TheYBF.com had the fabulous opportunity to sit down and dish it all with EVERY cast member of Best Man Holiday.  Throughout opening weekend, we'll be sharing our sit downs with the couples--and the love triangle--from the flick. 

First up, Taye Diggs and his two gorgeous flames (both present & past--or is it past?? ) Sanaa Lathan and Nia Long. 

Taye, Nia & Sanaa carry their love triangle woes from Best Man, into the sequel, Best Man Holiday.  But you may be surprised to see how they do so exactly.  After our screenng of the movie (which we loved!), we caught up with the trio in L.A. to see how they created all that chemistry, what really went down behind the scenes, and what they think about the drastic difference between the 1999 classic and the soon-to-be new classic.

Here is YBF L.A. Cororrespondent Kalia Silva's quick chit chat:

YBF:The Best Man Holiday was amazing, it’s going to be another classic!

SANAA: Thank you so much.

TAYE: Thank you! You guys were good too [to Sanaa and Nia]!

NIA: He is the best man so…

YBF: What is The Best Man Holiday about?

TAYE: Relationships, maturity, mistakes, forgiveness…

NIA: …the cycle of life…

SANAA:…love, sex…

NIA:…babies and cars…

SANAA:…jealousy

TAYE:…reunion..

YBF: What did you think about the plot twist when you first heard about he new story from Malcolm Lee?

TAYE: I didn’t know how people would feel about me being a homosexual. It threw me off, but as an actor I embrace that. [Laughter]

SANAA: He’s just kidding! He’s just kidding by the way! I actually thought it was very moving. This is something that people deal with unfortunately. It made sense that after 15 years somebody would be going through something as challenging as that.

TAYE: Very accurate to life.

NIA: And when you get a bunch of black people in a room together there is drama! Let’s face it. [Laughter]

YBF: You all have an amazing chemistry together, what was your favorite moment on set or off set because we hear that was fun?

NIA: The movie behind the scenes, what went on behind the scenes with the cast was just.

SANAA:…they should have done a reality show. We were all in Toronto, we all lived within two blocks of each other. We went out, we watching the Voice together. For some reason in Toronto at that time they played the Voice like five times a day!

NIA: I love The Voice!

SANAA: Yeah, we love it! We had so much fun. We went to the club!

TAYE: Yeah!

YBF: The club?

TAYE: Yeah we were there for two months!

YBF: Do you think we will see a Best Man 3?

TAYE: Hopefully, that’s up to you [the audience], you have the power!

NIA: Yes, it is up to you viewers to go and support out film!

SANAA: If this one does well how can they deny us?

TAYE: Opening weekend!

Best Man Holiday opens TODAY!

YBF Correspondent: Kalia Silva

Jennifer Hudson was spotted leaving LAX following her ceremony at The Hollywood Walk Of Fame.  See the candids inside and check out Jada Pinkett Smith's blonde braids.

It was a busy week for Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson who received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week.  

Jennifer has also been doing press for a slew of films including the film The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Peete and her next major release, Black Nativity (in theaters November 27th).

Also bound for flight, and rocking new hair:

Jada Pinkett Smith was also spotted on her way out of Los Angeles....

Jada, who dyed her shaven head a few days ago, debuted her blonde box braids.  

Earlier this week, Jada and Will put divorce rumors to bed with a display of public affection in Las Vegas during Trey Smith's DJ gig in Las Vegas.

Photos via Fame/PCN 

Odd Future co-founder Tyler, The Creator hit the beach with a few of the fellas before their performance in Hawaii.  See the rare occasion beach fun inside...

Tyler, The Creator was was spotted on the beach in Maui (wearing a pair of snug donut covered swimtrunks) as he and the rest of Odd Future went swimming ahead of tonight's performance on the island.  The show will include Frank Ocean, Left brain, Earl Sweatshirt and others.

The Odd Future crew hosted a successful carnival in LA last week that featured a surprise appearance from Kanye West who called Tyler his "mentor.

Photos via PCN

She's got abs of steel and works hard for them.  Check out Mary J. Blige on the cover of SHAPE magazine's December 2013 issue....

42 and fabulous!  MJB, who recently dropped her first Holiday album, A Mary Christmas, is showing off her fit bod for SHAPE.

She often shows off her hardcore workout sessions with trainer Mark Jenkins on her Instagram account.  And it's clearly paying off!

The Hip Hop Soul diva has been working non stop on the big and small screens as well.  She taped her performance for the CMA Christmas Special this week (airing December 2nd on ABC), she rocked the stage at a  concert for HSN in St. Petersburg this week, and she's gearing up for her big movie, Black Nativity.

In other magazine news, LUCKY magazine editor Eva Chan spoke to Women's Wear Daily about all the bruhaha surrounding Kerry Washington's not-so-fab December/January cover.

“I realize that when you put something on social media, it’s meant to be a conversation,” she told WWD. “I’m still pretty new to this [being an editor in chief]. It’s only been four months, but I’ve been active in social media for a while now. Anything on social media is up for debate. Conversation is a good thing.”

And yes, Anna Wintour--who overseas LUCKY mag as well, approved the cover art.

“Anna as the artistic director was definitely aware of our cover selection and was very supportive,” Chen said, returning to the subject of Washington. “Anna always provides me with guidance. As editor in chief, it comes down to my decision — and Anna agreed.”

Well...

Kerry Washington dished to "Chelsea Handler"  about her time on "SNL" and her "hot box" moment in Django Unchained.  Watch the cli[p inside and find out why Kendrick Lamar boycotted the GQ Men Of The Year party.

On "Chelsea Lately" last night, "Scandal" star Kerry Washington joked about her "Lady Gaga" moment on "SNL" when she went through numerous costume changes.  

"That was so fun! That was one of the best weeks of my life being able to go and play with those really smart, funny people.

They have people moving stages and, like, people literally pick you up and toss you to the other side of the room and change your clothes while you stand there like a puppet/ At one point, I was hovering above ground because this woman held me while this other woman was changing my shoes and changing my wig. And fixing my makeup. And then your back on stage. It's extraordinary."

She also revealed that Jamie Foxx helped her keep her sanity on the set of Django Unchained by reminding her that after she completed intense scenes dealing with the horrors of slavery, she would soon return to the set of "Scandal" where she played a powerful woman. Watch the clip above....

In other celebrity news....

Despite being named the "GQ Rapper Of The Year" Kendrick Lamar boycotted the mag's "Men Of The Year" gala over an unflattering profile it printed.  Kendrick was offended that the magazine article detailed the writer's "surprise" at his discipline and work ethic while romanticizing a dark time in hip hop and the excessive lifestyle of other rappers. The CEO of Kendrick's label Top Dawg Entertainment Anthony Tiffithtold TMZ,

"To say he was 'surprised at our discipline' is completely disrespectful ... Kendrick deserved to be accurately documented. The racial overtones immediately reminded everyone of a time in hip-hop that was destroyed by violence, resulting in the loss of two of our biggest stars [Tupac and B.I.G.] ... As a result of this misrepresentation, I pulled Kendrick from his performance at GQ's annual Man Of The Year party. While we think it's a tremendous honor to be named as one of the Men Of The Year, these lazy comparisons and offensive suggestions are something we won't tolerate."

Stand up for yourself Kendrick!

Photos via Getty

While Keyshia Cole debuted a new hairdo, her hubby debuted a new "friend".  Find out what the Gibson-Coles are up to inside and see Iggy Azalea and Nick Young playing around.  

Keyshia Cole kicked off her weekend with a new black bob and working in the studio.  She tweeted, "Changed it up a lil! Shout our to my girl #Fam! @devapink once again #Fam Holla at her she in LA! Headed to the the studio" 

Keyshia'S been hitting the studio pretty heavy for the past few weeks working on a new album and mixtape. She tweeted, "Been in the studio waaaay to long it's really time to go".

But while Keyshia is in the studio..........

Keyshia's husband Daniel is in the strip club.  Last night, he posted this strip club pic...and shouted out this stripper.   

While the couple have played down rumors that they've split, we find it very suspect that Daniel is posting pics from inside the strip club....posing with and shouting out strippers.  Oh, and check out the stacks in the back.  Ha!

We're thinking Keyshia and her producers should turn this into a song.  It could be a new joint about your man tricking off his money at the strip club when he should be at home loving you - featuing Nicki Minaj (of course).  

Moving to a seemingly happy new couple....................

Iggy Azealea and her new boo thang Nick Young of the Lakers seem to be enjoyign each other's company.  We told you about the duohooking up due to some serious Twitter flirting online and now things seem to moving nicely OFFLINE.

The Randomness:

1. The set of Don Cheadle's"House Of Lies" was wrapped up in gangwarfare when shots were fired during a taping in South Central LA.  No one was injured.  Story. 

Photos via Iggy Azalea/Keyshia Cole/Daniel Gibson Instagram

In part 2 of TheYBF.com's Opening Weekend interview series with the entire cast of Best Man Holiday, we're chopping it up with on-screen couple Regina Hall & Harold Perrineau.  And we're talking about their cooking skills, they're dopest meals, and the surprising food Harold's wife can throw down on....

Who would have thought big screen actors Regina Hall & Harold Perrineau could throw down in the kitchen?  The two co-stars dished to our LA Correspondent Kalia Silva about their dope ass cooking skills...and who cooks the best greens.

Here's our brief chit-chat:

YBF: Tell us about the plot for the sequel to The Best Man.

HAROLD: The plot of this one is a lot different than the first one, which is mostly centered around this book and what will happen if Lance finds out about the book. This one is focused on all the NEW things they have in their lives, the new women, the new children and many other new situations they all have to deal with a very adult, grown up way.

YBF: Can you describe each character in one word?

YBF: Harper?

HAROLD: “Tricky”

YBF: Lance?

REGINA: “Bruiting”, he had a lot going on.

YBF: Mia?

REGINA:“Kind”

YBF: Shelby?

HAROLD: “Child”

REGINA: [Laughter] That was my word, ha-ha!

REGINA: [Sucks her teeth & rolls her eyes, Laughter.] That’s my word…spell that one!

YBF: Robin?

REGINA: Awe…Robin “Ethereal”

Harold:“Lovely”

YBF: Quentin?

HAROLD:“Crazy”

REGINA:“Amazing” that’s U…H…”UH-Mazing”

YBF: Eddie Cibrian and his new character?

REGINA:“Handsome” and “Delightful”

HARLOLD: “Charming”

YBF: Harold?

REGINA: “Phenomenal” I love him!

YBF: Candice?

HAROLD: Uh, there are so many “Unstoppable”, “Amazing”...

YBF: What are you most looking forward to this holiday season?

HAROLD: Other than The Best Man Holiday? Because I’m really looking forward to The Best Man Holiday!

REGINA: Me too! [Laughter]

HAROLD: We just had a couple of conversations about a meal we might be able to hook up together.

REGINA: Because I make a really good game hen and wild rice.

HAROLD: I make a really good mac and cheese.

REGINA: And his wife [Brittany Perrineau, pictured above] makes amazing greens.

YBF: Oh wow!

REGINA: Right, so that’s a meal!

HAROLD: I’m looking forward to when we are actually going to get together and have this meal.

YBF: Well that’s so crazy because all of those things are my three favorite things. [Laughter]

REGINA: And now we’ve got guests!

HAROLD: It’s a party!

Best Man Holiday...and lots of good Holiday food can be seen in the movie...is in theaters NOW.
 

Photos: Universal Pictures/Getty

Rihanna twerked with her girls last night in celebration of the end of her Diamonds World Tour.  Watch the videos inside.... 

Last night, Rihanna ended her Diamonds World Tour at the New Orleans Arena. Having completed nearly 100 shows since March, the tour has not been without its troubles including bad reviews from fans and critics, cancelled dates and a couple of 1-2 hour delays. But she's been showered with plenty of love and tons of sold out & record breaking stops as well.

But now....Riri is done! She posted a pic from the N.O. airport saying, "The end. #DWT"

And of course, she and her girls posted a twerk video in celebration.  And there was weed involved as well.  Mel tweeted, "#lastshowwww #Wolfpac".....

Check out Ri doing what she does to T-Pain's "Up Down" below"

BAD gals do it well....

Photo via Rihanna's IG

Jay-Z has re-addressed the BARNEYS racial profiling situation in a new statement about why he's decided to move foward.  And what he's changing about the charitable donations aspect.

Check it out inside, plus his new track with Timbaland called "Know Bout Me"...

After saying in a previous statement he wanted to wait for the rest of the details before fully addressing his Holiday partnership deal with BARNEYS that will benefit the Shawn Carter Foundation, Mr. Carter's new statement is below.

In the past several weeks two separate investigations were launched as a result of the wrongful detention of Trayon Christian and Kayla Phillips. My team has been privy to the status of the Barneys third party consultant investigation. In continuing our research, we also contacted the New York State Attorney General’s office for the status of their investigation into both Barneys and Macy’s. Those findings are not yet available.

While I await the findings of the Attorney General’s Office, I have agreed to move forward with the launch of BNY SCC collection under the condition that I have a leadership role and seat on a council specifically convened to deal with the issue of racial profiling. I am in a unique position to use my voice to affect change to this disturbing issue. The easy position would have been to walk away and leave policy making to others hoping that someone addresses the problem. I will not leave the outcome to others. I will take this into my own hands with full power to recommend, review and revise policies and guidelines moving forward. I am choosing to take this head on.

He went on to reveal that the percentage of proceeds that will now go to the Charity has been changed to the max:

As I previously stated, the collaboration with Barneys has always been about giving and The Shawn Carter Foundation. From this collection, the Foundation will receive not only 25% of sales, it will now receive the additional 75% of Barneys’ sales, totalling 100% of all sales from BNY SCC. Along with 100% of sales from the collaboration, the Foundation will receive an additional 10% of all retail sales from Barneys New York stores nationwide and Barneys.com on November 20th.

Meanwhile, Hov is featured on Timbaland's newest track called "Know Bout Me."  Drake and James Flauntleroy also appear.  Peep it below:

Photo: Getty

Note to actors: If Terrence Howard is ever your co-star, do not perform your lines exactly as written in the script....or else dude will indeed storm off the set!  In part 3 of TheYBF.com's Opening Weekend Exclusive Interview Series with the entire cast of The Best Man Holiday, we had a pretty funny chit chat with the witty Mr. Howard and his spicy co-star, Melissa De Sousa.

Check it inside...

Oh yes.  Quentin & Shelby....the twosome we've all been waiting to see 15 years later.  Recently in L.A., we caught up with actors Terrence Howard & Melissa De Sousa to find out what to expect from their on sceen reunion, why Terrence's foolish activities pissed off the director and cast and more.

YBF: We are so excited for Quentin and Shelby’s return. Where did you think that Malcolm was going to take your characters 14 years later?

MELISSA: I just knew she had to be bigger and badder! And he definitely went there. I call her Shelby 2.0. They call her Shelby 10.0.

TERRENCE: I just wanted Quentin to be black this time. It’s been hard playing light skin all these years. There are people like Morris…I can play a black character, I’m black! [Laughter]

MELISSA: I knew we [Quentin and I] would end up rolling around together again. I mean, we have to.
TERRENCE: We look for every opportunity, there were a lot of other times we got together that they didn’t shoot but no one was looking.

MELISSA: NO, that didn’t happen. That was a script in his mind. [Laughter]

YBF: You all were in Toronto shooting for how long?

MELISSA: About three months.

YBF: What was your favorite moment on set?

TERRENCE: My Favorite moment on set was when I got mad because everyone was saying their lines like they were suppose to. And I just walked off from the table, I was just mad!

MELISSA: He did! That wasn’t the director’s favorite moment or ours. We were like “Oh, I wonder if he’s going to come back?”

TERRENCE: Then they all came out and was like “Terrence, awe you don’t have to do this, you don’t have to do that” and so I made them give me some more money!

YBF: Malcolm did say, the cast didn’t make what they are worth for this movie, but that Terrence, we had to give him some more money!  [Jokingly said.]

Terrence: [Laughter] No, the greatest thing about coming back and seeing these people again is knowing that everyone went to head-cutting on the first movie. So the second movie everybody was coming in even stronger. Like I saw the movie and I thought Melissa wiped everybody out, Melissa and Harold [Pictured above].

MELISSA: No, no, no! He always says that. He knows he is the scene-stealer. As soon as he walks in the room, I’m like “You didn’t even talk yet!”

YBF: Everyone is waiting to see you two. Your characters are so dynamic! The director Malcolm Lee said one of his favorite characters is Shelby because she’s ‘Spicy’ and ‘Sassy’. I have to say you definitely gave it to us!

MELISSA: Awe, thank you!

TERRENCE: What about me?

YBF: I already said it, you gave IT in The Best Man Holiday! And we really liked your Wardrobe!!

TERRENCE: [Towards Melissa] See, I told you it worked!

MELISSA: Yes, he did fight for those outfits.

TERRENCE: I got my wrist cufflets on too [from the film].

YBF: Nice!
 

Best Man Holidayis on track to over-perform with a $34+ million weekend opening.  Have you seen it yet?

Check out the rest of YBF's Best Man Holiday Opening Weekend Interview Series HERE.

Photos: Universal Pictures, YBF Correspondent: Kalia Silva

So...R.Kelly popped up as a surprise guest Saturday night during Lady GaGa's hosting gig on "SNL".  Check out their Team Too Much performance of "Do What You Want" inside...

We don't expect any less really from a collabo between GaGa & the Kellz, so this performance may actually be on par with "normal".

Between all the pick-up-and-twirls, lay you out on the ground moves and more, R & GaGa performed their new collabo"Do What You Want" on SNL.   Peep the video below in case you missed it:

The track serves as the second single off GaGa's new ARTPOP disc.

K.Michelle was embroiled in a massive camel-toe treding topic last night on Twitter.  So the singer's chimed in to clear up the alleged rumor.  Check out the pic that stirred up some ish inside...

So the pic above, namely the one on the left, started burning up Twitter late last night.  It's K. Michelle performing at her Rebellious Soul tour stop in Chicago at The Shrine a few nights ago...with a ridiculously large camel toe. 

Why is this important?  It isn't.  But y'all know folks love to point out foolywang material.  And a massive camel toe should always be addressed.  For the health benefit of the one involved.

With tweets like "Her vagina is singing backup" taking over twitter, "LAHH" star K.Michelle addressed the foolery saying it's photoshopped:

"Y'all tweeting about a photo shopped picture of my hot pocket. U broke bums should ask somebody to photo shop your pockets 2make them fatter"

But, you be the judge. Here's a few professional pics that K's people sent out a few days ago (before this camel toe fiasco) as well as video:

The good news for K?  She's been selling out plenty of tour dates.

The Randomness:

1.  The CIAA college football title game is cancelled after the QB of WInston-Salem was beat up....in a bathroom....by players from the opposing team from Virginia State University.  STORY

Photos: Twitter

Kanye West dined out with Kim Kardashian in Philadelphia last night following the return of the "Yeezus" tour.  See their pics inside...

And on the umpteenth day (of hiatus).......Yeezus arose.   Following a few equipment setbacks, Kanye West rebooted, relaunched and resurrected the Yeezus tour last night with a stop in Philadelphia, PA at the Wells Fargo Center.  

He and Kim Kardashsian dined at Serafina, following the show, and Kim was snapped strutting down the street in a fur that we're pretty sure wasn't faux! And we're just as sure she cares none about PETA.

They were also seen arriving via private jet tot he city.  Baby North wasn't seen accompanying her parents on their jaunt, but since Kanye and Kim had pleged to take the baby on the road with them, she very well could have gone earlier or later.

For Yeezus fans, the rapper will debut the video for "Bound 2" on "ELLEN" this Tuesday (November 19th).

BONUS:

Last night, Lady Gaga joined Jay Pharoah for a HILARIOUS spoof of Kim and Kanye on SNL.  ENJOY!

The Randomness:

1.  Rapper YoYo's husband was shot in the leg at a Detroit nightclub last night.  STORY

Photos PCN

In part 4 of TheYBF.com's Opening Weekend Exclusive Interview Series with the cast of Best Man Holiday, we chatted up the man behind it all.  And we had to find out the reason behind the drastic changes in the sequel....and the crazy emotional roller coaster.  Our interview with Director Malcolm D. Lee inside...

He's having a blockbuster weekend at the box office with almost tying the #1 movie Thor, which is playing on almost twice as many theaters.  So Malcolm D. Lee's (Scary Movie, Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins) vision for the sequel of his classic film, Best Man, is clearly a winner.

But if you're wondering abut the drastic emotional roller coaster, those intense (and intensely funny) scenes, and the difficulties of making the film, we got to the bottom of it all with the director himself.  Check out our sit down with Mr. Lee.

YBF: The new plot of The Best Man Holiday will be a surprise to audiences. Tell us why you chose to take such a different direction with this sequel.

MALCOLM: I didn’t want to repeat myself, 14 years later you can’t just tell the same old story. I wanted to do something that was more sophisticated, more complex because the circumstances dictate that. These characters may be the same people but they’ve changed, they’ve evolved over the years. What you think about when you’re a post graduate in your mid 20s is very different from what you think about in your late 30’s/early 40’s. When you’re an adult, you have adult things you have to do; kids and mortgages and car payments and the career struggles. So that was a reason to do it.
But that was also a reason for the studio to say, this is such a departure from the first one.
And I can understand if we had done a sequel that was two or three years later that they wanted to revisit some of the same themes, but 14 years later you can’t do that in my mind.

YBF: When originally creating these characters, did you base them off a college clique of your own or did you base them off people from your life or start them all from scratch?

MALCOLM: I think it’s a combination of all those, there’s no one character that is one person that’s in my life or that I went to school with. I have the luxury of having a lot of different kinds of friends. Some clicks weren’t always the same as other clicks, and I got along with a great number of people. So I was able to bring a lot of diversity of character to these characters based on my relationships and my own imagination.

YBF: The Best Man Holiday will definitely be another classic, what was your favorite part of making the movie?

MALCOLM: Just getting the movie made in general, there are a lot of things that were great and challenging about the movie. Whenever all of the actors were together, that became much more of a challenging thing with all the dinner scenes and introducing everyone in that first scene when they all come in. It’s incredibly difficult because a lot of coverage has to be done.
But there are some fun scenes like the “Can you stand the Rain” bit.

YBF: Tell us about that! It was such a classic moment.

MALCOLM: It was a great moment. It was very reminiscent of my experience at Georgetown University. We had contests like the lip-syncing contest that like that. It was a great way for the guys to dance for the ladies; they were really into it with the whole choreography of everything. It was awesome.  Even shooting the football [scenes] was great. It was my first chance to show how I could tell a sports story.

YBF: Did we see that you played a defensive back in the film? You posted a photo in a full on football uniform one day.

MALCOLM: Yeah I did, I cut myself from the movie though. I had to, it didn’t make any sense. Well it made sense but it just wasn’t warranted. It will never be seen by anyone.

YBF: What do you want audiences to take away from the film?

MALCOLM: Be prepared for a fun relatable ride. Lots of laughs, lots of drama, lots of tears. It will be an emotional rollercoaster as people have been saying.

Best Man Holiday is in theaters now!  Check out our previous interviews with the cast HERE.

Photos: Universal Pictures, YBF Correspondent: Kalia Sliva

Regina Hall and Lala Anthony, both stars of "Think Like A Man Too" were spotted out and about this weekend.  Find out where they were inside....

Regina Hall, who's currently starring in the weekend blockbuster "The Best Man Holiday", was spotted on the town in LA last night. 

After taking a phone call, Regina chatted it up with "Hawaii 5-0" star Scott Caan outside the Chateau Marmont.

Regina is one busy lady as she's got several great projects in the can.  In addition to BMH, she's starring in About Last Night with Kevin Hart and Think Like A Man Too.

In New York City........

Lala Anthony, who'll grace the screen with Regina in Think Like A Man Too (June 2014), cheered on her husband, Carmelo Anthony, as the Knicks took on the Atlanta Hawks at Madison Square Garden.  She went sporty chic in leather sweatpants and a varsity-style leather jacket with a red and black leather outfit and her new Jordans.  "Let's go Knicks! We need this win! Had to pull out my Bred 11s!! Let's gooooo"

Lala sat courtside with their little one, Kiyan, as Carmelo and the Knicks battled the Hawks.  Unfortunately, they lost (110-90). 

Cute pics though!

Photos via PCN/Lala Anthony's IG/Splash

Mekhi Phifer and his wife Reshelet Barnes were spotted at The Grove yesterday.  Find out what the actor's been up to inside....

Mekhi Phifer and his new wife, Reshelet Barnes, were spotted walking arm-in-arm at The Grove recently.  Aww weekend love. 

Mekhi and Reshelet, who married earlier this year at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, enjoyed a little time together while Mr. Phifer takes a break from his very busy tv/movie schedule.  

He's recently wrapped production on Divergent with Kate Winslet and "Scandal" star Tony Goldwyn (in theaters March 2014) and will be starring alongside Don Cheadle in the upcoming season of "House of Lies".

Photos via Splash

The kids of media mogul Diddy and fashion model Kim Porter passed on their blessings recently through a few donations to typhoon victims.  See the Combs kids at work inside....

The children of REVOLT founder Sean "Diddy" Combs' and baby momma Kim Porter passed on a few blessings from their fortunate upbring to victims of the Philippines disaster, Typhoon Haiyan.

The Combs family relief effort had 6-year-old twins Jessie James and D'Lila Star, Christian and Quincy Brown all loading up boxes of their own shoes, clothing and blankets for delivery to Philippines relief agencies.

It's great to see kids of priviledge paying it forward.

Gotta love it!

Photo via TMZ

In our final installment for our Opening Weekend Exclusive Interview series for Best Man Holiday, we had a little sit down with one of our fave on screen couples.

Check out what Morris Chestnut said about and Monica Calhoun's fave moments...

Hallelujer! 44-year-old Morris Chestnut is bringing his ridiculously sexy body back for us to gawk at for the Best man Holiday sequel.  We talked to arguably the sexiest star of the movie, along with is on-screen wife, Monica Calhoun, about their fave moments and the hardest ones.  Getting that chiseled bod was probably hard for Morris to get, but was that lip-syncing performance even harder?

YBF:The Best Man Holiday is definitely going to be another classic. Tell us about the chemistry of the cast and the plot twist with your characters.

MORRIS: Oh wow, it was just like riding a bike getting back together again. We all came, we had to rehearse a couple of weeks prior to. And then a week before filming we all got together and watched the original film. That brought back memories and put us back in that mode so the chemistry was great, like riding a bike.

MONICA: I have several favorite moments! The dinner scenes when we were all sitting around the table. Those were some long nights but a lot of good laughs.

YBF: Why do you think Malcolm Lee wrote your characters as he did? Audiences are going to be surprised when they see this movie compared to the original?

MORRIS: Why do you say that?

YBF: Because it’s so real! There are real moments, it’s real life that is happening and the cast put it down with regards to the portrayal of these characters. How did it feel for you to come in with such a different flare this time around?

MORRIS: I think the one thing about this movie is that these characters have been around for 14 years. When you are doing the original you are creating the backstory. Now, we were able to fill in so many different layers to our characters; what’s going on? Have we had the conversation? Why haven’t we had the conversation? What did we do? How did we not deal with it? And myself with Harper…it’s just layering the characters more and more. Then our characters [Lance & Mia] have some pretty great arcs and some secrets and all that stuff to deal with. It made it a lot more fun!

YBF: You listen to Mia, when she talks, Lance listens is that true to life?

MORRIS: Oh YEAH, without a doubt! [Laughter]

YBF: There are a couple of funny scenes between Shelby and Candice and Lance you had to break one up.

MONICA: Faith was being tested!

MORRIS: Yeah I had to break it up, I think I caught one on the chin. I’m just playing.

YBF: They didn’t bring any stunt doubles?

MORRIS: They did, there was a stunt double there but they didn’t really need them.

MONICA: They executed WELL!

MORRIS: They do a good job getting at it themselves!

YBF: Morris I hear you wanted to rehearse a whole month for the dance scene??

Morris: I did! Cause look, you have Harold coming from Alvin Alley, you have Taye doing Broadway and Terrence just don’t care. I wanted to get it right and get it down!

MONICA: Going through all that, you know what, he was fine, they were fine! I mean they were sharp! Those arms, spins, hat tosses, just on cue and right!
 

That's a wrap for our interview series witht he best Man Holiday cast.  Check out all of our chit chats HERE.

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Photos: Universal Pictures, YBF L.A. Correspondent: Kalia Silva

Kanye West rolled up in Harvard over the weekend with his baby mama and his creative designer Virgil Abloh.  Check out what they were filling the smarties' minds with inside...

Kanye West was welcomed with open arms at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design this weekend.  And it was all in the name of DONDA.  Mr. West entered the building to chat up the students as part of his and Virgil's DONDA Design Lecture Series.

His chick Kim K. was there tweeting about how proud she was of "her baby" Kanye speaking at Harvard.

And the students looked happy to get an earful from the passionate rapper/designer as well.  We hear he also gave away tickets to his Yeezus tour stop in Boston.  Nice!

Meanwhile..

After his idiotic rant he did on Ryan Seacrest's show a few weeks ago (that we purposely didn't post for a few reasons and it would only spread the unnecessary disrespect), Kanye is saying some more ish.   This time, on Hot 107.9 in Philly before his show there this weekend.

He's explaining why he compared our First Lady to his baby mama Kim K.--when he basically said she's more influential than Michelle Obama and how the First Lady should take a page out of Kim's "sexy IG pic" book to be more influential--and throwing shade at the same time. So, since we like to let celebs explain themselves...

He talked about whether he and the Obamas would ever break bread and what caused him to say what he said:

Oh you talking about how he use to come and visit me and my mother and tell me he’s about to run for President? I just think that we’re pop icons and the President likes to use that type of thing just to be down.

People were fine with me being everyone’s punching bag for about 5 years. This is the person we love to hate so if you want to distract people from everything that’s going on or you gotta a problem with your father…..just say you hate Kanye and there’s gonna be 30 other people who say they hate Kanye and that was kinda my position in culture and he kinda used that too “oh he’s a jack*ss” cuz that’s how the world felt but I don’t care if someones the President or not. I care about thoughts and how you helpin’ people and what you bring to the world. My music brings joy to people. What I create brings joy to people.

Sounds like he's feeling some kind of way that President O called him a "jackass" and didn't have him stomping on the campaign trail like he did other rappers....

When asked about him mentioning Michelle and if he'll leave her alone

Well, uh I think he should mention MY babymama name because we both from Chicago. But no, I’m not gonna mention him no more. I’m passed that. That’s out my thoughts. That’s lowering my priority of thinking at this point.

Um, Ok 'Ye.

Peep the video below and the full interview where he also discusses the "artistic side" of what he's doing with the confederate flag....and other attention grabby Kanyeism quotes:

More vids here.  

Photos: Virgil's IG/joseramonsierra's IG

LA Lakers baller Nick Young dined out with his boo thang Iggy Azalea last night.  Check out the new couple inside and get deets on Lamar Odom's possible return to the courts....

With a tip in his hand, LA Lakers shooting guard Nick Young was spotted walking to the valet area of BOA Steakhouse with his date, a sheer-ish skirt rocking rapper Iggy Azalea, following closely behind him.  

The pair hopped into Nick's blue Ferrari before speeding off into the streets of LA/Hollywood.  We've been noticing that the two have been spending a great deal of time together while Iggy is on hiatus from her hectic recording/tour schedule overseas (she's a much bigger star in Europe) and appearing on Mrs. Carter's Aussie leg of her tour. 

And they look pretty comfortable letting the public in on their date nights...

In other LA baller news..... 

Lamar Odom has hinted at a possible comeback with his former team, the LA Clippers.  While everyone knows his top choice was the LA Lakers, it's good to know that there's still hope for Lamar to get his career back on track....somewhere.

The Randomness:

1.  Woman who falsely claimed Michael Jordan fathered her baby was ordered to pay HIS legal bills!  Story.

Photos via PCN