Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating today, September 12th, including:

1940 – Linda Gray, actress
1943 – Michael Ondaatje, author
1951 – Joe Pantoliano, actor
1955 – Peter Scolari, actor
1957 – Rachel Ward, actress
1962 – Amy Yasbeck, actress
1966 – Ben Folds, musician
1967 – Jason Statham, actor
1967 – Louis C.K., comedian
1968 – Paul F. Tompkins, comedian
1969 – James Frey, author
1973 – Paul Walker, actor
1974 – Jennifer Nettles, singer
1978 – Elisabetta Canalis, model
1978 – Benjamin Mackenzie, actor
1978 – Ruben Studdard, singer
1981 – Jennifer Hudson, singer
1986 – Emmy Rossum, actress

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Jennifer Hudson has been cast in the upcoming comedy The Three Stooges as a nun.

Jennifer Hudson has signed on to play Sister Rosemary. She joins Jane Lynch, who’s playing Mother Superior, and Larry David, who’s playing Mother Mengele. I’m betting that Sister Rosemary is the nice one at the orphanage where the Stooges come of age, despite the best efforts of the nuns to get the precocious trio adopted.

Not exactly what I would have expected, but hey Larry David is also playing a nun. This movie is obviously not going for anything normal on any level. I’m still very doubtful of the quality of this one, it just seems like The Three Stooges shouldn’t ever be remade. I hope this is good for Jennifer Hudson, Oscar winner.

Source: Deadline
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Jennifer Hudson walked the red carpet of the 2011 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City on Monday, May 2nd.

The 2011 Met Gala, as it’s more commonly known, featured an exhibit, the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty retrospective, which honored the late designer’s body of work.

Hudson kept it simple and very elegant in a Vera Wang ballgown with layers of tulle for a full skirt and a lightly shimmering gray organza overlay. It was a very beautiful and subtle look.

More photos below. (Read the article)

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Jennifer Hudson looked sensational at the Mary J Blige Honors Concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on May 1st.

The 29 year-old wore a super tight thistle-pink colored dress and beamed on the red carpet.

Hudson’s weight loss has been dramatic over the past two years and she admitted that her fiance, WWE wrestler David Ortungo would like it to stop.

“I haven’t actually caught up with how I look. Some people don’t like it so much and tell me to stop. My fiancé tells me not to lose more – he likes me very basic, no make-up, no heels, no fuss,” Jennifer said.

“I think both of us are still struggling to come to terms with this new me. He’ll tell me not to dress up, but I tell him to get used to it.”

More photos of Jennifer are below. (Read the article)

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Oscar and Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson is fit and fabulous on the cover of April Essence magazine.

The Dreamgirls actress shared with the publication her feelings on motherhood, her weight loss and her role as Winnie Mandela.

On Being A Mom: “My wish is to be at least half as good as my mother was, as patient and as loving as she was, and to just give that to my son.”

On Shedding the Weight: “I didn’t realize that so many people were watching me or that so many people were interested. Now people come up to me saying, ‘You’ve inspired me,’ and I’m like, Wow.”

On Getting Used to Her New Figure: “I go into the store and they try to put me in 4s and 6s and I’m like, ‘Who are you trying to talk to?’ My mind hasn’t caught up yet.”

On Taking On The Role Of Winnie: “We were supposed to shoot the film two years ago. But with all that happened in my life, they waited. Even the director was saying, ‘For you to take this project on with everything that happened shows you are really passionate about it.’ So I just hopped into it. I just really wanted to be a part of telling the story.”

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Jennifer Hudson brought her absolutely adorable son, David to the 4th Annual Essence Black Women In Hollywood luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Thursday, February 24th.

Hudson, who showed off her enviable body in a bright lilac colored bandage dress by Herve Leger, was upstaged by that cutie pie son of hers in his smart vest and dress pants.

The Dreamgirls star is the best spokesperson for Weight Watchers – don’t you agree?

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Kim Kardashian, Justin Timberlake, Usher and lots of other celebrities are not posting to their Twitter or Facebook accounts in support of Alicia Keys‘ Keep A Child Alive drive to raise $1,000,000 in recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1st.

“It’s really important and super-cool to use mediums that we naturally are on,” Keys said. “It’s so important to shock you to the point of waking up. [...] It’s not that people don’t care or it’s not that people don’t want to do something, it’s that they never thought of it quite like that.”

The stars are staying digitally silent until the goal is reached but 3 days later and the total is nowhere near the million dollar mark. So what gives? Or more accurately what is preventing everyone from ponying up the cash?

I wonder if it’s simply that we are so over saturated by many celebs who use those pages as another kind of commercial to push yet another product, that as a group we are tuning them out (even if we are following them online.) Let’s be honest, twitter and Facebook can be like background noise – it’s there and you know it, you just don’t fully focus your attention on it.

Of course there is also the point that by making the stars give up their primary means of communication, you don’t have the 100 tweets and retweets a day reminding you to give up the cash.

I guess the thought was the silence would be deafening…? This could take a while.

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Leona Lewis and Jennifer Hudson have recorded a duet that is likely to become the Sex and the City 2 theme song, the NY Daily News reports.

“They each have incredible voices and will appeal to both the UK and the US.  It’s perfect for the next SATC film.”

Jennifer knows all about Sex, as she was Carrie Bradshaw’s assistant in the first SATC film.

Latest Sex and the City 2 Trailer

I think Hudson and Lewis make the perfect “power team” to do this big song.

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Jennifer Hudson is one of the strongest women I have even seen.  She has risen above the tragedy she has faced in her life and has come out on top.  Now, as a new mother to her son, David Otunga (named after daddy) who was born on August 10th, she is rocking a whole new adventure.

Jennifer opened up to People about her new life with baby David,

How hard was it keeping your pregnancy under wraps?
“David and I were the only people who knew for a long time. I would forget I was pregnant, it was so easy. I didn’t have any morning sickness, no cravings either. I just thought, ‘Oh, well, we’ll wait until it’ll tell on itself.’ I didn’t show until I was seven months so that made it easy right there.”

Has his personality emerged yet?
“He has a lot of personality, like David. He’s always been a good sleeper. His favorite time to smile now is diaper changes. Or when he spits up on you – he just cracks up like he thinks it’s the funniest thing. And his bottle is his pacifier. With a pacifier, it’s like he knows, ‘Ain’t nothing come out of here. No, I don’t want that. Where’s the real deal?’ His best friend is that bottle; that’s all he wants.”

Awww, that is so sweet.  Jen, you are great mommy and you are going to be a wonderful auntie soon too!  Congrats on all the happiness in your life, you deserve it!

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Singer and Oscar winning actress Jennifer Hudson welcomed her first child on August 10, and she still can’t believe it.

“Oh my God, I’m somebody’s mother now,” Hudson said on Oprah Winfrey’s block party show. “It is the best feeling in the world, no words can describe it.

Hudson may be relishing in the joy of being a new mother, but she said she was surprised by how much she would worry about her baby boy.

“But one thing they don’t warn you about is, like, how your nerves just shoot up… Now I worry about every single thing: ‘Oh my God, what would happen if I sit him here, then he could fall and this could happen and that could happen.’ I worry like crazy.

Hopefully Jennifer can share some of these new things with her sister Julia who just announced that she is expecting her first child early next year.

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