BET has responded to reports that it’s pulling the plug on its flagship late night gabfest, The Mo’Nique Show….The oft-controversial network is choosing another term for the sudden move: “Production hiatus.”
Word that the Oscar-winning comedienne had been sent packing over at Black Entertainment Television first hit the curb when The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Rodney Ho published the cancellation rumor in his Wednesday column.
Media mogul Cathy Hughes has never been one to mince words and now the founder and chairwoman of Radio one and TV One has stirred the pot again after taking aim at Oscar winners Mo’Nique and Halle Berry over their award-winning portrayals of Black women in Precious and Monster’s Ball, respectively.
To say Hughes isn’t thrilled with the images from those films would be an understatement.
Last year’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner, Precious actress Mo’Nique, will get up super early to announce this year’s Academy Award Nominations Jan. 25.
The comedienne will be joined by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak. Set your alarm: The two will unveil the nominations in 10 of the 24 categories @ 8:30 AM ET/ 5:30 AM PT.
The 2011 Oscars — hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway — will air in February. What film do you think will get the most nods?
Bad Boy singer Janelle Monae stopped by The Mo’Nique Show on Wednesday night to promote her new album The ArchAndroid. Watch as the trailblazing powerhouse performs her smash single “Tightrope.”
Oscar-winner Mo’Nique’s fractured relationship with her estranged family is more damaged than ever after the star’s older brother appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show this week to admit that he repeatedly assaulted the star sexually when she was between the ages of 7 and 11.
In an interview featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show Monday, the brother of Oscar-winning actress/comedienne Mo’Nique admitted that he molested the star when they were children and he wants to apologize to her.
In a new interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters, Oscar-nominated actress/comedienne Mo’Nique opens up about her open marriage to husband Sidney Hicks — and his obsession with her infamously unshaved legs.
Kid N’ Play performed their 1990 breakout hit “Rollin’ With Kid N’ Play” on The Mo’Nique Show this week. That song still single-handly trumps half the songs on the hip-hop charts today — but the brothers are looking a little broke. Damn, rap needs a 401 K and a dental plan!
Precious cleaned up in this morning’s 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations! The independent film about a teen mother’s living Hell in 1980s Harlem earned six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress noms for Gabourey Sidibe and funny lady Mo’Nique — who portrayed Precious’ abusive mother, Mary.
An ecstatic Mo spoke with The TODAY Show’s Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira early Tuesday about her nomination.
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Mo’Nique took home the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her dramatic role as an abusive mom in Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push,’ by Sapphire, and gave one of the most moving speeches of the night at Sunday’s ceremony. But the comic is in the news for another reason this MLK Monday — she was also showed off those signature hairy chicken legs. Mo is raising eyebrows for flaunting her leg hair on the red carpet.
