by @ Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:22:33 -0700 Madonna kicked off her American Love Me, Love My Adopted African Baby tour this week by telling Meredith Vieira that the father of 13-month-old David Banda refused her offer of financial help to keep the boy.
I said I would be happy to bring him back to your village and help you financially raise him. And he said no, Madonna said in an interview on Today and Dateline NBC that was to air today and Thursday.
I think he truly felt in his heart of hearts and who knows if he was telling me the truth that he would have a better life with me. So when he said no, that was, you know, that was my sign that it was my responsibility to look after him.
In related news, newly drafted Madonna Baby Daddy Club member Yohane Banda says the singer snatched David away from another foreign family that had been trying to adopt him, London's Daily Mail reports.
If these people had adopted him, no one would have ever caused this fuss and I could be living my life as normal, Banda says.
Banda also denies Madonna's claim that David's family abandoned him at a Malawian orphanage.
I used to cycle there almost every week to play with him, and his grandmother would sometimes go and spend a few days there.
David was not an abandoned baby. He was very much loved, Banda says.
A woman identified only as a shorty in Las Vegas is carrying the hip-hop pioneer's seventh child, People.
com reports. Flav says the pregnancy has not affected his relationship with Deelishis, the second-season champ of Flavor of Love, his VH1 dating show in which mentally questionable contestants compete to win an inevitably embarrassing appointment with an STD specialist.
And now, the juicy details
Hollywood marriages can't just end for no reason.
Someone has to be cruelly at fault. Jobs depend on it, people!
For example: the Ryan Phillippe-Reese Witherspoon both bust-up.
Us Weekly magazine says Witherspoon pulled the plug after she learned that Phillippe had been spotted cavorting with his Stop Loss co-star Abbie Cornish, although the New York Post says sources point to another, unidentified Phillippe castmate. Cornish's reps deny that the Aussie actress came between Phillippe and Witherspoon.
Coming up: Camp Phillippe plants tabloid tale blaming split on Witherspoon's refusal to stop destroying his vintage action figures with her freezing eye rays of death.
Queen Latifah pledged 150,000 this week to a group that has rescued 3,000 girls from brothels in Southeast Asia, the New York Daily News reports. Latifah promised the money after hearing Cambodian activist Somaly Mam speak at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year Awards. Barbara Walters matched the pledge.
The diet-pill spokes8woman has been hospitalized with pneumonia at the same Bahamian medical center where her 20-year-old son, Daniel, died in September, an attorney for the reality-TV star says.
She has a slight case of pneumonia, Wayne Munroe tells the Associated Press. We've had a sudden change of weather here due to a cold snap.
Meanwhile, Smith lawyer Ron Rule, who has yet to earn the baby-fathering privileges doled out to only the upper tier of Smith attorneys, dismisses as ridiculous allegations that the hair of Smith infant Dannielynn was dyed to make it appear Smith lawyer/fake husband Howard K. Stern is the child's dad.
Debri Opri, an attorney for Smith ex Larry Birkhead, said this week that Birkhead had seen the infant with dark hair in leaked snippets of a TV interview with Smith.
Stern appears to have naturally black hair. Birkhead frosts the tips of his sandy blond hair. Thanks to those who came to the meeting last night by the pool we managed to escape the rain!
Below is what we discussed for those who couldn t attend.
Fitness, Competitive, and Masters Group
Web site: thanks to Alex Ward. Send pictures from meets, workouts, etc for site
Swim-a-thon: very important that everyone take part.
Money for maintenance (pool blanket) and education. Book sale. Bake sale
BSF Individual Membership 2007: Kathy Dillette , BSF Public Relations Officer, will be at the Swim-a-thon all those 18 years and older who are Bahamian citizen and permanent residents to complete a membership and proxy form.
Cost 25.00. 2007 is an election year for officers in the BSF.
As a club we need to help keep good people in charge of the BSF otherwise
Meets: BSF Calendar has been circulated via email, Notice Board, web page, etc. Anyone wishing to participate in meets must pay 100 to cover their meet expenses explain. Emails go out at least 2 weeks before the event.
All you have to do is respond with whether or not you will be able to swim in the meet. The coach will select the events you will swim.
BSC Meet Nov.
10 11: email will go out Monday please respond by Wed. Relays will be entered based on who enters meet. Because of relays you must plan to stay for the whole meet Sat.
only.
Winter Championships Nov. 16-19, Plantation , FL : Zach, Laura, Jenna, Jonathan, Jade, Shaunte, Shonae qualified.
Why? Come to most workouts, work the hardest.
Everyone should be trying to make this meet most will make qualifying times at Nationals.
US Open Nov.30 Dec. 2, Indianapolis , IN : Jeremy, Alana, and Jenna.
Nationals June 22-25 Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Plan vacation accordingly. Need to be planning NOW if you want to be part of the TEAM.
Do we want to place higher than 3rd???
Swift has VERY qualified coaches are you taking advantage of this?
Workouts: directed mainly to Competitive Group and those thinking about moving from the Fitness Group.
i) Attendance: 8 workouts offered, must come to min.
of 5. Anything less you are only fooling yourself about getting into serious shape. If you can t commit consider moving back to the Fitness Group.
ii) Reasons: a small committed team will lead to a big committed team whereas a big sloppy team will always remain a big sloppy team.
- wants to compete in meets to see where they are at with their training. eg.
DSC meet warm up.
11. Conclusion: As parents/guardians you want your children to be doing something healthy, safe, and fun with their time.
We are here to help you and your kids with their commitment to the sport of swimming so they can reach there full potential.
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