Credit: Rodney Ho
Credit: Rodney Ho
Jocasta Odom, a 33-year-old minister from Hampton in Clayton County, will be part of the 16th cast of "Big Brother" on CBS debuting June 15.
She will be vying for $500,000. She is the second oldest cast member, behind only "Duck Dynasty"-bearded Albermarle, N.C. janitor Donny Thompson, who is 42 and apparently cleaned up after Kellie Pickler when she was in school there.
She was unavailable for interviews today, the day CBS announced the cast, because she has already been sequestered from the world. She will be entering the house on Friday.
In a video she did with CBS before entering the home, she said she's a "people person" and said she plans to play the social game. "I jump over women at baby showers...I'm a winner at all costs," she said.
She didn't think she has a "downfall."
If she wins the money, she plans to invest the money. "I'm playing for my family," she said.
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Former Atlanta Falcon Deion Sanders will be taking part in a six-episode NBC show where Bear Grylls is paired up with a celebrity on a 48-hour trek in the wild.
Other celebrities taking part include Channing Tatum, Zac Efron and Ben Stiller.
"Running Wild With Bear Grylls" is set to debut July 28.
Sanders spent four years (1989-1993) with the Falcons.
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Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, whose show returns for a fourth season tonight on TLC, was allegedly a "tiny, dimpled monster" on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" earlier this week, according to an audience member who saw her.
Christy O'Shoney in Salon said what NBC used on air was only a portion of what happened and Honey Boo Boo came off "bubbly, brazen and bouncy."
But minus the editing, there was plenty of tension - tension between Fallon and Honey Boo Boo over a friendship bracelet and tension between Mama June and Honey Boo Boo. "The quick wit we’ve come to expect from Honey Boo Boo was nowhere to be seen, but instead it was fed to her by her pageant mom," she wrote.
"The Alana I saw on “The Tonight Show” set was visibly troubled: disrespectful, defiant, entitled. Of course, with a bit of editing, “disrespectful” becomes “precocious,” “defiant” becomes “sassy,” and “entitled” becomes “confident.” "
It's a fascinating piece definitely worth reading.
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"Love and Hip Hop Atlanta" Monday hit a season high of 3.9 million viewers, with another 2.1 million catching the repeat at 10 p.m., which is a combined 6 million viewers. And the "So You Think You Can Dance" episode Wednesday featuring the Atlanta auditions had a season high of 5.3 million viewers.
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Credit: Rodney Ho
Credit: Rodney Ho
Deadline.com reports the main cast of an upcoming Lifetime film "I Will Always Love You: The Whitney Houston Story."
The film will chronicle the rise and fall of her relationship with Bobby Brown, much of which happened here in Atlanta, as shown on the classic Bravo reality show "Being Bobby Brown" from 2005.
YaYa DeCosta will play Houston. Arlen Escarpeta will play Brown. The film is slated to debut in 2015 and will be shot in Los Angeles.
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