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Wanda Sykes being outrageous – that’s expected. But for the actress-comedian to be serious? That’s rare. Even when the issue is personal.

In this case, it was also health-related, when she admitted for the first time, to Ellen DeGeneres during an interview to air Monday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, that earlier this year she had breast cancer and then elected to have a mastectomy.

“I had breast cancer,” says Sykes, 47. “Yeah, I know it’s scary.”

A new NWA biopic is officially in the works according critically acclaimed director John Singleton.

As previously reported, the biopic was said to already be in the works and was being written by Andrea Berloff, a white woman noted for writing the screen play for Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center.

Now Singleton’s speaking out on the project and confirmed while doing press for the film Abduction that he and Ice Cube had discussed making the movie.

Morgan Freeman laid down the chips on the Tea Party in a new interview with Piers Morgan that is due to air Friday night.

The Oscar-winning actor sat down with the British TV host and, amongst other things, discussed his belief that the right wing Tea Party’s anti-Obama stance is rooted in racism.

When asked by Morgan whether Obama’s presidency has made racism in the United States better or worse, Freeman, who once played apartheid-defying South African president Nelson Mandela, frankly stated that his time in office has made it worse, as he has become a target of the right’s aggression.

“Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term,” the actor said. “What’s, what does that, what underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.'”

LONDON — The Black Eyed Peas will perform at next month’s Michael Jackson tribute concert in Wales.

They’ll join Christina Aguilera, Smokey Robinson and Cee Lo Green at the “Michael Forever” show.

Frontman Will.i.am — who worked with Jackson before the pop star’s death in 2009 — said Friday “we all owe Michael such a lot.” He said Jackson’s songs “have been an inspiration to my whole life and certainly formed the soundtrack to my childhood.”

The Oct. 8 concert at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium will be hosted by actor Jamie Foxx.

The show is not affiliated with Jackson’s estate, but his mother Katherine and other relatives are scheduled to attend. Organizers rescinded an offer to the band Kiss over singer Gene Simmons’ past criticism of Jackson.

In the last 10 years, John Singleton has made some unexpected choices, and perhaps as a result, his career has taken some unusual turns. Between 2001 and 2005 he revisited the ‘hood with Baby Boy, directed a big-league Hollywood sequel with 2 Fast 2 Furious, and helmed the drama Four Brothers, but it’s taken six years for him to return to the director’s chair with the new thriller Abduction.

According to online sources, Singleton has a variety of projects in development, but at the Los Angeles press day for “Abduction,” the filmmaker revealed that he may be reuniting with his

Boyz N the Hood star Ice Cube for a project that sounds close to both of their hearts.

“I can’t talk about it too prematurely about the stuff I’m doing because nothing’s come to fruition yet, but Cube and I are talking about doing the N.W.A. story,” Singleton said. “The script is really, really good, and so we’re just figuring it out. New Line really wants to make it.”

Comedian Tracy Morgan is engaged to wed for the second time.

The 30 Rock star married his high school sweetheart Sabrina in 1985, but they separated in 2001 and he finally filed for divorce from the mother of his three sons in 2009.

However, he’s set to exchange vows once again – and he introduced fans to his new fiancee, known only as May, on the red carpet at the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday.

Ray J didn’t take too kindly to Fabolous talking smack about him on Twitter, so when he saw him out in Las Vegas last weekend … he clocked him!

Kim K’s sex tape partner re-told the tale on a radio show, explaining, “When I seen him, I was with Floyd [Mayweather] and 50 [Cent] and he tried to say, ‘Don’t touch me.’ And I touched that n***a!”

Ray J says he got kicked out of the Palms and detained by police, but according to cops in Vegas … he was not arrested.

50 Cent is facing a lawsuit from a woman that claims she was assaulted at the Queens rapper’s Connecticut mansion.

The alleged victim, Vasti Ortiz, filed the lawsuit in Superior Court of Hartford, Connecticut. In the suit, Ortiz claims in August 2009 that she was beaten by 50 Cent’s associate Dwayne McKenzie, while visiting the rapper’s home.

Ortiz says her and her friends were invited to Fif’s mansion around 1:30 A.M. After arriving at the home, Ortiz claims she was accosted by Dwayne McKenzie with “awkward sexual requests.” When she refused and attempted to leave, Ortiz claims McKenzie ordered a woman, Michelle Krzykowski, to attack her.

Ortiz says she was only able to escape after pepper spraying McKenzie and Krykowski.

She was then rushed to the hospital were she need nearly a dozen stitches to close a head wound she received during the altercation.

Rumors that Jay-Z had  a secret son with a Trinidadian video vixen are resurfacing after the child’s grandfather, who previously said that DNA tests proved that Jay-Z was the dad of the now 9-year-old, recently recanted his claims.

When the story first surfaced in 2007, Jay-Z denied having any connection.

“There is no truth to these ridiculous rumors,” the rapper’s rep said.

The rap mogul is notorious for guarding his private life. He quietly married his megastar wife, Beyonce in 2008 and kept news of her pregnancy under wraps for four months until she unveiled her baby bump during an MTV awards show last month.