Month: June 2011
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Meet The World’s Oldest Female Bodybuilder, 74-Year Old Grandmother Ernestine Shepherd.
The 74-year-old grandmother, Ernestine Shepherd, is a regular on the Musclemania circuit, and her achievements has made her one of the featured record holders in the forthcoming 2012 Guinness World Records book, due out in September.
Suffering from depression, high blood pressure and acid reflux, Shepherd began working out 20 years ago and hasn’t looked back since that time.
The 5-foot-5, 130-pound grandmother wakes up at 3 a.m. every morning, and runs 10 miles a day, before hitting the gym for pushups, pull-ups and a heavy regimen of free weights.
“I feel younger now than I did 20 years ago,” Shepherd told AOL Weird News, at BookExpo America 2011 in New York City’s Jacob K Javits Centre this week.
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Shaquille O’Neal Announces Retirement
NBA star Shaquille O’Neal finally decided to call it quits earlier today using the new social media tool, “Tout,” a real-time video messaging service, to announce to his retirement decision to fans. In the video, Shaq says, “We did it. Nineteen years baby. I want to thank you very much, that’s why I’m telling you first, I’m about to retire. Love you, talk to you soon.”
Chris Brown, Trey Songz, & Bow Wow Partying With Fans At The 400 Club’s Pool Party.
Despite a man getting killed, bystanders getting shot and police getting injured, tons of celebrities traveled down to South Beach for Memorial Day weekend party celebration.
Trey Songz, Chris Brown and Bow Wow were spotted partying with female fans on Saturday at The 400 Club’s pool party. R&B singer Mya even showed up to the party waving at fans and photographers.
Check out the video below of Chris Breezy, Bow Wow and Trey Songz partying in Miami.
Behind The Scenes With LisaRaye On The Set Of VH1’s New Reality Series, “Single Ladies”
Essence Tv caught up with actress LisaRaye behind the scenes on the set of VH1’s new reality series,”Single Ladies.” LisaRaye gives us a quick glimpse of their rehearsal and meets up with “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kandi Burruss.
Behind The Scenes Of Rihanna’s “Man Down”
R&B singer Rihanna premiered the video for her long awaited song “Man Down” on BET’s 106 & Park yesterday, but she also posted some behind-the-scenes footage via Twitter from the Jamaica video shoot.
The video for the song, which focuses on the sensitive subject of rape, was filmed by director Anthony Mandler. Mandler describes the video as “dramatic and shocking and intense and emotional and uplifting and enlightening”.
