Michael Jackson Memorial Participants Revealed

The celebrity contingient set to take part in tomorrow’s Michael Jackson memorial service have just been announced by the Jackson family. Here’s the list:

Kobe Bryant, Mariah Carey, Andrae Couch Choir, Ron Boyd (family friend), Berry Gordy, Jennifer Husdon, Shaheen Shaheen Jafargholi (finalist on Britain’s Got Talent), Magic Johnson, Martin Luther King III, John Mayer, Bernice A. King, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Brooke Shields, Pastor Lucious Smith (family friend), Usher and Stevie Wonder.

Jackson’s close friends, Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Ross (named as the Jackson children’s second guardian in the will), are the most notable omissions from the list.

It is believed that both women will be attending Jackson’s private funeral instead, set to take place a few hours before the public memorial at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles.

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Michael Jackson Funeral Plans

After their requests to hold a public memorial at Neverland Ranch were denied, Jackson’s family has finally decided on the back-up location for their son’s funeral.

TMZ.com is reporting this morning that a motorcade will travel from Forest Lawn Mortuary in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning to the Staples Centre complex in downtown L.A., where a public memorial will be held.

At this stage, the Jackson family “still hasn’t decided” on whether the memorial will take place at the Staples Centre or the nearby, smaller Nokia Theatre. They are expected to make a decision one way or the other shortly.

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A Private Funeral for Fawcett

It has been announced that a private funeral for actress Farrah Fawcett will be held on Tuesday.

The private service will be held at 4 p.m. (local time) at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, chuch officials have confirmed.

The actress, best known for her role in cult 70’s series Charlie’s Angels, passed away on Thursday after a long and painful battle with cancer at the age of 62.

Fawcett’s longtime partner Ryan O’Neal was at the actress’ bedside when she finally succumbed to the disease.

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Paris Hilton Is A Racist WOFTAM

Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, a new book by Mark Ebner, that profiles celebrity hanger-on Darnell Riley and spills the beans on a lot of Paris Hilton’s activities and they are not very flattering to the airheadess.

Included in the book are details about Tara Reid, solo porn star and MTV VJ Simon Rex, Playboy Playmates, and Girls Gone Wild owner Joe Francis. the common thread pervading all of them though is their association with Hilton.

Riley, who is serving time for robbing, sexually assaulting, and blackmailing Joe Francis, says that Paris was fully involved in her infamous sex tape and that there are more tapes in existence, which he claims to have possession of.

One tape shows Paris involved in all manner of illicit activities, including drugs, racism and taxicab fingerbangs, which she filmed.

Other insights include that Paris is so enamored with herself that she even took a video camera and filmed herself at her grandmother’s funeral, while the eulogy is being read.

Walking away from two black guys who invited Paris and Brandon Davis to a party for Eve’s new clothing line, Paris is heard to say, ‘Stupid Niggers’.

Charming and to think that people still defend this WOFTAM. I bet she calls out her own name during orgasm.

Sounds like an interesting book.

Life Imitates Art For Knowles & Hudson

Ok, I admit it: I sat through the entire length of Dreamgirls without falling asleep. But only just.

I won’t regale you with my thoughts on the movie – let’s face it, you either loved it, or you hated it – but what I will say is that the best part of the film is Beyonce and Jennifer’s character’s bitter relationship. I’d praise the pair on their superb acting, only I don’t think there was much acting at all in certain parts of the film.

Back when Dreamgirls was first released (and gaining all those nominations), rumours were flying left and right that the former Destiny’s Child frontwoman was so “jealous” of co-star Jennifer Hudson’s “almost instant” fame that the pair barely spoke. And of course, when Hudson won that Oscar, and Knowles didn’t even get a nod for her efforts, it made things between the two even worse.

Beyonce’s camp were quick to quell the jealousy rumours, so when Hudson’s family were brutally killed recently, no one thought anything of the Pink Panther star’s appearance at the funerals.

But according to “Superstar James” (a close friend of Jennifer’s and the Hudson family), Beyonce wasn’t actually at any of the funerals, and just “accepted credit” for going. In fact, if James is to be believed, the singer-turned-actress hasn’t even reached out to her “supposed” friend, Jennifer, at all.

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Angelina Jolie Wanted To Work With The Dead

As if she wasn’t nutty enough when she had a vial of her husband’s blood hanging around her neck, Angelina Jolie has revealed that she dreamt of being a funeral director.

“When I was younger, I went to a funeral, and I didn’t think it was enough of a celebration of the life of the person. I thought I could do better. I wanted to study, so I got a home course when I was about 14. I did a mail-order degree.”

I wonder if they posted her bodies to work on, or if she had to get her own?