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Tamera Mowry-Housley announced Monday that she’s leaving her talk show, The Real, after seven years. The actress turned host was an original cast member of the Emmy Award–winning daytime talk show.

Mowry-Housley noted that she was forced to prematurely make the announcement of her departure due to a potential leak. While she was mourning the sudden death of her friend, Naya Rivera, whose body was recovered after she was reported missing from a boating trip with her 4-year old-son, the information about her departure hit the Internet.

“I had NO intention to talk about this today, especially in light of the news of my dear friend Naya, but now some reports are coming out and I’d rather you hear it from me first,” Mowry-Housley wrote in the caption for her Instagram post.


The cast of The Real, Mowry-Housley and her cohosts Loni Love, Adrienne Bailon and Jeanie Mai, set themselves apart by delving deeply into their personal lives and forming connections with each other and the audience.
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The first version of Vanity Fair was published in 1913 & the magazine just had their FIRST Black photographer....


In a recent statement by Vanity Fair's Editor and Chief, Radjika Jones, she said:  “In our archives, excluding groups and special issues, we count 17 Black people on the cover of Vanity Fair in the 35 years between 1983 and 2017.”

In a recent interview with NME, Vivica A. Fox revealed her hopes for a third edition of the “Kill Bill” franchise and knows exactly who she wants to be its star: Zendaya. ... “The star will be Vernita Green's [Fox's] daughter, Nikki,” Tarantino told Entertainment Weekly in a 2004 interview.

Fox appeared in both of Quentin Tarantino's movies as Vernita Green - a member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. There's been plenty of talk about Kill Bill: Vol. 3 over the years, with Fox being one of those who's championed the idea of Green's daughter (Nikki) going on a mission of vengeance against Uma Thurman's Beatrix Kiddo, AKA "The Bride."

Speaking to NME, Fox doubled down on the idea of Nikki taking vengeance for her mother's death but also threw Zendaya's name into the mix. When discussing the idea of the threequel, Fox explained, "I haven’t got any official word [on ‘Kill Bill Vol. 3]. I had a feeling that hopefully [Tarantino] wa…

Can you name this 90's RnB group and one of their songs?

This is the beautiful Marla Gibbs from 227 and the Jeffersons.