Angelina Jolie feels Brad Pitt ‘turned’ her and kids’ ‘lives upside down’
Angelina Jolie still has anger toward Brad Pitt despite ending their marriage more than three years ago, multiple sources exclusively reveal in the new issue of Us Weekly.
“Angelina still has a lot of resentment toward Brad,” says a source. “She wants him to be held accountable because she feels he turned her and the children’s lives upside down.”
Pitt, 55, and Jolie, 44, had been together for nearly 12 years — they tied the knot in August 2014 — before splitting in September 2016 due to irreconcilable differences. While the actor is desperate to move on, multiple sources reveal that Jolie can’t.
The Maleficent star, for one, is bitter that she can’t move with their children — Maddox, 18, Pax, 15, Zahara, 14, Shiloh, 13, and 11-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne — out of Los Angeles, where the actor is based. (The former pair — who have yet to finalize their divorce — share physical and legal custody of the kids.)
“Before the divorce, the entire family led a very nomadic existence, and that was because of Angie’s restlessness,” says a second source, but it led to a lot of fights. “Brad wanted the kids to have stability while Angie always said they were giving the children an idyllic childhood by exposing them to different countries, languages and experiences.”
Another thing Jolie is upset about? The fact that she didn’t want to marry the Ad Astra star in the first place. “She felt that Brad pressured her,” a source told Us in October, and as a result, it’s a reason she’ll “never get married again.”
Jolie revealed in her Harper’s Bazaar December/January cover story that she’d “love to live abroad,” but “right now, I’m having to base where their father chooses to live.”
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Netflix Responds to Mo’Nique Pay Discrimination Lawsuit: ‘Our Opening Offer to Mo’Nique Was Fair’
Netflix has responded to actress and comedian Mo’Nique’s pay discrimination lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday.
“We care deeply about inclusion, equity, and diversity and take any accusations of discrimination very seriously. We believe our opening offer to Mo’Nique was fair — which is why we will be fighting this lawsuit,” a spokesperson for Netflix said in a statement to TheWrap.
Mo’Nique’s complaint accused Netflix of gender and race discrimination, saying that the company had given her a “low-ball” and “discriminatory” offer of $500,000 as a “talent fee” for a one-hour stand-up special, while other comedians were offered millions of dollars per special.
“When the talent was not a Black woman, Netflix offered to pay, and did pay, astronomically more than it pays to Black women like it offered to Mo’Nique,” the complaint reads. It also lists several other comedians and what they were paid by Netflix for comparison.
The filing goes on to say that “Netflix reportedly offered or paid [Chris] Rock, [Dave] Chapelle [sic], [Ellen] Degeneris [sic], and [Ricky] Gervais forty (40) times more per show than it offered Mo’Nique, and it offered [Amy] Schumer twenty-six (26) times more per show than Mo’Nique. In short, Netflix’s offer to Mo’Nique perpetuates the drastic wage gap forced upon Black women in the America’s workforce.”
Mo’Nique confirmed that she had filed a lawsuit in an Instagram post on Thursday.
“Hey My Loves — I can confirm that today I filed a pay discrimination lawsuit against Netflix,” she wrote in the post. “I had a choice to make: I could accept what I felt was pay discrimination or I could stand up for those who came before me and those who will come after me. I chose to stand up. I don’t have any further comment this time, but I appreciate all of your support and love.”
Article via TheWrap
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Video History of Apryl Jones and Omarion, ft. Moniece Slaughter and Lil Fizz
I recently realized that Ti has been speaking on April and Omarion’s relationship for a while now. Let’s see where things started going south for these two…
Apryl Jones RESPONDS To Bow Wow For Celebrating Her & Omarion’s Breakup
About three years ago Apryl and Omarion called it quits. April was quick to quiet the rumors and let everyone know that she did not cheat on him and that he did not cheat on her, “sometimes people just go their separate ways”. Of course Bow Wow, never one to waste an opportunity to be messy, took to Instagram to congratulate Omarion on his new found freedom. Looking back on this, what did Bow Wow know?
A few months later Apryl was berated on social media for partying and uploading her onto Snapchat.
Apryl Jones Finally CLAPSBACK about her twerking at The Game’s house~ I’m Not A Thot!
A year later Apryl and Wiz Khalifa were publicly flirting on Instagram. Soon after Apryl publicly outed Omarion for not spending time with their two toddlers.
Apryl Jones BLASTS Omarion~”you don’t see your kids, stop fronting for IG!”
Almost a year later Moniece kept alleging on Love and Hip Hop that her children’s father, Lil Fizz, somehow ended up with his own bandmate’s ex-girlfriend Apryl Jones. Many accused Moniece of being a jealous ‘babymama’ or just plain crazy. Either way, she turned out to be right about these two.
B2K’s Lil Fizz & Apryl Jones Respond To Moniece’s Dating Accusations+full breakdown & receipts!
Moniece had some choice words when Lil Fizz and Apryl finally confirmed the relationship.
Moniece Slaughter & Omarion React To Lil Fizz And Apryl Jones Admitting That They’re Now DATING
A few days later, Apryl went on a bizarre rant on IG live, talking about all the industry men that she was connected to.
The REAL Reason Apryl Jones admitted to smashing The Game & Selling A$$ to 20 Nikkas
Moniece Responds To Apryl Jones saying Lil Fizz deserves her c00ch ?
Recently, Apryl and Lil Fizz expressed their ‘love’ for each other. Many on social media feel like Omarion dodged a bullet by separating with Apryl.
Apryl Jones Says Fizz Has The “Best Peen EVER”+Joe Budden & His NEW Girl Praise Omarion’s Silence
Omarion and Apryl are now more. Now we wait and see what else Lil Fizz and Apryl have for us.
Amanda Seales: ‘I’m Expected To Make White People Uncomfortable’
On this week’s episode of “The Last Laugh,” Amanda Seales opens up about tensions among the “Insecure” cast, confronting Caitlyn Jenner, and her new book.
Amanda Seales already knows what the title of her next stand-up special is going to be: “I’m Not for Everyone.”
The comedian, best known for playing Tiffany DuBois on HBO’s Insecure, opened her first hour-long special for that network, titled I Be Knowin’, by calling out all of the people her comedy wasn’t for, a list that included “racists, rapists, sexists, misogynists, narcissists, folks that are calling the cops on blacks folks for just living our lives” and, of course, Trump voters.
The night before our interview for this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast, Seales had encountered a heckler who seemed to fit many of those descriptions during the International Myeloma Foundation’s annual comedy celebration at the Beverly Hilton hotel.
“Whenever I’m in those situations, I’m expected to make white people uncomfortable,” Seales tells me. “I’m the only black person on the bill. It was a bunch of straight white guys and Caroline Rhea, so I was just playing my role.”
At one point during her set, when Seales was making jokes about the difference between white women and women who “happen to be white,” an older gentleman in the audience yelled out, “I love white women!”
Seales reveals that she got a DM later in the night from a black woman who was sitting at his table. She wrote, “Thank you for being the voice in the room because oftentimes I am the only black person in the room and I don’t feel like I get to have that voice.” The woman said she knew the heckler was “racist” because when she sat down at the table, he asked her, “Are you here from a prison release program?”
When I respond with shock, Seales tells me, “White people, you don’t understand what other white people are saying to us!”
A self-described “truth-teller,” Seales imparts pearls of wisdom like this, acquired over an eclectic career that includes stints on Nickelodeon, MTV and Def Poetry (as her alter-ego Amanda Diva) in her new book Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use, which codifies on paper what she shares with listeners of her popular podcast—also called Small Doses—on a weekly basis.
Like with her stand-up, Seales’ target audience is fellow black women who are trying to make their way in a world primarily run by white men. “I know for me, I would have appreciated this type of book,” Seales says of her early days in show business, “because it would have given me a little more peace in the process.” As an artist, she spent so much time asking herself questions like, “Will people like this? How do I get people to like this? Am I enough?”
She may know she’s “not for everyone,” but she’s no longer willing to compromise.
Highlights from our conversation are below and you can listen to the whole thing right now by subscribing to The Last Laugh on Apple Podcasts, the Himalaya app or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Hilary Duff Admits She Struggles to Help Son With Homework: ‘I Stopped Going to Real School in Third Grade’
Hilary Duff is keeping it real.
The former Disney Channel star took to Instagram on Saturday to share a shout-out to her 7-year-old son, Luca, while revealing that she struggles helping him with his homework. Duff’s career as a child star with roles in Casper Meets Wendy and Lizzie McGuire prevented her from attending a brick-and-mortar school when she was around Luca’s age.
“This guy with his spirit and kindness?Homework is already no joke in 2nd grade. I stopped going to ‘real’ school in 3rd grade so I’m actually doomed,” Duff captioned a photo of herself with her son. “I am left scratching my head alll the time looking at his homework and I’m terrified for next year! Although Singapore math is the sh*t….also learned a lot about tick birds this week. #rhinosbegrateful.”
While Duff tries to help her son with his homework, he’s also learning more and more about his mom’s untraditional childhood. The Younger star recently revealed that she screened The Lizzie McGuire Movie for Luca and his little sister, 11-month-old Banks, and during an August interview with ET, she said Luca was a bit of a Lizzie fan.
“He’s seen some clips on YouTube, and I think he’s getting into it,” Duff said at D23, admitting “he’s still a little young” and very into Marvel these days.
“I don’t think I could even tell him that I’m here, if I took pictures with all of these Marvel stars,” she added. “But he thinks I’m pretty cool and I think he likes seeing me at an age closer to him.”
Duff will be reprising her role as Lizzie McGuire for Disney+. See more in the video below.
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Alice Walker: Antigay Actress as Color Purple’s Celie Is ‘Betrayal’
Acclaimed author Alice Walker says it would be a “betrayal” for a homophobic actress to play the role of Celie Johnson in a musical adaptation of Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Color Purple.
Oluwaseyi Omooba, who was set to portray Celie in a production of the musical that ran earlier this year at the Leicester Curve and then the Birmingham Hippodrome in England, was fired from the show after actor Aaron Lee Lambert shared a 2014 Facebook post in which Omooba called homosexuality a sin, saying it’s “legal” but not “right,” according to the New York Daily News. She also stated her belief that people are not born gay.
Lambert said Omooba would be a “hypocrite” if she played Celie, who finds love with a woman after having been abused by men, while holding homophobic views.
Last month Omooba said she plans to sue the Leicester Curve over her firing and the Global Artists Agency for dropping her as a client. The daughter of a prominent British anti-LGBTQ activist, Omooba contends she has suffered discrimination because of her Christian beliefs.
Walker had been silent on the matter until last week, when she sent a letter to Color Purple producer Scott Sanders and authorized him to share it on Facebook. She expressed “heartfelt compassion” for Omooba, then explained how she came to create Celie.
Celie “is based on the life of my grandmother, Rachel, a kind and loving woman brutally abused by my grandfather. … It is safe to say, after a frightful life serving and obeying abusive men, who raped in place of ‘making love,’ my grandmother, like Celie, was not attracted to men,” Walker wrote.
“She was, in fact, very drawn to my grandfather’s lover, a beautiful woman who was kind to her, the only grown person who ever seemed to notice how remarkable and creative she was. In giving Celie the love of this woman, in every way love can be expressed, I was clear in my intention to demonstrate that she too, like all of us, deserved to be seen, appreciated, and deeply loved by someone who saw her as whole and worthy.”
Walker, who has had relationships with both men and women, said she believes “sexual love can be extraordinarily holy, whoever might be engaging in it,” and that she urges readers to question the scriptures of all religions. “Love, however it may be expressed, is to be honored and welcomed into the light of our common survival as a consciously human, race.”
“Playing the role of ‘Celie’ while not believing in her right to be loved, or to express her love in any way she chooses, would be a betrayal of women’s right to be free,” she concluded. “As an elder, I urge all of us to think carefully about what I am saying, even as you, Oluwaseyi Omooba, sue the theatre company for voiding your contract. This is just an episode in your life; your life, your work, and your growth, will continue, in the real world. A world we must make safe for women and children, female and male. And the greatest freedom of all is the freedom to be your authentic self.”
The Color Purple was adapted into a 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Whoopi Goldberg was Oscar-nominated for playing Celie. The first Broadway production of the musical, in 2005-2006, brought a Tony Award to LaChanze for portraying Celie, and Cynthia Erivo won a Tony in 2016 for playing the role in a revival.
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Fan-Made Trailer Imagines Aunt Viv’s Return To Bel-Air In ‘Auntie’
It took how many years for dark skin Aunt Viv to return to the big screen? How ever long, she made her way back.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has been the center of various fan-made movie plots with its most recent one gaining the attention of its star Will Smith. Now, another visionary is taking a chance at promoting a new take that centers on the original Aunt Vivian Banks.
According to Shadow And Act, the trailer is shot from the inspiration of Jordan Peele’s Us and Get Out, placing Aunt Viv as the central character who returns to Bel-Air, Los Angeles after a stint at a mental facility. Created by Bobby Huntley, Auntie takes a look at the aforementioned character’s life after their role has been recast.
“Our goal isn’t to pit the two real-life actresses against each,” Huntley said. “They both did an amazing job bringing that character to life in their own unique way. We love every actor and actress affiliated with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. It’s just human nature to contrast and compare.
“For people to still debate over 25 years later is really a testament to their talents and longevity. We are just simply asking the question, ‘What If?'” Originally played by Janet Hubert, her role was later filled by Daphne Reid.
Upon Aunt Viv’s return home, she realizes her family has no idea who she is “and every evidence of her existence has been erased. She must find out who was behind the hostile takeover before it is too late to reclaim her family and her home,” the plot outlines.
Other storylines that are featured include Claire Kyle from My Wife and Kids, and Family Matters‘ Judy and Harriet Winslow.
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Struggle Actress Aunt Viv DEMANDS that i take down my video or ELSE #clapback #WTFU
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‘When They See Us’ Ava Duvernay Sued Over ‘Reid Technique’ … Creator Says Film Trashed His Work
Netflix and “When They See Us” creator Ava Duvernay are being sued over the police interrogation technique depicted in the film because its creator claims the movie got his method all wrong.
A former cop named John Reid claims in his lawsuit … the Emmy-winning film defamed him by saying his method was used to squeeze statements out of the Central Park 5 suspects.
In particular, he points out a scene from episode 4 where a detective and someone from the D.A.’s Office are discussing the interrogation of the suspects. The prosecution staffer says to the detective, “You squeezed statements out of them after 42 hours of questioning and coercing, without food, bathroom breaks, withholding parental supervision. The Reid Technique has been universally rejected. That’s truth to you.”
In the lawsuit, Reid says the technique he created specifically does not teach withholding parental supervision, denying interview subjects any of their rights or making threats of physical harm. He claims it specifically calls for extra caution when interviewing minors.
In the docs, obtained by TMZ, Reid questions Duvernay saying, “We did our research” before making the film by inviting law enforcement personnel to discuss the case. Reid claims if that were true — Ava would have learned his technique disavows the type of things depicted in the movie.
He believes the filmmakers deliberately “fabricated a scene designed to broadcast to the audience a conversation they made up that included false statements as to the Reid Technique.”
He goes on to defend the Reid Technique, saying it’s widely used by law enforcement … and calls for a structured interview and interrogation process that consists of three stages: fact analysis, investigative non-confrontational interview and interrogation.
According to the docs, Reid says his method is anything but “universally rejected.” He says he’s conducted more than 6,500 seminars and trained more than 200,000 people to use it, since 2002.
Reid says he demanded a retraction in July … 2 months after the series was released, but Netflix refused. He’s now suing Netflix and Ava for defamation and wants the series to turn over a chunk of the profits, and other damages.
We’ve reached out to Netflix and Ava … so far, no word back yet.
Article via TMZ