Just six weeks after her double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery, Giuliana Rancic is making strides to reclaim her life.
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• Cameron ‘not doing enough to tackle racial prejudice’
• Murdered boy’s brother stopped and searched 20 times
• Trust set up to help deprived youth has money problems
Doreen Lawrence has said David Cameron’s government is not doing enough to tackle racial prejudice, which continues to blight society, and has warned that spending cuts will hit working-class and black Britons the hardest.
In a Guardian interview , Lawrence says the government has huge powers to make a difference in leading the fight against racism, but says: “I’ve not heard them talk about race.”
Earlier this month her 18-year battle for justice saw Gary Dobson and David Norris convicted of the 1993 racist murder of her son Stephen by a white gang in south London. The murder led to a public inquiry that exposed police failings and prejudice in the ranks and in wider society.
In the interview, she reveals:
• While the police were failing to catch her son’s murderers, they managed to stop his brother 20 times as a criminal suspect.
• Police also managed to stop Mrs Lawrence the year after the murder and told her she was suspected of driving a stolen car. She says continuing racist stereotyping by officers explains why African-Caribbeans are more likely to be stopped.
• She was told she should be “ashamed to show our faces” by a police employee, during a visit to Scotland Yard in 2009 to discuss her son’s murder.
• The trust she set up in Stephen’s name to help youngsters from deprived backgrounds to realise their ambitions is in financial trouble.
Lawrence criticises the government’s record on race, saying they are squandering the opportunity to restart the war against prejudice presented by the conviction of two men for her son’s murder.
She says the convictions have at least temporarily put the battle against racial discrimination back on the agenda, after years of the fight having stalled. “There is a lot they can do. People take their lead from the government. If the prime minister said ‘this is what I’d like to see happen in our society’ … people will try to work towards that. At the moment, I’m not sure exactly what they are doing around race.”
Cameron has tried to cleanse the Tories of their “nasty party” image , but the criticism from one of the leading black figures in Britain raises questions about that. Cameron, Lawrence says, was wrong to attack multiculturalism in a speech last year. “Sometimes people misinterpret what the word means,” she says.
Recalling longstanding Conservative hostility – the party opposed the setting up of the Macpherson inquiry, and attacked its findings – she notes some top Tories have changed their tune, such as Boris Johnson, who once attacked the Macpherson reforms but of whom she quips: “He’s changed completely. He’s my best friend now.”
She says she regrets that after the guilty verdicts no minister sent a letter “in recognition of what has been denied for so long”. Her surviving son, Stuart, said: “David Cameron has not sent my mum a letter saying sorry it has taken so long. It shows the stance of the Conservative government. I don’t think they care at all.”
Mrs Lawrence said the government may be preoccupied with the economy, but warned that spending cuts would hurt those who have least. “It is the working class and black people who are going to suffer the most – they are at the bottom of the ladder.”
She said some of the reforms proposed by Macpherson had made Britain less racially prejudiced, but much more could have been done: “It’s like a missed opportunity. For so long the perception is we’ve dealt with race, so we can move on. Under the surface they have not dealt with race – it is still there.”
People suffering discrimination contact Mrs Lawrence for help – “families feel there is a lot of discrimination happening” – and she believes black Britons have to be four times better than their white counterparts to get as far. Stop and search , which she says police use disproportionately against African-Caribbeans, “has a great effect on their lives” and racist stereotyping is to blame: “Because in their mindset they still believe that they are criminals.”
Despite the fact that the Lawrences have been praised by prime ministers and police chiefs as a model law-abiding family, Mrs Lawrence, Stuart and her former husband, Neville, have all been stopped under stop-and-search powers. Stuart has been stopped more than 20 times: “He will be on the phone saying ‘mum I can’t believe they have stopped me again’.”
Once, after she complained, a police chief suggested an officer who had stopped Stuart should meet him and discuss why. The officer refused to do so. Stuart said: “There is no reason I can give, other than I am a young black man, who usually wears a baseball cap in my car, which is my God-given right.” Asked if it is possible police were targeting her son because of any suggestion of criminality, she said: “He’s a teacher for goodness sake.”
Mrs Lawrence reveals she was stopped in 1994, a year after Stephen’s murder, by police who first said she might have been drinking. When she pressed them to breathalyse her, they suggested she had been driving erractically, then that it was possible she was driving a stolen car.
She says the police were wrong to claim they were no longer institutionally racist, as Macpherson had found, and said in September 2009, on a visit to Scotland Yard, one staff member had said “we should be ashamed to show our face in the building”.
The Metropolitan police said: “The incident that Mrs Lawrence referred to was completely unacceptable and the individual was immediately dealt with by their line manager.” The force added it is “immeasurably different to 1993″ and that the Lawrence case had “contributed to major changes within policing”.
Lawrence described Norris and Dobson as “pure evil”. Asked if she, a churchgoing Christian, could see herself forgiving the racists who killed her son, she said: “You can only forgive somebody, something, who asks for forgiveness, who admits their wrongs and they have never done that.”
She believes there is very little chance of the other men suspected of her son’s murder standing trial. She will now focus her efforts on the Stephen Lawrence trust which gives young people opportunities.
She met Cameron once, when he was in opposition: he came to a memorial service to mark the 15th anniversary of Stephen’s death. Cameron and Nick Clegg sent a letter in support of a fundraising dinner for the trust, and the home secretary had visited its south London base, which Lawrence appreciated.
A Downing Street spokesperson said the PM admired Lawrence for her “great bravery” and her family’s “tireless fight for justice” and added: “He also recently made clear that he believes that although things have changed for the better, there is still a problem with racism in this country and more work to be done to tackle it.”
No 10 added that “a new action plan to tackle hate crime” would be unveiled soon, building on “one of the strongest legislative frameworks anywhere in the world”, as would “a new approach to the integration of local communities”.
Lawrence said the trust was facing a cash crisis and needs to plug a £150,000 shortfall by the end of March.
• Donations to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust can be given:
• By credit card or paypal at the trust’s JustGiving web page click here justgiving.com/slct/donate
• By texting SLCT18 followed by the £ symbol, then the amount to 70070
• By bank deposit to the following account: sort code 30-94-08 account number 02963035
• By cheque, made payable to Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and sent to 39 Brookmill Road, Deptford, London SE8 4HU.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/27/stephen-lawrence-mother-no-10-race
Demi Moore’s been having a really hard time lately, and this clip isn’t going to make it any better. While headlines might lead you to believe Demi has taken her love of younger men to an illegal level this video was taken when she was nineteen (but could have passed for twenty-nine). More »
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Demi Moore’s been having a really hard time lately, and this clip isn’t going to make it any better. While headlines might lead you to believe Demi has taken her love of younger men to an illegal level, this video was taken when she was nineteen (but could have passed for twenty-nine).In it Demi locked lips with a fellow General Hospital star on his fifteenth birthday (a star who looks like a twelve-year-old Kiernan Culkin).
I guess if celebrities get bigger houses and cars it only makes sense that they would get bigger embarrassments, and this little video should make any bad hair day yearbook photo look like a glamour shot. It seems like bad timing that this clip would go viral right as Demi is dealing with her drug issues in the public eye. Here’s hoping someone makes a supercut of her best roles from the 80s soon. She could use some cheering up.
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Claire Danes gets kisses on the cheek as she takes a ride through Harvard Square on Thursday (January 26) in Boston, Mass. The 32-year-old Homeland actress was named this year’s Woman of the Year by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals! Claire had a great time throughout the day, calling the experience “epic,” “wackadoodle” and “utterly trippy”. FYI: Claire’s hubby, Hugh Dancy, was sitting in the front seat of the car as they drove through town in a convertible! |
http://www.icelebz.com/gossips/claire_danes_hasty_pudding_parade_/
Nick Cannon has rubbished reports that his wife, Mariah Carey, will be joining the panel for The X Factor USA. The America’s Got Talent host was responding to reports that Simon Cowell had persuaded the ‘Hero’ hitmaker to join him as a judge on the hit Fox series and insisted that being a judge on [...]
Nick Cannon has rubbished reports that his wife, Mariah Carey, will be joining the panel for The X Factor USA.
The America’s Got Talent host was responding to reports that Simon Cowell had persuaded the ‘Hero’ hitmaker to join him as a judge on the hit Fox series and insisted that being a judge on the show would be a “step down” in his wife’s career.
Speaking on his radio show “Rollin’ With Nick Cannon” earlier today, the handsome star said:
“Like Nicole Scherzinger, my wife is not a fan of judging people. Nicole actually did say that she is used to performing, and the judging thing is not really natural for her.”
“I really think that a lot of entertainers feel that way and I think these shows are really good shows, but when you get someone of status, or just big-time, career-wise, to do these shows, I personally think it’s a step down.”
Cannon added:
“Why would would my wife want to be on a show like that? For somebody who has a legendary career, I don’t know why they would do that.”
Cannon then turned his attention to Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, saying that he now views him in a “different light” since he joined American Idol.
However he does not think less of radio DJ Howard Stern, after he joined “America’s Got Talent” because he thinks Stern is not doing it to boost his career.
Source: Unreality TV
http://www.mariahconnection.com/nick-cannon-insists-mariah-carey-is-too-big-for-x-factor-usa-2012?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nick-cannon-insists-mariah-carey-is-too-big-for-x-factor-usa-2012
Big Brother has been won by embarrassing, self-pitying mum Denise Welch, who beat off the challenge of bewilderingly untalented X Factor renegade Frankie Cocozza…
CELEBRITY Big Brother has been won by embarrassing, self-pitying mum Denise Welch, who beat off the challenge of bewilderingly untalented X Factor renegade Frankie Cocozza, likeable Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas, a thong (?) of good looking women with only two settings – dull and disagreeable – Reservoir Dogs 2′s Michael Madsen, a desperate Natalie Cassidy and someone who isn’t Mark Wright from The Only Way Is Essex. All in all it was lots of telly with some terrific highlights that made us wonder why Channel 4 ever ditched it. Chuck in a bigger budget and the Big Brother could go on for ever….
Amy Childs and Harry Derbridge at the Big Brother house, during the final of Celebrity Big Brother 2012, in Elstree in Hertfordshire.
http://www.anorak.co.uk/309925/tv/in-photos-denise-welsh-beats-off-frankie-cocozza-to-win-celebrity-big-brother.html/
Sigh. The mom of young Isabella Barrett of Toddlers & Tiaras fame is suing the MEDIA for over-sexualizing her daughter … by reporting on Isabella’s “Sexy And I Know It” cover .
Susanna Barrett claims media outlets, in reporting that event, portrayed her five-year-old daughter in an “overly sexualized manner.” Right. All the media’s fault.
In court papers, Susanna claims Isabella “did not act or portray herself sexually, erotically or provocatively” and that coverage of her performance was unfair.’
Isabella Barrett Sings “Sexy and I Know It”
“She was not ‘gyrating’ at a ‘nightclub’ or singing ‘about her sex appeal,” the elder Barrett claims incredulously. “On the contrary, it is the defendants who, through their articles … thrust these false and vulgar characteristics on to Isabella.”
Yes, this is a real story. The delusional mother seems to see nothing wrong with having her daughter sing a sexually-themed LMFAO song.
The media talking about it though? Shame.
Thanks to TMZ, The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail and other celebrity news sources, “Isabella is now perceived sexually, erotically and pornographically.”
Suing for $30 million, Barrett adds, “[The articles] place Isabella in physical danger, attracting the attention of others who would seek to sexualize a child.”
Well, on those grounds, can someone sue her for $30 million too then?
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/01/susanna-barrett-awful-toddlers-and-tiaras-mom-sues-media-for-ove/
Paparazzi photos from Friday, January 27 Kendra Wilkinson out for a walk in L.A. (pics start here) Emmy Rossum arriving to the “Jason Wu for Target” launch at Skylight SOHO in New York (pics start here) Salma Hayek out… …read full story
Paparazzi photos from Friday, January 27 Kendra Wilkinson out for a walk in L.A. (pics start here) Emmy Rossum arriving to the “Jason Wu for Target” launch at Skylight SOHO in New York (pics start here) Salma Hayek out…
…read full story
http://www.damnimcute.com/celebrity-gossip-news-pictures-and-more/the-juicy/kendra-wilkinson-is-all-sweaty-and-fridays-paparazzi-leftovers/
While we’ve already sent a certain gentleman our well wishes for his 30th birthday this Sunday, it turns out another mega-celebrity will also be celebrating her birthday on January 29: None other than Improve Your Life Mogul Oprah Winfrey, who will turn 58 this Sunday. 58? She looks amazing. I guess that’s the benefit of having newborn baby owl blood slathered all over your face daily, right Ope? Oprah? *dial tone* That bitch. Anyway, to give it up for Oprah changing so many lives in her mere 58 years on this Earth (and future 400 years on whatever planet Tom Cruise owns that her spirit will reside on), here are 25 photos of her scrutinizing all the amazing presents she’s sure to receive this Sunday. Our best list idea? No. A cheap attempt to get Oprah to hire us to do anything, anything at all? Of course not!! Just a chance to marvel at what an expressive, innovative woman she is, and to think about how hard it must be to buy a gift for Oprah. What do you get the Oprah who has everything? I would just go with my gut. Like, actually hand my guts to her out of my open chest cavity, and pray that it’s good enough. (Click here for a handy Guide To Oprah Gift Giving.) 20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
While we’ve already sent a certain gentleman our well wishes for his 30th birthday this Sunday, it turns out another mega-celebrity will also be celebrating her birthday on January 29: None other than Improve Your Life Mogul Oprah Winfrey, who will turn 58 this Sunday. 58? She looks amazing. I guess that’s the benefit of having newborn baby owl blood slathered all over your face daily, right Ope? Oprah? *dial tone* That bitch.
Anyway, to give it up for Oprah changing so many lives in her mere 58 years on this Earth (and future 400 years on whatever planet Tom Cruise owns that her spirit will reside on), here are 25 photos of her scrutinizing all the amazing presents she’s sure to receive this Sunday. Our best list idea? No. A cheap attempt to get Oprah to hire us to do anything, anything at all ? Of course not!! Just a chance to marvel at what an expressive, innovative woman she is, and to think about how hard it must be to buy a gift for Oprah. What do you get the Oprah who has everything? I would just go with my gut. Like, actually hand my guts to her out of my open chest cavity, and pray that it’s good enough. (Click here for a handy Guide To Oprah Gift Giving .)
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