”
Disney theme parks confirm long-running urban legend is true
Some people enjoy Disney World and Disneyland so much that they never leave.
Despite years of denials from the House of Mouse, an urban legend has been confirmed: Human ashes are regularly scattered at the theme parks.
Loved ones of the recently deceased are known to place the remains on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, the Dumbo ride, near Cinderella’s castle — pretty much everywhere, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. It happens about once a month, often enough that custodians know to call for a “HEPA cleanup” with a special vacuum cleaner when it does.
The most popular place for people to spread ashes? “The Haunted Mansion probably has so much human ashes in it that it’s not even funny,” an unnamed custodian told the newspaper.
One employee said she and her co-workers got in trouble for referring to such incidents as “Code Grandma.”
For guests, there are consequences for getting caught.
“This type of behaviour is strictly prohibited and unlawful,” a company spokeswoman told the Journal. “Guests who attempt to do so will be escorted off property.”
The act of spreading ashes without permission is a misdemeanour, according to a spokesman for the Anaheim (California) Police Department.
But there are plenty of people willing to take the risk, if it means their beloved friend or family member can spend eternity with Mickey Mouse and pals. They just hide the ashes in Ziploc bags or pill bottles when they come to the park.
Jodie Jackson Wells went with the latter in 2009 when she brought her mom’s ashes to Disney World, where she sprinkled them on the It’s a Small World ride and in front of Cinderella’s Castle.
“Anyone who knew my mom knew Disney was her happy place,” Wells told the Journal.
When people like Wells do get caught, theme park employees reportedly shut the ride down for “technical difficulties” until any visible ashes are removed.
So that’s what they’re doing…
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‘Survivor: David vs. Goliath’: Emergency forces entire cast to be evacuated off island
It was more than just a game on Wednesday’s episode of Survivor.
The entire cast of Survivor: David vs. Goliath was evacuated from their Fijian island under threat of a cyclone — the second they had experienced since starting the competition just 12 days earlier.
“We’re all Davids today. That’s the Goliath,” Christian said, as he, the Vuku, Jabeni and Tiva tribes were all escorted away from their camps and rushed to safety.
The cast returned to find that, just hours later, their entire camps were completely destroyed. “We get back from being evacuated, and our shelter is obliterated,” Angelina expressed. “Had any of us been inside of that, I mean, it would have been game over, for sure.”
“I think everyone’s mood was like, oh God,” Alec added. “It looked like a bomb went off… It’s pretty intense.”
“Two cyclones, a medical evacuation, a person quitting,” Alison recalled of the adversity they’ve faced since starting the game. “It just speaks to the crazy nature of this game.”
After 37 seasons of Survivor, however, host Jeff Probst wasn’t freaking out. The entire cast of Millennials vs. Gen X was similarly evacuated early in the competition in 2016.
“You are all safe and sound, and the game is back on,” Probst told the David vs. Goliath cast on Wednesday’s episode as they kicked off their first immunity challenge since the cyclone.
Survivor airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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Liam Neeson Is A Revenge-Seeking Snowplow Driver In The ‘Cold Pursuit’ Trailer
History’s greatest monster is whoever decided Hard Powder, a movie where Liam Neeson kills members of a Rocky Mountains drug cartel with his snowplow, should be retitled Cold Pursuit. That’s a less interesting title (although I do appreciate the chilly wordplay, which I just got), but no matter, the movie still looks great, in a “Schindler’s List actor Liam Neeson now fights wolves and drives murder-plows and no one thinks less of him” kind of way.
Did I mention that Neeson says “when you drive the same road day after day, it’s easy to think about the road not taken” while gazing adoringly at his wife, played by Laura Dern? And that the trailer is set to “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” for some reason? And that there’s a random shot of someone parachuting? And that Neeson kills a dude by dropping a tree through his car? Movie of the year.
Here’s the official synopsis.
Cold Pursuit, an action thriller infused with irreverent humor, stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife (Laura Dern) is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels’ search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking (Tom Bateman), a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one each of Viking’s associates “disappear,” Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing — and no one — get in his way.
Cold Pursuit opens on February 8, 2019.
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Florida schoolgirls arrested for ‘satanic murder plot’
Two Florida schoolgirls have been arrested and accused of plotting to kill classmates in a satanic rite.
Police say the pair, 11 and 12, told officers they were Satan worshippers and planned to kill at least 15 students at Bartow Middle School.
On Tuesday they were searched by police who found weapons including a butcher’s knife, pizza cutter and scissors.
They told investigators they planned to drink the blood of their victims and “possibly eat their flesh”.
The search took place after a student informed a teacher about a possible attack in a school building.
The two girls were waiting in the toilet for younger students that they could “overpower to be their victims”, police said.
In a statement, Bartow police chief Joe Hall said a search of the girls’ mobile phones revealed text messages plotting the attack, and officers had also found a handwritten note saying: “Go to bathroom to kill.”
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Janelle Monáe on the meaning of “Dirty Computer” and what she promised her grandmother
For her latest project, singer, actress and activist Janelle Monáe is encouraging millennials to vote. She calls it a tribute to her grandmother, who didn’t always have that right growing up in the segregated South. Monáe is on a mission to make sure everyone with a voice has the ability to use it.
“It’s really about just making sure that our generation is activated that we’re fired up, ready to go, and we’re ready to vote,” Monáe told “CBS This Morning: Saturday” co-host Anthony Mason. “My grandmother was a sharecropper in Aberdeen, Mississippi, and she didn’t have the opportunity to vote…I just made a promise to her that when I became 18 and I had the right to exercise my power, I would do that in her honor and even though I could be in another city doing a concert, I will fly back to make sure that I vote.”
She’s got another mission, too. Her latest album “Dirty Computer,” a reference to people’s imperfections, challenges social norms and traditional concepts of a woman’s role in the world.
“One of the things that was most important to me…was to make sure I was coming from a very honest place,” Monáe said. “You know, it’s an album to really celebrate those that I felt needed to be celebrated most. Those in marginalized communities.”
Despite her massive success as both an actress and a singer, Monáe still feels marginalized herself.
Janelle Monae at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, in Los Angeles.
“As an artist, I’ve had lots of opportunities to travel and go see the world,” she said. “But when I take off my makeup, when I take off my outfit, you know I’m still Janelle Monáe Robinson who grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, to working class parents….So being a young, black, queer woman in America, at any moment, I could have my rights taken away from me.”
The expression “Dirty Computer” is a nod to the attributes society sees as negatives. Monae finds flaws, those things that make something “dirty,” inspiring.
“Well, dirty computers are inspiring to me….People say that these dirty computers, these humans have these bugs and these viruses, the things that make them unique are looked at as negatives. But dirty computers look at their bugs and their viruses as attributes, as features, as added value to this country, to this society….it’s just saying that I’m a dirty computer, but I too am American,” Monáe said.
In 2016, Monae earned acclaim as an actress in Oscar favorites “Hidden Figures” and “Moonlight” but her true passion is music, which she first realized when she moved from Kansas to New York City to study musical theater.
“I studied for about a good year, year and a half. And then I realized that I wanted to tell my story. I wanted to sing my own songs. I had so much bubbling in here that I didn’t feel like I was able to get out,” Monáe said.
And through her songs she does share her deeply personal story. She said the response to that has been “overwhelming in the best possible way.”
“I have a fear of ‘is this gonna connect? Is this gonna resonate?’ I know that it means something to me. And to show up and go city to city, country to country and see people singing the words, sometimes louder than me, like, it’s so hard to describe that feeling,” she said. “Because it’s been a dream to have your work resonate with people’s hearts and their souls in the way that it is.”
Music critics are predicting “Dirty Computer” will be nominated for album of the year at the Grammys. As for her acting career, Monae just landed a supporting role in an upcoming biopic about Harriet Tubman.
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All The Targets In This Week’s Mail Attacks Have Been Trump’s Worst Enemies
Suspicious packages and pipe bombs have been mailed to several of the president’s favorite punching bags.
Explosive devices and suspicious packages are showing up at the homes and offices of top Democrats, the people who fund them and the press that covers them. Most, if not all, of them have made their way to people and organizations that President Donald Trump despises.
Trump has repeatedly called his followers to violence against the people and organizations that were victimized this week. There were no confirmed motives or suspects by Wednesday afternoon. But his violent rhetoric over the past two years has led one of his biggest enemies, CNN, to ascribe some blame for the attacks to the president.
In a statement Wednesday, CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker said that Trump and members of the administration “should understand that their words matter.”
“There is a total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media,” Zucker said. “The President, and especially the White House Press Secretary, should understand their words matter. Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.”
House and Senate Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer issued even stronger statements, connecting Trump’s rhetoric to the neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, as well as to violence against protesters at his rallies and more.
The revelation on Thursday that two more of Trump’s nemeses ― former Vice President Joe Biden and actor Robert De Niro ― were targeted only added fuel to the fire.
On Wednesday, CNN evacuated its New York offices after an apparent pipe bomb and an envelope with white powder were discovered in the mailroom. Several top Democratic individuals received similar threats ― Bill and Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, George Soros, Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) and others received explosive devices or suspicious packages in the mail.
All of them have been Trump’s very public enemies. CNN has been the acute focus of Trump’s ongoing war against the media, or what he calls “the enemy of the people.”
He’s called CNN fake news. His family has laughed as Trump supporters angrily call out and threaten its reporters at the president’s rallies. The president has lauded a video depicting him beating up a person with the CNN logo superimposed on his head. Press freedom experts have long pegged Trump’s rhetoric as the begging of violent ends for American reporters. CNN’s inclusion in Wednesday’s terrorist activity was inevitable.
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County pays nearly $5M over heroin withdrawal death in jail
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A small Pennsylvania county will pay nearly $5 million to the family of a teenager who collapsed and died after four days of heroin withdrawal in jail. The family’s lawyer said jail staff ignored her dire medical needs for days and then lied about it.
Victoria “Tori” Herr, 18, was arrested for the first time on March 27, 2015, after police looking for her boyfriend found drugs in their apartment. Herr told intake staff at the Lebanon County Correctional Facility she used 10 bags of heroin a day, and confided to a cellmate that she feared the withdrawal process would be tough.
She went through severe bouts of vomiting and diarrhea over the next four days, and was given Ensure, water and adult diapers, according to the lawsuit. But she could not keep the fluids down and collapsed of apparent dehydration as she was being brought back to her cell from the medical unit on March 31. She died in a hospital on April 5.
“Anyone who looked at her would have known that she was very sick and that she needed attention,” said Jonathan Feinberg, a civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia who represents her family. “There was a complete disregard for her needs, which can only be tied back to the fact that she was addicted to drugs.”
He said a simple trip to the emergency room for intravenous fluids would have saved her life.
The family settled their civil rights and wrongful death claims with the county this month for $4.75 million, he said. Feinberg believes medical staff lied about taking Herr’s vital signs shortly before the collapse, given that she never regained consciousness.
Lawyer Hugh O’Neill, who represents Warden Robert Karnes, two nurses and other jail staff, said no county employees acknowledged any wrongdoing as part of the settlement. “The case was resolved amicably,” he said, declining to say this week if the county had reviewed or revised any policies in the wake of Herr’s death.
Increasingly, policymakers see jail and prison as an opportune time to intervene and offer medical help for people with opioid addictions.
In the three years since her death, Pennsylvania Secretary of Corrections John Wetzel has started offering methadone and other drugs approved to treat opioid addiction.
“The tide is turning. I think very slowly, but surely, there’s a lot of entities that have had to really look in the mirror, and ask how are they dealing with this medical condition,” said Steve Seitchik, who runs the Medication Assisted Treatment program in the state prisons.
Nationally, some studies show that about 25 percent of people entering local jails are addicted to opioids, according to Sally Friedman, vice president for legal advocacy of the National Action Center, a New York-based nonprofit. Only a fraction of the facilities offer medication as part of a treatment plan, but the number is growing, she said.
In Pennsylvania, Wetzel’s department now offers grants for county jails to offer medication-assisted treatment as well.
Herr, severely dehydrated, had begged for lemonade in a phone call with her mother on March 30. Stephanie Moyer tried to visit later that day, but was turned away and told her daughter was fine. The next time she saw Herr — who graduated from high school despite her addiction — she was on a ventilator.
Feinberg said he hopes the lawsuit will remind even the smallest counties they have a duty to care for inmates battling addiction.
“The days of viewing people addicted to drugs as junkies unworthy of sympathy and care, are long past,” Feinberg said. “It’s a very short chain of events that leads to death.”
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Coco breast-fed daughter while cops arrested Ice-T
Ice-T was busted on Wednesday for blowing through a toll without paying at the George Washington Bridge as he was headed into the Big Apple, police said.
But the star — and his wife, Coco, who witnessed the arrest — were so calm, she even began breast-feeding their baby on the side of the road, a source exclusively told “Page Six TV.”
The “Law & Order” star was busted at about 6:56 a.m. by Port Authority Police, who alleged the McLaren sports car he was driving was not registered and didn’t have license plates.
A spy on the scene told “Page Six TV” that Coco and their baby “were in a blue Range Rover behind him when he was arrested. She got out of her car. Everyone was calm, especially Coco, who proceeded to breast-feed their daughter — taking her breast out and getting to work!”
The iconic rapper-actor was processed and released, according to police.
Ice-T told TMZ that he’d forgotten his E-ZPass since he has so many sports cars.
He went straight to the set of “Law & Order: SVU” after his release.
Tune into “Page Six TV” for all the juicy details!
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