Tamar Braxton Claps Back After Essence Fest Snub — But Did She Just Prove Kandi’s Point?
Tamar Braxton has responded after that viral Essence Fest moment where Monica ignored her and Kandi Burruss offered a polite hello then rolled her eyes once Tamar walked off — the clip The Neighborhood Talk reposted with Duff The Brand captioning “it’s Candy rolling her eyes for me.” Kandi doubled down on Instagram in the […]
Marcellus Wiley Sits in a Florida Jail as Big Tigger Steps Away From the Mic — Two DV Stories, One Ugly Week
Over the July 4th weekend, former RHOBH star Anamarie Wiley had her husband — ex-NFL star and sportscaster Marcellus Wiley — arrested for domestic battery, and according to TMZ she told police he poked her in the cheek and threatened to take her life in front of their kids. Booked into Orange County Jail on […]
India Arie Says She Never Boycotted Spend Dat — So Why Did Lil Wayne Skip Maine for a White Party?
According to TMZ, Lil Wayne missed his Maine tour stop on Tuesday but appeared at Michael Rubin’s annual Fourth of July white party in the Hamptons the next night — while India Arie took to Threads and Instagram Live to clarify she never called for a boycott of Young Miami’s viral hit “Spend Dat.” In […]
Mo’Nique Speaks on Oprah’s Whitney Houston Story — and the Estate and Bodyguard Tell It Different
I knew it was coming — it was only a matter of time. After Oprah Winfrey told a story in Cannes claiming Whitney Houston was high and fell off the stage during her final Oprah Winfrey Show appearance, the pushback has been stacking up all week. In a recent KEMPIRE breakdown, the conversation pulled together […]
Big Tigger Ordered to Stay 200 Yards Away — and Jay-Z Just Dropped an HBO Doc on Top of His Stadium Run
Radio personality Big Tigger is speaking out again after a Fulton County judge granted his wife a temporary protective order in the domestic dispute that played out on their Ring camera last month. And on top of that, Jay-Z announced an eight-part HBO documentary with Rick Rubin while his Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint anniversary celebrations […]
Pat Houston Says Oprah Is “Repeating Myths” — and Nobody in That Audience Ever Broke the Story First
The Estate of Whitney E. Houston is pushing back hard after Oprah Winfrey told a story at Cannes about Whitney’s final Oprah Winfrey Show appearance — claiming Whitney had gone back on drugs, fell off the stage during a live performance, and that Oprah begged a studio full of people not to leak the footage. […]
Big Tigger Arrested After Ring Cam Fight — and His Apology Skipped His Wife Entirely
Breaking news landed right before Tuesday’s takeover live, which is why I always have to switch things up. According to Scott Flynn at WSBTV, longtime Atlanta radio host Darien Morgan — better known as Big Tigger — was arrested on battery and cruelty to children charges after a May domestic dispute with his wife, Alicia […]
Did Tyra Banks Just Hurt Her Own Netflix Lawsuit — or Did Project Runway Prove She’s Still Bookable?
Uh oh. On KEMPIRE’s breakdown, Tyra Banks filed a lawsuit against Netflix claiming Reality Check: Inside the World of America’s Next Top Model destroyed her reputation and cost her future business — and less than a week later, People magazine reported that Hulu dropped a trailer showing her as a recurring judge on Project Runway […]