While many across the world are mourning Joe Jackson, who died this week after battling terminal cancer, Bette Midler isn’t.

The 89-year-old Jackson family patriarch was renown for his iron-handed approach to honing his children into household names; a reality achieved several times over with the career successes of the Jackson 5, as well as Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson as soloists. All artists he managed at pivotal points.

Still, his tactics rendered him a polarizing figure in life and seemingly in death too. Because, Midler took to social media to weigh-in and had less than favorable things to say.

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Ready for another edition of Retro Rewind?

You’re in luck! For, today will bring with it a brand new edition designed to pull you down one of Pop culture’s more memorable lanes.

At the end of it?

Whitney Houston, Wendy Williams and their unforgettable interview!

The conversation you are to hear took place in 2003 and came about after Whitney, who was annoyed by remarks Wendy had made about her on the air, called in to give her a piece of her mind.

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Lewis Hamilton wants to make amends and expresses exactly this on the August cover of British GQ.

The F1 superstar made headlines last December when he poked fun at his young nephew for wearing a dress. Sharing the clip on social media, he wrote at the time:  “boys don’t wear princess dresses.”

Social media lit him all the way up and he later apologised.

Now, he takes it a step further, by covering the magazine in a skirt – a Scottish kilt.

Inside the issue, the 33-year-old addressed the matter head on. His words below…

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It’s Pride Month and actress Tessa Thompson has seized the window to set the record straight about her sexuality.

In a new interview, she confirms that she identifies as bisexual.

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50 Cent has learned that ‘Starz‘, the platform which houses his show ‘Power’, is under pressure to punish him after he and Russell Simmons mocked Terry Crews for revealing he was sexually assaulted by Adam Venit of WME.

Backing the bid to reprimand 50? 10,000 people.

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Damon Dash has urged the black community to beware of Lee Daniels and cites his alleged habit of using and abusing black creatives as his grounds for concern.

Dash’s peaceful efforts to retrieve the $2 million Lee owes him were met with ignored texts and unanswered phone calls and so, after confronting him about it in public, has decided to teach him a lesson he’ll never forget!

How? By exposing Lee’s unscrupulous antics.

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With over a billion dollars generated worldwide, the reboot of ‘Jumanji’ proved a mega-success last year.

It’s little wonder then that studio bosses want in on more of the action and have officially commissioned another instalment of the action adventure.

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Damon Dash‘s attempts to retrieve the money Lee Daniels were no to avail and now, to teach the ‘Empire’ builder a lesson, has decided to spread his business as one does butter on warm toast.

What Dash revealed about the supposed “culture vulture”?

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It would appear that ‘Braxton Family Values’ is serving up drama on and off screen – and the latter is casting doubt over the show’s future.

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The superstar sportsman Lewis Hamilton speeds to the cover of ‘Gentleman’s Quarterly‘ this month following his creative contributions to Christina Aguilera’s new album ‘Liberation.’

Keen to carve out a lane for himself the musically, the A lister used the mag’s pages to flex in fits crafted by Tommy Hilfiger.

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In breaking news, it has been announced that Joe Jackson – the patriarch of the iconic Jackson Family – has died aged 89.

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Mo’Nique has had it up to here with the Hollywood’s games and is ready to fight the foolery and combat the clownery.

How she hopes to prove that she was treated unfairly by Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry? By leaking audio from a phone conversation in which the latter admits…to everything.

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