R. Kelly’s Twitter Q&A goes off the record
While Beyoncé was getting set to amaze us last week with that surprise “visual album,” R.
Kelly tried an album-promotion gimmick of his own. It didn’t work out well.
Kelly’s publicists l aunched a hashtag — #AskRKelly — and put him online to answer fans’ questions about the album Black Panties, released last Tuesday.
Oops! Many “fans” chose to inquire not about the music, but about the various allegations regarding Kelly and nastiness with too-young girls. (He’s never been convicted.)
One tweeter noted that Kelly “only answered 16 questions. The perv really cannot do anything over 18.”
Somebody at Justin Bieber’s house in Calabasas, Calif., called an ambulance at about 3 a.m. Saturday, saying a female party guest had passed out, TMZ.com reported. The Biebs was home at the time.
About 15 minutes after the first call, someone phoned to cancel the ambulance; the woman, 20, had come to, and went or was taken to her own home.
The first call was made “out of an abundance of caution,” Bieber’s PR people told Us Weekly.
On Alan Carr’s Chatty Man, a British TV talk show, Lady Gaga was asked about smoking marijuana. Her answer:
“The thing that I really fell in love with about it is that I completely forget that I’m famous. … I just take a puff and I’m me when I was 17 again, in my white go-go boots, looking for a job on the Lower East Side, and there’s something quite creative and liberating about it.”
Lots of people who have day jobs take an additional part-time gig to make ends meet each month. I wonder if that’s Katie Couric’s reason for taking that job as the “global anchor” for Yahoo, which is apparently some kind of web portal.
The veteran TV anchorwoman
receives about $10 million a year from ABC to produce her talk show; now she’ll be adding a nifty $6 million a year for this Yahoo gig. The N.Y. Daily News reported the figure; no denials yet. The Yahoo gig will be Couric’s “secondary focus,” the paper says. As soon as she figures out what a global anchor does, I suppose we’ll all find out.
Overheard in a Bishop St. bar…: “She took a little cut-out photo of
Miley Cyrus posed on her wrecking ball, but without the ball, and glued it on top of a round Christmas ornament. But her mom wouldn’t let her put it on the tree.”
Amidrumoursthat PrinceHarry may propose over Christmas, his lady friend, Cressida Bonas, is going to “Princess Boot Camp,” claims Life & Style magazine.
This is not an actual place; it simply means that Bonas is being given extra polish, just in case.
She’s pretty upper-class already, and would never, you know, use the wrong fork or anything. But the mag says she is being coached — by unnamed “royal advisers” — about getting a nice job, more sober fashion choices, etc. She’s friends with Princess Bea
trice, daughter of Prince Andrew, so that should help.
She’s 24. Harry’s 29.