A Look Back on Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Multimillion-Dollar Vows

 Dinner at Versailles, Private Jets and That Flower Wall: A Look Back on Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Multimillion-Dollar Vows 

The inclination is natural. After Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wed in unforgettable fashion May 19, the comparisons began in earnest. Just how did their multimillion-dollar vows stack up against his brother Prince William's 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton? 

 

But their beautifully extravagant nuptials may have more in common with those of another American princess: One Kim Kardashian. 

 

Hear me out.Four years ago today, on a sunny May Saturday in Europe, reality TV's reigning queen wed her prince: 21-time Grammy winner Kanye West. There was an impressive array of flowers, a standout Givenchy gown, a gilded carriage and a heaping dollop of speculation about whether a certain family member might attend. Sound a little familiar? 

 Of course for Kim, the drama surrounded brother Rob Kardashian, who flew all the way to Paris for the couple's pre-wedding festivities only to ditch out when the rest of the family boarded private jets to the actually wedding site in Florence, Italy. Feeling insecure about his 100-pound weight gain, Rob nonetheless made the transatlantic trip to support his sister and future brother-in-law. But en route, Kim reported on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, "He read some nasty comments about himself and he just didn't feel comfortable and he didn't want to see all my guests." 

While an insider told E! News that Kim understood, she was no less heartbroken. "It makes me so sad for him," she explained. "And I don't even want to think about it. I don't want to talk about it. Today is my wedding and I don't want to cry. I just want to, you know, have it be a happy day with amazing memories."

  

Because make no mistake, this was the main event. The bachelorette party at the Eiffel Tower, brunch at Valentino Garavani's 17th century Château de Wideville and a pre-wedding dinner at the Palace of Versailles, complete with a performance by Lana Del Ray, guides dressed in Marie Antoinette-inspired garb and an arrival via horse-drawn carriage—those were all nice. (So nice, actually, that one insider told E! News, "Everyone was crying because they had never experienced such a party" and Kim would later reveal that everyone got so drunk, including sister Khloe Kardashian!)
And yet all of those were trumped the moment the duo's 200 guests were told (surprise!) they'd actually be flying to Italy for the vows.

 

The couple purportedly chose the site because of a quiet getaway they enjoyed for Kim's birthday when they upped their relationship status from friends to more in 2012. Really enjoyed. To hear West tell it, they "conceived" the first of their three children, now 4-year-old daughter North, "among the Renaissance masterpieces," he shared with Florence's La Nazione newspaper. "It was our first honeymoon. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the world—for me the most beautiful in Europe."
Offering sweeping views of the city below and hills in the distance, the 16th century Forte di Belvedere (its roughly $400,000 rental fee just a fraction of the estimated total $2.8 million budget) was a stunning spot for a ceremony.

Kim just had to get through a little drama first. First there was Khloe's hangover, so intense that she slept as a glam squad handled her hair and makeup, then the revelation that Rob had split and, finally, Kim's fears her cathedral-length Givenchy veil—matching her custom lace mermaid gown with illusion cutouts—was so heavy it might "make me trip and fall right on my face." 
But when she made her way down to a waiting West she didn't stumble once. Even as she caught sight of famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli belting out "Con te Partiro." The singer-songwriter is a favorite of both Kim and her late father Robert Kardashian so he was an appropriate choice for the processional, Kim just assumed they'd use a recorded version. "I thought I was walking to the aisle to his CD playing," she told E! News. "But when I got to the altar, I did a double take and screamed. I couldn't believe he was there himself."
The surprise, arranged by West, left her feeling "like I was walking down the aisle with my dad."

And it was just the first of several breathtaking moments. Standing in front of a staggering wall of white blooms, pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr. led a ceremony as Kim's siblings Khloe, Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner looked on alongside celeb guests such as John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Rachel Roy and LaLa Anthony. (Fresh off their Met Gala fight and reportedly fearing a run-in with Roy, Beyoncé and Jay-Z begged off.)
After confessing to one pal he'd practiced his self-penned vows in the mirror to commit them to memory, West delivered his heartfelt words without a hitch and the parents to then 11-month-old North (watching in her own custom haute couture Givenchy) sealed their marriage with a kiss.
"The whole wedding was just filled with so much love," Kylie would later confess on Good Morning America. "It was just really amazing to watch that." Echoed sister Kendall, "Everything was amazing. And to see two people so happy. I think that that was probably my favorite part."

Some may have chosen the décor at the reception that followed. In addition to the bright red lights that dotted the fort's perimeter, contemporary American artist Vanessa Beecroft installed several pieces around the sprawling grounds.
And then there were the more than $100,000 worth of floral arrangements courtesy of one of Florence's oldest flower shops, Thierry Boutemy and the 224-foot imperial marble table so large it they needed a crane to hoist it in. And because escort cards are so passé the custom piece was etched with the name of each guest at their assigned spot.

Others may have named the four-course dinner of homemade pasta stuffed with ricotta, monkfish filet and beef filet with potato tarts washed down with glasses of Armand de Brignac champagne and Brunello di Montalcino san Filippo red wine.
But for most, really, the highlight was the entertainment. And we're not just talking about pal Legend's performance of his beloved wedding favorite "All of Me." Or even the fireworks show that soon followed. 

 

Because at some point amongst the cutting of the seven-tier Galateo Ricevimenti cake and dancing to classics such as Etta James' "At Last" (reportedly performed by Legend), Otis Redding' "A Little Tenderness" and Michael Jackson's "Rock With You", the groom took the mic for a 20-minute speech that can only be described as pure Kanye. Along with rambling about being in the limelight and brushing off tabloid covers, a source reports he announced to a cheering room, "I am defined by being a celebrity...the world is our altar."
And he worships at his bride's feet. Calling her famed family an "industry" and "the most remarkable people of our time" who can "make the world a better place," he gushed even further when it came to Kim. The reality star, who presented him a book of selfies as a wedding day gift, was the "ideal celebrity" and the "ideal art."

 

And the inspiration behind the ideal day. Because for all the extravagant touches, one insider insisted to E! News that the "entire wedding felt very normal. It might appear like it was something over the top, but it was very much focused on the important things that mattered most."
With just a touch of excessive revelry. A few months after the bash, Kim shared some details on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. "There was actually one guy and one girl that were completely wasted—actually, there was a couple," she dished, adding that one of her hairdressers "split his pants dancing to Beyoncé's 'Single Ladies' and he had to run out." 

Hey, even the royal wedding got a little rowdy. And as Kim summed up, "It was crazy, but it was so much fun."
via E! online

Drake And Rihanna Now Have Matching Tattoos Of Their Relationship's Spirit Animal

Rihanna getting a tiny camouflage shark with a Drake connection inked on her body was a big enough deal.

Now, photos from his Summer Sixteen tour stop in New Orleans on September 2 show that Drake has a twin shark permanently plastered to his forearm, so, yeah: If that isn't a hyper-specific declaration of lasting love, we don't know what is.


DRAKE AND RIHANNA ARE EITHER GETTING MARRIED OR DROPPING AN ALBUM TOGETHER

 

This has been a huge week for the pop star and rapper: They started it at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, where Drake presented RiRi with this year's Video Vanguard award and shared that he'd been in love with her for years. Some NYC hangs happened. Some appointments with some tattoo artists went down. Some smooches were exchanged onstage in Miami. And now, not seven days after Drake got a serious case of the feelings before the VMA audience and viewers at home, they're stamped with the 2D rendering of a stuffed animal Drake got for RiRi on a date at Toronto's Ripley's Aquarium. (Peep the photo above: You'll find the shark just underneath the hands clasped in prayer on his outstretched right arm.)

That's one hell of a souvenir for this epic seven-day stretch — well, that and the giant billboard Drake put up in Los Angeles to celebrate Rihanna's VMA achievements. Should we all be so lucky as to find someone who's into expressing their affection in the most unexpected ways possible, stuffed animals and all.

Beyoncé May Not Have Been a Fan of the Wedding Dress Her Mother Made Her

“Maybe she wasn’t so excited about it at the time . . .”

have all, from time to time, been a bit . . . inventive with the truth, when it comes to interactions with our parents. “Mom, this halibut is amazing, so, so good.” “No, Uncle Maxwell, for real, I love these dress socks to an extreme degree.” It is often easier, to avoid any hurt feelings or awkward silences, to just smile and nod and say, “Thank you so much.”

So we can all probably relate, on some level, to the following anecdote, revealed byBeyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, on the Today show this week, regarding Beyoncé’s wedding to Jay Z.

Knowles, a fashion designer, made her daughter her wedding dress, a strapless gown with multiple tiers, which was not seen by any of us until it appeared in the 2011 music video for “I Was Here.” (It has since been seen in various clips shared by the singer.) Knowles told theToday show hosts that Beyoncé revealed to her, after the fact, that she . . . may not have loved the dress. “She was so sweet to let me do that. She came back later one day and she said, ‘You know, when my daughter gets married, I’m going to let her pick out her own dress.’” (Ever tactful, that Beyoncé.) Tina continued, “Maybe she wasn’t so excited about it at the time, but she’s a sweetheart.”

Tina made all of Beyoncé’s outfits when she was a part of Destiny’s Child, and launched her House of Deréon clothing line with Beyoncé in 2004.

Perhaps the lesson here is, if Beyoncé can own up to how she really felt about her mother’s work on her wedding dress, and it was all good, you, too, should feel justified and O.K. about coming clean to your parents about any grievances or previously masked frustrations, as well.

Muhammad Ali: Barack Obama says boxing's 'Greatest' shook up world

US President Barack Obama and boxing great George Foreman have led worldwide tributes to Muhammad Ali, who has died at the age of 74.

"Ali shook up the world - and the world is better for it," Obama said.

Foreman, who was beaten by Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974, said: "Muhammad Ali made you love him."

British Prime Minister David Cameron, musician Sir Paul McCartney, boxers Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather and golfer Tiger Woods also paid tribute.

Ali was admitted to a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease.

The three-time world champion died from septic shock caused by "unspecified natural causes", his spokesman Bob Gunnell said.

Ali's funeral will take place in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky at 19:00 BST on Friday, 10 June, where flags have been flying at half-mast since his death was announced.

Former US president Bill Clinton and comedian Billy Crystal will deliver eulogies at the service, which will be open to the public. A procession will also be held in Louisville on the same day.

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What made 'The Greatest' so great? In a lengthy statement, Obama said both he and wife Michelle "pray that the greatest fighter of them all finally rests in peace". "Like everyone else on the planet, Michelle and I mourn his passing," he said. "But we're also grateful to God for how fortunate we are to have known him, if just for a while; for how fortunate we all are that The Greatest chose to grace our time." Ali's quick wit and vocal indignation over racial discrimination made him a compelling character away from the ring. He also refused to be drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War because of his religious beliefs, resulting in him losing his licence and world title. "He stood with King and Mandela; stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others wouldn't. His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing," Obama added. "It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled, and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And his victory helped us get used to the America we recognise today. "He wasn't perfect, of course. For all his magic in the ring, he could be careless with his words, and full of contradictions as his faith evolved. But his wonderful, infectious, even innocent spirit ultimately won him more fans than foes - maybe because in him, we hoped to see something of ourselves.

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Why the ‘Ghostbusters’ Trailer Is the Most ‘Disliked’ Movie Trailer in YouTube History

The first trailer for Paul Feig’s female-led Ghostbusters remake arrived in March of this year and the reaction was almost immediately disappointing. Even among those, like us, who are excited for the Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig film, it was a poorly put together trailer that did little to inspire confidence in the finished product. And then there are those who have been angrily and, at times, violently against theGhostbusters movie since the original announcement that it would star four women and they really did not like the new trailer. Perhaps as an indicator of exactly how virulent the anger towards the new Ghostbusters film is, the trailer has been “disliked” so many times, it is already the most disliked movie trailer in YouTube history.

The Ghostbusters trailer currently has 507,610 dislikes on YouTube. To put that in perspective, the Fantastic Four trailer from last year has only 20,175 dislikes. The Ridiculous Six trailer, which has an impressive 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, has only 5,803 dislikes. Could Ghostbusters be that much worse than either of those two movies? It’s seems unlikely knowing what we know about both Fantastic Four and Ridiculous Six. What is actually happening is that a certain subset of people on the internet have an unhealthy fixation with hating on the Ghostbusters remake and are teaming up to downvote it into oblivion.

Consider some of the rest of the videos on this playlist, which ranks the Top 100 most “disliked” videos on YouTube (current as of April 16, 2016). With 507,610 thumbs down votes, the Ghostbusters trailer is the most disliked movie trailer in the history of YouTube and currently the only movie trailer that even cracks the Top 100. The only other movie-related videos on the list include two versions of “Let It Go” fromFrozen.

Justin Bieber’s “Baby” (#1 on the list) has a whopping 6 million thumbs down votes, but that’s on 1.36 billion views for a 226:1 ratio of views to dislikes. Psy’s “Gangnam Style” video (#4 overall) has almost 1.5 million thumbs down on 2.5 billion views for a relatively high ratio of 1,666:1. The Ghostbusters trailer is remarkable in that it has 507,610 dislikes on just 28.7 million views. That’s a staggering 56:1, almost exactly four times the amount of dislikes per view of Bieber’s aforementioned most disliked video on all of YouTube. (By contrast, a trailer for a movie like Captain America: Civil War has a 5,237:1 ratio.) It’s not just that people dislike it, it’s that they’re disliking it at a highly disproportionate rate to other YouTube videos.

As the inclusion of “Let It Go” might indicate, the majority of the list is filled with songs that were popular but quickly became annoying. Justin Bieber, for example, has 11 of the most disliked videos. But a more telling statistic is that the majority of the videos on the list (59%) star or feature women or female characters. In addition to the Ghostbusters trailer, there’s Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, and even Adele. Who hates Adele?!

There is a lot of hatred directed towards the new trailer, primarily because it stars four women (though the haters would have you believe misogyny is not the real driving force behind their invective) and seemingly not at all connected to its quality. Quickly the misogyny began to overwhelm the comments under the Ghostbusters trailer and Sony Pictures was forced to delete many offensive remarks, though it doesn’t take long even now to find comments like, “When are people going to learn that women aren’t funny?“ and “GhostBusters - Fat Dyke Edition”. The dislikes eventually got to a point where it became a game among those who hate the movie and frequently return to watch the numbers grow. When one fan commented, “We made it to 500000 dislikes,” another followed up with an enthusiastic, “Lets [sic] get it to a million!”

And that’s really the bigger problem here. It’s not that people disliked the movie on an organic level. As shown above with Fantastic Four and Ridiculous Six, even when people don’t like a movie they don’t “dislike” it this much. The thumbs down votes aren’t organic, they’re part of a coordinated attack on the film by people who are opposed to its very existence. There have even been reports across the web that angry fans are using bots to artificially drive up the “dislikes” on the trailer. What’s worse, there’s a culture of misogyny and toxicity to YouTube comments that fosters this type of attitude. Just a quick look at the same trailer posted by Sony Pictures to Facebook shows only 12,000 “angry” votes (the Facebook version of the thumbs down “dislike”) on 22 million views.

The good news is that while there are over a half-million “dislikes” on the Ghostbusters trailer, there are still over 27 million people who watched the trailer who either officially liked it or had nothing negative to say about it. So while there may be a vocal minority trying to game the YouTube voting system to bring down a movie with a female cast, they are still the minority.

Sadly, at the rate they are going, it’s not crazy to think the video could reach 1 million dislikes by the time Ghostbusters opens in July. At that point, who knows how much this campaign will have hurt the movie and all this before we have any real idea whether this movie itself is any good.

Source: Screen crush

SARKODIE CANT BE MY CHALLENGER, I SAW HIM COMING UP – FLOWKING STONE

The 2016 VGMAs Rapper of the year Nominee Flowking Stone, in granting an interview to Berla Mundi on live TV has open up to so many issues concerning his musical career.

One critical issue he touched on, is who he thinks is the best rapper.

To FlowKing, Eminem is the only rapper he sees apart from anyone.

He added that he’s rap is a puzzle that he works out with the blend of his educational knowledge as a Scientist and his rich Akan culture.

He says with all these, there’s no doubt that any deep listener of rap music, should adjudge him the best “always on the rise/rice like stew”

When Berla pushed him to talk about Sarkodie especially after the social media rift when “fire bon dem rmx” was released, he said they actually did the song together, to show the fans that they are one people and there’s no hostile relationship between them.

FlowKing quickly added that, he saw Sarkodie coming up as a Rapper and he thinks Sark is doing well too, which is also an inspiration to him.

Talking to conclude the hours long chat on TV, FlowKing congratulated Sarkodie for being a Dad and once again told Berla that Sarkodie is really working hard and he respects his waist.

Guess! that’s another punchline from the Kumasi based rapper, who says the fans should watch out for his new hit titled “My Judgement” which will be the first time he features a female musician ever since going solo.

He also hinted on a work with Efya soon.

Source: Showtime Ghana

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Kevin Hart: I Will Host the Oscars One Day!

Kevin Hart may be giving up his stand-up comedy career, but that's okay because the funny man has much bigger aspirations.

Hart tells me that he is pretty confidant he will host the Oscars one day.

"I think in time it will come," Hart, 36, told me at CinemaCon when I asked about the possibility of following in the footsteps of Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, Hugh Jackman, Billy Crystal and more. "I think when it comes, it will be right. I'm definitely not turning my nose up to the opportunity.

"I think it's a stage and I think as a comedian it's something that you want to say you did in your career," he continued. "So when I do, trust me I will make my presence felt. And I think once again, the timing will be right. I'm not in a rush, I'm not going anywhere."

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Just a few days ago, Hart co-hosted the MTV Movie Awards with his Central Intelligence co-star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.

Perhaps that was one of Hart's Oscars auditions?

"We know eventually it's going to happen," Hart said. "I'm just being patient about it, that's all."

He'll will next be seen his stand-up comedy tour flick Kevin Hart: What Now? andCentral Intelligence and as a voice in animated The Secret Life of Pets.

See you at the Oscars, Kevin!

Source: E! online

Kevin Hart Might Be Quitting Stand-Up Comedy Forever

Kevin Hart might be moving on, and fans won't be too pleased.

The comedian said Wednesday at Las Vegas' CinemaCon that he might be done with stand-up comedy forever, according to Variety. "I don't know if I'm ever going to go out and do it again," Hart told theater owners, adding that his What Now? adventure was "my last f--king tour."

Fans have taken solace in the fact that What Now? is the subject of his upcoming stand-up movie, Kevin Hart: What Now?, so if you didn't get a chance to see him live, you'll be able to see him on the big screen—a place Hart has become quite familiar with given his success in the Ride Along franchise and Get Hard. The upcoming movie features Hart in the middle of his world tour and ends with his sold-out show at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

He was the first comedian to sell out an entire NFL field. His tour ended April 1 with a final performance in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Footage of his upcoming movie was played at the Las Vegas convention, the highlight of which was Hart parodying Denzel Washington's character in The Equalizer. Rather than use a corkscrew to take down Russian gangsters, Hart opted for a wine opener and wound up doused in blood. The preview was aired after people got a good look at the latest Jason Bourne installment.

"I say that is pretty good," Hart quipped, "but mine is better."

Although he kept the funny going from start to finish, whether he was joking about Jason Bourne or entering the presentation like a famous boxer, Hart also turned on serious mode for a moment, telling the audience that he is onboard the laughter-is-the-best-medicine mantra.

"I believe that laughter heals all wounds," he said. "It's a goal of mine to make people understand the power of laughter…I'm that person that you can laugh at."

Source: E! Online

Selena Gomez Opens Up About Her Stay in Rehab and Life With Lupus

Frustrated by the rumors swirling about why she checked into a rehab facility in January 2014, Selena Gomez finally reveals the truth in GQ.

Between 2014 and 2015, Gomez spent a lot of time revamping her image and career. She dropped her manager, who was her mother at that point, and even let go of her Disney past officially by signing with Interscope Records. She would go on to releaseRevival in October 2015, which has dominated the charts ever since. Because she went on such a self-transformation, the "Hands to Myself" songstress wants to focus on her future, but everyone wants to know about her past.

Whether it's her former relationship with Justin Bieber or her life with Lupus, an autoimmune disease, Gomez doesn't want to talk about it anymore.

"First off, this is something that everyone always wants to fixate on. I got diagnosed with lupus. My mom had a very public miscarriage. So I had to cancel my tour. I needed time to just be okay," she tells GQ, adding, "and I was going through leukemia." (She most likely meant chemotherapy.).

"I went to two different locations for those treatments. It's really frustrating, because I am 100 percent allowed to have that, but I think people just want to have some sort of—" she adds, seemingly at a loss for words.

Her diagnosis didn't come easy, and in turn she kept the news bottled up for a long time. She explains to the magazine that she first told the news to a young child because she wanted him to know she knows what it's like to be sick, really sick, too.

"And there was this kid that wouldn't look me in the eye at all...I wanted to get his attention, even though maybe it was too much. So I just said, 'Ask me anything you want,'" she recalls. "And he was the first person that I told, besides my best friend and family, because he asked me, 'Have you ever dealt with anything like this?' And I said, 'I have lupus. I was in the ICU for two and a half weeks. I was in this exact same room.' And it was the first time that he looked at me."

READ: Selena Gomez opens up about the inspiration behind Revival

Having gotten her lupus under control and heading on a world tour, Gomez is ready to move forward, but she knows it will be an uphill battle.

"I just have to be patient. It's slowly dissolving the older I get. And I just have to be patient and make great things with quality, from producing to singing to acting. And one by one, I will be able to change the dialogue and people won't care about everything that's happened to me."

Source: E! online

Pretty Little Liars' Brandon Jones Arrested for Alleged Assault With Gun

Pretty Little Liars star Brandon Jones was arrested late last month for allegedly brandishing a knife and pulling a gun on his neighbor, E! News has learned.

The 27-year-old actor, who plays Andrew Campbell on the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series, was jailed on March 24 and released on a $50,000 bond earlier the next morning, police records show. He is due to be arraigned Thursday.

Jones was charged with brandishing a knife and later pointing a handgun at a neighbor during a neighborhood dispute, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office said in a statement to E! News. Jones faces one felony count of assault with a firearm and one misdemeanor count of exhibiting a deadly weapon in this case.

"It is our understanding that the gun in Mr. Jones' possession was fully legal and registered, that he was on his girlfriend's private property, and that he and his girlfriend felt that they were under threat in a dispute with neighbors," Jones' rep toldTMZ.

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In addition, he was also charged with another misdemeanor count of exhibiting a concealable firearm in public, stemming from an Oct. 30, 2015 incident in which he allegedly exhibited a hidden handgun during a dispute with a neighbor at his North Hills home, prosecutors said.

If convicted of all counts, Jones could be sentenced to more than five years in state prison. Police are still investigating.

In addition to Pretty Little Liars, Jones has also appeared on shows such asUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and The Fosters.

Source: E! Online