Madonna said Tuesday that the father of the African boy she is trying to adopt refused her offer of financial assistance to help him keep his son. Some critics have said it would have been better for 13-month-old David Banda if Madonna had helped his impoverished father to care for him at home in Malawi rather than bringing the boy to live with her and her family in London.

“I said I would be happy to … bring him back to your village and help you financially raise him. And he said no,” Madonna told Meredith Vieira in an interview set to air Wednesday on “Dateline NBC” and Wednesday and Thursday on “Today.”
“I think he truly felt in his heart of hearts — and who knows if he was telling me the truth — that he would have a better life with me. So when he said no, that was, you know, that was my sign that…it was my responsibility to look after him.”

The boy’s father, Yohane Banda, said last week that he feared criticism of the adoption would prompt the singer to drop her efforts, and he urged her not to do so.

Madonna told “Today” reflects “our inability to focus on the real problems and our desire to have distractions and to be consumed with people’s personal lives and gossip.”
She also said that the public’s issue with the adoption was motivated by racism. “That’s underneath a lot of people’s prejudice about me adopting David,” she told “Today.” “I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I’ve adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.” Madonna said she adopted the boy because she “wants to be part of the solution.”
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Ryan Phillippe’s Other Women?

1 Nov 2006 In: Ryan Phillippe

Rumors is Australian actress Abbie Cornish is the other woman at the center of Reese Witherspoon’s and Ryan Phillippe’s marriage break-up.

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Wow, Ashley is actually showing her teeth! It’s a miracle!
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

1 Nov 2006 In: Uncategorized

Hope everyone is enjoying Halloween tonight!

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What is happening to her? Purple top with blue boots?
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This is Lindsay before getting her hair done again! What is she wearing?

This is Lindsay after:

I never knew coming out of your hairdresser required a clothes change?
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Madonna said Tuesday that the father of the African boy she is trying to adopt refused her offer of financial assistance to help him keep his son. Some critics have said it would have been better for 13-month-old David Banda if Madonna had helped his impoverished father to care for him at home in Malawi rather than bringing the boy to live with her and her family in London.
“I said I would be happy to … bring him back to your village and help you financially raise him. And he said no,” Madonna told Meredith Vieira in an interview set to air Wednesday on “Dateline NBC” and Wednesday and Thursday on “Today.”
“I think he truly felt in his heart of hearts ? and who knows if he was telling me the truth ? that he would have a better life with me. So when he said no, that was, you know, that was my sign that…it was my responsibility to look after him.”
The boy’s father, Yohane Banda, said last week that he feared criticism of the adoption would prompt the singer to drop her efforts, and he urged her not to do so.
Madonna told “Today” reflects “our inability to focus on the real problems and our desire to have distractions and to be consumed with people’s personal lives and gossip.”
She also said that the public’s issue with the adoption was motivated by racism. “That’s underneath a lot of people’s prejudice about me adopting David,” she told “Today.” “I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I’ve adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.” Madonna said she adopted the boy because she “wants to be part of the solution.”
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

31 Oct 2006 In: Uncategorized

Hope everyone is enjoying Halloween tonight!

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Kevin Federline admits that when he began seeing his now-wife, Britney Spears, the timing was less than ideal. “I’m not going to say that I planned on falling in love with my wife when my ex-girlfriend (actress Shar Jackson) was pregnant,” Federline, 28, tells USA Today.
However, the rapper, whose debut album, Playing with Fire, hits stores Tuesday, says one thing wasn’t a surprise: “I knew for sure that I’d have one or two children by now. I didn’t think I’d have four children, but I love being a young dad with a big family.”
His first child with Spears, Sean Preston, is 1, and their second son, Jayden James, was born Sept. 12. All four kids get along, Federline tells the newspaper. Sean Preston “gets real excited when Kori and Kaleb come over,” and Jayden “picks up things a lot quicker than the others, because he has the benefit of learning from the older kids.” His and Spears’s older son, he says, “is starting to take on the big brother role, and he’s getting very protective. (He) wants to be around the baby all the time.”
Federline also says he thinks show business is no place for children, “even though my wife did it, and it turned out okay for her. … And if that means I take my family out of L.A. to grow up on a farm, then that’s what I’ve got to do.” Spears, he says, has been “recording three or four times a week, and she still manages to be with the kids a lot.”
He and his wife take on different parenting roles, he says: “She spoils them; I’m the enforcer.” Little Jayden James hasn’t yet made his public debut, and Federline says Spears will decide when to release a photo. “But if my wife wants to have that baby all to herself for now, then she keeps it, because there’s not much she has to herself,” he says, “not even her own children.”
Federline also tells his life story to the The New York Post, and says he wants to write a book: “The book is definite. It will be a biography of my life until I met my wife, so people will better understand who I am. I haven’t done it yet. You know, I’ll get a ghostwriter in there.”
Another, perhaps surprising, goal for the future: “I want to go to Africa – I think it’s a place where you can go and really, really help people and make a difference. And it’s also a place I want to see – I’m into the safari animals and all that stuff. I grew up watching the Discovery Channel.”
I think I was just sick! This is so garbage! How can he be the enforcer when he is never home. How can you love your wife when you are never ever seen together. No, Kevin you didnt plan on leaving your pregnant girlfriend. However, once you met the emotional destroyed Brit Brit and she started giving you things you fell in love very fast.
I really wish this guy along with Brit Brit would move to a farm so I would never ever hear their names again! And, Brit Brit making a comeback I have my doubts. I could be wrong because if the Pussy Cat Dolls can be famous than I guess anyone can. When will pop music end? I’m tired of hearing shitty music! That’s a whole different topic though.
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Ivanka Trump More Rumors!

31 Oct 2006 In: Uncategorized

Ivanka Trump has squashed rumors she’s with Lance Armstrong with even stranger rumors that she’s with Topher Grace. She celebrated her 25th birthday in Las Vegas over the weekend and reportedly spent Saturday night with Topher.

They canoodled on the balcony during dinner at Social House with a group including Grace’s former co-star Wilmer Valderrama. Then, at nightclub Pure, they closed the curtains around their private table for a half-hour. The couple “never left each other’s sides,” said our source.And here’s Ivanka at her birthday party at Pure looking a bit more like Paris Hilton than anybody should ever look.

There’s been rumors going around that she got breast implants and while I can’t confirm them, I can confirm that her bumblebee suit makes her look like she belongs in a Martin Scorsese movie doing a line of coke and telling Robert DeNiro she’d like to go out for a night on the town.

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