Empire’s Lyon brothers Hakeem and Jamal sure have a flair for the dramatic — on screen and off! 17 months after Jamal Lyon actor Jussie Smollett was officially named a suspect for allegedly staging his own assault and then filing a false police report, Hakeem Lyon actor Bryshere Gray has been arrested in Arizona after…
Empire actor Jussie Smollett turned himself into police in Chicago earlier today after he was officially charged with a felony for his alleged participation in staging his own attack late last month. As part of the 36-year-old actor’s bond hearing, the court was presented with a Bond Proffer summarizing the police investigation so far. The…
UPDATE – Jussie Smollett turned himself in to the Chicago Police Department early Thursday morning. He is now under arrest for filing a false police report, which is a Class 4 felony punishable by up to three years in prison. The Chicago Police’s Twitter feed confirmed Smollett’s arrest moments ago: Press Briefing: Jussie Smollet is…
Terrence Howard isn’t just a star of one of the most addictive television shows of recent years. According to him, he’s a mathematical genius who has discovered the Only True Math. Before his marriage to Mira Pak disintegrated, the pair worked 17-hour days together on models mean to demonstrate his mathematical system. He calls it…
The most fun show on network television returns on September 23, when the hip hop moguls of Fox’s Empire come back for the show’s highly-anticipated second season. To help tide fans over until then, the network released the first official cast photos of the main players–including Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon and, of course, Taraji P. Henson as the…
Sophia Eggleston wants $300 million from Empire creators over them allegedly basing the character Cookie Lyon on her life. Eggleston, a Detroit native with a dramatic life story, says she found out about the hit Fox show by accident. She caught the end of an episode while flipping channels, and then started to see uncanny…
It’s hard to imagine the off-screen script of Fox’s super-popular, over-the-top drama Empire could ever rival what happens on screen, but at least for one brief moment that seems to be the case. Show stars Trai Byers, who plays Andre Lyon, and Grace Gealey, who plays Andre’s step-mom-to-be Anika “Boo Boo Kitty” Calhoun, are engaged!…
NBC continues to reveal who will be hosting upcoming episodes of Saturday Night Live, and earlier today the network revealed that the April 4 show will be hosted by Birdman actor Michael Keaton and the next week the honor will go to Taraji P. Henson, who you may know better as the animal printastic Cookie…
If you weren’t one of the more than 16.7 million viewers who tuned into the gloriously over-the-top Sharkjumpalooza that was the two-hour Empire Season 1 finale last night, then you might want to stop reading now because we’re going to be talking about a (maybe THE) major spoiler from last night. OK, so are we…
Jussie Smollett is now starring in the unprecedentedly popular Empire on FOX. But, to the surprise of many fans, Jussie was actually in the entertainment business as a kid — with credits in Roger Ebert’s most-hated movie, North, and the universally beloved Mighty Ducks — before taking a lengthy hiatus. “I remember being in Minneapolis…
This was a recent unsustantiated rumor going around that Diddy wants to sue the hit show Empire and its creator Lee Daniels, which seems completely ridiculous. This fascinating nighttime soap IS, however, based on a mixture of inspirations. Is Luscious Lyon based on a real person? Daniels has said that Lyons is a partly a…
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