Entertainment

The highly anticipated role of Bobby Brown in Lifetime’s Whitney Houston biopic will go to Arlen Escarpeta, an actor whose resume includes “Final Destinaton 5,” and “We Are Marshall,” reports Deadline.com. Read More  

Multiple published reports that the upcoming Jay-Z/Beyonce co-headlining stadium tour — set to begin in Miami on June 25 and wrap in San Francisco Aug. 5 — is struggling, or that ticket sales are “dismal,” are inaccurate, Billboard has learned. Read More    

Lupita Nyong’o has inked her “it” girl status by landing the July cover of Vogue magazine. The “12 Years A Slave” Oscar winner and soon-to-be “Star Wars: Episode VII” star burst onto social media with the announcement Thursday. Read More  

  Stop it Internet, Blue Ivy Carter is just two years old. The daughter of music’s power couple Jay Z and Beyoncé is often criticized online because her parents have refused to “comb her hair”. Just recently, there was an online petition requesting the couple to comb her locks. India Arie has penned an open letter on the trending topic. Read Letter  

  Bill Clinton certainly knows a thing or two about scandals, so don’t you think he’d be the perfect guest star on Scandal. While series creator Shonda Rhimes says she’s not that into real-life politician stunt casting, she’d make an exception for the former president. Read More

Venus Williams is one of the finest players and has been credited with bringing about a change in women’s professional tennis. Venus along with her sister Serena Williams, another regular Grand Slam winner, have actively played and won more Olympic gold medals than any other female tennis player. See Video

  After news spread yesterday that former Disney star and Dancing With The Stars runner-up (in season 16) Zendaya Coleman would be cast to play Aaliyah in a new Lifetime biopic, fans already agitated about the idea of the singer’s story being made into a movie had a field day on Twitter last night (and […]

Casey Kasem, who entertained radio listeners for almost four decades as the host of countdown shows such as “American Top 40” and “Casey’s Top 40,” died early Sunday, according to a Facebook post from his daughter Kerri Kasem. See Video

  Wearing a gorgeous wedding gown by British designer Alice Temperley and a cathedral-length veil, the 35-year-old hip-hop star and xXx actress wed the British Gumball 3000 motor rally CEO and co-founder and fellow fashion designer on Saturday, June 13 in Ibiza, Spain. Read More

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the 37-year-old Washington confessed on not really wanting to talk about juggling her work on the hit ABC series and being a mom. See Video  

  We’ve lost yet another Black legend. Iconic actress, activist, poet and screenwriter Ruby Dee passed away at 91 years old. Read More

Jay Kelly (pictured), the youngest child of superstar R. Kelly and VH1 “Hollywood Exes” reality show star/dancer Andrea Kelly (pictured), has just revealed that he is a transgender boy on his Instagram account. Jay, who formerly went by Jaya, has changed his Instagram profile description to reflect his name change to “Jay, transguy, ukulele” and used the social media platform to discuss his transition. The 13-year-old explained that […]