Ciara, Seahawks’ Wilson expecting child
Pop singer Ciara is expecting her first child with Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, three months after the couple tied the knot. Both stars announced the pregnancy by sharing the same photo Tuesday night on Instagram. Ciara, who turned 31 Tuesday, says she is “excited to Finally share one of the Greatest Gifts of All that God could give.” Wilson calls the baby, “The Greatest Blessing of All.”
This is the 27-year-old Wilson’s first child. Ciara has a 2-year-old son from a previous relationship with rapper Future. Wilson and Ciara famously abstained from sex before their July wedding in England. They had been dating since early last year.
‘The Sellout’ is first US Booker Prize winner
Paul Beatty’s “The Sellout,” a stinging satire of race and class in the United States that has drawn comparisons to Richard Pryor and Mark Twain, won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday — the first time an American has taken the prestigious fiction award.
Judges said Beatty’s provocative book was a satire to rank with the classics, and as timely as the evening news.
“The Sellout” is set in a rundown Los Angeles suburb called Dickens, where the residents include the last survivor of the Little Rascals and the book’s narrator, Bonbon, an African-American man on trial at the U.S. Supreme Court for attempting to reinstate slavery and racial segregation.
Beatty acknowledged that “The Sellout” was a hard book — both to read and to write — and would push readers out of their comfort zone. “I knew people could misread the book really easily,” he told reporters.
Beatty was awarded the $61,000 prize by Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, during a black-tie ceremony at London’s medieval Guildhall.
Kate Beckinsale’s husband files for divorce
Kate Beckinsale’s husband has filed for divorce from the “Underworld” actress after 12 years of marriage.
Court records in Los Angeles show that writer and director Len Wiseman filed for divorce Friday, citing irreconcilable differences.
They married in May 2004 and have no children together.