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Foxy Brown has been found guilty of violating her probation and has been sentenced to one year in jail.
Brown, who recently announced that she was three months pregnant, was remanded to state custody in August and ordered to jail for violating her probation.
She plead for mercy before the sentence was handed down but Manhattan Criminal Court judge Melissa Jackson wasn’t having any of it.
What’s that? Nude photo’s of Disney’s High School Musical start Vanessa Hudgens hit the internet on Thursday?
The young star, 18, currently dating Zac Efron, released a statement on Friday stating “I want to apologize to my fans, whose support and trust means the world to me. I am embarrassed over this situation and regret having ever taken these photos. I am thankful for the support of my family and friends.”
Disney hasn’t made a statement as of yet.
I think I’m still a little shocked by the sudden death of Luciano Pavarotti.
Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, and at 5 a.m. local time on Thursday September 6th he passed away in his Modena, Italy home. His manager, Terri Robson had this to say –
“The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterized his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness,” the statement said.
Pavarotti was arguably the most famous opera singer in the world for the past 35 years.
Nicoletta Mantovani, Luciano’s second wife, survives him, as does his three daughters by his first wife Adua. Pavarotti also had a daughter with Mantovani in 2003 who survives him as well.
I just added a new feature to this site. Do you see that shopping link in the top right hand corner of the page? Well, that will take you to my shopping page.
I’ve partnered with The Find. They contacted me, oh … at least two months ago, asking if I wanted to partner with them and offer some great shopping deals to my site visitors. I was interested from the start, but the opportunity came up at a very busy time for me and I was slow to get the ball rolling. In the meantime, the great people at The Find made it easier for me to get my sites listed and once that happened. I started the process last week, and earlier today I was told that all my sites were accepted.
The company made it easy to add shopping listings. You can visit the Shopping page of my site to see a selection of items or use the search at the top of that page to look for virtually anything you might want to buy. I’ve also added a shopping widget to my sidebar to catch your eye.
Now for the really cool stuff. I can add shopping links directly into my posts. I’m actually going to experiment here in this post so bear with me. For example if I were talking about the clothing a particular celebrity was wearing – say a pair of beautiful pumps, all I have to do is add a special link to the word and a search link for that product will be created.
I can even link in such a way that it will automatically add an image to my post and search link, or at least I hope it will. Remember I’m experimenting in this post. Say I was talking about pumps again, but wanted and image added I just have to add the word title in the special link. Easy – I hope! (ok well that didn’t work, but I’ll get it to work, I hope, as that will certainly add to my posts.)
I think I can create shopping links in a little more direct way by searching for specific products too.
Some of the new sites I’m working on will be very shopping oriented. Heck one site is called Shopping Maniac and the other is Home and Garden Diva. I’m sure my new partnership with The Find will come in quite handy when I reveal those sites and partner them with The Find. I mean, when I’m talking about a product I love to be able to show my readers and image. Whether you click on the link and buy the product is your choice, but the addition of the image and an easy linking system will be great for me – and I hope for you too.
I’ve got my own celebrity scoop here for a change! I really should have posted this on Friday evening or early Saturday morning, but we had our big family reunion this weekend and creating blog posts was simply impossible.
So what’s the scoop? Well, as you might know the cast of Heroes visit cities all over the world at the end of August. They went to Singapore, London, New York, Paris and their last stop was in Toronto on August 30th and 31st. You can view a short video of their Toronto visit on the NBC Heroes page.
I had wanted to go and see the four cast members who visited Toronto when they made an appearance downtown at Dundas Square, but I wasn’t able to make it on time as I had to meet up with my family and begin our reunion. As it turned out, our first family outing was to see a baseball game – the Toronto Blue Jays versus the Seattle Mariners. Well, much to my surprise and delight some of the cast of Heroes also attended the baseball game.
Young Noah Gray-Cabey was in Toronto, but I didn’t see him at the baseball game. I did however get to see and photograph from afar Executive producer Jeph Loeb, James Kyson Lee who plays Hiro’s friend Ando, Zachary Quinto the evil Sylar, and Dania Ramirez a new cast member who will play Maya Herrera a Dominican who is on the run from the police. She has superhuman abilities, although they have not yet been revealed.
The cast members were given Blue Jays shirts with their last names printed on the back of their jerseys.
The cast didn’t stay for the whole game. They only stayed until the third or fourth inning, but I can tell you that they were cheering for the Blue Jays. The photo above of them standing was taken while they were cheering a Blue Jays home run.
When it came time for them to leave they hopped over the gate and walked on the field. James Kyson Lee took the lead by several feet hurrying ahead. Was he trying to get away or did he just think everyone else was walking as quickly as he was? As a result of his speeding exit I don’t have many clear photos of him. Most of my shots focus on Zachary Quinto.
See Lee jogging ahead?
The last clear shot of Lee in the lead. He’s already in the crowded stands:
Quinto looks like he might be on a cell phone here, but I believe he’s just scratching his ear:
One last look at the evil Sylar and his producer:
Did you know that in addition to his reoccurring role as Sylar on Heroes, Quinto is busy preparing for his role as Spock in the new J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Trek movie which is slated to begin shooting in November. He does look like he’d make a perfect Spock doesn’t he?
Stay tuned for more great Scoop. The Toronto Film Festival begins this week and I hope to see some of the new movies and get in some star sightings – with photos of course.