CELEBRITY FRIDAY: Serena Anounces She's 20 Weeks Pregnant, Will Not Play Again In 2017

Serena Williams stunned the tennis and sporting worlds by revealing on Instagram a few days ago (on Maria Sharapova's 30th birthday, no less)  that she is 20 weeks pregnant. The implications of this announcement are huge.

First, it means that when Serena won her 23rd major title at the 2017 Australian Open approximately 12 weeks ago, she was two months pregnant at the time!! (I wonder if Venus knew? I doubt it! I wonder is Serena knew? Probably!) This should put to rest any doubts as to whether Serena is the greatest female tennis player of all time.

Secondly, Serena's spokesperson also made it very clear that Serena will not be competing at any other tournaments in 2017, which clears the field for other players to win some trophies, namely, Victoria Azarenka, who just gave birth in December, and Sharapova, who is returning to competitive tennis next week after a 2-year gap due to a drug violation ban.

Thirdly, it means that Serena is revealing that she has been having unprotected sex (and is presumably not using birth control) with her fiance Alexis Ohanian. Will she have the child and be an unwed mother or will they push forward the date of the wedding? (No date had previously been announced.) If Serena is 20 weeks pregnant now, she should give birth before the end of the summer. Maybe a June wedding? She'll be pretty huge, by then!

Beynce and Serena pregnant at the same time is too much motherhood to take! #mindblown

2017 GRAMMYS: Adele 5/5, Beyonce 2/9, Drake 1/8, Rihanna 0/8,

Last night was the 59th Grammy awards and they were surprisingly watchable and interesting. Most of the pre-show hype was the talk about the battle between the divas. Beyoncé was up for 9 awards while Adele was up for 5. However, the two superstars went head-to-head in 3 of the 4 biggest categories. The result was a romp by Adele, who won Record of the Year, Song of the Year and (most controversially) Album of the Year.

Album of the year:

• WINNER | “25” — Adele 
• “Lemonade” — Beyoncé 
• “Purpose” — Justin Bieber
• “Views” — Drake 
• “A Sailor's Guide to Earth” — Sturgill Simpson

Record of the year:

• WINNER | "Hello" — Adele
• "Formation" — Beyoncé
• "7 Years" — Lukas Graham
• "Work" — Rihanna featuring Drake
• "Stressed Out" — Twenty One Pilots

Song of the year:

• "Formation" — Khalif Brown, Asheton Hogan, Beyoncé Knowles & Michael L. Williams II, songwriters (Beyoncé)
• WINNER | "Hello" — Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Adele)
• "I Took a Pill In Ibiza" — Mike Posner, songwriter (Mike Posner)
• "Love Yourself" — Justin Bieber, Benjamin Levin & Ed Sheeran, songwriters (Justin Bieber)
• "7 Years" — Lukas Forchhammer, Stefan Forrest, Morten Pilegaard & Morten Ristorp, songwriters (Lukas Graham)

New artist:

• Kelsea Ballerini
• The Chainsmokers
• WINNER | Chance the Rapper
• Maren Morris
• Anderson .Paak 

However, Beyoncé arguably say she had the most impact on the show, with an astonsihing performance revealing her fully pregnant (with twins) body and the antics of her daughter Blue Ivy throughout the night in the audience, Adele opened with an impeccable rendition of "Hello" and later on performed a decidedly not impeccable version of George Michael's "Fastlove" as a tribute to the pop singer who died on December 25th, 2016. Amazingly, she stopped her performance (for reasons that were unclear to me) about 30 seconds in, dropped an F-bomb on live television and asked to restart the song, which she did, although not in a noticeably improved fashion. The choice of song was very strange, since I think no one would say it is one of Michael's best.

2016 MTV VMA: Serena Williams Introduces Beyoncé

Serena Williams wore a pretty revealing outfit as she introduced a stunning performance by Beyoncé at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards held last night at Madison Square Garden. Beyoncé went on to win Video of the Year honors for "Formation" the lead single off her Lemondade visual album she released to wild acclaim this summer (and which featured Serena appearing in one scene.)

Serena's in New York City for the 2016 U.S. Open, which starts today.

Celebrity Friday: If Beyonce & Jay-Z Weren't Famous

Photo Credit: Harry Evans

Ever wonder what celebrities would look like if they were not celebrities, living lives of luxury under intense scrutiny in the public eye but instead were just like you and me, an Average Joe and Jane?

Through the magic of Photoshop, you need not wonder any more! Harry Evans has edited pictures of several celebrity to produce portraits which reflect what they would look like in an alternate universe where they never became famous. Picture above is what Beyonce Knowles and Sean Carter would look like.

Here's another:

check out the rest!

Celebrity Friday: Blue Ivy Carter Born, Charts 1 Week Later

Beyonce and Jay-Z are the proud parents of Blue Ivy Carter,
who was born January 7, 2012

The world has been agog (and aghast) about the birth of Blue Ivy Carter, the newborn daughter of pop superstars Beyonce and Sean "Jay-Z" Carter in Brooklyn on January 7th, 2012.

Today comes word that Blue Ivy Carter is breaking a record as the youngest individual to appear on the Billboard music charts.

The newborn daughter of rapper Jay-Z and singer Beyonce, whose cries were sampled in her proud papa's newly-released single "Glory," became the youngest person to ever appear on the Billboard charts.

She is credited as a "collaborator" on the single, which has as its official title "Glory, Featuring B.I.C." (short for Blue Ivy Carter).

The song debuted at No. 74 on the charts.

Some of you may think that surely Stevie Wonder's brilliant song "Isn't She Lovely"  from his masterpiece Songs in the Key of Life which features the cries of his newborn daughter Aisha must be in the running for the record of youngest charting artist but apparently it wasn't released as a single until almost two years after it was recorded.

Celebrity Friday (Bonus): Beyoncé and Madonna

25 years ago (on June 30, 1986) Madonna released her masterpiece, her 3rd studio album True Blue, which contained 5 Top 5 singles including 3 #1 singles (Papa Don't Preach, Open Your Heart  and Live To Tell) and the op 10s La Isla Bonita and True Blue. The album eventually sold over 24 million copies worldwide and 7 million in the United States alone

On Tuesday July 5th, 2011 Beyoncé released her 4th studio album, titled 4. It immediately debuted at #1 on the Billboard Album chart and includes the monster single "Run The World (Girls)."

Do you think 25 years from now people will remember Beyoncé's 4 album in 2036 like we remember Madonna's True Blue today? Somehow, I think not.