Bravo is at it again!  The TV network that’s single-handedly killing brain cells across America has a new installment of its Housewives franchise: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  Bravo announced the cast today, which includes Camille Grammer (the estranged wife of Frasier star Kelsey Grammer), Adrienne Maloof (part of the family that owns the Palms Casino and the Sacramento Kings), Kim & Kyle Richards (former child stars and aunts of Paris Hilton…who, BTW reportedly has a penchant for hiding the yayo in her vagina these days), Lisa Vanderpump (a British restauranteur) and Taylor Armstrong (wife of a venture capitalist)…hey, it takes all kinds to round out the show, apparently (Latinas, Asians, etc… need not apply?).

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A big “oops” moment for CNN’s Rick Sanchez yesterday.  During his off-the-cuff, seemingly unscripted show “Rick’s List,” Sanchez referred to President Barack Obama as “the cotton picking President of the United States.” Some context though: he said it in support of the Prez and his faith but it came out all wrong.

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Note to Kat Stacks: Don’t mess with La La or her hubby!

Grimy jumpoff Kat Stacks sent a tweet to NBA baller and newly married Carmelo Anthony asking him if “he tasted like Carmel” (spelling error aside…that’s foul). His wife La La piped in, telling Stacks “I ain’t the one. I’m only going to tell you one time.”

#POW

Then, Carmelo offered $5K to anyone who would slap Stacks (are threats allowed in the NBA? I swear…these innaweb thugs).

Taste The Brew to read their tweets

HERE ARE YOUR DIRTY DOZEN!

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, from MTV’s Jersey Shore (Isn’t that a sign of the Apocolypse? A dancing horse-faced man?), 

David Hasselhoff (Keeps a job Kudos!)

Rick Fox, retired pro basketball player from the Los Angeles Lakers. (Eh, Foxy lost me, cheating on my ‘Nessa).

Bristol Palin, daughter of ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin. (SERIOUSLY?? I swear for goodness I hope 17 year old KeKe in the hood who just got knocked up by her boyfriend Ty-Fu “Dat’s jus this rap name, Momma!” does not think this shit is a shot to fame, because of this heffer!)

Kurt Warner, (alleged…retired NFL quarterback)

Florence Henderson (token oldie)

 Audrina Patridge (deer meet headlights. dim meet bulb.)

Michael Bolton (and his hairline)

 Brandy Norwood (and her laceline)

Margaret Cho, comedienne and current co-star of Lifetime’s Drop Dead Diva. Who said:  “I’m so out of my element. Everybody is so classy,” she told EW. “If this was Dancing with the Whores, I would do better. But it’s not, so we’ll see.”  (AND I’M SOO ROOTING FOR THIS ONE!)

Kyle Massey, best known for starring in Disney Channel’s That’s So Raven (If you say so)

Jennifer Grey– (Wonder how long it will take for someone to say something about ”Baby in a corner”…)

Will you watch?

Anybody watching The Real Housewives of DC? (Just me? Huh? Mmkay.)

Anyway, the one pegged as the ‘mean girl’ of the cast, British chick Catherine “Cat” Ommanney, says her life is in shambles since the end of the show. Her dashing political photographer husband, Charles, left her and her book deal went up in smoke. Cat says she’s “three stone lighter” (yo, isn’t that like 42 pounds? whoa…) and that she’s lost all of her family since the show. Cat and Charles had a whirlwind romance that caused her to pack up her 2 daughters (from a previous marriage), leave the UK and come to the states to marry Charles. The new family settled in Chevy Chase, MD and ultimately wound up on the reality show despite most of DC’s “elite” not knowing who she was.

Charles is a Newsweek White House photographer and Cat claims his boss encouraged them to do the show in the first place because it could help Charles’ career and the struggling magazine. Cat says everything wasn’t so hunky dory in their marriage before the show (but, what marriage is perfect?). But, they did the show anyway. Charles objected to the “swanning around” they had to do for the dog and pony show. But, he still appeared and did his part in the swanning… then, he left Cat. He told the New York Times that having to do the show and continue to be a serious photographer was “embarassing.”

Cat says she has not seen or spoken to Charles since he bounced and any hopes of getting back together are gone. Cat also says she wants no parts of a 2nd season of The Real Housewives of DC. Her book deal (which she talks about endlessly on the show) has also been put on freeze because how can you write about your fabulous life when it’s not so fab anymore? Damn. When will people learn: reality TV kills relationships.

Read the rest at The Daily Beast.

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So, let’s say you are an inexplicable Reality TV hit. You are the color and size of a circus peanut and a little less mentally and socially  functional than say … ‘Corky’  and for some reason you earn more than a school teacher.  You are one lucky Batch! That said, there are some vipers out there, and when you meet a guy you should probably use extreme caution. Especially, if he is proposing after two weeks. Especially if he is proposing after 2 weeks all greased up. Especially if he is proposing after  2 weeks all greased up on the cover of a ‘magazine’.

 RUN Schnickers, this guy aint right! No, I’m sorry.. this guy is CRAZY AS SHITE!

The pint-sized “Jersey Shore” star’s boyfriend of at least two weeks, Jeff Miranda, is using the cover of Steppin’ Out magazine to ask for her hand in marriage.

For the magazine’s Sept. 10 issue cover shoot, a shirtless Miranda — wearing the bottom half of a Desert Camouflage Uniform, a nod to his Iraq war veteran status — got down on one knee, posing next to a headline that reads: “Jeff Miranda has a question for Snooki. Will you marry me?”

“I love her and want to be with her,” Miranda told Steppin’ Out about the unconventional proposal. “Once she deals with the shock, I think [she'll] say yes. I really do. In fact, I know she’ll say yes.” (BREW COMMENTARY: “OR I’LL BREAK HER EFFIN’ LEGS!!”)

Sources told Radar that Miranda’s “whole Guido thing is something totally new. He’s become a gym rat and hooked-up with Snooki to get popularity and fame.”

It’s an accusation that Miranda, of Millstone, New Jersey, refuted in Steppin’ Out. “People think I’m using her for fame. But that’s bulls- – -,” he said. (Meanwhile, it’s been reported that he removed his “Jersey Shore” audition reel from the Web yesterday morning.)

When Miranda initially hooked up with Snooki — Nicole Polizzi, 22 — it was revealed that his ex-girlfriend got a temporary restraining order against him in April 2009. (BREW COMMENTARY: YEA THAT SEEMS NORMAL)

DEETS

Flutter Chain sandals by Tania Spinella for Jen Kao. Hot!

What ever happened to the good lady rappers?

BET attempts to answer this decades-long-asked question tonight during its first ever original music documentary special “My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women In Hip Hop.”

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Phaedra Parks, the newest “real” housewife of the ATL is a lawyer who’s repped Bobby Brown (poor thing) and other high-profile entertainers. Now, she’s in the mix on one of the most dramatic pieces of work on the teevay (*sarcasm*). Parks is also in the midst of a little bit of controversy herself. But I think that’s a prerequisite to be on the “Housewives.” The attorney is married to a man with a criminal past. Parks seems to think she’s doing the community a service by marrying a felon.

Taste The Brew for her comments

VIBE asked Fantasia if she thinks her darker skin and African features have made her a target in the media while more acceptable mistresses singers like Alicia Keys, LeAnn Rimes and Britney Spears seemingly get a pass. Clearly, her reading still isn’t up to snuff cuz these broads got bad press too. But, I digress.

‘Tasia says:

“Yes, I do. I really feel like it does. I was on Nancy Grace, CNN, every gospel station and in every magazine and every newspaper. It was on. You would have thought I was the President or something.”

“I’ve battled and have had to deal with that before. Lord forgive me and I don’t want to offend anybody, but when [I did Idol] it seemed like everybody there was Barbied out. Slim, long hair, light eyes, light-skinned. And here I come with my dark skin, full nose, short hair and full lips — it was hard.”

Sidebar: did she forget Jennifer Hudson and LaToya London were on her season too?

“They never put me in those magazines [featuring] the red carpet. Everybody there has long hair and everybody is bright-skinned, and I was like, ‘But wait a minute. They never gave me that.’ That bothered me.”

“One day I was like, ‘that’s okay’, but I had to get to that point. I am a dark-skinned, full-lipped sister and it’s all right.”

Fantasia (and her “people,” assuming she has some) love touting her as the “victim.”
Teen mother? ✓
Illiterate? ✓
GED-challenged? ✓
Mooched by her family? ✓
Nearly swindled by her daddy? ✓
“He’s married but he never told me all dat?” ✓

Yaada yaada yaada. Take charge, girl! You can’t play the victim all your life, boo boo.

Meanwhile, there’s word Fantasia might be pregnant. I’m tired of this broad… so hop over to The Hollywood Gossip to find out more.

#LeSigh

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Did we time warp by into the 60′s?  Are the hooded goons so agitated by the results of the last election that they are going grassroots with it. I mean like REAL GRASSROOTS, local middle schools? This is some bulljive right here that makes me proud to be a Yankee, because I would be one jailed uppity negro if this happened at my child’s school!

Children running for class officer posts at a Mississippi public school are only allowed to compete for certain positions based on their race, according to a memo handed out last week to students.

The Nettleton Middle School elections are divided between offices pegged for black and white students, according to the memo, which was provided to TSG by a parent. The document was handed out to every student in the school’s sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, and it details the race requirements for each of four class officer spots (president, vice president, secretary-treasurer, and reporter). Story

If you’ve been following the riveting Twitter story, you know that  Kimora Lee Simmons (Hounsou?) has severed her relationship with Kellwood the owners of that line of teenybopper urban ”fashion”  Baby Phat.  KeKe clearly gets worked over in the Photoshop lab, hard… I mean yea obviously it must take a team of  Photoshop geniuses to massage the hell out of that neck ring urrah… but now a 6’0″ tall woman can’t be a size 10?  Suck it Fashion Industry—for real.  Oh and, let me take this moment to make this public service fashion announcement:

“NO ONE OVER 21 SHOULD BE WALKING AROUND WITH A GIANT BABY PHAT CAT, ANYWHERE ON THEIR PERSON!”

But another Baby Phat insider it could have been a way to slash costs: “Kimora was going over-budget. She’d pay herself a fee to be in the ads, plus she paid her children fees to appear in ads. It costs thousands of dollars to airbrush her because she’s a size 10. Plus, they spent a ton of money on body doubles. They would shoot another model in the clothes, and take Kimora’s head and put in on her body.”Story

In April, Jezebel matched Kimora’s body in her “Dare Me” perfume ad to that of Daria Werbowy on French Vogue‘s March 2005 cover.