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Hottie Paige Davis will rejoin Trading Spaces in an effort to revive the flagging franchise.

Paige Davis is moving back to TLC’s “Trading Spaces.”
The Broadway actress and TV host will return to the once-popular home makeover series beginning in January, the network said in a statement Thursday.
In 2005, TLC announced Davis would no longer host “Trading Spaces” and transitioned the series to a host-less format. Davis had perkily hosted the show, which features neighbors swapping homes and redecorating a room, since 2001. Besides “Trading Spaces,” she’s also appeared on Broadway in the musicals “Beauty and the Beast” and “Chicago.”
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The new season begins shooting this month and will be filmed entirely in high-definition. Designers Doug Wilson, Laurie Hickson-Smith, Frank Bielec and Hildi Santo-Thomas will also return to the show, alongside carpenters and other designers to be announced later.
What the AP story fails to mention is why Davis was dismissed from the show to begin with.
First, there was the July 2004 report of Paige Davis Stripping, during which she showed off her tight ass and perky breasts for charity. That was followed by news in December of a Paige Davis Sex Tape. That led to the Paige Davis firing as Trading Spaces host in January.
Still, as I noted at the time the word of the Paige Davis Stripping incident broke, “Frankly, I’d rather watch her pretend-strip than watch people’s idiot neighbors paste corrogated cardboard on the walls, paint the couch purple, and take down the ceiling fan. Hell, it’s not even close.”
My guess is a lot of viewers felt the same way.
Source: Paige Davis Returns to `Trading Spaces’ (AP)
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Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have been house shopping for a place to live together with their new baby. Unfortunately, some people don’t want Nicole and Joel living in their neighborhood.
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden recently made an offer on a home in a gated Southern California community, but they were denied by the neighbors who were concerned about photographers who would be waiting outside 24/7.
Nicole was disappointed by the rejection. A source says,
“Nicole was livid because she loved the house. She thinks it’s a BS reason, but she couldn’t fight it.”
Looks like Nicole will have to find another location for her baby shower that is planned for the end of November.
I wouldn’t want celebrity neighbors either, so I think I’m with the homeowners on this one.
Source: “Nicole and Joel Rejected from Southern California Gated Community” [Us Weekly]; Photo: Sawf News
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Britney Spears and her sister Jamie Lynn Spears went out for a nice, quiet sushi dinner in Malibu last night when some random lady started yelling at Britney, saying “Nobody wants you in this neighborhood Britney! MOVE! You are making this neighborhood very unsafe!”
Eventually Jamie Lynn had enough of the crazy bitch’s verbal attack and responded, “Then move the f*#$ out of the neighborhood!” The paparazzi chimed in yelling at the woman and cheered Jamie Lynn on. The woman then tried to grab Jamie Lynn as Britney shouted to the paps, “Don’t let her come near me. Don’t let her touch me anymore.”
The woman continued on her rant even after Britney and Jamie Lynn went into the restaurant.
Wow. I’m sure that it sucks to not be able to go out in public because you’re the story everyone wants. But perhaps it’s time, Britney, that you STOP GOING OUT IN PUBLIC!! Seriously, I’m giving her at least 50% of the fault. Restaurants make take out.
What others are saying:
- dlisted says, “INSANITY! Brit needs to take that crazy ladies advice though and move the hell out. This shit would’ve been better if Jamie Lynn knocked that lady out and was arrested.”
- A Socialite’s Life says, “So Britney Spears, once again demonstrating her need for attention and ignorance of the concept of “delivery”, ventured out to the Glen Centre in L.A. with sister Jamie Lynn Spears for sushi.”
Source: “Britney and Jamie Lynn Attacked (Photos and Video)” [Right Celebrity]
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While in Vegas for the VMAs, Ashlee Simpson, Pete Wentz, and daddy Joe Simpson were living it up at the Decaydance/GQ party at Jet in the Mirage. Unfortunately, when the trio tried to leave, a fight broke out.
The bouncers were willing to let Ashlee, Pete and Joe out, but they blocked the rest of the entourage, including Gym Class Heroes’ Marc DeJesus.
“What are you doing?” yelled Wentz, demanding that his crew be escorted to a waiting SUV. “This is my [bleeping] car! I paid for this [bleeping] car!”
In all the fuss, a security guard shoved Pete, and in turn knocked Ashlee against a wall. Pete and Joe rushed over, and Pete took a few swings at the doormen.
“When somebody messes with my baby, then it’s over!” Joe said, drawing his finger across his throat. Ooooohhh, watch out.
After everyone was finally able to leave, Pete stomped around outside and spat on the wall saying, “[Bleep] this place!”
During the ruckus, a fan tried to take a picture, prompting Ashlee to lunge for the camera. Pete quickly grabbed her around the waist as Joe suggested that the bouncers are “just mad they make $12 an hour.”
So let me get this straight, the bouncers wouldn’t let people LEAVE the club? This just sounds ridiculous.
What others are saying:
- TMZ says, “Ever the classy guy, Simpson said the fracas started because the bouncers were “just mad they make $12 an hour.” Unlike getting paid a few pennies more by your own daughters.”
- Mollygood says, “Joe – a former man of the cloth – proclaimed, ‘When somebody messes with my baby, then it’s over!’ before drawing his finger across his throat, citing the little publicized ‘Love thy neighbor until he messes with thy baby’ 10 Commandments amendment.”
- dlisted says, “Papa Joe protects his property.”
Source: “Brawl out boy Pete Wentz & Ashlee’s dad deliver hits at club” [NY Daily News]
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Jude law was arrested yesterday for allegedly getting into a fight with a photographer. While outside his London home, Jude allegedly tried to grab the photographer’s camera.
His rep released the following statement:
“I can confirm that Jude Law voluntarily attended Marylebone Police Station yesterday following an alleged incident outside his house earlier in the day.
“Mr. Law provided the police with a statement regarding his denials of allegations by a ‘paparazzi’ photographer against him and made his own allegations concerning the photographer. Jude has the utmost respect for the police and whilst this is an ongoing matter no further comment will be made.”
Jude is required to return to the police station in October “pending further inquires,” according to the Times of London.
Police only had this to say,
“A 34-year-old man from Maida Vale [Law's neighborhood] was arrested yesterday on suspicion of actual bodily harm after voluntarily attending a London police station.”
This is not the first time Jude has gotten into it with the paps. Last year he was caught lashing out in L.A., telling some paparazzi “You don’t film my f–king children” and threatening, “I’ll have you up for pedophilia!”
What others are saying:
- dlisted says, “Jude needs to calm down. I’m afraid the anger is taking a toll on his looks. He used to be such a hot piece and now he looks like a soggy piece of leather.”
- celebitchy says, “You can understand the guy trying to protect his children’s privacy and flipping out about it but it doesn’t sound like the kids were even around.”
- Defamer says, “While the official police statement following the incident declined to name the star, its curious description of the attacker as ‘a 34-year-old man from Maida Vale so handsome that this officer found himself secretly wanting to grab a camera and see if the appealingly boyish rogue would rough me up a bit if I asked to take his picture,’ a slip that allowed the British tabloid press to make a positive identification of the paparazzo’s celebrity assailant.”
Source: “Jude Law Arrested Over Alleged Attack” [People]; “Jude Law-Breaker? Actor Arrested for Alleged Attack” [TMZ]
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Carter Albrecht of the New Bohemians was killed yesterday while trying to kick in a door after a fight with his girlfriend.
Jeffrey Carter Albrecht, a keyboard player for the band Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, was shot to death early Monday while trying to kick in the door of his girlfriend’s neighbor, police said.
The neighbor, who was not immediately identified, was asleep in bed when he woke up around 4 a.m. to his wife screaming that someone was breaking into the house, according to a police report. The neighbor yelled through the door for Albrecht to leave and then fired his handgun through the door. Albrecht was shot in the head and died at the scene, police said.
The neighbor believed a burglar was trying to break in and fired a shot through the door around 4 a.m., Dallas police spokesman Sgt. Gil Cerda said. The case is under investigation and no arrests have been made.
News reports cited police saying Albrecht beat up his girlfriend and then tried to kick down the neighbor’s door in a drunken rage. The couple had no history of domestic violence, but the girlfriend had bruises on her face, police said. She did not suffer serious injury. Albrecht apparently struck his girlfriend in the face several times and hit her in the back once she fell. She later managed to lock him out of the house, according to the reports.
“He was at his girlfriend’s house last night,” said Danny Balis, Albrecht’s roommate. “He left the house and went next door and — for whatever reason, which we don’t know — he knocked on the neighbor’s door. And from what I understand, he was persistent. I don’t know if there was a verbal exchange, but the person panicked and fired a shot through the door.”
The death of Albrecht, who also played keyboard and guitar and sang in the Dallas rock band Sorta with Balis, stunned friends and those who knew him in the North Texas music community. “He is not a violent person,” said Carrie Garcia, Sorta’s manager. “He is cool as a cucumber, shy, always wanted to make a joke in a situation that may be a little tense.”
Albrecht, who went by his middle name, had been with the New Bohemians since 1999, according to the band’s Web site. Albrecht played several times with Brickell’s husband, Paul Simon, Garcia said. He also played with Texas musician Charlie Sexton, a renowned guitarist.
Sad and shocking.
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Andy Dick was ticketed this week for urinating on a building in Columbus, Ohio, which topped off a weekend of shananigans at Easton’s Funny Bone Comedy Club where he performed. The club’s managing partner called it “one of the worst experiences with a performer in the club’s history.” Nice, piss away what’s left of your so-called career.
Dave Stroupe said Dick appeared to be intoxicated all weekend, made inappropriate comments on stage and took women into the men’s room, where he groped patrons and urinated on the floor and on at least one person.
When Dick returned to LA, he continued his antics by throwing beer bottles into a neighbors yard. Maybe he’s just trying to get some pub for when he stars in VH1′s new reality show, ‘Celeb Rehab.’ Dick is scheduled to appear Thursday in Franklin County Municipal Court, but instead could pay a $126 fine and court costs for the misdemeanor offense.
Source: “Ticket for urinating marks comic’s odd visit” [dispatch]
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Shaun Robinson of Access Hollywood interviewed Jamie Foxx and the subject of Michael Vick and dogfighting came up.
“Is he really going to jail?†Jamie asked Shaun about Michael Vick.
“Yes, he’s going to plea bargain,†Shaun said.
Although Vick has been almost universally condemned since agreeing to plead guilty to dog fighting conspiracy, according to Foxx, people should not be so quick to judge the NFL star.
“It’s a cultural thing, I think,†Jamie said. “Most brothers didn’t know that, you know. I used to see dogs fighting in the neighborhood all the time. I didn’t know that was Fed time. So, mike probably just didn’t read his handbook on what not to do as a black star.â€
I guess Foxx didn’t read his handbook on appropriate things to say as a celebrity or the one on general humane activity.
Source: “Jamie Foxx Defends NFL Star Michael Vick Over Dog Fighting Charges” [access hollywood]
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Who would have thought that Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, would be responsible for the biggest parties England has ever seen? Turns out she just might be.
Jane Seymour has a gorgeous Cotswolds manor house, and has been renting it out for 24-hour parties. Now the neighbors are furious and have signed two petitions for the parties to stop.
The neighbors tells stories of drunk drivers knocking down property walls, loud fireworks scaring kids in the middle of the night, and loud drunks singing and shouting through the streets. Their peaceful street has been turned into a “superhighway” because of all the traffic. These neighbors are now taking Jane to court to have the parties stopped.
The biggest problem is that Jane and her husband, producer James Keach, only live in England three months out of the year. So while the parties are going on, Jane and James are living it up on the beaches of Malibu.
I would have never pictured Jane Seymour as a party girl.
Source: “Why Jane Seymour’s country neighbours don’t like her manor” [Daily Mail]; Photo: About.com
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With Lindsay Lohan missing in action (rehab for the 3rd time), the paparazzi have now resorted in following Lindsay’s little sister Ali Lohan around.
Yes, the little girl who says that Lindsay is her ‘idol’, is milking the attention for all it’s worth.
Ali Lohan was spotted in Long Island as she flashed her sister’s signature ‘peace sign‘ for the photographers, while driving around her family’s neighborhood in a golf cart.
The resemblance to her sister Lindsay, is frightening!
source: Lindsay Lohan’s Sister Has Taken Over [dlisted]
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If this is true, I will succumb like the rest of the world and start watching ‘Desperate Housewives.’ Hollyscoop is reporting the gay couple that moves onto Wysteria Lane next season in ‘Desperate Housewives’ will be played by David Beckham and Robbie Williams.
They are quoting Housewives creator, Marc Cherry, as saying:
“David and Robbie are perfect to star as the new neighbors’ best friends; the gorgeous, eccentric couple flown over from Blighty (Britain).”
“We haven’t had that kind of wow for the wives since Jesse Metcalfe left and we want it to cause such a stir when they turn out to be together.
“David’s keen, but though the obvious choice was to work with Tom Cruise, we wanted someone who matches him in height and well, Britishness, so Robbie is the one. They’re both funny, game for a laugh and ridiculously macho, so it should work wonderfully… the English are pitch-perfect for sending themselves up.”
For the time being, at least I can dream this might be true.
Source” hollyscoop
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Kirsten Dunst bought some new digs in North London for $4 million, and apparently the neighbors aren’t thrilled. The neighborhood council has received complaints already about her loud partying.
A source said, “Kirsten isn’t very popular in Islington at the moment. The locals are incensed that she’s changing the tone of the area. She’s started spending nights in the local pub by herself chatting to the locals. When closing time comes she invites them all round to her house to continue the party. But it seems the noise levels and people coming and going at all hours is getting to her neighbours.”
“They’ve had enough and apparently three families have written a petition to the council in the hope they’ll take some action.
“Where they live used to be a peaceful neighbourhood but now they think it is like party central.”
Ironically enough, Kirsten is in London shooting “How To Lose Friends & Alienate People.” (No really, check it out.)
And now others are reporting that Kirsten has asked Johnny Borrell to move out, though dlisted says that is not the case. The Razorlight front-man had moved in with Kirsten after the main wall inside his home in Camden, North London, had collapsed.
But soon, his annoying habit of driving his scooter through the living room forced Dunst to ask the rocker to leave.
“Kirsten is incredibly tidy – she is obsessive when it comes to cleaning. Johnny is messy and it was driving her mad,†the Daily mail quoted a friend, as saying.
“Kirsten has asked him to move back into the place he shares with an old pal in nearby Muswell Hill. They are taking some time out,†the friend added.
The friend said the pair was taking a break from each other, adding that Kirsten was thoroughly enjoying her newfound freedom.
“She was dancing with a group of guys at the Greco Roman night in London Bridge into the early hours of last Sunday,†the friend said.
I don’t know about you, but Johnny sounds fun. I want to ride a scooter through the living room.
Source: Style Ikon; dlisted
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Jennifer Lyn Jackson, former Playboy Playmate, racked up her second arrest of the month, and the third in the last few years.
On Monday evening, Westlake police were called to a Center Ridge Road trailer park on a report of one man threatening another.
They found two people to be intoxicated, one of them being the 38-year-old Jackson. She and 52-year-old James Thompson were arrested for disorderly conduct intoxication.
Thompson is accused of threatening to punch his neighbor in the nose for unknown reasons. Thompson says Jackson is his wife, but they listed different trailer numbers as residences.
Her ambition, according to Playboy, was to “follow the golden road of success to the top and be happy.”
A few years, some alcohol, and no makeup can be rough on a girl. Click on the photo gallery to see other glamorous mugshots, the winner who proclaims to be her husband, and her arrest.
Source: wtam.com
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Let the rumors begin. Jimmy Fallon is the favorite of NBC to replace Conan O’Brien in 2009, when O’Brien is scheduled to take over for Jay Leno.
NBC late-night chief Rick Ludwin says he doesn’t expect to make an announcement until sometime after the first of the year, but he confirmed that Fallon is on the top of the network’s list.
“These are very tough jobs when you promise comedy as part of the equation, and it’s a grind to do one of these shows,†Ludwin says. “We know him from SNL and saw what he can do on-camera and off-camera, and I think he’d be terrific.â€
With Fallon as host, another change might be in the location of the show. It may move from Burbank back to New York City. But execs have other things to worry about. If NBC decides to keep Leno at 11:35, it must pay O’Brien a penalty in the neighborhood of $45 million and know he will then jump to another network, most likely ABC or Fox, which want in on the late-night race.
I don’t know how I feel about Jimmy Fallon hosting. I used to be a big fan, but lately he seems more annoying than funny.
Source: broadcastingcable
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Blender has these 33 things you probably don’t know about 50 Cent.
1 • His mother dealt drugs to support him
Sabrina Jackson gave birth to Curtis on July 6, 1975. She was 15. “She wanted to provide for me, but she didn’t see Burger King as an option,†50 says. “She found other means: hustling.†His grandmother would mind him for weeks on end. “My mama substituted presents for time: Every time I seen her, it was Christmas.â€
2 • She told him he’d been an immaculate conception
“One day I asked her, ‘Mama, why don’t I have a father?’†he recalls. “She said, ‘You was an immaculate conception, like Jesus.’ She was just trying to make me feel special.â€
3 • To this day, he’s never met his dad
“I don’t know who he was, and I have no interest in knowing,†he says. “I mean, it’s a source of regret. He could have helped me in life. But that period has passed.â€
4 • Before he was 50 Cent, he was Boo-Boo
“My aunt used to say, ‘Come here, Boo-Boo!’ and it just stuck.†Was it hard to command respect on the streets with a name so cuddly? “It’s scarier that way,†50 says. “If someone calls themselves Terminator, you’re like, ‘Yeah, right!’â€
5 • In 1994, he was sentenced to prison for possession of 280 grams of crack and 4 ounces of heroin
To avoid hard time, he enrolled in New York’s Shock Incarceration program: boot camp for felons. For six months upstate, he awoke at 5:30 A.M., did push-ups on his knuckles and sawed trees.
6 • His mom swung both ways
50 Cent recalls: “I ain’t see males around my mom. My mama liked women. But I would never see anything that would make me think something sexual was going on. It didn’t dawn on me till later.â€
7 • When 50 was 8, his mother was murdered
Sabrina kept her own apartment across town. In 1983, someone drugged her and turned on her gas oven, leaving her to die. “When they found her, her body was fucked up,†50 later recalled. Today, he says, “My biggest loss was my mom. Everything that went wrong was wrong because she wasn’t there — if I wanted to go to the park and it started raining, it was raining ’cause my mother wasn’t there.â€
Continue Reading ‘33 Things About 50 Cent’ After the Jump!
8 • He followed in her drug-dealing footsteps just four years later
With 50, his grandparents and eight aunts and uncles all under one roof, money was tight. “Hustling was the only option,†he explains. “I wasn’t thinking about a career. I was looking for instant gratification.â€
9 • He says his aunts and uncles were his first customers …
“They’d have parties, and at the time, cocaine was like marijuana — it was common. I’d say, ‘Yo, I’ll go pick it up for you,’ then run to the side of the house where I put it in a little bag. It went from there to me hustling from 3 to 6 P.M. every day. My grandparents thought I was in an after-school program.â€
10 • … but one uncle’s addiction almost got 50 killed
A complaint kept arising — his bags were light. He says he discovered his uncle Star had been dipping into his stash. “If the guys I had been selling light bags to thought I was cheating them on purpose, they would have killed me,†he later wrote in his autobiography. He beat his uncle with a giant wooden fork in reprisal. “To this day, Star and I don’t speak much.â€
11 • Even without giant utensils, he packed a killer right hook
When 50 was 14, an older neighborhood dealer opened up a small boxing gym for local kids. “When I wasn’t killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip,†50 recalled. He took what he learned in the ring out onto the streets: “At the slightest infraction, I was punching someone in the face.â€
12 • He lost his virginity at age 12
“It went well — I was 12 and she was 21!†he says, grinning. “I spent a night at my friend’s house, and his sister had her friend staying over, too. So I started to touch on her. I was a horny little dog, and I got away with it.â€
13 • His secret stash spot? Women’s panties!
One morning, when he was 19, 50 was out hustling with the help of a girlfriend when the cops swooped in. “When they searched her, they found 36 vials of crack and 12 packs of heroin in her underwear,†he later recalled.
14 • The streets were 50’s business school. There were hostile takeovers …
At Shock, 50 met a stick-up kid from Brooklyn named Jah. “When we got out, I brought him into my area to rob all the dealers who weren’t part of my group. I said, ‘You can have all the money, just give me their pieces.’â€
15 • … special promotions …
“I would take the pieces from Jah and give them away free with every purchase. So even if the fiends catch a sale with someone else, they would go, ‘Nah, I can get this for free!’â€
16 • … and market saturation
“When there’s money to be made, there’s no hours, no going home,†50 says. “In the music business, I adapt the same concepts. When it’s not 50 Cent’s album, it’s the G-Unit album. When it’s not Young Buck, it’s Lloyd Banks. I’m here constantly.â€
17 • His next brush with the law involved a high-speed motor cycle chase — and cross-dressing
Shortly after his release, 50 was mis taken for a murder suspect who owned a motorcycle similar to his. When a squad car tried to stop 50 on Queens’s Guy Brewer Boulevard, he fled, escaping only after several squad cars and a helicopter had given chase. He snuck into his grandmother’s house, donned a dress and a wig, and slipped past patrolmen outside. “They must have been like, ‘Damn, that’s an ugly bitch,’†50 jokes. The real murderer was apprehended later that day.
18 • He’s a pretty easygoing dad
Does 50 let 10-year-old Marquise listen to his music? “Of course. If I say something a little racy, I’ll be like, ‘You know what that means?’ and he’ll be like, ‘Yeah.’ He already knows. The kids know. The problem is that their parents aren’t asking them the questions. I went into his room the other night and he was on this porno site — big-booty girls. He was like, ‘I just clicked a link!’ Kids are gonna be kids, man.â€
19 • A Queens hip-hop legend gave him his big break
The same year Marquise was born, in 1997, 50 Cent met Run-D.M.C.’s Jam Master Jay at a club. A childhood fan of Rakim, 50 had written only one rhyme, in 1995, for fun — “I don’t remember it exactly, but it was street,†he says. Jay was impressed by his singsong delivery and by his story, and brought 50 into his fold.
20 • Well, it was almost his big break
Things moved quickly: Jay brought 50 to the attention of Columbia Records, they signed him, he recorded an album, then … nothing. “When I met Jay, I wasn’t a starving artist,†50 says. “But right after I committed to music, I starved.†To keep up with the bills, he returned to hustling.
21 • He became a papa in 1997 — and started working on his crack-game exit strategy
When then-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins gave birth to his son Marquise, 50 quit dealing. As he puts it: “My mama’s motivation to get into the game was my motivation to get out.â€
22 • OK, scratch that. A paid assassin gave him his big break
On May 24, 2000, a gunman shot 50 Cent nine times in front of his grandmother’s house. In his autobiography, 50 hints that the hit came about because he’d insulted drug kingpin Kenneth “Supreme†McGriff, but when asked explicitly in interviews about McGriff’s involvement, 50 has demurred. Either way, he was hospitalized, Columbia dropped him — and, unbeknownst to him, his glorious future was guaranteed.
23 • His next mentor was … “Weird Al�
With a head full of new rhymes and no label to release them, 50 Cent turned to New York’s mix-tape circuit. Instead of filling the samizdat titles with throwaway rhymes, he approached them like albums: “I wrote my freestyles in song format.†He also recorded parodies of hits. As he put it later, “I took the ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic approach.â€
24 • After he got shot, he began wearing a bulletproof vest — and still wears one today
When 50 started booking shows, advertising his whereabouts made him nervous. “I wore a vest ’cause I knew it could pop off,†he explains. During 50’s first tour, Marquise wore one, too.
25 • Eminem heard one of 50’s mix tapes, flew him to L.A. and, with Dr. Dre, signed him to a million-dollar deal
“I was at the airport to go see them when my vest set off the metal detector,†50 recalls. A TSA supervisor who’d heard his songs let him through anyway. “If they hadn’t let me take the vest, I probably wouldn’t have gone.â€
26 • His is the fastest-selling debut of all time
In its first week, 2003’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ sold nearly 900,000 copies — and did it again in week two.
27 • He’s available for Bar mitzvahs!
“The last Bar Mitzvah I booked, I got paid $500,000 for 30 minutes,†50 explains. “That’s not a fixed rate, but it’s in the ballpark.â€
28 • He collects his own brand of sneakers
“I got 500 pairs,†he says. “All G-Unit. A bunch of different colors, limited editions. Tony Yayo is a size over me, but he’ll squeeze his feet into mine and borrow them.â€
29 • He likes George Bush
After Kanye West railed on Dubya post-Katrina, 50 defended the prez, calling him a “gangsta.â€
30 • He keeps his most revealing music for himself
On 2005’s “Hate It or Love It,†50 rapped about his mother’s bisexuality — but that was an exception. “You don’t want to be too complex,†he says. “I have records that I wrote for myself, and they’re playing on my computer at home. Sort of like a diary. But I’m not gonna waste the public’s time with them.â€
31 • He’s buddies with Robert de Niro
50’s burgeoning acting career has been respectable — the autobiographical Get Rich or Die Tryin’; the war flick Home of the Brave — if not spectacularly successful. But his biggest role yet is ahead of him, starring opposite De Niro in the upcoming thriller New Orleans. “He invited me to his house — gave me that De Niro look, sizing me up,†50 says. “But I passed the test.â€
32 • His new album has one hell of a guest list
Curtis, which 50 says will include several returns to the street-hardened, wisecracking “old 50,†also features collaborations with Akon, Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke, Mary J. Blige and Justin Timberlake. “Basically,†50 explains, “it’s one of my best pieces of work.â€
33 • Next stop: retirement!
… Sort of. 50 has alluded to leaving rap behind once his five-record contract expires. “I’ll put out albums like Dre, every five years or every seven,†he clarifies. “I enjoy rapping, but there’s so much more out there.â€
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