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The Surreal Life is the latest reality series to get a reboot. VH1 is bringing back the series, which ran for six seasons between 2003 and 2006, to launch later this fall. It comes after Deadline revealed that MTV is bringing back Cribs alongside other reboots across ViacomCBS, including The Real World, Behind the Music, Ink Master and Dating Naked. The series will feature Stormy Daniels, Dennis Rodman, August Alsina, Tamar Braxton, Frankie Muniz, Kim Coles, CJ Perry and Manny Mua living together and competing in a series of challenges.
Kobe Bryant’s old 1963 Chevy Impala, which was a Christmas gift from his wife Vanessa and once featured on MTV’s “Pimp My Ride,” was sold for a hefty price tag at an auction on Monday. The car, which was initially listed at $100,000 at Goldin Auctions, was sold for $221,400 on Monday.
Shaquille O’Neal is still not Dwight Howard‘s biggest fan. And Shaq still loves the tired “ringzzzz” argument. It all started because Shaq was watching a couple of guys roast Howard on MTV’s Wild N’ Out. Shaq liked it so much he decided to post it to Instagram. Howard took the bait and responded in the comments. He should have known better.
Carmelo Anthony told reporters that he was able to help send 4,500 kids from Baltimore to the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. The day before, the 10-time All-Star tweeted that he partnered with the city of Baltimore, MTV and the NAACP to make it happen.
The MTV Video Music Awards was televised Sunday night from Madison Square Garden, and once you finish your diatribe about how like MTV doesn’t even play videos anymore, man, you can learn about how the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Iman Shumpert appeared in Kanye West’s video for Fade, which he premiered during the show last night. The video stars an oiled up and barely clothed Teyana Taylor performing a Flashdance-esque dance to the song, and concludes with Shumpert, who is Taylor’s fiancé, joining her in the shower. Then Taylor transforms into a lion and she and Shumpert hold their child among a flock of sheep.
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While the curse has been a hot topic on the Internet, Durant only seems to be half-aware and claims that he and the Based God are cool. “A curse? I keep hearing it. Every time I sign on to Twitter on Instagram it’s this Lil B stuff coming up, but I don’t have no problem with Lil B,” KD told Revolt TV while he walked the red carpet at a part promoting the release of the upcoming basketball video game “NBA 2K15″ in New York City. “He got so many fans, it’s starting to get on my nerves so… Just to get those people away from me, me and Lil B are cool,” he ended.
Miyah, who was diagnosed with Stage 3B Burkitt's lymphoma late last year, wants nothing more than to meet Nicki and wear one of her signature pink wigs. But as inspirational as Miyah has been, having endured seven chemo treatments to date and still battling with complications resulting from those grueling sessions, meeting a celebrity like Nicki can be a tall order. That's where Washington Wizards' John Wall comes in. The recent Slam Dunk champion has taken up Miyah's campaign with one of his own driven by social media with the hashtags #HelpMiyahMeetNicki and #PinkWigForMiyah. Additionally, the All-Star point guard took to Instagram to post an adorable video he filmed with Miyah to help get Nicki's attention.
Also known as La La Vazquez, a reality TV star and former MTV VJ, Anthony’s celebrity wife never had fully denied the incident that occurred in a Garden game last January. “I wasn’t ever going to bring up the Honey Nut Cheerios incident again. But since I’m writing this book, I might as well set the record straight for good,’’ La La writes. “Kevin Garnett in fact had never said that I tasted like Honey Nut Cheerios. I tried to figure out how this big lie was turned into a media firestorm. I still can’t answer that one…Melo and Kevin are cool today. And now it’s nothing but a faint memory.’’
He attended the Hollywood premiere of "The Butler" and rubbed shoulders with Oprah. He made the TV rounds on all the major networks. He was at the MTV awards and introduced Macklemore, who performed "Same Love," an anthem supporting same-sex marriage. Collins has been honored by a string of organizations and embraced by the gay community. Complete strangers have approached and thanked him for his courage, and even hugged his twin brother, mistaking him for Jason. "So many people have come up to me with words of encouragement. They've walked right up to me and said, `Just be yourself.' People from all walks of life, really. The response has been amazing. And I say, `Well, tell my brother that.' Then I get the confused look," said Jarron Collins.
A reunion performance by Justin Timberlake and *NSYNC was the headline news at MTV’s Video Music Awards on Sunday night, but the ceremony took on a sports angle later on. Jason Collins, who in April became the first athlete in one of the four major sports to come out as gay, took the stage with rapper A$AP Rocky. “The only way things change is when you stand up for what you believe in,” Collins told the crowd before introducing Seattle rapper Macklemore, who performed his gay-rights anthem “Same Love,” which one the award for Best Video With a Social Message.
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It's not as if the NBA is a stranger to gay tunes. Fans across the league go nuts when arenas blare "Y.M.C.A." by the Village People. They contort themselves into the title letters, oblivious to the song's place in the pantheon of gay anthems. On Sunday night at MTV's Video Music Awards, out gay NBA center Jason Collins will introduce yet another gay anthem at an NBA arena when Macklemore & Ryan Lewis perform their big, earnest summer single "Same Love" at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
Brooklyn Nets guard DeShawn Stevenson isn't the first person to put an ATM inside his house -- in fact, DeShawn tells TMZ, he straight up jacked the idea from a big-time reality star... DeShawn tells us, Rob Dyrdek put an ATM in his house long before he did -- and when DeShawn saw Rob's house on MTV ... the NBA star thought it was genius, so he got one himself.
Stevenson — who has earned more than $25 million and a championship ring with the 2010-11 Dallas Mavericks in his 12- year career — says he has no problem charging friends to use the machine, since many of those friends are millionaire NBA stars. “Pay that 4.50,” he tweeted. Stevenson said he got the idea in 2010, after seeing on MTV that skateboarding star Rob Dyrdek had put one in his house. He thought it was “genius.”
Hardaway has had the sneaker world literally abuzz this week with his just-released Nike Foamposite Galaxy shoes. The $220 space-themed kicks have caused national pandemonium, even physical skirmishes, among sneaker aficionados hoping to snag one of the very few pairs available. The Washington Post reports, that more than 100 deputies in riot gear had to subdue an unruly crowd in Orlando, Florida while at a mall in Hyattsville, Maryland, one person was arrested for disorderly conduct, all around the sneaker’s Friday (February 24) release. Footwear giant Foot Locker even cancelled sales of the shoes at several locations out of concerns for public safety. “The Foamposite is really a very nice shoe,” Hardaway muses, admitting that he had no idea it would be such a hot ticket item when creating the Galaxy design. “You can never imagine or try to predict that there would be this much pandemonium over your tennis shoe. You would hope so, that it would be crazy—not to the point of violence—but everybody wanting them, that’s a dream come true.”
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