Pop/R&B diva Janet Jackson is set to be featured in an hour-long exclusive interview with ABC News correspondent Robin Roberts on November 18th. This will be her first extended sit-down interview with her brother Michael’s death back in June. Janet’s Number Ones greatest hits compilation drops November 17th and the interview will air the next day. Number Ones is a two disc feature-set of her biggest hit singles, and will include a new track called “Make Me,” which is a tribute to her late brother’s smash single “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.”

Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z says that if he had to choose to do one thing before he died, he would love to fly to the moon! The Grammy Award winning rapper told Gotham Magazine that he’s accomplished a lot in his liftime, but he’d love to “Go to the moon.”

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Singer Jennifer Hudson’s son David Daniel Otunga Jr. has only been here for a little under 2 months now, but the former American Idol hopeful tells People.com that the little guy already has an ear for music! She also said that the experience of her becoming a mom is “just amazing.”

“He’s the cutest thing in the world!” she told People.com. “There are no words for it. He’s the best. It’s just amazing – us discovering each other, me becoming a mom. He seems like he’s very interested in music already. The other night he was having a fit screaming, and someone turns on the music and he just stops and calms down. And I was exactly the same way as a baby,” said Hudson, who played “Let It Be Me,” her collaboration with Rod Stewart, to calm her son. “Sometimes when he cries, I try to harmonize!”

J-Hud will also host ABC’s holiday music special, “Jennifer Hudson: I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” The one-hour special will follow Jennifer around as she relives her childhood Christmases with musical performances shot on location at the small neighborhood church where she brought the congregation to its feet week after week; the music academy where she studied; and other Chicago sites.”

It seems like this year is turning into a special one for Jennifer and her family. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person!

Continue reading for more of Jennifer’s interview with People, where they go more in depth about the pregnancy and the actual delivery of the baby.

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.”

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Actress/singer Jennifer Hudson (pictured above with the Scarecrow and Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz”) attended an outdoor concert and movie screening hosted by Netflix at the Rumsey Playfield in New York City’s Central Park Tuesday (Sep 29). The event was held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of “The Wizard of Oz” and the release of a newly remastered Blu-ray version of the film. Jennifer headlined the event and performed songs from the movie including a contemporary rendition of “Over the Rainbow,” the most popular song from the soundtrack.

VH1’s Divas 2009 aired live from the Brooklyn Academy of Music Thursday night (Sep 17) in New York City and was hosted by former American Idol judge Paula Abdul. The “divas” for this year’s concert were Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis, Adele, Jordin Sparks and Kelly Clarkson.

Other celebrities at the show who either performed or presented included India.Arie, Stevie Wonder, Toni Braxton, Sheryl Crow and more.

For a full recap of the ceremony, check out our friends over at Tha Feedback! And continue reading for the rest of the pictures from the Red Carpet and inside of the show.
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Singer/actress Jennifer Hudson is officially a mom! She and her fiance David Otunga (most known for being “Punk” on VH1’s I Love New York) welcomed a healthy baby boy into the world Monday night (Aug 10). The baby, David Daniel Otunga Jr., came in at 7 pounds, 14 ounces.

“The baby is beautiful and perfect,” Hudson rep Lisa Kasteler said in a statement. “His parents are ecstatic.”

Hudson and Otunga chose not to find out the baby’s sex until birth. Congratulations to Jennifer and her husband!

We recently came across this performance of Jennifer Hudson and Fantasia performing their “I’m His Only Woman” duet at the Atlanta stop of the Robin Thick/JHud tour and just had to post it! This is the only performance we have seen of this song and we are just stunned. We knew these chicks could sing but damn! Peep the video below:

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Here is the final batch of photos from Michael Jackon’s public memorial service. On Tuesday, July 7th 2009, celebrities, dignitaries, and MJ fans alike all packed into the Staples Arena in Los Angeles to celebrate the life of an icon that was taken away from us way too soon. Above, R&B singer Usher can be seen posing with a very pregnant Jennifer Hudson backstage just before the memorial commenced. Continue reading to see photos of the different celebrities (Chris Brown, Wesley Snipes, Spike Lee, Kim Kardashian and more) who attended the ceremony.

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Wearing dark sunglasses and a single yellow rose pinned to his jacket, a noticeably emotional Usher performed “Gone Too Soon,” a track from Michael Jackson’s 1991 Dangerous album, at the King of Pop’s farewell service Tuesday (Jul 7) in Los Angeles at the Staples Center.

Other celebrities and important public figures who spoke and/or performed at the public ceremony include Queen Latifah, Smokey Robinson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson, and more. Continue reading to check out all of the pictures.

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Lots of singers/performers (Usher, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson, Stevie Wonder and more) took the stage Tuesday (Jul 7) to honor and say goodbye to Michael Jackson at his public memorial service at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. 20,000 people packed into the arena to witness as the world bid the King of Pop a grand farewell. Here are videos from everyone who performed songs at the globally televised memorial. Keep checking back as we will continue to add photos and videos of the people who made speeches throughout today and tomorrow. Continue reading for the videos.

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News recently broke that Jennifer Hudson is definitely pregnant, confirming a long-held notion that we can rarely depend on publicists to report the truth. If you remember, back in April, her PR denounced the pregnancy rumors saying that there was no truth to them. Boy were they wrong and shame on us for listening to them. So now we have to take what they say with a grain of salt, just like how we take most of the information we receive these days.

But anyway, the pregnancy was confirmed when she held a baby shower at a relative’s home last Saturday (May 30) in Chicago. And the picture above of her, her 7 month baby bump and her fiance David Otunga leaving a KFC recently also adds more truth to the story. The bump doesn’t lie people. While no one knows the gender of the baby just yet, we do know he/she should be here sometime in the late summer (July/August).