Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, also known as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, are continuing their North American tour and Middleton dazzled Canada in her cobalt blue dress.
The newlyweds attended a ceremony at Quebec City Hall in Quebec City Canada on Sunday, July 3. For the event, the Duchess wore a form-fitting lace detail "Jacquenta" dress by Canadian designer Erdem and finished the look with four-inch nude platform stilettos and a faux crocodile clutch.
The British royals received a less-than-friendly greeting from protestors in Montreal. The group carried signs which read "Your fortune came from the blood of our ancestors" and "Parasites go home," referring to Great Britain's 1759 Conquest of New France and desire from some French to separate from Canada, according to ABC News.
The French-speaking separists were greatly outnumbered by supporters, who have greeted William and Kate on their tour.
The couple landed in Canada on Thursday, June 30 to begin a North American tour. It is their first overseas trip as a married couple. They will tour Canada until July 8, when they will fly to California. Check out photos from their Canada trip.
"Happy 4th of July to my home! Be back soon to kiss you USA! Off to Singapore. Thank you to the 40,000 monsters who gathered to see our show," Lady Gaga wrote on Twitter on July 4th. (Pictured: Lady Gaga is pictured in a scene from the music video 'Telephone.')
It was being reported this morning that in an interview with with OK! Magazine (via Long Island Press) singer/rapper Aaron Carter revealed that Michael Jackson gave him alcohol and cocaine. He is quoted as saying:
“I never talked about it… This is the first time. I do… I miss Michael… I have spent such incredible times with him. I did things with him that nobody else did… But I was also troubled about what he did to me… Yes, he gave me wine. I mean, I could have refused, but I was 15.”
He went on to say, “He gave me cocaine. I felt weird about that and other stuff… We spoke afterwards, hours and hours, on the phone. I admired Michael, but his behavior bothered me a lot. Then my mother called the police…”
Well now, the singer is blasting the interview as completely fabricated, saying that international journalist Daphne Barak made everything up!
Carter’s rep tells TMZ, “Nothing was said that was reported”.
I always think if something is completely made up, why would someone choose to do it in the first place? Especially about someone like Aaron Carter…
Pippa Middleton was spotted at Wimbledon this week wearing a see-through black crochet dress, identical to the white one she wore earlier in the month and she brought the same date - wealthy heir George Percy.
Percy, who is the son of the Duke of Northumberland, dated Middleton when they attended college at the University of Edinburgh. Pippa and Percy were also housemates and lived with Lord Edward Innes-Ker, a son of the Duke of Roxburghe. Percy is heir to a huge fortune which includes Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, which is home to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the "Harry Potter" movies.
The pair has been photographed together a lot lately and was also spotted vacationing in Spain. Percy, 27, who is an Earl, has served as a "page of honor" to Queen Elizabeth II, which allowed him to accompany her to major events, according to ABC News.
Middleton, 27, wore a daring Tania knit dress at Wimbledon that showed off the fashion icon's undergarments (See a photo here). She wore the same dress in white to the AEGON tennis tournament on June 10, which she also attended with Percy.
Middleton, who was formerly working as a party planner has also taken a job with Percy's geothermal energy firm. She will now help lobby for government licenses which would allow the Percy's company to drill underground for hot water which would be converted into heat and electricity. Pippa also works part-time at her parents' party planning company Table Talk and writes an online magazine for their online party supply website, Party Pieces.
According to People magazine, Middleton recently split up with former England cricketer Alex Loudon, who accompanied her to the Royal Wedding. However, the pair was spotted at a different Wimbledon match earlier this week.
Middleton's sister Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and brother-in-law Prince William are on an official tour of Canada. See photos of their visit.
Pippa's appearance at the Royal wedding in a gorgeous Alexander McQueen gown has sparked interest and earned her the unofficial title of "Her Royal Hotness" and a website dedicated to her derriere.
Pippa Middleton served as the maid of honor at her sister's wedding and was responsible for planning the post-wedding party, which reportedly made palace officials "shudder."
La Toya Jackson is currently promoting her new tell-all book, "Starting Over," which hit bookshelves on June 21 and sat down with OnTheRedCarpet.com to share photos and details from the memoir.
"In the beginning, I was afraid to write it because I was embarrassed to let people know about my life and what I went through and what I endured," La Toya told OnTheRedCarpet.com correspondent Tony Cabrera on Friday.
"Starting Over" contains details about La Toya's life with her famous family and her former husband and tidbits about the final days of Michael Jackson. In June, La Toya said on her Twitter page that she "left nothing out" of her new book, which is the follow-up to her 1991 book "La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family."
"Every question about me you ever wanted answered, is in this book!" La Toya Jackson Tweeted."This is my autobiography, it's tells everything that has happened in my life since my last book in 1991, 20 years ago."
La Toya Jackson is the older sister of Janet and Michael Jackson and grew up with them, their brothers and their parents, Katherine and Joe Jackson. Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and La Toya Jackson have said in the past their father was abusive, which he has denied.
The book "Starting Over" also contains details about La Toya Jackson's "journey to hell and back at the hands of her former manager and husband, Jack Gordon."
"He took me to Japan, where I was supposed to be for a few days and then he took away my passport and said 'You're never going back,'" La Toya continued. "From that point, he started the abuse. He locked me in closets, I wasn't allowed to watch television, he started beating me, I couldn't have friends or read newspapers... he was making me do things totally against my will, like Playboy [magazine] and everything that he did. He told me if I didn't do it that he would kill me and kill my brother Michael. It was like a Catch 22."
She has said in the past that Gordon, who is 20 years older than her, forced her to marry him, controlled her life for about 10 years and also physically abused her. Gordon had denied her allegations. He died in 2005 at age 66.
Michael Jackson died in 2009 at age 50 and La Toya Jackson joined her family, including the singer's three children, on stage at a Los Angeles tribute ceremony that was broadcast around the world.
Michael Jackson's doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray faces a September trial after being accused of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's death. He has pleaded not guilty. La Toya Jackson says in "Starting Over" that she confronted Murray in the hospital shortly after her brother was pronounced dead and that he gave her only "evasion and excuses." He has not commented.
La Toya Jackson writes that following her brother's death, she found his bedroom "torn to pieces," with furniture overturned and items scattered about. She told OnTheRedCarpet.com that surveillance tapes from Michael's house were erased and hopes to find justice in her brother's murder case.
La Toya Jackson began her entertainment career early. She starred with her siblings on the CBS variety show, "The Jacksons" and began a solo career in 1980. She appeared on the short-lived CBS reality show, "Armed & Famous" and on the British reality series "Celebrity Big Brother."
The 55-year-old gained new fans this year after starring on the fourth season of Donald Trump's NBC reality show "The Celebrity Apprentice," which shows celebrities putting together marketing campaigns to try and sell a product while winning money for charity. On the reality series, La Toya Jackson was deemed a consistently weaker player when compared to more dominant personalities such as Star Jones and NeNe Leakes. Country singer John Rich ultimately won the season.
Mary J. Blige was honored this week with a McDonald's 365Black Award for Outstanding Community Service, for co-founding the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now (FFAWN).
"My entire career has been about giving back, being a philanthropist has been a dream of mine since I was a child and I'm so blessed to be honored by McDonald's for this particular Award," Blige said in an interview after the Awards show. "The McDonald's donation is amazing and it's going to send so many women to college."
Each year, the 365Black Awards honor African-Americans who influence and inspire greatness through outstanding community service. The 2011 365Black Awards were co-hosted by Angela Bassett and Radio Legend Tom Joyner.
"Our 365Black Awards honorees define true leadership in our community, from Ruby Dee's trail blazing career as an actress to the civil rights crusades led by Hank Thomas; from the media empire created by Cathy Hughes to the leadership that Benjamin Jealous brings to the NAACP, our honorees inspire all Americans to give back in some unique way," Neil Golden, McDonald's USA Chief Marketing Officer said in a statement.
The Grammy Award-winning singer was honored alongside Grammy Award winning actress Ruby Dee, Radio One network founder Cathy Hughes, NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Jealous and civil rights activist and McDonald's owner/operator Henry "Hank" Thomas.
"Through her organization FFAWN, the Foundation for Advancement of Women Now, Mary J. Blige continues to invest in the future of young women and gives them the confidence they need to succeed," Golden continued.
Along with the Award, McDonald's gave Blige a charitable contribution of $40,000 for the Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now, which looks to "empower women from all walks of life to reach their full individual potential," according to their mission statement.
The 365Black Awards were launched in 2003 and are an extension of McDonald's 365Black initiative, created to celebrate the pride, heritage and achievements of African-Americans.
Blige rose to fame with her 1992 debut album, "What's the 411?" and has since sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. Among her many accolades, Mary can claim eight multi-platinum albums, nine Grammy Awards (she has been nominated for a staggering 29) and four American Music Awards.
"Out of all of my awards, the McDonald's 365Black Award will definitely go up on my shelf along with the Grammys," Blige said at the ceremony.
Her next album, "My Life Too&The Journey Continues" will be released September 20, 2011.
Janet Jackson is opening up for the first time about a duet with her brother that she's reviving two years after his death.
Jackson took to the stage in London on Thursday and performed their 1995 song Scream as video of Michael Jackson played and his voice filled Royal Albert Hall.
The reworked duet follows in the footsteps of jazz pianist and singer Nat King Cole and his daughter, Natalie Cole. In 1991 she turned her father's famous 1961 recording "Unforgettable" into a father-daughter duet.
Janet Jackson said she did the original duet at the request of her brother years ago.
"I was on the Rhythm Nation tour and Mike actually asked me to do a song with him and I told him no. I didn't want to do it. I felt I hadn't come into my own and I hadn't fully made a name for myself ... and I didn't want to ride anyone's coattails," she said. "And I remember being in the Janet Tour a few good years later and he asked me again if I would do a song with him. And I felt, at that point, I'd carved my own little niche in this world of music and I felt okay, I can do this now and that's how it came about."
Jackson said that performing the song alongside her brother again isn't difficult.
"It feels great -- just listening to and hearing his voice," she said, adding that on stage she finds herself, "remembering the experience of recording it."
Jackson decline to comment to the press on the two-year mark of her brother's death, instead taking to social media this week with a simple message on Twitter on the June 25 anniversary: "I miss you, I love you."
Jackson wraps up the European leg of her tour this week then heads to North America, Australia and Africa.
Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, also known as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, are continuing their North American tour and Middleton dazzled Canada in her cobalt blue dress.
Pippa Middleton was spotted at Wimbledon this week wearing a see-through black crochet dress, identical to the white one she wore earlier in the month and she brought the same date - wealthy heir George Percy.