Posts Tagged ‘family’

  • NFL player Emmitt Smith discovers ancestors were slaves

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    American football legend Emmitt Smith was reduced to tears as he traced his family’s history during a new US TV show.

    The Dallas Cowboys great discovered that he was descended from slaves and a white slave-owner in the US premiere of Who Do You Think You Are?

    Smith shed tears as he stood by the unmarked site of his great-great-grandfather’s grave, on the outskirts of a white cemetery in Burnt Corn, Alabama.

    “I am glad I do not have his heart. And I am glad he never got to know me,” an emotional Smith said when he found out he was a descendent of a white slave-owner.

    Smith was told that he was 81 per cent African and that his ancestors were originally from the region of Benin, on West Africa’s infamous Slave Coast.

    In the programme, Smith visited Africa with his wife to trace his slave roots.

    He said: “This has been such a powerful journey for me and I feel like my eyes have been opened wide.

    “I feel good, I feel like I have been cleansed. History is my story now.”

    Other celebrities slated to be taking part in the show are former Friends star Lisa Kudrow, Sarah Jessica Parker and hubby Matthew Broderick, director Spike Lee, and actresses Susan Sarandon and Brooke Shields.

    Source: Splash News

    2010.03.15 / no responses / Category: TV Show

  • Beckhams design Sport Relief T-shirts

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    The Beckham family have designed this year’s official Sport Relief 2010 T-shirts .

    David, 34, and wife Victoria, 35, and their three young sons have come up with the designs that they hope will inspire people to raise money for charity.

    The T-shirts will soon be going on sale in Sainsbury’s and TK Maxx.

    Talking about their participation, David said: “Victoria and I are excited to be involved with Sport Relief again this year. Our family had a great time designing the T-shirt range and we hope it will raise much-needed funds for many important causes.

    “The most important thing is that the money raised will make a genuine difference to people’s lives.”

    2010.01.21 / no responses / Category: Beckham, David Beckham, Fashion

  • Elizabeth Hurley will be spending Christmas in India this year

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    Liz Hurley has revealed she will be spending Christmas in India this year.

    The 44-year-old will be leaving the UK behind and heading for warmer climates this festive season with her son Damian and husband Arun Nayer, also 44.

    She said: “This year, we’re spending the whole holiday period in India.

    “We are looking at some properties to buy in Rajasthan, which is where Arun and I got married.

    “We love it out there in the desert and all our friends have already bagged bedrooms and booked holidays with us, so fin

    2009.12.15 / no responses / Category: Elizabeth Hurley, india

  • Fashion star Kimora Lee Simmons says her family is the ‘most important thing’

    Fashion star Kimora Lee Simmons has said she and her family do ‘everything together’ and she never misses any part of her children’s lives.

    The 34-year-old has two daughters with ex-husband Russell Simmons – Ming Lee, nine, and Aoki Lee, seven – and she gave birth to son Kenzo Lee in May this year, whose dad is her new husband, Djimon Hounsou.

    She told Page Six: “My family is the most important thing to me. I’ve never missed any type of performance – not one recital, not one karate belt. If there’s a toe being tapped or a tune being whistled, I am there.

    “We do everything together. I know we live a little bit of a different life, with all the running around and the TV show, so I want to make sure we’re even more grounded.”

    2009.12.04 / no responses / Category: Celebrity, Family Values

  • Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has fond memories of living in Spain as a teenager

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    Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed memories of living with an exchange family in Spain when she was 15, in her latest GOOP newsletter.

    The 37-year-old actress, who is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, told of her love for Spanish food after taking the trip when she was a teenager.

    She said: “When I was 15 I lived in a little Spanish city called Talavera de la Reina with the Lazaros, my exchange family. My Spanish mama Julia is an incredible cook and introduced me to the cuisine of the Iberian peninsula – which is always best home-cooked.

    “In the evenings, the typical Spanish dinner is lighter than the meat and rice dishes often found at lunchtime. This menu is what you would find at my family’s house on a weeknight.

    “Spanish tortilla cut into small pieces, some manchego, a glass of wine, gambas and pan con tomate. Perfect.”

    Source: Splash News

    2009.10.15 / no responses / Category: Actress, Family Values

  • Paris Hilton’s mum Kathy has denied claims that she is related to Jon Gosselin’s latest girlfriend Kate Major

    Paris Hilton’s mum Kathy has denied claims that she is related to Jon Gosselin’s latest girlfriend Kate Major.

    Kathy was reportedly angered at reports that Kate had told people in her early reporting career that Kathy was her aunt and could get information about Paris Hilton.

    Kathy said: “This is news to me. I have no idea who this woman is, but I will be looking into it because if she was using our name that is very dishonest.

    “My parents divorced when I was very young and I have several half brothers and sisters. I’m not in touch with them all but her name is not familiar. “I will be going through my list because I certainly don’t remember speaking with any Kate Major.”

    Kathy’s daughter also said she had no knowledge that Kate was related to her family.

    Source: Splash News

    2009.07.29 / no responses / Category: Paris Hilton, TV Show

  • Elizabeth Taylor snubbed by Jackson family over friend Michael’s memorial service


    Michael Jackson’s closest friend Elizabeth Taylor did not go to his memorial service because she was snubbed by the star’s family, it was claimed.

    Taylor publicly said she did not want to go as she intended mourning privately for the late King of Pop.

    But columnist Cindy Adams claims that the actress did not go after the family refused to invite her to any of the private events.

    “Elizabeth Taylor was snubbed. Not accidentally. Deliberately. Willfully. Given short shrift. Put on the B-Minus list,” Cindy Adams wrote in the New York Post.

    “Understand, as I’d reported before his death, she’s confined to a wheelchair. “Still, despite her physicality, with staffers and nurses and assistants and whoevers, she was flying to London for his concert opening.

    “Hopping a ride on the private plane of my friends, publisher Dwight Opperman and his author wife Julie Chrystyn. So, when it comes to Michael, she sure wasn’t looking to hide.

    “The family purposefully dissed her. Didn’t want her. Offered her a seat someplace in the Staples Center, but not with them.

    “Not near them. Nor was the world’s most famous name given an invite or access to any of their private events. Not one.

    “Why? Because she was always Michael’s friend. Not the family’s. Michael’s. They resented her.

    “Elizabeth Taylor was crushed. She’s still crying.”

    2009.07.14 / no responses / Category: News

  • ‘Weird Al’ Jankovic says he owes his career to Michael Jackson

    Comedian ‘Weird Al’ Jankovic says he owes his entire career to Michael Jackson.

    The funnyman achieved massive fame after covering Jacko’s Beat It tune and changing it to Eat it.

    “He basically changed me from an unknown into a guy that got recognised at Burger King,” Jankovic told Rolling Stone magazine.

    “I considered parodying Black or White around that time, but Michael wasn’t quite so into it, because he thought it was more of a message song.”

    2009.07.14 / no responses / Category: Michael Jackson

  • Judge rules against Jacko’s mother in battle for control over superstar’s estate


    A Los Angeles judge has denied Katherine Jackson’s petition for control over her late son’s estate – ruling in favour of Jackson’s long-time lawyer and a family friend.

    At the Los Angeles Superior Court today, Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled that lawyer John Branca and music executive John McClain should be the conservators of Jackson’s estate.

    The superstar’s mother, who did not appear at the hearing, had filed an application to be the conservator of the pop legend’s estate before a will emerged, which was drafted in 2002, stating that Branca and McClain would be in control of the estate in the event of Jackson’s death.

    Lawyers for Katherine Jackson wanted Judge Beckloff to delay the decision, as they said the family were concerned about Branca’s relationship with the singer before he died.

    One of Katherine Jackson’s lawyers, John Schreiber, argued that he was suspicious that Branca had rejoined Jackson just weeks before the singer’s death, and claimed that Branca is unfit to look after the estate – which is estimated to be worth around $500m – because he suffers from a disability.

    But Judge Beckloff refused Schrieber’s claims and ruled in favour of Jackson’s will.

    A bond has been set at $1m to protect the estate in the event the administrators waste or misspend assets.

    Source: Splash News

    2009.07.06 / no responses / Category: Bad, Los Angeles, Michael Jackson

  • Michael Jackson’s tour promoter says he insisted on having a 24/7 doctor like Obama

    Michael Jackson was insistent about taking his personal doctor with him on his doomed London tour despite being advised against it, says promoter Randy Phillips.

    Phillips, who is chief executive of AEG Live, the company behind the 50-concert series, was with Jackson when he was in a state of cardiac arrest.

    He told Britain’s Sky News that he advised the singer against bringing Conrad Murray, a trained cardiologist, due to the cost. “Michael told me, ‘You don’t understand. My body is the machine that fuels this business and I need personal care and I want a doctor 24/7 like President Obama would have, and this is my doctor’.”

    Phillips said Jackson told him Murray had been his doctor for three years. He said Jackson insisted on having him on staff throughout the rehearsals and the run of upcoming UK shows.

    Phillips said he was outside the hospital room while Jackson was being worked on for an hour-and-a-half – and that it seemed an eternity.

    “I was sitting in a chair right outside the … operating room, and there was tons of activity, and they were trying to resuscitate him and save him and working really hard, the doctors, nurses, everybody … I sat there … it seemed, honestly, it seemed like an eternity. But it took about an hour, an hour-and a-half before the nurse came out and told [manager] Frank [DiLeo] and I that there was no hope.”

    He said it was Murray who broke the devastating news of Jackson’s death to the megastar’s three children.

    “I stood at the doorway when they went in and they told them and just the look of fear in their faces … it was hard,” Phillips said. “I’ll think about that the rest of my life. But they seem to be doing really well now.”

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    2009.07.02 / no responses / Category: Barack Obama, Concert, Michael Jackson

  • Michael Jackson ‘received daily visits from doctors’

    Michael Jackson reportedly received daily visits from doctors at his home before his death.

    The King of Pop recently passed away aged 50 after reportedly suffering a heart attack.

    However, sources claim that the star “had doctors visiting him daily”.

    Jackson was due to perform 50 London shows later this year but it is claimed he spent most of his time with his three children – Prince, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, six.

    A source said to Hollyscoop: “The children are always home. They are home schooled. Michael is the only one that leaves the house when he needs to go somewhere.”

    Source: Splash News

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    2009.06.26 / no responses / Category: Michael Jackson

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