Roger Goodell has reportedly just hired 3 women as "senior advisers" ... in an effort to shape the NFL's domestic violence and sexual assault policies. The women -- Lisa Friel, Jane Randel and Rita Smith -- will be tasked with "making a real difference on these and other issues" ... so says the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. Friel was the head of the Manhattan D.A.'s sex crimes unit for almost a decade ... but was reportedly asked...
- 9/15/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Fans weigh in on 'Birthday Cake' and 'Turn Up the Music' remixes and what working together again says about their relationship.
By Jocelyn Vena
Rihanna and Chris Brown in 2008
Photo: WireImage
When Chris Brown and Rihanna dropped their remixes of "Birthday Cake" and "Turn Up the Music," fans immediately began to weigh in on the collaborations and what they mean about the status of Ri and Brown's highly publicized tumultuous relationship.
While the songs may serve as a distraction from their personal past (which includes Brown's assault of Rihanna in 2009), many of the music fans we caught up with in Times Square stood on two sides of the line. Some were willing to forget the past and enjoy the music for what it is, while others were not yet ready to forgive.
"They're both really good artists. I like Chris Brown a lot. He was down at the bottom during...
By Jocelyn Vena
Rihanna and Chris Brown in 2008
Photo: WireImage
When Chris Brown and Rihanna dropped their remixes of "Birthday Cake" and "Turn Up the Music," fans immediately began to weigh in on the collaborations and what they mean about the status of Ri and Brown's highly publicized tumultuous relationship.
While the songs may serve as a distraction from their personal past (which includes Brown's assault of Rihanna in 2009), many of the music fans we caught up with in Times Square stood on two sides of the line. Some were willing to forget the past and enjoy the music for what it is, while others were not yet ready to forgive.
"They're both really good artists. I like Chris Brown a lot. He was down at the bottom during...
- 2/22/2012
- MTV Music News
One domestic-violence expert talks to MTV News about the former couple's new songs.
By Jocelyn Vena
Chris Brown and Rihanna in 2009
Photo: Getty Images
When Rihanna and Chris Brown dropped not one, but two tracks together Monday night, the songs were met with mixed reactions. Some fans thought it was time for everyone to move on and embrace the former couple's next chapter, while others argued that given Brown's 2009 assault on Rihanna, it was inappropriate for them to record together.
In the years since that assault, Rihanna has been open about her abusive relationship with the R&B singer, saying, "I don't want to be the big domestic-violence spokesperson, because that doesn't define who I am. But if I can help young women in any way, and that being one of the things they need help with, then I'll do that."
Since that late 2009 interview with MTV News, Rihanna certainly...
By Jocelyn Vena
Chris Brown and Rihanna in 2009
Photo: Getty Images
When Rihanna and Chris Brown dropped not one, but two tracks together Monday night, the songs were met with mixed reactions. Some fans thought it was time for everyone to move on and embrace the former couple's next chapter, while others argued that given Brown's 2009 assault on Rihanna, it was inappropriate for them to record together.
In the years since that assault, Rihanna has been open about her abusive relationship with the R&B singer, saying, "I don't want to be the big domestic-violence spokesperson, because that doesn't define who I am. But if I can help young women in any way, and that being one of the things they need help with, then I'll do that."
Since that late 2009 interview with MTV News, Rihanna certainly...
- 2/21/2012
- MTV Music News
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press
New York -- The Grammy Awards' warm embrace of Chris Brown three years after his assault of Rihanna has drawn the ire of viewers who claim the controversial R&B star shouldn't have been rewarded with such attention.
Brown was front-and-center three times during Sunday's Grammys. He won best R&B album for "F.A.M.E.," he performed a single from his upcoming album, "Turn Up the Music," and he opened a dance tribute to "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius.
The imagery of Brown's Grammy glory was striking because it was, literally, a return to the scene of the crime. On the eve of the 2009 Grammys, Brown beat his then-girlfriend Rihanna, for which he later pled guilty to a charge of assault and was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community labor.
Since then, Brown has worked to repair his image,...
New York -- The Grammy Awards' warm embrace of Chris Brown three years after his assault of Rihanna has drawn the ire of viewers who claim the controversial R&B star shouldn't have been rewarded with such attention.
Brown was front-and-center three times during Sunday's Grammys. He won best R&B album for "F.A.M.E.," he performed a single from his upcoming album, "Turn Up the Music," and he opened a dance tribute to "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius.
The imagery of Brown's Grammy glory was striking because it was, literally, a return to the scene of the crime. On the eve of the 2009 Grammys, Brown beat his then-girlfriend Rihanna, for which he later pled guilty to a charge of assault and was sentenced to five years of probation and six months of community labor.
Since then, Brown has worked to repair his image,...
- 2/13/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
On Friday night, celebrity photographer Tyler Shields opened up his inbox to something he’d never seen before: 25,000 unread e-mails.
A little more than 24 hours earlier, photos Shields took of Glee star Heather Morris had hit the Internet. In the series, available for view on his site, Morris is depicted, as Tyler explains to EW, “crazy Barbie,” destroying ironing boards and “in power” as she fights her constraints. But that’s not how at least 25,000 people saw it. “I’ve had crazy responses to stuff, but this is the most chaos I’ve seen from people,” says Shields, who has...
A little more than 24 hours earlier, photos Shields took of Glee star Heather Morris had hit the Internet. In the series, available for view on his site, Morris is depicted, as Tyler explains to EW, “crazy Barbie,” destroying ironing boards and “in power” as she fights her constraints. But that’s not how at least 25,000 people saw it. “I’ve had crazy responses to stuff, but this is the most chaos I’ve seen from people,” says Shields, who has...
- 9/6/2011
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW - Inside TV
Glee star Heather Morris has been accused of glamourising domestic violence with a recent photoshoot. The 24-year-old, who plays cheerleader Brittany Pierce in the Fox comedy, can be seen sporting a black eye and biting on the electrical cord of an iron in a series of shots by photographer Tyler Shields. Discussing the potentially offensive nature of the pictures, Shields told E!: "In no way were we promoting domestic violence. We wanted to do a bruised-up Barbie shoot and that's exactly what we did!" However, commentators such as Rita Smith of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence have blasted the confused message of Morris's shoot, saying that it made light of very real images of the abuse that Rihanna received from ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in 2009. (more)...
- 9/4/2011
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
We were pretty dumbfounded when we saw these strange photos in the Daily Mail yesterday. Heather Morris of "Glee" fame posed for photographer Tyler Shields, who the UK paper called "young Hollywood's favourite photographer" (sure, we'll go with that), for a "confronting shoot."
"Confronting" is right -- looking at the images of the TV show's ditzy blonde Britney with a bruised eye and hands tied up in an plastic cord felt like being confronted with some glamorous-looking domestic abuse. And what is Heather doing drinking out of an iron?
Of the shoot, Shields told the Daily Mail happily, "No photoshop no tricks, all Heather. I was tied up, she was tied up, everybody got in the game. She even put the hot iron on my assistant Jordon's face. He is okay!"
But others aren't finding the photos so funny. Media outlets have condemned Shields for making light of abusive treatment of women,...
"Confronting" is right -- looking at the images of the TV show's ditzy blonde Britney with a bruised eye and hands tied up in an plastic cord felt like being confronted with some glamorous-looking domestic abuse. And what is Heather doing drinking out of an iron?
Of the shoot, Shields told the Daily Mail happily, "No photoshop no tricks, all Heather. I was tied up, she was tied up, everybody got in the game. She even put the hot iron on my assistant Jordon's face. He is okay!"
But others aren't finding the photos so funny. Media outlets have condemned Shields for making light of abusive treatment of women,...
- 9/2/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
"Saturday Night Live" joked about Tiger Woods being beaten by his wife Elin during a sketch on the show this weekend -- but the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence ... they ain't laughin'.TMZ spoke with the organization's Executive Director Rita Smith, who told us she was "horrified" that SNL "made such a mockery of abuse."During the sketch, Woods -- played by Kenan Thompson -- is visibly battered and holding up signs warning that Elin...
- 12/7/2009
- TMZ
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