Joan Rivers Dead at 81; Daughter Confirms Comic Legend's Passing in Statement

Joan Rivers has passed away at the age of 81. The comedian had been fighting for her life since she stopped breathing during a surgical procedure last week.

 

R.I.P. Joan Rivers (1933-2014). She will never be forgotten.

The one-of-a-kind star "passed peacefully at 1:17 p.m. surrounded by family and close friends,” Joan's only daughter, Melissa Rivers, said in a statement.

“My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon.”

Rivers reportedly died of cardiac arrest this afternoon.

She was admitted to New York’s Mt. Sinai hospital August 28 after she stopped breathing during a procedure on her vocal cords at a New York Clinic.

In the ensuing days, Rivers was placed in a medically-induced coma to assess her condition, then placed on and subsequently taken off life support.

The petite blonde firebrand won't be remembered for the events of the past week, but for the pioneering confessional female comic persona she embodied.

Often lampooning her personal life (and others'), she brought a rare gravitas to gigs from the The Tonight Show to Fashion Police over more than five decades.

Joan had and did it all, from talk shows, Vegas engagements, and bestselling nonfiction books, to award shows, TV commentary and best of all, standup comedy.

Edgy and never afraid of being politically incorrect, she always stirred up controversy in what became an increasingly politically correct world since she started out.

Back in the ’60s, Rivers paved the way for comics of the female gender to be every bit as outrageous, outlandish and hilarious as men, with no qualms about it.

Her life was also marked by the tragedy, specifically her husband Edgar Rosenberg’s 1987 suicide, which was played out in the media for months.

Rivers and her daughter with Rosenberg starred in the reality/improv comedy show Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best? for WE TV and were very close.

Joan and Melissa Rivers have been fixtures on E! and other channels as hosts of awards ceremonies arrivals (the Oscars, Golden Globes, and others) since 1995.

R.I.P.

Happy 33rd Birthday, Beyonce!

One of the most successful entertainers on earth, the superstar who only needs one name, the wife of Jay Z, the mother of Blue Ivy, Beyonce turns 33 today.

                                              Jay Z, Beyonce and Blue Ivy 

 

The "Flawless" singer continues to set the bar as high as possible for pretty much all celebrities out there, Solange-Jay Z elevator attack be damned.

“We escalate, up in this bitch like elevators, of course, sometimes shit go down when there’s a billion dollars on an elevator,” she sings on "Flawless."

Followed by the sound of a cash register dinging, obviously. Hey, sometimes you have a bad day and some fool sells the surveillance photo to TMZ.

It happens, but the wife, mother, performer, pitchwoman, feminist and occasional political activist frankly doesn't seem like she has any f--ks to give.

No matter how many scandalous Jay Z-Beyonce divorce rumors are printed, she seems to respond with even greater displays of power and strength.

Did you see Beyonce's VMA performance? And Blue Ivy and Jay watching in the crowd, then greeting her afterward? Enough said. Enough. Said. 

Stand up and wish her the happiest of birthdays right here and now.

MONEY SPEAKS: SEE ALAFIN OF OYO AND HIS 4 WIVES IN LONDON

The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi and his 4 wives shops in London, Westfield.

The wives treated their husband (the King) to a relaxing manicure whilst onlookers were posing for pictures with Nigeria's foremost Royals. They later unwind with a movie at VUE cinemas.

DJ Abass was also spotted bowing to the King.

The Oloris (Queens) are pretty.
Source: Nigeriafilms
PHOTO CREDIT: Daniel Syncphotos

Nollywood Actor Desmond Elliot Said He is Not satisfied with Four Kids!!! He Wants More

Desmond Elliot, Nollywood actor, producer and director says he wants to have more children after his four kids.

Desmond explained that he is a Nigerian man and as such would want to maintain that status.

Speaking about the Nigerian identity, the actor explained that Nigeria is a powerful country that is well respected all over the world but being faced with a major internal demon which is tribal sentiments.

He stated that the country is not moving forward because it is being ruled by grandfathers who keeps calling him (Desmond) the leader of tomorrow.

“I am tired of having my great grandfathers still rule me till today, yet I am still the children of tomorrow. I will never grow, it’s terrible,” he stated.

Psquare’s Elder Brother, Jude Okoye's Wife, Ifeoma, Flaunts Baby Bump

Psquare’s elder brother, Jude Okoye’s wife, Ifeoma Umuokeke-Okoye was spotted doing shopping in a shopping mall at Atlanta recently.

The pretty lady, who is also the former MGBN Miss Tourism 2012, showed off her growing baby bump.

As at the time of Jude and Ifeoma’s traditional wedding, her baby bump wasn’t this big so it is obvious that she might soon deliver in no time.

She was also with Jim Iyke’s rumoured girlfriend Sandra Benede in the shopping mall. Jude and Ifeoma Umuokeke-Okoye tied the knot in July 2014 in Anambra state. (NigeriaFilms)

Port Harcourt Doctor’s Sister Tests Positive To Ebola Virus

The Minister of Health, Prof. Chukwu, has put the total number of confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria at 18. The 18th patient, according to the Federal Government, is the sister of the late Port Harcourt doctor who died of the Ebola recently.

According to him: “The total number of EVD patients currently under treatment is two, one in the Lagos isolation ward and another one in the Port Harcourt isolation ward. 

“The total number of contacts currently under surveillance in Lagos is 41, while Port Harcourt is 255. The total number of contacts discharged in Lagos after they were observed for 21 days is 320.”

Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) described the recent Ebola outbreak as the world’s worst ever recorded as it has so far killed 1,552 people in some West African countries with 3, 062 people infected in the past six months.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to Donate Wedding Photo Payday to Charity

In case it wasn't already obvious, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are officially the anti-Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
Brangelina got married with slightly less fanfare than Kimye - and now we've learned that the famous stars will donate their entire $5 million wedding picture payday to charity.

Insiders confirm to Radar hat People and Hello! magazine “each paid $2.5 million for a selection of wedding pictures from Brad and Angelina’s wedding," with Pitt and Jolie Brad selecting "a photographer they had worked with from Getty" for the shots.
These now-iconic images include our first look at the Angelina Jolie wedding dress and also a romantic photo of Brad and Angelina kissing as husband and wife.
Instead of pocketing their millions, however, Pitt and Jolie will donate it to a "charitable foundation," this same source confirms.
They did the same thing in 2008 after being paid $14 million for pictures of twins Knox and Vivienne.

The cash will most likely go to the The Maddox Jolie Pitt Foundation, which was formed in 2003, after Angelina adopted her oldest son from Cambodia.

It supports various humanitarian projects around the globe, ranging from legal services to children in war-torn Libya... to providing clean and safe drinking water in third world countries, while also giving vaccines to poverty-stricken kids.

via Hollywood

Musician Kcee Flaunts His House - See Photos

Nigerian celebrities have come to the knowledge of channeling their earnings on assets and not intangible things as it was in the past. Musician, Limpopo Crooner, Kcee is a landlord. He has a beautiful house and he has never stopped showing it off. 

Report has it that the musician spent so much in building the house which he calls FiveStarMansion. Kcee who sees no reason why he shouldn’t show it off keeps flooding his Instagram page with photos taken in different parts of the house. Amazingly, his fans on instagram have not been complaining about the show off, but instead they tell him to show them more, and most of them even say they dream of visiting the ‘FiveStarMansion’. 

Check out part of the house, the outside view, its environs, all after the cut, and you might just agree Kcee is one of the artistes that has the best homes in Nigeria.
 

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It's so selfish to have children, claims Actress Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake has questioned people’s motivation for starting a family, saying: ‘Having children is very selfish.’

The actress – who recently revealed her heartache at spending years trying to conceive – said there was a ‘vanity’ in wanting to continue the family bloodline.

Miss Peake, known for her starring role in BBC legal drama Silk, explored ‘every avenue’ – including IVF – before finally accepting defeat. She also suffered the agony of two miscarriages.

Her hardships have led the 40-year-old to reflect on why people have children in the first place.

She told The Times how an actor friend had announced to her that he was too selfish to have children.

It prompted her to reply: ‘No, you’re wrong. Having children is very selfish. There is a vanity and selfishness in some respects in believing you must continue your genes and bloodline.

Miss Peake said that watching her long-term boyfriend, television art director Pawlo Wintoniuk, 43, care for both his parents before they died had also made her wonder whether it would be less selfish not to have children.

She added: ‘It made me think I wouldn’t want to have my kids looking after me like that.’ Speaking of her struggle to conceive, she said: ‘Paw loves kids and we’ve had a go.

‘But it hasn’t worked. That is the case for many people. It is maddening, really, that women have these biological clocks, that just when they are getting used to one stage, they must go on to the next.

'I am so much more creative and brave than when I was a teenager. In my forties I have this fearlessness to keep exploring. I don’t mind rolling around on the floor any more, looking a fool.’

Miss Peake said that since she went public about her infertility, several female friends had thanked her for speaking out, saying the problem was often viewed as something shameful.

‘I find that horrifying,’ she said. ‘But they felt failures as women just because certain bits of their bodies didn’t work.’

Miss Peake had a disjointed childhood. Her parents divorced and her mother moved in with a new boyfriend, leaving Miss Peake to live with her self-educated, passionately socialist step-grandfather for six years.

He worked at Leyland Motors and, despite his intelligence, had no ambition to ‘better’ himself.

However, he did influence Miss Peake’s political beliefs. At the age of 18, she joined the Communist party. Although no longer active she has left-leaning views and has just finished a radio drama about women involved in the miners’ strike.

She and Mr Wintoniuk are now exploring adoption. ‘It might involve rethinking things, because I’m away so much,’ she said.

‘But being so close to my step-grandad, I know that relationships with people unrelated by blood can be very strong.’

Miss Peake is currently starring in costume drama The Village, in which she plays a farmer’s wife who loses her son in the First World War.

Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton Nude Photos to Be Displayed in Art Exhibit

Many believe the ongoing celebrity cell phone hacking of 2014 shouldn't be treated as a mere sex photo leak, but as a full-on sex CRIME.

But the folks behind Cory Allen Contemporary Art clearly do not feel that way, as the company has announced that the latest pictures of Jennifer Lawrence nude and Kate Upton nude will be placed on display in a new art exhibit.

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Los Angeles artist will be responsible for the seemingly untoward idea, XVALA.
He’ll include these naked shots of Lawrence and Upton as part of his "Fear Google" campaign and put them up, unaltered, in his upcoming show "No Delete" next month at CACA's The Showroom in Saint Petersburg, Florida.

"XVALA appropriating celebrity compromised images and the overall ‘Fear Google' campaign has helped strengthen the ongoing debate over privacy in the digital era," said publicist Cory Allen.
"The commentary behind this show is a reflection of who we are today. We all become ‘users' and in the end, we become ‘used.'"

The life-size leaked images will be printed on canvas.
The totally exploitive exhibit will feature the artist's seven-year collection of shots found on Google of stars in their most vulnerable and intimate moments, one comprised by hackers or the paparazzi.
It will include the infamous Britney Spears' shaved head moment, along the leaked images of Scarlett Johansson naked, with the "Fear Google" logo covering her private parts.

In today's culture, everybody wants to know everything about everybody. An individual's privacy has become everyone else's business," said XVALA.  "It has become cash for cache."
He actually said this unironically.