Blink Thrice For Help: Alexis Skyy’s Rapper Bae Trouble Uncomfortably Kung Fu Grips Her Neck, Fans Are Concerned

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Fans Think Alexis Skyy Needs To Watch Her Back Around Trouble

Alexis, you ok sis?

Alexis Skyy and Trouble, her official boyfriend of about two weeks, are raising brows after a video shows him gripping the model’s neck awkwardly. It seems like the mother is clearly having a good time while they party at a club on Miami, but is she too inebriated to tell him she’s uncomfortable?

In the video, Alexis says “I let him tell me what to do. I follow his lead”. Meanwhile, Trouble has a kung fu grip on her throat. She tries to swat his hand away and he doesn’t move is at first.

Do YOU think this is a red flag? Her fans think it’s a huge HELL NAW.

Previously, Alexis made headlines for attending and partaking explicitly in Trouble’s “cucumber” soiree. What are YOUr thoughts on them as a couple?

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So Sad: Three People Were Killed After A Cliff Collapsed At Southern California Beach

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3 People Were Killed In Cliff Collapse At Beach Near San Diego

A popular beach for surfing was closed on Saturday after a cliff collapsed, killing at least three people.

According to reports from NBC News, the cliff collapsed at around 3 p.m. and ended up trapping several people on the beach in Encinitas near San Diego. A woman died at the scene, while two more died later at hospitals. Another person was taken to a hospital, and a person who had minor injuries was treated at the scene, according to statements from the city.

Because the scene was so dangerous, police actually had to stop searching for additional victims. They are now using K-9’s in the search, according to local news reports. One of the boulders that fell was said to be 7 or 8 feet by 4 feet. The cliff was on Grandview Beach, a popular surf spot among locals and vacationers.

This beach was absolutely filled with people at the time of the collapse–which isn’t surprising, because it’s the middle of the summer. A KNSD-TV helicopter captured footage of beach chairs, towels, surfboards and beach toys strewn about the sand.

Suburbs north of San Diego have contended with rising water levels in the Pacific Ocean, pressuring bluffs along the coast. Some bluffs are fortified with concrete walls to prevent multimillion-dollar homes from falling into the sea. Long stretches of beach in Encinitas are narrow strips of sand between stiff waves and towering rock walls. People lounging on beach chairs or blankets are sometimes surprised as waves roll past them and within a few feet of the walls.

Cliffside collapses are not unusual as the ocean chews away at the base of the sandstone, according to authorities. Some beach areas were even marked with signs warning of this exact danger.

Several people have been killed or injured over the years in similar bluff collapses. The San Diego Tribune reported that a resident of Encinitas died near the same area back in 2000, when a 110-yard-wide chunk of bluff fell and buried her.

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Eesh: Mo’Nique Says She Was “Hurt” When Whoopi Goldberg Allegedly Told Her What She Makes On ‘The View’

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Despite Mo’Nique‘s long career in entertainment, it seems her big name fights have been getting the most attention recently.

Of course, there was the time she challenged people to boycott Netflix for gender bias and racial bias when they offered her a bad deal compared to white and male comedians. Then there was the time she called out Lee Daniels, Oprah and Tyler Perry for either portraying her as difficult or not defending her when faced with opposition from the industry.

With each instance, other celebs have given their opinion on the situation including Whoopi Goldberg, who said she could’ve “schooled” Mo’Nique on the way the business works. Mo’Nique responded in a Vulture interview, saying “what you’re saying to me is, ‘you must work for free. I could’ve schooled you.’” Then, Mo’Nique went even further and said she spoke with Whoopi backstage and said “I gotta think about the little sister who’s not here yet,” to which Whoopi allegedly responded, “You better stop worrying about the little sister who’s not here yet and worry about you.”

Mo’Nique explained how hurt she was about the situation in a new video with Comedy Hype. She tearfully started off by explaining how it was women like Patti LaBelle and former Essence editor-in-chief Susan Taylor who inspired her to advocate for herself and her community. Then she continued:

“So when I get Whoopi Goldberg on the flip saying, ‘fu** them little ones coming behind you, you better give a damn about you,’ that crushed me that day in her dressing room because see Whoopi Golderg told me the salary she makes from The View and that hurt my feelings that you’ve been there for ten years and you accept them paying you that and you telling me ‘don’t worry about the little one coming up?’ Goddamn if I ain’t gotta be worried about you too. Because you accept that salary, it makes it hard for me, and how hard do you think it’s going to make for the one who ain’t here yet because you accept that salary?”

The comedian, per usual, has a point.

Peep the video for yourself below as the Mo’Nique vs. the world saga continues.

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The D.R. Debate: These Celebrities Are Defending The Dominican Republic Despite Bizarre Deaths

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The Dominican Republican hasn’t been having the best summer as far as public perception.

Headline after headline has revealed some tourists are coming up dead after visiting the island for vacation and falling sick. While investigations are underway, it’s important to remember that although the news is alarming, there are a plethora of reasons tourists could be falling ill. Some might have something to do with the resorts people are staying, while other reasons could involve food and alcohol contamination. Either way, it’s not totally fair to blame an entire country and its people, especially when they too could be susceptible to harm. Some celebrities are bringing attention to this, one being Vin Diesel.

According to Page Six, the 51-year-old actor went on Instagram from London to defend the DR.

“Never let anyone tell you that people in the Dominican Republic aren’t magical wonderful people,” the actor said on Monday. “I love that country and I will always love that country.”

Ms. Cardi B also went on Instagram to defend the DR, where a lot of her family hails from. She dismissed all the talk that the country was unsafe. She explained to fans in Spanish that she recently visited the island and she was “fine.”

“What I do know is that the Dominican Republic is the most beautiful country, and everyone has fun there,” the rapper explained. “Even poor people have fun. So it hurts me a lot when people say ‘that country is bad. That country is this and that.’”

Tourism to the Caribbean spot has recently dropped since reports of at least 12 Americans dying in the past few months. A study revealed trips booked to the island have dipped by 74.3% for the month of July and August compared to the same period in 2018.

Again, no consistent reason has been confirmed for the tourist woes, so it seems we’ll have to let time and further investigation take its course. Until then, you can check out some helpful safety procedures here.

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Still Fine: A Gallery Of Reasons Why Mike Epp’s Ex-Wife Mechelle Is The Definition Of Grown & Sexy!

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Bae OF The Day: Mechelle McCain

Big ups to comedian Mike Epps who recently got remarried, and helped us remember that his beautiful former spouse on the market.

Epps’ ex-wife, Mechelle is the mother of Mike’s two youngest daughters, Maddie and Mariah. The 37-year-old is a talented actress, producer, and certified beauty. About parenting two kids while having a career, Mechelle says:

The job is not an easy one but is very rewarding.

We did some digging to find her Instagram. So far, she isn’t claiming any new relationships. It seems like Mechelle is prioritizing her and MIke’s beautiful kiddies before jumping into anything serious. Mechelle, who is going by her maiden “McCain” name again is super fine and deliciously grown & sexy! We have a feeling she will be off the market sooner than later…

Hit the flip for more of her!

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Coupled Up: Nicki Minaj And Her Hubby-To-Be Get Touchy Feely Post Shopping Spree

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Nicki Minaj & Kenneth Petty Pose With Their Shopping Bags

The future Mrs. Onika Maraj Petty is still going strong in her relationship and she’s making sure they’re both fly. Nicki just dropped new coupled-up photos of herself and fiancee Kenneth “Zoo” Petty featuring his and her shopping bags. Just last week, the Queen revealed that she and Kenneth have copped their marriage license. Although the rapper has not yet confirmed the day they’ll be jumping the broom, she did hint that they’ll be having a ceremony.

Here you can see Nicki is in her fresh Versace prints with the post-shopping spree damage in the background. We’re guessing Kenny snapped the photo.

Hit the flip to see Nicki and her future husband strike a few poses with their shopping bags.

Are these two growing on you as a couple?

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A “Lil Positivity”: Black Father And Son From Viral Baby Conversation Star In Denny’s Commercial

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Viral Father And Son Star In Denny’s Commercial

By this time many of you, millions of you perhaps, have seen the following video of a father and his unintelligible baby boy having a full-blown conversation.

The viral moment has led to Detzin and Kingston Pryor becoming the stars of their very own Denny’s commercial.

Denny’s hasn’t always had the best reputation when it comes to their treatment of Black folks, but good on them for showcasing positive images of Black fatherhood.

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No Hate: Khloe And Kim Kardashian Support Lamar Odom By “Liking” His Revelatory Memoir On Instagram

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They. Are. Fam-i-ly.

Lamar Odom has not completely fallen out of favor with the Kardashian klan and evidence of such lies on his Instagram page.

Recently Lamar posted a picture of his New York Times best-selling memoir Darkness To Light to celebrate his literary achievement. He thanked the fans, friends, family, his publicist, the book publisher, and…Khloe Kardashian.

The warm regards didn’t fall on deaf ears (or thumbs as it were) Khloe Kardashian double-tapped the post and even left an uplifting comment for her former flame:

She wasn’t the only K to leave Lamar a good tidings, Kim Kardashian also double-tapped Lammy’s grateful ‘gram. When asked about a potential reconciliation with Khloe on Jenny McCarthy’s SiriusXM show, Lamar replied:

Awwwww, poor thang.

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Knifed Up: Messy Mariah Carey Ex-Assistant Reveals Skinny Legend Has Booty Injections

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Mariah Carey’s Ex-Assistant Puts Her Cosmetic Surgeries On Blast In Lawsuit

Mariah Carey supposedly went through several procedures to get slim-thick and charged it to an employee’s card — now the woman is putting her on blast.

MC is accused of using her ex-assistant Lianna Shakhnazaryan’s AMEX card to pay for and conceal at least 6 cosmetic surgeries, says Daily Mail. The receipts are signed by ” Stella Carey” and include a $10,000 in PLLA buttock filler injections, a $4,800 LipoFreeze fat-melting laser treatment to her upper breasts and an $8,900 firming ultrasound procedure to her neck and jawline. They were then mailed to Mariah’s home address.

Mariah is currently embroiled in a court battle with her former friend and employee over claims that Lianna Shakhnazaryan, 36, spent money on Carey’s personal credit card and secretly filmed her.

But employees and Shakhnazaryan tell a different story about Mariah’s spending habits. Allegedly she would use their cards and reimburse them later for hundreds of thousands in purchases.

‘Mariah never wanted people to know about her shopping or surgeries so she would put them on [former assistant] Lianna’s [Shakhnazaryan] card or [former manager] Stella’s [Bulochnikov] cards,’ an insider said.

‘She has an AMEX card of her own but her business management team only let her have one because of her spending – she always spent so much on it, it would get maxed out.’

‘All the staff, including her security guards and nannies, have to put stuff on their cards and get it reimbursed.

Mariah sued her former assistant earlier this year, alleging the woman tried to extort her with “intimate videos” for $8 Million. Shakhnazaryan filed a counter-suit in January alleging she endured battery and racial abuse from the singer.

Does it look like Mariah has had body work done to YOU?

Mariah has not yet responded to Shakhnazaryan’s claim. Previously, Carey was sued by her manager for wrongful termination.

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Swirl Struggles: Black Wife Asks For Funds After Allegedly Terroristic Taupe In-Laws Drag Her Through Court, Husband Is Useless

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There’s been a GoFundMe campaign circulating social media because of how absurd and exhausting the explanation behind it sounds. Vandreena Cotton-Meeks wants to raise $50,000 to help her fight her husband’s racist family in court. The woman says they’ve been placing bogus charges against her like ‘stalking’ and making ‘threats’ in order to ruin her life because she’s Black.

She’s even lost her job behind the madness and now she faces a year in prison. But PLEASE…read for yourselves how Adreena says her swirly marriage might be the end of her freedom (FYI, none of it mentions WTH her husband’s been doing to help her):

* Joel & I are an interracial couple. After 8 years of dating (and an extremely negative reaction from his parents, we got married in late 2016.

* Approximately 6 weeks into our marriage, Joel’s brother & his brother’s wife accused me of sending death threats (but had zero evidence or forensics). Their reasoning for blaming me was because we “don’t get along”.

* Between January 2017 – April 2017, my brother-in-law & his wife called my job, stalked me at work and complained about me to my manager (whom they didn’t know).

* A day shy of our 5 month wedding anniversary, my in-laws had me arrested for ‘sending terroristic threats’. During this, we learned that they did not have evidence and the police went through my phone without a warrant. My bond at the time: $50,000. I ended up missing a day of work, but was released after 21 hours.

* A month later, I was served and had to appear in DeKalb County court for the same charges, but as a TPO. The judge in that case ruled in my sister-in-law’s favor “to help her sleep at night” and my husband & I were barred from having direct & indirect contact with his family, extended family & their friends – or being within 100 yards of them – for one year.

* Just before the scheduled date of the trial (October 2017), I was fired from my day job. When I asked the manager why, he stated I was no longer a good fit “after speaking with your in-laws”. Yes, my in-laws complained to my manager enough to get me fired from my well-paying job (that I had a stellar review for one week prior).

* Since I am a caregiver for my mom – and I know how the justice system can behave towards people of color – I made the decision with my lawyer to forego the trial and take several months of anger management instead. This allowed me to avoid one year in prison if I would have lost the case.

* Around January 2018, my lawyer received notice that I was being charged with contempt in Fulton & DeKalb counties. If I were found guilty of contempt, I would be listed as a felon & would be required to serve one year in prison. The reason for the contempt allegation: my in-laws claimed I ‘liked’ an Instagram post of theirs. After going to a bench trial in Fulton, the judge found I was NOT in contempt and informed my in-laws they could not send me to jail because they didn’t like me (especially since they never presented evidence or forensics that I had done anything they alleged).

* In February 2018, we had the contempt hearing in DeKalb and the judge agreed with Fulton that there was no contempt. However, when we met back in his courtroom in May 2018, the judge reiterated the ‘help her sleep at night’ narrative and agreed to extended the aforementioned TPO through May 2021.

* In early November 2018 – after Joel & I captured a promo video for a state park – we saw his mother, father, brother, sister-in-law & his parents’ best friends at a restaurant in Helen, GA. Luckily, we saw them immediately after we arrived at the hostess stand and left to eat at another restaurant, which we have on video from the restaurant security camera, (but not before his brother chased after us with his phone to take pictures, told the staff not to serve us and asked an employee to follow us; he talked very loudly).

* In December 2018 – we started receiving harassment in 2 ways: police & process servers were coming to our house daily (and trying to tamper with our security cameras) and we were receiving fake, negative reviews on WeddingWire for our photography business (which is one of our only sources of income). Unfortunately, gigs aren’t guaranteed & a negative review could ruin our business. Luckily, WW removed the reviews, but we were also receiving harassing comments on our blog (which we moderate, so the public never saw them).

* In January 2019, the harassment continued – this time with a phone number registered to his mother’s best friend. The messages started with “don’t have a baby”, “we’ll ruin you & your livelihood” and statements along those lines, but they soon turned to us receiving pictures of a shot up bulls-eye and promises to “hang [me] from a tree” (i.e. lynching). We never engaged with these messages and they always came from his mother’s best friend (even though she did CC his family on a few messages as well, but her tone was 180 degrees on those).

* And that brings us to today when I received a letter for a felony indictment in the mail. From what I’ve read & been told, that means they went to a prosecutor, which had a grand jury hearing in order to file these felony charges against me. The charges: terroristic threats & stalking. The dates these allegedly took place: the same dates they sent us death threats.

After all that, Joel & I need your help. As I mentioned above, I have been out of steady work since 2017, so Joel is our sole breadwinner. Our current plan was to hire the same attorney we had for the Fulton case, but I know he charges at least $50,000 (the $35,000 is for the attorney fees & the additional $15,000 is for the digital forensics experts). If you know us, you know we don’t like asking for help and normally go through trials & tribulations on our own. But with the hearing taking place in 2 weeks, we need to raise those attorney fees ASAP. My family literally can’t survive if I go to prison (and that’s not an understatement).

We would appreciate any funds you could part with to help us, from the price of a cup of coffee to a tax return – no amount will be turned away. If the Lord blesses us with a large financial windfall, we will do our best to pay you back and know that we will be praying that blessings come to you as well. You can also feel free to share this fundraiser & keep us in your prayers; we honestly don’t know what else to do.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and let me know if you have any questions or want to see evidence of the statements above.

– Vandreena & Joel Cotton-Meeks

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Michelle Washington Becomes The Third Black Transgender Woman Fatally Shot In The Past Week

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Transgender Woman Michelle Washington Killed

This has to stop.

Michelle Washington, a black trans woman from Philadelphia, was shot and killed May 19 in Philadelphia. The news comes from The Human Rights Campaign and local news stations who say that Washington, also known as Michelle Simone, was the victim of a shooting in Philadelphia’s Franklinville neighborhood.

ABC 6 reports that just after 5 a.m. on Sunday, she was shot in the head, body, and buttocks and was transported to Temple University Hospital where she died.

Deja Lynn Alvarez, Philadelphia City Council at-large candidate, knew Michelle for over 20 years and spoke out about her death on Facebook.

“It’s very important that we stress that because we’re not seeing LGB people murdered every other day,” Alvarez later told The Philadelphia Gay News. “It’s time that we say this is happening to trans women, it’s happening to black trans women, it’s happening to trans women of color. …It’s time that we shift the focus to that.”

Simone’s shocking death comes just a day after Muhlaysia Booker was fatally shot in Dallas. Before that, another transwoman, Claire Legato, was murdered in Cleveland. Legato was shot in the head by a man during an argument over tax return checks.

This is all incredibly sad, we pray all of these womens’ families get justice.

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Face Sorcery: Did Khloe Kardashian Knife Away Her Nose Into Oblivion?

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Khloe Kardashian Sparks Nose Surgery Rumors

Khloe Kardashian has people speculating that she knifed up her face. This time, fans suspect she’s gotten a nose job. In recent photos, Khloe’s nose appears to be a lot thinner and the tip is a pointing upward. Here is the profile of her seemingly new schnoz.

This isn’t the first time Khloe was accused of knifing up her body. In 2018, after Tristan’s cheating scandal she stepped out with a thinner waistline. Here is what Khloe looked like before and after. Does anything look different to YOU?

Hit the flip to see how folks are reacting to Khloe’s nose in recent photos.

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