By Tora B

Jill Scott’s Bares All For The Guardian…And Twitter??

Jill Scott recently gave an interview with The Guardian UK where she connects events in her life with food. Scott gave a brief description on how she grew up pampered in her home with a mother and grandmother who cooked for her until she was 27 and how that pandering prevented her from learning how to cook.

I didn’t leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals – mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn’t have electricity we ate romantically, by candlelight.

I was treated as a princess, with room service. Sometimes I’d wake to a breakfast in bed of pork, scrambled eggs, grits and biscuits. We didn’t have much, and they found a way to treat me as special as possible. I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend’s house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song

People think that lemon is good for the voice, but it dries it out. Luther Vandross gave me a lot of advice. Cheeses are not our friend. Eat as much green vegetable as possible. I have hot tea on stage, scented with Grand Marnier – which isn’t good for the voice but opens my head.

My character [Mma Ramotswe] in No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ate wopani worms, so the actor Idris Elba and I decided to try them for real. The kids in Botswana eat them like potato chips. They were terrible. They crawl and have legs. I’ve never tasted dog food, but I imagine they taste like dog food.

One of the reasons my ex-husband and I broke up is that he stopped eating my food. He was pissed [off] for other reasons, but the best way to show me was by leaving what I’d made for him uneaten for days on the kitchen counter. It was a smack in the face.

My favourite food is Senegalese, which I discovered a few years ago in Paris. We went to a fabulous tiny restaurant called Au Village and I ate yassa poulet (a spicy lemon dish of chicken and caramelised onions served over rice) and blood sausage. I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

When I got my success I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I’ve become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes. A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can’t live like that.

I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He’s only two but his food vocabulary is fantastic

He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza.

Jill also let loose on Twitter with pics of her new curcy figure. The image sent Twitter in a tailspin, even becoming a trending topic. Of course the haters were also out in full force, launching accusations of spanx/body magic use for the hourglass shape. Fuck that, she looks hot…however she got there.

Only Way To Beef Is On Twitter: Chris Brown v. Tyler The Creator & Frank Ocean of Odd Future

Every week there’s a new beef on Twitter between celebrities and this week it was Chris Brown v. Odd Future. Chris Brown paid new comer singer/rapper, Frank Ocean a compliment and the Twitter peanut gallery hyped the praise up and made more out of it than what it initially seemed. Once Ocean scanned through all of the instigating tweets and finally saw what Chris wrote, all hell broke loose because Frank took it as an underhand compliment.

It got so wild that Hip-Hop professional carnivore The Game played the role of peacemaker and after a few hours, the beef was seemingly squashed.But the beef continued offline. Odd Future homie Tyler the Creator and Ocean rocked the LA House of Blues on Sunset Strip and decided to continue their beef with Chris Brown this weekend. Their fans were chanting “Fuck Chris Brown” and the twosome decided to engage with their fans with the hate. Tyler and Frank were calling Chris a “loser” and “he beats up women, he’s a bitch.”

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Let’s hold off on that Nobel Prize for Teh Game.

Nivea Caught Driving Drunk And Slammed With A DUI

Nivea recently tweeted under her new twitter name, Randy Watson (Shout to Coming To America), that she was not drinking and driving after her best friend Toya Carter’s much-publicized wedding reception. She claimed that the accident was not caused by the consumption of alcohol.

Thank You 2 all that were concerned, I’m doing fine! I NEVER said what ppl r saying I said to/about the cop by the way.
Its just unfortunate how the Media & Law can be used against you when you don’t know enough about the way they work. Again, thnx 4 all the ♥
And one more thing, I WAS NOT DRINKING AND DRIVING, the accident was Not due to me being intoxicated. Just wanted to clear that.

Thank You 2 all that were concerned, I’m doing fine! I NEVER said
what ppl r saying I said to/about the cop by the way.

TMZ, which obtained the real details of the accident involving Nivea, released the police report about her DUI. Nivea plowed her 2006 Mercedes into a tree, that had fallen into the street following a recent storm, at 1:30 am on Sunday.

The police reported that when they pulled Nivea over she had “bloodshot, glassy eyes, and smelled like alcohol” and she explained to the police that she only had three drinks that evening.

Eventually, she was arrested for driving under the influence and reckless driving with a child who was in the car with her. Luckily, the child was not injured from the accident and was released later to Nivea’s boyfriend.

When will people learn that driving intoxicated can lead to killing someone else? What will it take? Someone else life to end for people to learn first hand to not drive intoxicated?

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