RIHANNA has confirmed she is dating Hollywood actor JOSH HARTNETT, insisting he is “really sweet”. The Umbrella hitmaker sparked rumours she was dating Hartnett after a pic emerged of the couple at New York club Pink Elephant.
“I’ve fallen for him big time. I would be lying if I (said) we were not more than just friends. “He is so hot and he is really sweet to me. When we hang out it feels right – even though it’s still pretty new.”
Nick Hogan is being booked on criminal charges related to his Aug. 26 car crash – while his attorneys tell PEOPLE, “We are confident the evidence will demonstrate that this was an accident.”
Hogan, 17, turned himself in Wednesday on a charge of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury. A source close to the Hogan family tells PEOPLE that Nick will be tried as an adult.
In August, Hogan’s yellow Toyota Supra careened off a four-lane highway in Clearwater, Fla., and crashed into a 25-ft.-tall palm tree. Hogan sustained minor injuries and was released from the hospital the next day.
His passenger and friend, John Graziano, 22, was critically injured in the crash and remains hospitalized.
When Tia Mowry nails her lines as Melanie Barnett during a rehearsal of The CW’s No. 1 comedy “The Game,” the throng of television producers and writers in the room either laugh or let out a chorus of “oohs.” Would you expect anything less for someone who has been acting most of her life? Mowry, 29, really shows how she’s grown in her passion for the role, one that, for the first time, shows her as what she is—a woman. “This is my first adult role, mainly because I have been stretched as an actress with so many different things and the issues that I’m dealing with. Read more in the November 12 issue. On newsstands now!
In case you haven’t heard, Black female spiritual leader Juanita Bynum is divorcing her husband, Thomas W. Weeks III, pastor of Global Destiny Church. Weeks has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly stomping and kicking her in an Atlanta hotel parking lot on August 21. [Weeks has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges stemming from the alleged attack.] Now, after a media baptism by fire in which her spirit and credibility have been put to the test, Prophetess Bynum tells what happened that night and how she’s trying to move forward with a new ministry and message about domestic violence that may change the Black church, forever. Read excerpts from the first of her two-part exclusive interview in the December issue of ESSENCE.
On Breaking Her Silence:
“All of what I’m going through right now has to do with the loss of my marriage, the love of my husband, and the jeopardizing of my integrity at the hands of my husband. I don’t want anyone to think that my silence meant consent. My silence was meant to wait for the cool of the day. This is not about anger or retaliation but integrity and truth on behalf of my name.”
On Why She Stayed in the Marriage:
“I don’t want anybody to think I was stupid for staying; I stayed because of who I was—I had to be careful. My thoughts were, I can’t get a divorce. What would people say? How would they view me? I just felt like I needed to pray more. And I did, and it did get better. We went three years without him getting physical, but then the verbal rage would still be there.”
On What She Says Happened With their Million Dollar Home:
“I came back from a trip and was getting ready to tape for television when he walked in and said he had already moved us out and all of our furniture was in the church warehouse. I cried for two days. My sisters said, ‘Nita, you’ll get another house,’ and I said, “It’s not about the house.” This was the place where I had the presence of God. That’s the one thing I had. And I felt like that’s what [my husband] took.”
On What She Says Happened on August 21:
“He just grabbed me, and he grabbed me around my throat and threw me to the ground. I said, “Oh, my God, my head!” because the whole sky was spinning. And when I turned around, that’s when I got the first kick. I screamed out, “Please don’t kill me!” That’s when the bellman grabbed him, and they were going at it. I don’t know what was happening, but the bellman was going into his pocket, and I grabbed his arm and got between them and said, “Please don’t hurt my husband,” and that’s when the bellman let him go. And I took maybe two or three steps over and I collapsed on the ground.”
The gals of Sex and The City break out the snow gear for a winter set scene shot today in NYC. Burr! What’s up with Sarah’s hair????
