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*Usher is reportedly calling around to prominent radio jocks and requesting that they stop making fun of his fiancée, Tameka Foster, and her rumored feud with his mother, Jonetta Patton, reports the New York Daily News.
Once word got out that Usher fired his mom as his manager – on Mother’s Day to boot – folks began speculating that Foster had masterminded the whole thing. Syndicated radio host Tom Joyner says Usher recently called him off-air and threatened to “whup my a**” for poking fun at the situation, says Daily News columnists Rush & Malloy.
Apparently, Usher was particularly upset when gossip writer Jawn Murray said to Joyner during a broadcast: "I wonder if he's going to put a pink slip in her Mother's Day card?"
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Usher & Tameka
The Tameka jokes also ran wild aboard Joyner’s recent Fantastic Voyage Cruise, where LL Cool J, the O'Jays and others performed to raise money for historically black colleges and universities.
"Who's afraid of Usher?" Joyner asked guests on the ship to explosive laughter. Joyner and his sidekick J. Anthony Brown even invited anyone in the audience who knew Usher "to tell him we're not afraid of him."
The recent star of Broadway’s “Chicago” is also said to have called WBLS host Wendy Williams and Hot-97's Angie Martinez to "ask them to lay off Tameka," a source tells the Daily News.
Usher’s rep Chris Chambers has responded to the allegations, stating: "I don't know of my client calling or threatening anyone. Radio personalities are going to talk about current news. We can't put a muzzle on anybody."
8th Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival
6 Days of Film Screenings (118+ films),
Panels, Workshops, Parties & Star-Studded Events.
June 5-10, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California
www.hbff.org for all the details