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There’s no place like home for the holidays. That’s the tune being sung by Bajan R&B sweetheart Rihanna, who arrived in Barbados just in time to celebrate Christmas. Family and friends, including her best friend Melissa (the girl in pink), were waiting at the airport to welcome her with open arms!
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Mariah Carey, who is currently in Aspen, says she loves celebrating Christmas by stripping off the little clothing she usually wears and rolling around in the snow. According to her, she’s just partaking in the local holiday custom.
“I don’t know [where I’m staying] yet, but it has to have a hot tub. I like to get out of the hot tub and roll in the snow,” she tells Aspen’s Peak Magazine.”Somebody told me that it was a tradition in Aspen, but maybe they were lying to me”, Mariah finally admits.
Although she is now aware that someone might have played a practical joke on her, the globetrotting diva says it worked out fine for her and her entourage. She proclaims: “It’s a tradition for us to have Santa Claus-looking bikinis, jump in the hot tub, and roll in the fresh snow.”
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“happy holidays to all of my fans. i am spending much needed family time in the colorado rockies. i send y’all my genuine huge smile hoping it makes its way to brighten your christmas day…very dorky rhyme, but hey what can i say…i am a dork. daisy doesn’t enjoy the role of santa in this picture, but the idea was just too cute to resist. i love all of y’all with my whole heart and my hope is for each and every one of your christmas wishes to come true.
thank you for always inspiring me to be better in everything that i do.
xo jessâ€
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Music has lost a great voice today. The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, whose career spanned six decades, was taken to hospital yesterday with pneumonia, said his agent, Frank Copsidas, and died early Monday with longtime friend Charles Bobbit at his side.
Along with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and a handful of others, Brown was one of the major musical influences of the past 50 years. At least one generation idolized him, and sometimes openly copied him. His rapid-footed dancing inspired Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson among others.
He died at 73. His music will live on forever.
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“As a child my Christmases were always exactly the same.
“You go to Grandma’s house, you get there by two or three, she’s cooked all the same foods that she’s cooked every day for the past ten years you’ve been alive and that’s kind of how it is.
“Then they play the same music and the kids fight to put their music on and it’s just the same thing.” - Jennifer Lopez on what Christmas was like growing up in the Lopez family.
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