R&B singer John Legend and his beautiful model girlfriend Christine Teigen attended the Show Me Campaign benefit at the Soho House Tuesday evening in New York City. John Legend, a budding philanthropist, hosted the $1,000-per-ticket benefit dinner and performance in an effort to show that everyone can make a difference to help end world poverty.

“Our organization by itself can’t do it, but we believe we can be part of the solution and we don’t want to wait around for everybody else to do it,” he said in an interview at the dinner, which was attended by Wyclef Jean, NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Jealous, former New York Giants player Tiki Barber, top economist Jeffrey Sachs and others.

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R&B singer Ashanti gave a special sneak peak performance as Dorothy from “The Wiz” as a part of the “Encores! Summer Stars Series” at New York City Center Tuesday in NYC. Ashanti will take on the role, made famous by Diana Ross, this summer at The New York City Center.

“We don’t start rehearsals until next Monday, so I’m at home rehearsing in my room,” she told MTV News at a press conference for “The Wiz,” where she sang the song “Home” from the show. “But it feels great to be out here and to sing ‘Home’ for the very first time in front of a crowd. It makes it realistic, and it kind of hits home, ironically.”

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Singers Jordin Sparks and Estelle posed for pics as they arrived at BMI’s 57th annual Pop Awards, held this year at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel Tuesday night in Beverly Hills, CA. Other celebrities who attended the 2009 BMI Pop Awards were Anthony Hamilton, Steph Jones and Kiely Williams & Sabrina Bryan from the Cheetah Girls. Continue reading for all of the pics!

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Jermaine Dupri took to his personal blog Tuesday to announce his new “rib cage” tattoo, which is by far one of the most painful places to get tatted up we hear!

THIS IS ME ON THE TABLE TWITTERING WITH YALL WHILE I’M GETTING MY RIB CAGE DONE. THIS IS THE LONGEST I HAVE EVER SAT FOR A TAT, I HAD TO TAKE 100 BREAKS CAUSE THAT SHIT HURT LIKE HELL. SHOUT OUT TO MY MAN JUN CHA. I TOLD YALL I WAS GETTING SOMETHING BY HIM. IF YOU EVA IN LA AND YOU SERIOUS ABOUT TATTOOS YOU NEED TO HOLLA AT HIM.

The tattoo is of his woman Janet Jackson, which clearly is a silent (but very permanent) way of him saying that she’s going to be his forever. Why else would you get someone’s face put on your body? Love is a powerful thing, y’all!

But if he likes it … we love it! And we hear Janet does too. More pics when you continue reading.
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Rumors of Michael Jackson having skin cancer have been officially declared as simply rumors. His reps deny the reports, telling the NY Daily News that Jacko is in “the best of health.”

“He is great. He’s in perfect health… He doesn’t have any diseases whatsoever,” the spokesman said.

Meanwhile, Mike’s representatives announced early Wednesday that he will regrettably be postponing a few of his London shows. The July 8th show, which is opening night, will be moved back to July 13th, according to concert promoters. Also, shows scheduled for July 10th, 12th and 14th will instead be pushed back to March 2010, which is a whopping 8 months past their original date!

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Busta Rhymes and Soulja Boy attended the YRB Magazine “How You Rock It” party held at M2 Lounge in New York City Tuesday night. Other celebs in the building were America’s Next Top Model Cycle 8 winner Jaslene Gonzalez, NY Jets player Kerry Rhodes, up and coming singer Rhea and more. Continue reading for all of the pics!

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New Orleans Saints footballer Reggie Bush and his socialite/TV personality girlfriend Kim Kardashian were spotted Monday Afternoon after they left a restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida. These two are always looking fly! You know Kim does all of the shopping and always picks out Reggie’s outfits before they hit the town. More pics of the couple when you continue reading.

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First Lady Michelle Obama attended the ribbon cutting ceremony to officially re-open the Charles Engelhard Court, the centerpiece of the newly renovated American Wing, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Monday afternoon in New York City. She was joined by NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Met Museum President Emily Rafferty, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, and Rep. Charles Rangel as she cut the ribbon in front of the building. More pics when you continue reading.
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Michael Strahan and girlfriend Nicole Murphy attended Fox Broadcasting’s 2009 UpFront Programming Presentation Monday in New York City. Other celebrities who rolled through were Wanda Sykes, Jane Lynch, Reagan Gomez and more.
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Newlyweds (hey, it’s only been a year!) Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey attended the Roberto Cavalli dinner on his yacht during the 62nd annual International Cannes Film Festival Saturday evening in Cannes, France.

We think it’s time for everyone to accept that these two are going to be around for a while, especially after Nick wrote over 1400 words on his blog in an effort to defend his woman’s honor. Yes, we counted them. Or at least Microsoft Word did. :)

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