Missy Elliott’s missing badonkadonk is causing a problem with some fans.
In a recent post on her Web site, the hip-hop queen says: “Yesterday I got online, as I often do, to check in on what my fans had to say. I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss. To all my fans who are upset about this, I still represent for overweight adults and kids but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.”
Missy dropped more than 70 pounds over the span of a few months in 2002 by eating healthy and working out four times a day. Why any of her fans would have a problem with this is anyone’s guess.
IMAGE IS EVERYTHING: Beyonce Knowles, Bernie Mac and Denzel Washington headlined the slate of nominees for the NAACP Image Awards.
Beyonce earned nominations for both her acting (“The Fighting Temptations”) and her singing (her debut solo album “Dangerously In Love”), ending up with five. Chicago guy Mac got the nod for “The Bernie Mac Show” and will face off against Damon Wayans, Dave Chappelle, Flex Alexander and George Lopez in the Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series category.
But the list also was notable for the people who were left off it.
Queen Latifah was nominated for film actress, but her movie “Bringing Down the House” got snubbed even though it was one of the year’s most popular comedies. Instead, the nominees for Outstanding Motion Picture included British comedy “Bend It Like Beckham” and “Whale Rider,” which is set in New Zealand.
Hey, don’t look at us. We’re voting for “Bad Boys II.”
EMPTY NESTERS: Jessica Simpson is in no hurry to join the ranks of Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow. Simpson says she and hubby Nick Lachey aren’t having kids just yet. Feel free to give thanks.
Jess tells People magazine she doesn’t want her pregnancy to be captured on “Newlyweds.”
“Brandy did that, but I see our show just being the ‘Newlyweds,’ ” she says.
“I don’t think I am going to get pregnant. I am trying not to. But we might get a dog.”
VIVA BRITNEY: Britney’s shotgun wedding embarrassed her beau, Jason Allan Alexander, her hometown of Kentwood, La., and the producers of NBC’s “Las Vegas.”
Huh? What was that last one?
Well, turns out Britney is a fan of the show and that the producers have been wanting her to make a cameo for a long time, TV Guide Online reports.
“But then her little weekend [wedding] happened and we kind of went, ‘I don’t know if she’s gonna want to do Vegas anymore,’ ” said the show’s executive producer, Gary Scott Thompson.
Meanwhile, MSNBC.com reports that Alexander may be holding out for money after all. Alexander is rumored to be fielding an offer of $1 million from a unamed source for the wedding videotape (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).
Guess we’ll see what comes of that, if anything.
HOBBITS GONE WILD: Hobbits are coming to Mardi Gras. Hide the beads.
“Lord of the Rings” stars Elijah Wood (Frodo himself) and Dominic Monaghan (Merry) will be celebrity monarchs in Carnival parades before the Feb. 24 Fat Tuesday blowout.
Wood will be riding in the Sunday night parade of the Krewe of Bacchus, and Monaghan will be riding Monday night with the Krewe of Orpheus. We’d explain what all this means but, unfortunately, we’re not Cajuns.
SPLITSVILLE: Harrison Ford and screenwriter Melissa Mathison have officially ended their marriage of nearly 20 years, according to court papers made public Wednesday.
The divorce was finalized in court Tuesday, TV’s “Extra” first reported. A spokeswoman for Ford confirmed it was final but wouldn’t comment any further.
Could this be the green light Ford needs to marry sweetie Calista Flockhart? Ford and the former “Ally McBeal” star have been living together with her adopted son, Liam, since they moved in with him last year.
CRUISE CONTROL: Tom Cruise spent two hours with British fans outside the London premiere of “The Last Samurai” on Tuesday night, signing autographs and talking to fans’ relatives on their cell phones.
It’s becoming an English tradition of sorts for Cruise, who spent 90 minutes with fans during the premiere of “Minority Report” in 2002 and an hour outside to promote “Vanilla Sky” the year before.
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Compiled from RedEye news services and edited by Leo Ebersole (lebersole@tribune.com) and Michael Morgan (mnmorgan@tribune.com)
