A lot was learned from Monday’s premiere of Cadillac Records — and not just that Beyonce nails her performance as a tormented Etta James. You see, we had a little spy jotting down observations as stars like Jay-Z, Mos-Def, Diddy, Ne-Yo and Adrien Brody walked the red carpet. The juiciest tidbit of the night: Akon is in talks to land a supporting role in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming movie about Nelson Mandela. Read all of the gossip from our spy by clicking into the photos below.
Beyonce Wears Spanx Beyonce sometimes wears Spanx to tame her bootyliciousness! Asked if she'd used the popular undergarment to help her squeeze into her body-hugging gown, she answered, "I do wear Spanx all the time but I'm not wearing them tonight because I don't think I could fit them anymore [because of all the food she ate during the Thanksgiving holiday]. She also said she initially joined the naysayers in dismissing her ability to play the heroin-addicted Etta James in the film but willingly accepted the challenge thanks to her mother's encouragement.
Adrian Brody got dissed by Beyonce!
Well, not really. During an interview, he realized a cameraman was shooting Beyonce while he stopped talking to joke, "He's more interested in Beyonce. I don't blame you, but I'm talking. He's [the cameraman] like, 'Yeah, whatever'."
Not another alter ego! Jeffrey Wright says he has his hopes set on a Grammy rather than an Oscar due to all of his singing in the film. He said he might release an album under the moniker "Jeffrey Fierce."
Gabrielle Union's on rumor patrol
The actress smashed claims made my popular urban blog site, MediaTakeOut, calling herself the MediaTakeOut Queen. She said she's not getting married [to Dwayne Wade, who's technically still married], although she didn't deny that she's dating him, as the site has long claimed. She said she did not "out" Beyonce as being 35, as the site claimed she did. She clarified that she remarked once to an interviewer that she's known Beyonce since she was a teenager, NOT since they were teenagers, which would have implied that they're the same age.
She also noted that she's been the significant other of nearly every man in the Cadillac Records, in one project or another, but Mos Def holds the award for the softest lips. (An admittedly convenient answer since he was standing right next to her.)
Double Oh Diddy
Puffy says he's ready to assume the big screen role of the black James Bond. Call him Diddy ... P.Diddy! He poo poos other recommendations for the role, including Jamie Foxx and Idris Elba, saying neither actor has his supreme swagger.
Akon To Break Into Movies? Akon says he thinks he thinks he has a good chance of landing Beyonce. Nevermind Jay-Z! He explains, "It's all in the mind ... Never let anybody limit you. If you want it, you have to go out and get it." Is he saying he could take Jay-Z in the Battle for B, a reporter asks? "Don't go starting anything," he warns, then clarifies, "I'm just saying that in life, if you want something, you gotta go after it. Right now, I want to be a star. I want to play a starring role, so I'm coming [to the premiere] to see what it takes to be that."
Sources tell us he's well on his way to becoming a big screen star. We hear he's in talks to land a supporting role in the upcoming Clint Eastwood film about Nelson Mandela.
Diddy is taking man-scaping to a whole new level. In a new interview with Allure, the music mogul and playa reveals how he likes his ladies to be hairless. If you want to get diddled by Diddy, you must:
Maintain a Brazilian bikini wax!
Wax your legs!
Thread your eyebrows!
Indulge in manicures and pedicures!
But don’t be put off by the amount of work it takes to keep Diddy happy, ladies. The Puffster keeps his man bits looking just as bare as his dates’. “I shave and groom my private areas,” Diddy demurely revealed. “It’s a better presentation for me. If men require women to go through the pain, we should return the favor.”
Men, you heard it hear first. Diddy thinks you all should wax your balls; or at least get rid of that unibrow. It’s the least you can do! [NYDN. Photo: WireImage]
What, you expected celebs to stay silent about last night’s big win for President-Elect Barack Obama? No such luck, my friends. Everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Diddy to Jessica Alba had something to say about 2008’s historic election. Read ‘em all in our round up below.
Oprah Winfrey, one of Obama’s biggest celebrity supporters, couldn’t keep her excitement hidden. “I’m vibrating,” she gushed to Us magazine. Might be a little TMI, Oprah! She also told the BBC, “It feels like hope won. It feels like there’s a shift in consciousness. It feels like something really big and bold has happened here, like nothing ever in our lifetimes did we expect this to happen.”
Usher: “It’s so incredible to see that this historical thing has happened, man…The public service that went into this and the encouragement that came out of it, it’s just incredible to see it happen.”
Lindsay Lohan, on her Myspace blog, of course: “OBAMA IS OUR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! everyone that voted, no matter their choice…should be proud for voting in the first place :)”
Diddytakes responsibility for Obama’s win: “I felt like my vote was the vote that put him into office. … And that may not be true but that’s how much power it felt like I had.”
The always astute and reflective Jessica Alba: “I was surprised that McCain brought race into his speech. I guess he was trying to bring people together.”
A cute message from Kanye West to his deceased mom: “HI MOM, OBAMA WON!”
Pete Wentzshouts out new Vice President Joe Biden, “I would not be standing here actually in reality, at all, because my parents met working for [vice president elect] Biden. They met on a campaign so they have this particular affection for Joe - he came to their wedding. If it weren’t for Joe Biden, I would not exist as a human being.”
Spike Lee: “I think that’s a lot to do with young white Americans - they don’t have the same views as their parents.”
George Clooney: “I congratulate President-elect Obama on his historic victory, and now it’s time to begin unifying the country so we can take on the extraordinary challenges that this generation faces.”
Browse through photos of celebs casting their vote yesterday.
Lindsay Lohan is all smiles as she votes in the general election in Los Angeles. Dressed casually in knee-high boots and her signature leggings, she was accompanied by a friend and a body guard. She was only at the polling station for about ten minutes. [Photo: Splash News Online]
Jay-Z attends "Promote The Vote" block party in Philadelphia. [Photo: FilmMagic]
Hilary Duff looks fantastic as she shows off her legs in a pair of black heels and a black mini dress as she runs some errands with her sister Haylie on election day in Los Angeles, Ca. Hilary showed that she'd cast her vote with an "I've Voted" sticker on her chest. [Photo: Splash News Online]
Beyonce attends "Promote The Vote" block party in Philadelphia. [Photo: FilmMagic]
Rachel Bilson, with the company of Hayden Christensen, makes her vote count for Obama. [Photo: Splash News Online]
Christina Aguilera and husband Jordan Bratman cast their votes at a Beverly Hills polling station. [Photo: Splash News Online]
Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick and James Wilke Broderick vote at a West Village voting precinct. [Photo: Splash News Online]
Jennifer Garner votes in Brentwood, California. [Photo: Splash News Online]
Sean "Diddy" Combs attends "Promote The Vote" block party in Philadelphia. [Photo: FilmMagic]
A true patriot on election day, Justin Timberlake wears an American flag (gray scale) proudly on his shirt. Jessica Biel was not with Justin though he was diving her car. Justin was rumored to have voted near his house at 7am. [Photo: Splash News Online]
Ben Affleck casts his vote at a church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica. Ben lost his voting sticker so went back inside to get a new one. [Photo: Splash News Online]
Paris Hilton votes at a polling station in Norwalk, California. [Photo: Splash News Online]
“Look,” says Diddy in his new Diddy blog update. “I know that it sounds a bit suspicious that Senator John McCain referred to Senator Barack Obama as ‘That One.’ We must always be watchful of our language and its potential to dehumanize. I would strongly appreciate an apology to us all. But whether McCain meant to demean or simply misspoke, I believe we should focus on the myriad of pressing issues rather than play up the potential subtext of a stray statement. It is far better we ignore such trivial lapses, so that we may shine a brighter light on the dangers of McCain’s proposed policies. We do need a cool hand at the tiller, and it is Barack Obama who shows this desired temperament. Let us learn from his example.”
Just kidding. Diddy’s seriously pissed over McCain’s ‘That One’ crack, and says he finds the Republican nominee “even scarier than Sarah Palin.” So why isn’t he shrieking?
A lot of us were disturbed when Sarah Palin wouldn’t—or couldn’t—name a single newspaper she regularly reads (”oh, all of them!”), but none more so than Diddy, who scurried under the covers with a flashlight and recorded this Blair Witch-y vlog. “She’s worse than the boogeyman…she could be president!” With all his hyperventilating and unsettling shrieks, you’d think he could see dead people (John McCain’s not there quite yet).
Whether not you agree with him, one needs to realize that Diddy has filmed himself whimpering. Whimpering. Diddy, the man who once stared down Godzilla himself.
To see our hero in such a state is truly cause for concern.
Diddy aka “Ciroc Obama” chimed in on how he feels about John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin. Diddy taped a video for his blog in which he tells John McCain, “You are bugging the f*ck out,” and asks, “You would let her keep your kids?!”
Diddy then questions, “Are there even any black people in Alaska?” and states “There’s no crackheads in Alaska!”
Well, to answer your question, Ciroc, yes, there are SOME, but not many. Although the state is 70.7% white there are in fact 3.7% of Alaska’s population who are black. As far as crackheads, a 2005 report claimed that there were 28,000 crack and cocaine users in Alaska. So, yes, Diddy there are some crackheads too!
Could it be true that Diddy doesn’t treat all his young Danity Kane protégés the same? TheYBF claims that Diddy has shown special favoritism toward group member Dawn Richard. Diddy “has been flying Dawn out from Baltimore to him for private meetings. And these meetings are preparing her to be the breakout star in a solo career. Apparently, Diddy believes she’s the most talented of the group, and the girls are pissy because they disagree.”
Diddy’s rep contended that there is no favoritism and all the girls get along. “At no point was Dawn flown anywhere to record solo or meet alone with Diddy. The girls are still very much together. They’re going out to the Video Music Awards together … and they’re promoting their album ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ and working on their third.”
It’s hard to believe a group of 5 performing smokin’ hot chicks gets along perfectly, but still Diddy’s rep maintains they “absolutely” do. [Source:NYDailyNews; Photo:Getty Images]
Diddy, aka Sean Combs, came face-to-face with the barrel of a gun early Saturday morning. Law enforcement sources say the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department stopped a vehicle in Diddy’s entourage for not having proper tags, while driving down the Sunset Strip. The rest of his entourage pulled up shortly after and things got a bit out of hand. It’s sheriff department policy to call for backup when other cars linger at a traffic stop. After the backup arrived one of the driver’s became “extremely uncooperative,” to the point he had to be detained.
This is when Combs and six members of his entourage exited their vehicles and started walking towards the detained driver. The deputies did not know they were in the presence of Puff Daddy when one of them drew his weapon. Things almost turned into a front page story, but the situation became peaceful after they identified themselves. The detained driver was driving a rental car so no ticket was issued. There isn’t a dull moment when you run with Puff’s posse.
Beyonce Wears Spanx
Adrian Brody got dissed by Beyonce!
Not another alter ego!
Gabrielle Union's on rumor patrol
Double Oh Diddy
Akon To Break Into Movies?
