Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera drew a major backlash Friday after claiming that Trayvon Martin's hoodie is to blame for his death and urging black and Latino parents to tell their kids to dress differently.
In an interview with Fox & Friends, Rivera, a Fox News commentator, said Martin made himself a target by wearing a hoodie that fateful Feb. 26 night. Martin, a black, unarmed 17-year-old, was walking home from a 7-11 when George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, shot and killed him.
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Kimora Lee Simmons
Kimora Lee Simmons credits her post-baby weight loss to a very unique diet.
"I'm on the fabulosity diet!" the 36-year-old told Us Weekly.
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Taylor Lautner
The year may be winding down, but the celebrity hoaxes are still going strong.
The latest misinformation making the Internet rounds is a purported People magazine cover that proclaims Taylor Lautner is "Out & Proud." The real People magazine confirmed to Gossip Cop that the supposed Jan. 7 issue is "absolutely fake."
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Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian
It didn't take long before the news of Kim Kardashian's impending divorce led to a flurry of celebrities weighing in on Twitter. Some of our favorites:
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Stacey Dash
Stacey Dash is leaving the VH1 show Single Ladies.
"I have to be back in L.A. with my children right now and the Single Ladies shooting location [in Atlanta] makes this impossible," Dash said in a statement to Russell Simmons' website Global Grind. "I wish VH1 the best of luck with the show in maintaining the strong fan base we developed in Season 1."
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Affion Crockett
Comedian Affion Crockett is known for his uncanny celebrity impersonations, which he is taking to television this summer with a new show on Fox called In the Flow with Affion Crockett.
"It's power packed with energy," Crockett tells us. "It's got an In Living Color 2011 and beyond-type flavor."
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Tracy Morgan
Following his recent anti-gay comments made during a stand-up show, Tracy Morgan has continued to apologize for his insensitivity, publically calling homophobia a "sickness," speaking with gay rights group GLAAD and planning to meet with LGBT youth community members in New York.
Tracy Morgan apologizes for homophobic rant: "I'm not a hateful person"
During a June 3 show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, Morgan went on a homophobic rant during which he said he would "pull out a knife and stab" his son if he were gay. After being...
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Nelsan Ellis, Tina Fey
Vampires and comedy writers took top honors at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Award in New York Saturday.
HBO's supernatural hit True Blood won for Outstanding Drama Series. The show features numerous gay characters — some are human (Nelsan Ellis' Lafayette) and others are vampires, like Russell Edgington, the vampire king of Mississippi. Denis O'Hare, who plays Russell, was on hand to accept the award.
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Jamie Fox
Almost 20 years since his breakout role on In Living Color, Jamie Foxx may be headed back to Fox for another sketch-comedy show, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The network has ordered the untitled pilot with Foxx and fellow In Living Color writers Fax Bahr and Adam Small serving as executive producers.
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Wild 'N Out alum Affion Crockett is also attached to the project. The comedic actor is best known for his spoofs of ...
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Tyler Perry's House of Payne by Andrew Eccles/TBS
TBS' half of Turner's Wednesday upfronts presentation kicked off with renewal news for Tyler Perry's House of Payne (returning in June) and 10 Items or Less. The laugh-centric cabler then announced a development slate featuring:• National Banana Already in Progress, a late-night sketch show exec-produced by Jerry Zucker (Airplane!).• A scripted comedy produced by Def Jam's Russell Simmons and starring Run DMC's "Run."• A half-hour laffer exec-produced by and starring William H. Macy.• A late-night reality series which returns middle-aged men to their frat boy days. (And you thought all it took was a case of Pabst.)• An improv show exec-produced by Jamie Foxx.• Top Ten, which claims to "pit comedians against each other."Bookmark our FALL TV GRID | Review All of Our FALL TV NEWS
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