With all apologies to Flavor Flav, Nicole “Hoopz” Alexander and Shaquille O’Neal might just be the greatest couple of this or any time. Last night, the lovebirds appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and performed one of the more amazing feats we have ever laid eyes on. Much has been made of the couple’s hilarious height differential, so when the 7’1″, 325 lb. Shaq Diesel boasted to Kimmel that his 5’2″, 120 lb.(ish) ladyfriend gave him piggyback rides around Shaq-apulco (his mansion), the talk show host naturally demanded proof.
Moments later, Hoopz materialized from the green room—while wearing heels, no less!—and proceeded to hoist her mammoth man onto her back. Amazingly, she was able to carry him across the entire stage before wiping out. We’ve captured the moment in GIF form for you below, which you can appreciate over and over and over again.
Brooke Knows Best star and musician/choreographer Glenn Packard sent us the newest video he’s been working on. It’s like Paranormal Activity meets Britney Spears, check it out above. [YouTube]
Is Royce Reed talking marriage with her footballer boyfriend Dezmon Briscoe? [Bossip]
Even though Michael Lohan is on the schedule for Celebrity Fight Night, too, he’s currently locked up in a Tampa jail — in “administrative confinement,” which sounds like the Florida version of The Hole, so his participation in the event might not pan out after all. [RadarOnline]
Check out pics of T.I. dressed up for Halloween as Michael Vick. [TMZ]
Stylist June Ambrose, whose VH1 show is set to premiere in February 2012, rocked some killer stiletto ice skate-shoes recently. Just one of the fashion risks we’ll be seeing from her in the days ahead. [Necole Bitchie]
Love & Hip Hop star Olivia confirmed on Twitter that she’s dating basketball player Tarence Kinsey. [TheYBF]
Shaquille O’Neal has written a tell-all autobiography. He reportedly admits a college crush on Halle Berry, but no word yet on if he dishes about his family and ex, Shaunie. [TheYBF]
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Despite being a star and producer of Basketball Wives where everyone’s drama is out there for the world to see, Shaunie O’Neal has managed to maintain some sense of privacy surrounding her divorce from Shaquille O’Neal. Not an easy feat considering the rumors of his infidelity with Laura Govan, sister of Gloria, and his current relationship with Flavor Of Love winner Hoopz.
Boston.com has the weirdest image gallery you’re likely to see all day: a 12-photo set called “Hoopz at home with Shaq” that features the reality related couple mugging profoundly in different places around the house. It’s like a non-stop “Caption This!” contest. (My pick for the one above: “With our money, we could buy and feed a million puppies!”) Seriously, why are they so happy? The two of them need to come down with season affect like normal people. It’s winter, for God’s sake.
Speaking of profound, there is a giant height difference between them (two feet!). And yet, they see eye-to-eye when it comes to expressive displays. It’s a beautiful pairing, really. [Boston.com]
We’re in the midst of preparing our Bret Michaels costume mega-gallery (there’s still time to get your entries in!), but in the meantime to satisfy your craving for Halloween-related content, please accept this picture of Flavor of Love/I Love Money star Hoopz and her boo Shaquille O’Neal dressed as…whatever (Shaqueeta and Hopz is the official name of this situation). I can think of no greater commitment than mutual drag. They must really be in love! [via Shaq's Twitter]
A few weeks back, we clued you in to rumors floating around the Tennessee area that Shaquille O’Neal and Nicole “Hoopz” Alexander got engaged. We reached out to our old friend Hoopz for comment, but she never returned our messages, so we just chalked up the stories as grist for the gossip mill.
However! According to a blog post filed on MediaTakeOut.com today, the site “can OFFICIALLY CONFIRM that the two ARE ENGAGED!!!” (Note: Usage of capital letters and extraneous exclamation points theirs). According to a MediaTakeOut source, Hoopz and Shaq Daddy were both in attendance at a “family event” over the weekend — it is not clear from the story whose family this was, exactly — and the Flavor Of Love season one winner was “going around the room, flashing her HUGE engagement ring.” Now, we wouldn’t even bother passing this along to you if not for the fact that the site has pictures of said ring, pics that we have below:
Maybe Shaq was just freestyling, but it may cost him his special deputy’s badge with the police department in Maricopa County.
“I want his two badges back,” Maricopa County Sherriff Joe Arpaio told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they’re fired. I don’t condone this type of racial conduct.”
Shaq belittled Kobe Bryant in a two minute video, while performing a rapblaming his former Laker teammate for the demise of his marriage.
Shaq has volunteered with the Tempe Police Department after being traded to the Phoenix Suns in February and previously served as a reserve officer with the Miami Beach Police Department while playing for the Miami Heat.
The NBA season is over, but Shaquille O’Neal is providing plenty of off court drama by reigniting his feud with former Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant. In this latest round of the battle, Shaq attacks Kobe in a disparaging rap song that was videotaped at a New York City nightclub on Sunday night. In the two minute video, Shaq blames Kobe for the demise of his five year marriage to soon-to-be-ex wife Shaunie, with whom he has four children. Shaq raps,
“I’m a horse, Kobe ratted me out. That’s why I’m getting divorced. He said Shaq gave a [woman] a mil. I don’t do that ’cause my name’s Shaquille. I love ‘em, I don’t leave ‘em. I got a vasectomy, now I can’t breed ‘em.”
Shaq later told ESPN’s Stephen Smith:
“I was freestyling. That’s all. It was all done in fun. Nothing serious whatsoever. That is what MCs do. They freestyle when called upon. I’m totally cool with Kobe. No issue at all. And by the way, don’t forget, six albums, two platinum, two gold. Anybody who knows me knows I’m a funny freestyler. Check the NBA DVD when I was rapping about Vlade Divac during my first championship run. Please tell everybody don’t make something out of nothing.”
OK, Shaq, you were freestyling, but more importantly, why are you a horse?
[Wait for It is our regular roundup of things to look forward to in pop culture. Just making it to Friday isn't enough.]
Music
Psychedelic Brits the Klaxons will release their eminently danceable debut, Myths of the Near Future, at the end of the month. The slavering press the record’s received so far has concentrated on the band’s nu-rave leanings, an acknowledgment, perhaps, of their rather colorful, fashion-forward attire, but songs like "Gravity’s Rainbow" (named after a Thomas Pynchon novel!) and "Atlantis to Interzone" are less about hippie-dippy glow-sticks and more about keeping things dirty on a filthy dance floor. Move your bodies, people. [The Klaxons' MySpace]
TV
Shaquille O’Neal is set to make the jump to reality TV this summer via an as-yet-untitled six-episode series for ABC, in which the baller will mentor grade-school kids that are trying to lose weight. And while the premise may sound like nothing more than The Biggest Little Loser, it’s Shaq’s conviction that could make this thing golden. "Shaq is upset about this issue and he’s going to do whatever it takes to set this cause right," says executive producer Chris Coelen. "Whatever it takes?" We haven’t seen initiative like that from Shaq since Kazaam. This time, though, he’s the one who’s going to be grabbing bellies and making wishes. [Variety.com]
Psychedelic Brits the Klaxons will release their eminently danceable debut, Myths of the Near Future, at the end of the month. The slavering press the record’s received so far has concentrated on the band’s nu-rave leanings, an acknowledgment, perhaps, of their rather colorful, fashion-forward attire, but songs like "Gravity’s Rainbow" (named after a Thomas Pynchon novel!) and "Atlantis to Interzone" are less about hippie-dippy glow-sticks and more about keeping things dirty on a filthy dance floor. Move your bodies, people. [
Shaquille O’Neal is set to make the jump to reality TV this summer via an as-yet-untitled six-episode series for ABC, in which the baller will mentor grade-school kids that are trying to lose weight. And while the premise may sound like nothing more than The Biggest Little Loser, it’s Shaq’s conviction that could make this thing golden. "Shaq is upset about this issue and he’s going to do whatever it takes to set this cause right," says executive producer Chris Coelen. "Whatever it takes?" We haven’t seen initiative like that from Shaq since Kazaam. This time, though, he’s the one who’s going to be grabbing bellies and making wishes. [
