Showing posts with label Boy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boy. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon Having A Boy & A Girl

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are having a boy and a girl, a source close to the couple confirmed to Access Hollywood.

The couple first revealed their pregnancy to Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush in October 2010 and Nick came by Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday where he shared news about how Mariah is doing in the run up to the birth of the couple’s twins.

“She’s been cooking up a storm,” Nick said when Billy and Kit Hoover asked about whether Mariah was “nesting.”

“I didn’t know what it was,” Nick continued. “I thought this was the way she dealt with her cravings. She doesn’t eat. She cooks all this food and her cravings go away and she makes me eat it, so I’m gaining all the weight.”

Nick also confirmed to Billy and Kit that the rumors are correct — President Obama was the first to learn that the couple was having twins, and he explained to Billy and Kit how that happened.

“That was my wife. She was like, ‘Wouldn’t that be a great story to be able to share with our children — that the first people to know that they were gonna be people was the President and First Lady?’” Nick recounted. “So she told them at the same time.”

In fact, President Obama seemed to know about the twins before Mariah even uttered the words.

“He’s the President, he knows these things,” Nick said.

In the run up to the birth of his first children, Nick is hitting the road, having lined up two comedy gigs at The Pearl at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on March 5, back to back.

“Everyone’s heard all the tabloid news and stuff, now you get to hear it from the horse’s mouth,” Nick said of what he plans to address in his comedy outing.

“This is so therapeutic to me,” he added. “This is Nick Cannon like you’ve never heard him before. I’m talking about being married, becoming a father, [and] all of the drama between.”

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Oh, Boy: Culture Club to Reunite for World Tour

After recent hinting in the press, Boy George confirms: Culture Club will reunite next year.

The singer, 49, also promises a "proper huge worldwide tour" starring the iconic '80s hitmakers. The announcement comes during the run-up to the release of his solo album 'Ordinary Alien,' partly written while he served four months in prison for the assault and false imprisonment of a male escort.

Responding to a question about a Culture Club reunion, sent to the BBC's 'Breakfast' show late last week by celebrity fan Mark Ronson (a top producer in the industry, and brother of Lindsay Lohan's ex, Samantha Ronson), Boy George replied: "We are getting back together. Next year. This year [I'm touring] on my own. It's kind of a precursor for what I'm doing with Culture Club in 2012. We'll be doing a proper huge worldwide tour. And a new album."

The reunion falls on the band's 30th anniversary. They nearly hit the road together in 2006, when original bandmates Mikey Craig and Jon Moss announced a Culture Club comeback, but their flamboyant frontman declined to sign on, and plans were soon scrapped.

"I kind of use my writing like a diary, so I write about things that are very personal to me, things that I've experienced, things that have affected me and that I feel strongly about," Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd) has said about growing as an artist during his 2009 imprisonment. "I've surprised myself, really with my resilience. Yes [prison] did happen, but it feels so long ago now."

Speaking of things that happened long ago, revisit Culture Club at their most brilliant, with the original 1983 video for 'Karma Chameleon.'


Saturday, January 22, 2011

Creed's Music Saves 13-Year-Old Boy From Wolves

If you ever wander into some spooky woods, you better have some Creed in your MP3 player, just to be safe. According to a report by Norwegian TV Channel TV2 (via NME.com), when 13-year-old Walter Eikrem encountered a pack of wolves on his way home from school, all he had to do was blast Creed's 'Overcome' to chase them off.

"[They] didn't really get scared, they just turned around and simply trotted away," Eikrem said.

When the wolves closed in on him, Eikrem for some reason felt it was best to use his music to defend himself, so he took off his headphones and blasted the volume to the maximum. Turns out, it did just the trick.

Eikrem knew the last thing he wanted to do was run away at that moment, he said. "The worst thing you can do is run away because doing so just invites the wolves to chase you down."

According to the report, wolves are common in the Norwegian countryside, but rarely attack humans.

So what kind of music should we blast if we ever cross paths with a grizzly bear?

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Elton John and David Furnish Introduce Their Baby Boy

Don't expect Sir Elton John's son to be spoiled with presents, but the newborn has already gotten his first taste of celebrity publicity.

Along with their first ever pictures as a family, the music legend and partner David Furnish talked about new baby Zachary and parenthood in an exclusive interview with British OK! magazine, out Wednesday.

"I'm ready to have a child and lavish my love on our son and not spoil him materially," the British piano man said from his Los Angeles home.

Zachary Jackson Levon entered the world this past Christmas with the help of a surrogate. John, the biological father, and Furnish, a director and producer, have been together for about a decade.

"I've never felt anything like it in my life," said John, 63, about holding Zachary for the first time. "You're so awestruck, I will never forget that feeling ever."

John and Furnish also touch on the heartbreak of their failed adoption attempt. The famous couple had tried to adopt a boy from the Ukraine in 2009, but were denied by the country's government because they did not recognize same-sex marriage laws and John exceed the age limit allowed for adoptions.

"We feel awful. We keep hitting red tape," Furnish, 48, told OK! "But we're not giving up until they're out and in a safe, supported home."