She’s got a new man (Rasual Butler from the L.A. Clippers), and now she’s got a new reality show.  YBF has learned that former “America’s Next Top Model” contestant and “Celebrity Fit Club” contestant Toccara Jones has landed her own reality show on the Oxygen channel.

The show will follow the YBF chick on her daily model/actress/tv personality grind. And we get to get a peek into what she does on the daily. And maybe even her life as an NBA girlfriend. Out of all the reality foolishness currently out there, I think this one will be a cute one. We here she’s shooting the pilot as we speak. I’ll be watching…

In other news, the menses of Atlanta are looking to get their own reality show based off the “Real Housewives” franchise. Why are we not surprised:

Evolution Media, the production company behind Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County, is shopping a male focused reality series in a similar vein.

Princess Banton-Lofters, who cast The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is producing and casting the project.

The project, currently called Boys Club: ATL and will be also set in Atlanta.

“We’d obviously admired from afar what Princess did with The Real Housewives of Atlanta, and when she approached us with this idea, it was a slam dunk” said Evolution President Douglas Ross. “Men’s lives are as dramatic and interesting as their female counterparts.’”

Source

This has NO written all over it.

The Randomness:
1. DMX reportedly owes $1.5 mill in back taxes! Damn homie.
2. Lil Kim is pocketing promoter money and not showing up to perform. Womp.

Bow Wow and Teairra Mari (playing a character named “Nikki Swayze”) were spotted on the set of their upcoming movie Lottery Ticket.

The Warner Bros. movie is coming out next spring and is directed by Erik White. Ice Cube is also in the movie.

So the non-6th Housewife Dwight Eubanks talked to the folks over at BV about his sexual preferences (apparently we weren’t the only ones side eyeing his female fiance):

“If I wanted to be with a woman, I will be with a woman, and if I want to be with a guy, then I will be with a guy,” he declared. “I like all fruits, but I do have a problem with [people] dwelling on ‘Dwight the gay housewife.’ Let’s get to know Dwight.”

And about whats next for him and his supposed upcoming spin-off show:

“Reality television don’t pay no money. I had this life before ['Housewives'] came on, and I have four [mortgage] notes to pay. That’s a lot, and I haven’t ventured off to doing any new ventures lately,” he declared.

He doesn’t know what network execs have in mind for his own show, adding, “most days I don’t know what to do with myself. I know I am a lot.”

I can only imagine what this ish is going to be like. Check out the full interview at the source.

Previews from tonight’s Housewives of Atlanta finale when you read the rest…

Read The Rest

Kelly Rowland is 50 Cent’s leading lady in his new “Baby By Me” video:

Well this ought to be interesting..

Jay-Z and Alicia Keys are set to perform at the 2009 American Music Awards.   They’re hitting the stage to do “Empire State of Mind”.  The Awards air Nov. 22nd on ABC.  No “hip hop holy ghost catching” allowed.

On a side note, Jay is also set to perform at the European Music Awards as well.

Fantasia had a charity event this weekend and she was filmed singing a melody of songs for her guests with her equally talented brothers. She hosted a dinner party at her home in Charlotte, NC in alliance with Macy’s Feeding America campaign, This may be a part of her upcoming reality show as well.

Michael Jackson raked in 5  American Music Award nominations.  They were just announced yesterday and Beyonce and T.I. both copped 3.  Jay-Z came with 2.  You can check out all the nods right here and vote for your faves.

Soulja Boy Tell’em is back in trouble.  His L.A. apartment landlord–SB’s lived there less than a year–sent him a letter telling his he’s in violation of his lease since he has like 10 cars taking over Guest Parking and has been getting too many noise violations.  You can only have 2 guests at a time.  Soulja also apparently owes almost $10,000 in rent that he hasn’t paid.  Sounds like he needs to fire whoever is handling his books.

More after the cut…

Read The Rest

Now this is the type of reality show I’ve been waiting on. LisaRaye McCormick is indeed getting her own reality show on TV One. But this one is focusing on her divorce/post divorce form the Turks & Caicos premiere Michael Misick.  And she’s airing out her ex hubby and her former friends who have apparently betrayed her. That means Rocsi, Vivica Fox, and Star Jones are about to get put on blast and “get even”.

According to the Daily News:

First up is former “View” co-host Jones, who raised McCoy’s ire by supposedly supporting Misick after the divorce. “LisaRaye hosted Star at her home in the Turks & Caicos for three weeks when Star was going through her divorce from Al Reynolds,” says a source close to the TV One series. “When the tables turned and McCoy’s marriage ended, Star was helping LisaRaye’s husband.”

That allegedly included counseling Misick and even recommending her personal damage-control publicist to aid him during the messy split.

McCoy says she was also double-crossed by former best friend Fox, who allegedly shared McCoy’s most intimate secrets with Misick. “LisaRaye hasn’t spoken to Vivica since,” said the source.

The list doesn’t stop there - in fact, it gets worse. McCoy also counts “106 & Park” host Rosci as an enemy, accusing the BET star of having an illicit affair with Misick. Even McCoy’s former TV hubby on “All of Us” has fallen out of favor - McCoy claims actor Duane Martin provided a mistress for her then-husband in an effort to do business on Turks & Caicos.

“LisaRaye intends to use her show as an outlet to air it all,” says the source. “She’s been quiet until now, but when she starts sharing these stories, it’ll make ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ look like a gathering of church ladies.”

Source

Make that money girl. Don’t let it make you….

BET is readying the “Michael Vick Project”. Yes, that’s right. Bama Entertainment Television has picked up the reality show Mike Vick has been shooting and it’s set to air early next year. It’s supposed to follow his comeback to the NFL life post-prison. And how he gets his ish back on track.

“I just want people to really get to know me as an individual,” Vick told the L.A. Times. “I am a human being. I’ve made some mistakes in the past, and I wish it had never happened. But it’s not about how you fall, but about how you pick yourself up.

This show can be a blueprint for so many kids,” he said. “I want to show them that things are going to happen, that they’re not going to get through life without dealing with some kind of adversity. I want to show that if they have a fall from grace, this is how they can turn it around. We want this to be a story of hope.”

And what the show will be about:

Producers of the Vick series emphasized the program should be considered a docu-series — not a typical reality show like VH-1’s “The T.O. Show,” which revels in the excesses of its flamboyant star, wide receiver Terrell Owens. The tone of Vick’s show, say producers, will be serious and somber as it focuses on his personal struggles since his release, including the strains on his relationships with his fiancée, Kijafa Frink, and his children. It will also revisit the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kan., where Vick spent 1 1/2 years behind bars and the Virginia property where he ran and financed a dogfighting ring.

Source

This has the potential to be a good show. But we’ve said this before about many-a-BET shows….

I thought this was a joke when I read about this days ago. But apparently it’s not. R.Kelly is revealing to folks that he’s pretty much illiterate:

“When I was trying to make it out here, I already knew, and I was stubborn about it,” he said. “I don’t even read really and I’m not afraid to say that. My cousins and brothers used to tease me ‘you can’t even read right. How you think you’re going to come up?’

“The only reason I graduated from grammar school is because I had a great jump shot. I went to high school and [my teacher] told me ‘you will one of the greatest writers of all time.’ I believed. You [have to] believe it. You can’t believe [anything] if you’re hating. You can’t achieve [anything] if you’re hating.”

Source

Supposedly he’s been saying he can barely read.

Read The Rest