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Usher says he's ready to sign the papers, so what's the hold up?
While Usher has no problem penning songs about his divorce papers, he doesn't seem too keen on actually signing them.
On Monday, the "Confessions" singer released a new comeback single entitled "Papers." The song—in true Usher fashion—is based on his relationship fallout with soon-to-be ex-wife Tameka Raymond. The chorus goes, "I can’t deny how much I loved you / I done gave up everything I had too / As hard as it is I’m afraid I’ve gotta say, I’m ready to sign them papers.”
In real life, however, Usher isn't as ready his lyrics proclaim him to be. According to Read More
Whitney, Susan Boyle, Jen: these female celebs are happy without romance. Go girls!
As Whitney Houston proved this week in her interview with Oprah Winfrey, not all women have to be taken to live their happy best. When you have this much love from your fans, sometimes we wonder, who actually needs romance?!
Whitney Houston Her comeback stuns us all, as did her candid revelations to Oprah. She said Bobby Brown was emotionally abusive and that she allowed their marriage to hold back her best work. After seven years behind closed doors, Whitney's old-school-meets-what's-cool new album I Look to You is number one on the charts this week—and our fave … Read More
Avril Lavigne splits with skater boy husband Deryck Whibley and "wants to move on."
It's official: Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley are splitting, just as we speculated last month. Celebrity Love: Is Avril Lavigne Getting Divorced?
Since late 2008 Avril's been seen incessantly without Sum 41 frontman Deryck and partying with a co-ed entourage so wild that her lawyers have demanded photos of their escapades not be published. Also, it's been reported that Avril will star completely solo on her new November album, on which Deryck was collaborating with her.
This morning Us Weekly stated the following about the impending divorce:
'She dumped him and told him she was leaving … Read More
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These five dating differences you may want to try and overlook. C'mon. Be the bigger person.
If you were to take a an in-depth look at some of the couples who've successfully weathered every relationship storm, you'd be shocked to learn how little they might (superficially) have in common.
Sure it's cute to spend weeknights quoting The Simpsons in unison or have deep literary James Joycean discussions while rooting for the same football team with matching BBQ-tinged fingers, but honestly, many wonderful relationships are built on differences. It's how we vary the gene pool, afterall. In fact, the forces of attraction are so sophisticated that one should always rely on their gut—not clever packaging—when deciding who stays … Read More
The Disney star and Metro Station rocker call it quits.
It looks like Demi Lovato and Trace Cyrus' romance is over before it even had a chance to bloom off-line. The two musicians have been keeping up a heavy stream of twitter flirts since May while Trace was on tour with Metro Station, but according to Hollywood Crush have quickly come to see the error of their ways.Read: 21 Twitter Pick-Up Lines
Though we might have never paired squeaky clean Demi with Miley Cyrus' harder edged rocker brother, Trace made sure to let the world know his feelings for Disney's new pop princess with tweets like, … Read More
A childhood crush on a New Kid turned me into a journalist and led me to New York.
I just celebrated my first birthday as a married woman. But instead of enjoying a romantic dinner with my husband, I was at sea with a long-lost crush who re-entered my life last year. My husband knows about him, and gave me his blessing to go with him on the three-day cruise to the Bahamas. He actually met the guy once, at a club on Canal Street six years ago. He's been supportive of this reunion, even when I came home giddy from a night out with him, or when I flew to Portland, Maine, in March for a … Read More
Ellen's husband isn't wearing his wedding ring.
Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo and husband Chris Ivery may be heading for divorce after being married for less than two years.
The pair wed in November, 2007 after meeting in 2003 via mutual friends, and appeared to have achieved marital bliss. In fact, Ellen announced she was pregnant with their first child in April.Read: Ellen Pompeo Is Pregnant
Nevertheless, Chris, a record producer, was recently seen partying it up without his wife. Eyewitnesses claim Chris was talking and flirting with every girl he could find when he attended Diddy's Last Train to Paris Launch Party … Read More
Remembering Michael Jackson's top 10 songs about love. Listen here!
The world lost a pop-culture icon on June 25. From his chubby-cheeked days leading The Jackson 5 to his moonwalking, glove-wearing glory in the 1980s, Michael Jackson and his music will not soon be forgotten.
His songs are the sort that take you back to the time and place where you first heard them. His music serves as an auditory reminder of whom and how you loved at the time. Out of his incredible collection, we've selected Michael's top love songs and lyrics to read, watch and remember. Read: Michael Jackson: The First Man I Ever Loved
A non-dancing writer takes a Salsa class with his wife and lives to tell the tale.
The whole Salsa thing started with my wife's friend, Autumn. Autumn is a Salsa-dancing junkie. She Salsas the way most of us brush our teeth, which is to say, pretty frequently. Recently, Autumn got Tara all fired up about how much fun Salsa dancing is, how sexy it is. Soon, Tara wanted us to go, despite the fact that I cannot dance, that I do not understand dancing.
Dancing, I am the title character in a short film called White Man in Terrible, Self-Conscious Pain. My wife, by contrast, doesn't do self-consciousness. Which I admire, no end. Preferably from the … Read More