CATFIGHTS mar new reality series The Face
Surely the producers knew this would happen. Looks like Naomi Campbell is already ruffling some feathers as rumours are flying that she’s causing fights between between co-hosts Coco Rocha and Karolina Kurkova on the set of the threesome’s new reality show, The Face. The trio serve as mentors on the show as contestants prove they have what it takes to rule the catwalk. The British supermodel, 42, has reportedly fallen out with 24-year-old Coco over the Canadian beauty’s ‘straightlaced’ nature, according to the New York Post.
“There were some issues with Coco being on time and Naomi not being on time,” a source told the Post’s Page Six.
Coco is also a Jehovah’s Witness and doesn’t drink, which is stark in nature to Naomi’s ‘bad girl’ persona. According to the Post, host Nigel Barker, formerly of America’s Next Top Model fame, is serving as mediator between the ladies.
“Nigel is the only one who gets along with everyone,” the source said. “He’s been left as the host and the referee. You’ve got three models, all at different stages of their careers and different ages, and they are really not getting along. It’s a competition show, and none of them are used to losing.” Nigel was reportedly overheard discussing the model’s catfight at a charity benefit in New York hotspot Pink Elephant. Karolina is said to be trying not to get involved in the fight.
“Karolina knows how to deal with Naomi. She’s known her for a longer time. Coco clearly knows Naomi doesn’t like her. Naomi’s tough. If you are not kissing her ass, you are dead,” the insider said.
— Daily Mail
I HAVE TO PROVE MYSELF ALL OVER AGAIN
She’s appeared on T h e Celebrity Apprentice, T h e Real Housewives of Atlanta, and What Chilli Wants, but Tionne ‘T-Boz’ Watkins has decided to ring in the new year with a show of her very own, Totally T-Boz, on the aptly named network, T L C.
The four-part reality series, airing January 1, reveals the health and financial struggles which kept the 42-year-old singer from making her comeback as a solo artiste after being one-third of the R&B/hip-hop girl group TLC.
At the height of their fame in the nineties, T-Boz and her bandmates Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas and Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes sold over 65 million records worldwide. In the justreleased four-minute clip, T-Boz meets up with mega-producer Bangladesh in his studio for some real talk as well as possibly collaborating.
“I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it’s to the world,” the four-time Grammy winner frankly admitted. “I don’t have a problem doing that.” Bangladesh has worked with Rihanna, Beyoncé, Ke$ha, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, T-Pain, and Ice Cube. Watkins appeared to have gained weight since her Waterfalls heyday, and covered her new curves in an off-theshoulder green and black tyedye maxi dress. In the series, the husky-voiced singer and her 12-year-old daughter Chase have just moved to Los Angeles
following her divorce and restraining order from rapper husband Mack 10 in 2004. T-Boz, who’s a spokeswoman for Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, also opened up about her life-threatening brain tumour in 2006.
—Daily Mail
Douglas’s son attacked in prison
The drug-addict son of Oscarwinning actor Michael Douglas has suffered severe injuries, including a broken leg and fingers, after being attacked in prison. Cameron Douglas, 34, who is doing time for years of drug use and dealing, was apparently attacked after an unnamed New York crime boss put a $100-bounty on his head for being a ‘rat’.
During a 2010 bail hearing, Cameron’s psychiatrist inadvertently revealed that his client had snitched to the police about his drug suppliers, David and Eduardo Escalera, during his original sentencing hearing.
Cameron’s testimony against the dealers helped get him a five-year, rather than 10-year, sentence. But last year he was sentenced to an additional four-and-a-half years for smuggling in heroin and a prescription narcotic while at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Pennsylvania.
“He broke his femur, which is hard to snap, and had to have a rod inserted,” a source told The New York Post.
Speaking publicly about his son, Michael Douglas said in 2010 that he thought prison might be a “blessing in disguise” for his wayward son. He assumed blame for “being a bad father” but said that without prison intervention Cameron “was going to be dead or somebody was gonna kill him. I think he has a chance to start a new life, and he knows that.” During last year’s sentencing for smuggling drugs into prison Cameron Douglas told the court that he was ashamed’ of what he had done.
— Daily Mail