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I wanted to go and withdraw some money my father had sent to me. I stopped a taxi cab, which had two other passengers, and told the driver that I wanted to go to somewhere around Taiwo. On our way, the driver took a wrong route. So, I challenged the man and asked him why he wanted to pass through that way. The man said he wanted to avoid the traffic hold-up. That was all I could remember.
The gay pageant held last night in Johannesburg, South Africa. And for the first time since its inception, two black Africans participated in the pageant. Wendelinus Hamutenya, a 23-year-old nurse and midwife from Namibia (pictured on the left) and an Ethiopian graduate student named Robel Hailu, (pictured on the right) whose family disowned him after they found out he was planning to participate in the gay pageant.
Gay men from 22 countries took part in this year's Mr. Gay World 2012 and Andreas Derleth of New Zealand (pictured on top) was crowned the winner.
The gay pageant held last night in Johannesburg, South Africa. And for the first time since its inception, two black Africans participated in the pageant. Wendelinus Hamutenya, a 23-year-old nurse and midwife from Namibia (pictured on the left) and an Ethiopian graduate student named Robel Hailu, (pictured on the right) whose family disowned him after they found out he was planning to participate in the gay pageant.
Gay men from 22 countries took part in this year's Mr. Gay World 2012 and Andreas Derleth of New Zealand (pictured on top) was crowned the winner.
Nicki Minaj, whose performance at the Grammys this year was meant to shock and get people talking (let's see, where have we seen that before...), didn't appear to take kindly during her sit-down with Nightline to questions about the inevitable comparisons made between her and Lady Gaga.
At least, the interviewer certainly seemed to think the comparison was inevitable.
"Offends me, no. Irks me, yes," Minaj said when ABC's Juju Chang asked if the Lady Gaga comparisons do, indeed, offend the similarly flamboyant hip-hop star. "We are in completely different lanes."
"First of all," the "Super Bass" artist said defiantly, "I'm a rapper. I'm from southside Jamaica, Queens. I could say some really crazy lyrics right now, but I won't. Why don't I turn the cameras around and ask you?"
So, Chang, not wanting to point out that Lady Gaga's a native New Yorker, too, mentioned that they both wear wigs.
"Wigs?" Minaj retorted. "Every female in this game—every female in this game—wears wigs."
Um...the clothes, then?
"Over-the-top costumes?" she replied skeptically, making a buzzer sound. "Try again!"
Despite her aversion to being compared to Gaga, however, Minaj had kind things to say about her fellow star.
"Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way," she added. "She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane, and we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities."
A similarity she admits to, meanwhile, is the one between her Good Morning America performance last summer and her appearance on the Today show last week: she suffered nipple-flashing wardrobe malfunctions during both!
"That was devastating," Minaj said. "I feel bad...I always put myself in the parents' shoes when stuff like that happens. But I know that I would never, ever, ever—swear to God—do something like that on purpose."
"Sometimes I want to just pull the off-switch," she said of her rapid ascension up the fame ladder. "But you can't because if you go outside, you have to give people your all. You can't say, 'Oh, you know what? I'm not feeling good today.' No. No one's trying to hear that. When a woman comes up to you and says, 'Hey, my daughter's your biggest fan. Can we have a picture?' You can't say no."
True. All you can do is load up on the double-sided tape, take a deep breath and walk out that door.
This is really cool of The Game to do. Just when you think he’s too gangster to care about much he stops a show to help a fan that passed out. Here’s the video of what went down that night.
For years, Vincent Tropeano watched helplessly as multiple sclerosis ate away at the body of his frail wife, Elaine.
First she needed a cane, then a wheelchair.
Eventually she became a prisoner in her hospital bed on the first floor of their Brooklyn home, where she suffered the indignity of no longer being able to use the bathroom.
It all became too much to bear yesterday when the 74-year-old husband saw their health worker changing his wife at around 7 a.m. He completely snapped.
“Do you want to go out like this?” a naked Vincent asked his wife as he wielded a .32-caliber derringer, a law-enforcement source said.
The home aide, Rose Hall, fled the house under Vincent’s orders. She called 911 in tears.
By the time officers arrived at the Bergen Beach home, the couple was dead — Elaine face up with a gunshot to the head and Vincent on the bedroom floor with a self-inflicted wound, sources said.
“After being married that long, you would think they would be in love,” said Hall, 56, who had been working for the Tropeanos for only two days.
“But if he could kill her like that, I couldn’t call that love,” Hall told The Post.
Neighbors said the couple had been married at least 35 years, with two grown sons, Vinny and Steven. Their East 69th Street home is filled with pictures of children and grandchildren.
“She was his whole world,” said Nathan Bershadsky, who had known them for 11 years.
The couple used to enjoy traveling together but Elaine began to wither away from multiple sclerosis about 20 years ago.
Usually talkative and friendly, she went from a cane to crutches, and then could no longer walk and was bound to a wheelchair.
This year, Elaine’s condition worsened, and she entered a rehab facility. Vincent pulled her out a month ago because he wasn’t happy with her care there.
“He always had a smile on his face. I never heard him complain,” said Sydelle Mann, 74, who had known the Tropeanos for more than 35 years.
“Oh, my heart is broken. This is what you call a love story.”
Just last week, Vincent built Elaine a ramp in front of their home so Hall could take her outside.
“He was committed to her. You could see the love between them,” Mann said.
Vincent always stayed within shouting distance in case his wife needed him, Bershadsky said.
Despite his commitment, Vincent was worried about her.
“He would say there’s nothing that’s ever going to change, it’s only going to get worse,” Bershadsky said.
Vincent had been telling his kids recently that he was going to kill her and himself, sources said.
He was overwhelmed because Elaine was no longer able to handle their bills, the sources said.
On Tuesday, cops seized eight rifles and two shotguns from the home, and he was issued a summons for not having a permit.
On Friday, Vincent was “distraught and very nervous,” said neighbor Lou Drucker, 80. “He kept walking around, back and forth, in circles. I knew there was something wrong with him.
A man drowned while trying to save a family struggling in rip currents at Florida's Honeymoon Island State Park.
Two children and their parents got caught in rip currents at the state park in Dunedin on Sunday, MyFoxTampaBay.com reports.
The man, whose identity has not been released, swam out to help, but he quickly was caught in trouble as well. The family was rescued by a boater, but the man later died at Mease Dunedin Hospital.
The incident remains under investigation by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Calls seeking comment early Monday by FoxNews.com were not immediately returned.
The Tampa Bay Times reports that rip currents have been strong off the state park for several days.