Janet Jackson Archives

Janet Jackson (in a specially designed kimono and nine-inch platform heels) got video-ready with extra workouts with trainer Tony Martinez.  "I still want to do a little bit more toning," she said.  "I like myself best when I’m preparing for a tour, ’cause I’m a lot more fit." 

With five wardrobe changes in all, "we pushed it as far as we could go," says make-up artist Fran Cooper.  "We tried to get a goddess feel." … Her metal corset (top right) was inspired by the African Masal tribe.  "The sway of my back has always been the body part that I’ve liked the most," Jackson said. …Famed director Hype Williams (bottom right, with Jackson, Nelly, and Jackson’s beau, producer Jermaine Dupri) has also worked with Jessica Simpson and Mary J. Blige.  "We wanted it to feel like we were painting a beautiful picture," Williams said. 

The theme is a blend of live action and animation, the videp is inspired by the children’s classic Aestop’s Fables.  "It’s a lot of fun and whimsical," says Jackson.  Janet Jackon’s "Call On Me" music video will debut on BET’s "Access Granted" on Wednesday, July 26th.

• Beyonce’s "B’day" album cover has been released.  "B’day" will drop on her 25th birthday, Sept. 4.
• Free Samples!!!!  Mr. Clean Extra Power Magic Erasers, Bounty Paper Towels, and Pantene Pro V Restore.
• Stick at fork in them!  Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro have announced through Electra’s publicist that they are "amicably separating." Brit Reece would not elaborate on the reasons behind the split. The couple documented their 2003 wedding on MTV’s "`Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen & Dave." According to the Daily News, an insider claims Navarro has been dating socialite Sarah Howard for eight months.
• Paris Hilton’s got the Bigfoot look down pat… But that’s okay, she’s the hardest working socialite in the world!
• Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager, The O.C.) recently got engaged to French chef Christopher Eme.
• Supermodel Marisa Miller walks the runway.
• Check out Part I of the celebrity pictures update:

Adrien Brody’s Manolete photoshoot from Vogue Spain.

Matthew McConaughey goes surfing in Malibu on Friday.

Christina Aguilera exits Paris hotel yesterday morning.

Famke Janssen walking dog in NYC yesterday afternoon.

Kate Hudson The Late Show with David Letterman.

Liv Tyler takes son Milo out for NYC walk on Sunday.

• Outkast disses Oprah and turns down her offer to appear The Oprah Show.
• Got design skillz?  Janet Jackson is giving her fans the opportunity to create the cover for her new album "20 Years Old."
• Jennifer Aniston says she would like to reprise her role as Rachel Green in a reunion show of Friends. "The only thing I can think of doing is maybe for fun doing a Thanksgiving episode," Aniston said in a TV interview that was set to air Monday on Channel Four. "Our Thanksgiving episodes were really fun."
• Justin Timberlake tells UK’s Observer that he has done drugs in the past.  "I’m just like everyone else, I get completely plastered."  Hmm, not so sexy. Timberlake, whose album drops in September, also defends ex-girlfriend Britney Spears’s parenting skills.
• South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are heading to Broadway, working with the guys from Avenue Q.
• Check out Part II of the celebrity pictures update:

Mandy Moore shopping at NYC’s Jeffrey last week.

Gwen, Gavin, and Kingston attend charity event on Friday.

Gwen, Gavin, and Kingston at beach resort later that day.

Sophia Bush candids at LAX airport earlier this month.

Veronica Mars‘ Kristen Bell at CW’s TCA Day 2006.

Gilmore Girls‘ Alexis Bledel & Lauren Graham at TCA.

• Check out the pictures of Suri Cruise in Vanity Fair… Tom Cruise is also  featured in the latest issue of Arena Magazine and discusses MI:4 shutting down Tokyo, Japan for an entire week. But come on already, enough with Tom and Katie.  We want to see baby Suri already!  Can I get an Amen?!
• Free Samples!!!!  Mr. Clean Extra Power Magic Erasers, Bounty Paper Towels, and Pantene Pro V Restore.
• Poor Brit Brit gets picked on all the time… a comparison to The Little Mermaid’s Ursula doesn’t help.
• A kinda creepy quote by Woody Allen on Scarlett Johansson: "It’s very hard to be extra witty around a sexually overwhelming, beautiful young woman who is wittier than you are. Anytime I say anything amusing, Scarlett tops me."
• Don’t Lose Naomi Campbell’s Designer Jeans
• Clad in all white, Jessica Simpson at her New York City hotel.  Her single "A Public Affair" is really, really growing on me.  I hope the music video is a knockout!

• Janet Jackson with her new killer body at the BET Awards 2006 last night in Los Angeles.
• Superman Returns opens today!  If you missed it, here’s my Superman Returns Review.  New York Magazine also posted an interview with the fabulous Parker Posey.
• Eva Longoria running around in boys’ gym socks on the set of Jessica Simpson’s new music video.
• Paris Hilton showing off her natural baby blue eyes in Cologne Germany to promote her album, self-titled "Paris."
• Just Jared is running a number of contests that you should enter because they’re ending soon!  The High School Musical DVD Giveaway, The Carmen Sandiego :: Season One DVD Giveaway, and The World’s Fastest Indian DVD Giveaway.
• DOWNLOAD OF THE DAY :: Nelly Furtado feat. Chris Martin - "All Good Things" [mp3]

A shirtless Ashton Kutcher is undressed to impress in this
screencap from his upcoming film, The Guardian.

• Jessica Simpson and Sean "Diddy" Combs duke it out on the red-carpet at the CDFA Fashion Awards.
• Free Gift Cards!!  $250 Victoria’s Secret Gift Card, $250 Banana Republic Gift Card, and $250 GAP Gift Card!
• One of Jennifer Aniston’s closest friends, Tiffany Laws, said that Jen broke down in tears upon hearing news of baby Shiloh: "Jen just burst into tears. She tried to cover it up in front of Vince but he assured her it was OK to cry. I think she had the feeling, ‘That could have been my baby.’"
• Jessica Simpson and Sean "Diddy" Combs duke it out on the red-carpet at the CDFA Fashion Awards.
• Celebrities love their weed!  It’s time for another edition of Celebrity Potheads!
• Janet Jackson may have lost a ton of weight recently but why is her cleavage so weirdly shaped?
• Britney Spears registers for Sean Preston trademark!
• Lindsay Lohan likes her Coke Diet
• Jennifer Lopez is publicly denying the ongoing pregnant rumors
• Michelle Rodriguez: Death Never Looked So Hot

• In a new video interview, Angelina Jolie talks at some length about her incredible experience having a baby in Africa.
• Katie Holmes‘ father, Martin, a divorce lawyer, has negotiated for her a $33 million prenup, with an extra $3 million in spending cash and a home in her name in Montecito, Calif., Life & Style Weekly claims.
• Donald Trump is shopping a new reality TV show based on the popular board game Monopoly.
• Angelina Jolie’s tattoo has been deciphered!  It reads N11º 33′ 0" E104º 51′ 00" and N09º 02′ 00" E038º 45′ 00" — the latitude and longitude coordinates for Maddox and Zahara’s birthplaces (Cambodia and Ethiopia, respectively).
• Teri Hatcher has been cast to star in the boxing drama Resurrecting the Champ.  Hatcher hasn’t been cast in a movie since Spy Kids  in 2001.

• Janet Jackson flaunted her super fit body in Miami last night.  All I can say is DANGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!
• Jessica Simpson visiting cosmetic surgeon Dr. Arnie Klein for cosmetics surgery or psychiatric help?  Either way, it can’t be good.
• Pick up a free sample of Proactiv and Jessica Simpson’s CD.  It also worked for American Idol’s Kelly Clarkson!
• Did you know that The Godfather of Soul (that would be James Brown) had permanently tattooed eyebrows?
• Anna Nicole Smith confirmed that she’s pregnant via online video off her official website (where you can sign-up to pay to see her future video posts).
• Rosario Dawson brought in to teach a sex ed. class.
• Jamie Foxx gives us one more reason to think he’s sleazy… daily sexercise.
• A bikini-clad Serena Williams hits the beaches of Miami with some buddies of hers.
• Courtney Cox looks ready for her return to the small screen.
• You foodies should get what you want at fine restaurants.
• Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s reality series, The Simple Life, returns Sunday, 10PM ET on E! "I’m the nice one, she’s the evil one," says Hilton of her co-star and former friend. "Some people change when they think they’re a star or something and some people stay the same. I’ve always been the same and she’s definitely not."
• InTouch is reporting that Lindsay Lohan’s lawyers have sent a letter to Brandon Davis warning that the actress may sue him if he doesn’ t make a $250,000 charitable donation and release a videotaped apology to TV.

• Ashlee Simpson dressed like a boxer on the set of her new music video, "Invisible."  You can watch the full music video below.

• Looks like Scarlett Johansson is totally getting a wedgie.
• Hurry, claim your free $500 gifts cards from: Kenneth Cole and Home Depot.  Or maybe a $250 Olive Garden Gift Card!!
• 90210’s Brian Austin Green gets groped by girlfriend Megan Fox (NSFW).  Nastiness!
• More candid pictures of the shrinking Janet Jackson.
• I’m sure many of you will be thrilled to hear that the Aishwarya Rai rumors are not true.  She is, in fact, still alive.
• Faye Dunaway falls victim to Madamism (one too many face lifts).
• Paris Hilton shoots a music video of her own on the beach… wow, in a one-piece.
• Candid pictures of Jessica Simpson shopping at Kitson… without hairdresser Ken Paves.  Say what?
• Lost’s Michelle Rodriguez starts jail time… then vows to leave the U.S. for good.  Makes sense.
• Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen will be launching, of all things, a nutrition TV show. Ummmmmm…….
• CNN’s Anderson Cooper no longer watches My Super Sweet 16 (it has gone downhill this season) because he watches Tiara Girls!
  

  But you do have a lighter side as well. Like your affinity for My Super Sweet 16?  Oh, yeah. Totally. But now I’ve moved on to Tiara Girls. My god, they should all be lined up and shot. It’s fantastic! And these parents… I don’t know if you saw the promo, with the mother encouraging her daughter to get liposuction?! The girl’s already getting collagen and the mother’s like, "How about some liposuction." I’m also addicted to Idol.

(Bigger pictures in the gallery!) Janet Jackson, newly svelte after losing 60 pounds, says she gained weight for a role in the upcoming movie "Tennessee," which she ultimately had to pass on because of her new album. "They (the producers) wanted to see me in a different light, as a heavier woman," the 40-year-old singer, who weighed about 180 pounds at her heaviest, tells Us magazine in an issue on newsstands Friday.

"The timing didn’t quite work with trying to finish my album, and unfortunately I wasn’t able to do the film. (The role went to Mariah Carey) So I found myself having to take this weight off a lot quicker than I had planned." Jackson says she packed on the pounds by eating whatever she wanted."`Ooh, that looks good, give me that whole slice of cake!’ That was the fun part," she says. "(Eventually) I would look in the mirror and I wouldn’t recognize myself."

The 5-foot-4-inch Jackson says she got back into shape in four months by eating "nice, balanced meals" and working out with a trainer. Her longtime boyfriend, music producer Jermaine Dupri, was a motivation. "I’ve never had someone love me for me, so unconditionally, the way he does, regardless of my size," she says. "He was never any different toward me."

When asked about reaction to her plus-size body, Jackson says, "People didn’t treat me differently to my face, but I’m sure they had their whispers behind my back. But I didn’t feel bad about myself at all. It was part of my job."

Her latest album, "20 Years Old," is slated for release Sept. 26.

"I feel good," she says. "It wasn’t until I saw a picture of myself, just recently, actually, that I thought, `Wow, you really did lose a lot of weight!’" She adds: "For now, it’s just nice for me to get back down to where I feel more comfortable with me."  [AP]

Hey you guys,

I’m writing to let you know that "Weekend" is not my first single nor is it on my album… it was my gift to you.  I can’t wait for you to hear my new single, "Call on Me," which goes to radio June 19th!  Get ready for my "20 Years Old" album and tour!

MYM
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Janet Jackson treated fans to a new song titled "Weekend" this past Monday on her official website (download it below). Janet’s upcoming single "Call on Me" samples the classic hit, Sheila E.’s "Glamorous Life". The executive producer of the album Jermaine Dupri said, "We wanted to make this single a hot beat for the summer enduring a lasting impression. We just added some high bass and tough beats which makes this a single that’s going to impact hip hop’s style." Janet’s album "20 Years Old" (a nod to the 20th anniversary of Control) includes 20 brand new tracks and will drop Fall 2006. Pictures include Janet Jackson, 39, out and about with longtime boyfriend Jermaine Dupri, 33.  Looks like Janet’s slimmer than ever! More pictures in the gallery!

DOWNLOAD :: Janet Jackson - Weekend [mp3]