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JENNIFER HUDSON is to open up in a TV interview about the family tragedy which saw her mother and brother murdered in a grisly killing spree.
The Dreamgirls singer/actress was left grief-stricken in October, 2008 when her mum Darnell Donerson and brother Jason were found shot dead at t heir Chicago, Illinois home. The body of her seven-year-old nephew, Julia n King, was found in an abandoned car three days later.
Hudson is now preparing to discuss the traumatic experience for U.S. pr ogramme Behind The Music on VH1, which will see her "talk at length" abou t the murders, reports MTV News.
The star will also discuss her rise to fame on American Idol, as well a s her engagement and new son, David Jr.
Hudson’s sister Julia’s estranged husband, William Balfour, has pleaded not guilty to charges of first degree murder and home invasion in connec tion with the triple tragedy.

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R&B star CHRIS BROWN stole the limelight at the 2010 BET Awards on Sunday night (27Jun10) when he performed a showstopping dance tribute to the la te MICHAEL JACKSON.
The Kiss Kiss hitmaker was introduced to the stage by Jermaine Jackson to mark the first anniversary of the King of Pop’s death.
The young singer showed off his fancy footwork to The Way You Make Me F eel, Smooth Criminal and Billie Jean, but struggled to complete his tribu te segment as tears streamed down his face while trying to sing Jackson c lassic Man in the Mirror.
His surprise addition to the show’s line-up came a year after Brown was forced to bow out of plans to take part in the Michael Jackson memorial concert following his highly-publicised bust-up with ex-girlfriend Rihann a.
It was also a big night for Kanye West, who kicked off the 10th annual ceremony with a defiant performance of his new song Power, making his fir st major televised appearance since storming the stage at the 2009 MTV Vi deo Music Awards.
A pregnant Alicia Keys led the way at the ceremony taking double honour s for Best Female R&B Artist and Best Collaboration for her work on Jay-Z ’s New York anthem, Empire State of Mind, while Lil Wayne’s proteges Drak e and Nicki Minaj ruled the main rap categories, taking the Best Male and Best Female Hip-Hop Artist titles, respectively.
Both artists made sure to remember their incarcerated boss, real name D wayne Carter, as they accepted their prizes, with Minaj dedicating her aw ard to the jailed star as Drake called Wayne "my hero and my mentor".
John Legend was honoured with a special prize for his philanthropy, whi le Keys, Janelle Monae, Patti LaBelle and Esmeralda Spalding all took par t in a musical tribute to Lifetime Achievement Award winner Prince.
The audience at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium welcomed the soul icon t o the stage with a standing ovation and Prince thanked his fans for their longrunning support as he hailed the promising new talent in the music i ndustry.
He said, "I do believe the future is in good hands
. I’ve seen so much t alent here tonight.., and I’m just so thankful to be a part of this world of music.
"I was pretty wild in my younger days and you don’t have to do what I d id; you don’t have to make any of the mistakes that I made
. The future is in your hands now, the world is really yours." It was a night of collaborations, with B.o.B
. teaming up with Keyshia C ole and Eminem for Airplanes, and Diddy-Dirty Money being joined by Rick Ross, T.I
. and Nicki Minaj for the Hello, Good Morning remix, while Minaj stepped onstage again for Ludacris’ show finale with rocker Tommy Lee on drums for his single My Chick Bad.
Ludacris closed the show as part of DJ Khaled’s all-star line-up for Al l I Do Is Win, bringing out the likes of T-Pain, Busta Rhymes and Sean ‘D iddy’ Combs to help bring the night to an end.
Other highlights of the 10th Annual BET awards included performances by Usher, El DeBarge and Alicia Keys, who sang a medley of her hits includi ng No One, Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart and Unthinkable (I’m Ready).
Late stars Lena Horne, Teddy Pendergrass, and former child actor Gary C oleman were also remembered at the annual awards show, which was hosted b y Queen Latifah.
Presenters included Jada Pinkett Smith, Taraji P
. Henson, Nia Long, Cia ra and Mike Epps.
The main list of winners at the 2010 BET Awards is as follows: Best Female R&B Artist - Alicia Keys Best Female Hip-Hop Artist - Nicki Minaj Best Male Hip-Hop Artist - Drake Best Collaboration - Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, Empire State of Mind Best Male R&B Artist - Trey Songz Video of the Year - Beyonce and Lady GaGa, Video Phone Humanitarian Award - John Legend Lifetime Achievement Award - Prince Sportsman of the Year - LeBron James Sportswoman of the Year - Serena Williams AOL Pandemonium Prize - Chris Brown
.

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KEITH RICHARDS looked after his guitars better than people while he was r ecording THE ROLLING STONES’ landmark EXILE ON MAIN STREET album at his c hateau home in France - the instruments occupied every chair in the spraw ling home.
The rocker’s then-girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg, still has fond memories of the decadent Nellcote home Richards turned into a recording studio an d party mecca in the early 1970s.
But it wasn’t well decorated - and no one had anywhere to sit.
She recalls, "The whole house was majestic, very big and decaying. Ther e was no furniture. I remember bringing home some rugs and in all the pho tographs you see them. We lived in that rock ‘n’ roll hippie style; on th e floor basically.
"Everybody was shocked to see how such a beautiful place could have all these toys on the floor and the best places were for the guitars. All th e nice couches had the guitars on them! You always had to sit somewhere e lse. Keith does that. He’s always got the guitar in the best place with t he best seat!"

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Dad-to-be NE-YO has something else to celebrate after tying for the Ameri can Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Songwriter of th e Year honour with C. ‘TRICKY’ STEWART and THE-DREAM.
The So Sick singer picked up the honour at ASCAP’s Rhythm & Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills on Friday (25Jun10), where Dr. Dre, Janelle Monae and Jermaine Dupri were also lauded.
Dr. Dre received the Founders Award and Monae was named the 2010 Vangua rd Award honouree.
Dupri, Johnta Austin and Manuel Seal picked up the Song of the Decade p rize for We Belong Together and Best I Ever Had, written by Matthew Samue ls was named Best Rap Song.
Stewart, Christopher Henderson, Brandon Melancon and Nate Walka receive d the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Song prize for Blame It and the Top Gospel Song ho nour went to Ernest Estee Bullock for Souled Out.
The evening’s performance highlight came when Eminem took the stage as part of DJ Kid Capri’s tribute set to Dr. Dre. Eminem then stayed onstage to present his mentor with the Founders Award.
Past recipients of the coveted ASCAP award include Garth Brooks, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Smokey Robinson and Sir Paul McCartney.

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RAY DAVIES paid tribute to his former THE KINKS bandmate PETE QUAIFE duri ng his set at the Glastonbury festival in England on Sunday (27Jun10).
The singer/songwriter dedicated See My Friends to the bassist, who died of kidney failure last week (23Jun10). He was 66.
Davies told fans, "I wouldn’t be here today if it wasn’t for him." The star and Quaife founded The Kinks in 1962.
Davies had a thrill for the festivalgoers - he brought the Crouch End F estival Choir onstage with him to perform a string of Kinks hits. (KL/WN/

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Four Romanian customs officials who left members of AC/DC and their crew stranded on a highway have been fired.
The group was fined 2,500 Euros ($3,000/=C2=A32,000) after they were ac cused of failing to pay a road toll and banned from leaving the country a fter a concert in Budapest on 16 May (10).
Doina Tiron, spokeswoman for the firm responsible for Romania’s roads, told the AFP, "The band’s caravan was stopped at the border with Hungary by employees of the national roads company who asked them to pay 50 Euros for each vehicle or a total of 2,500 Euros, before they were allowed to leave the country." The band’s tour organisers paid up, allowing the stars to continue on t heir journey, but later filed a complaint with the highway authorities.
And now, according to the Herald Sun newspaper, four civil servants res ponsible for the mix up have been sacked and a fifth official has been de moted over the incident.

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STEVIE WONDER paid tribute to Britain’s Glastonbury Festival as he topped the bill on Sunday night (27Jun10) - by dedicating his hit song HAPPY BI RTHDAY to the event’s 40th anniversary.
The festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, south-west England saw stars i ncluding Gorillaz, Muse, Kylie Minogue, The Scissor Sisters and Snoop Dog g perform to thousands of revellers over the weekend-long bash.
The Superstition hitmaker headlined on Sunday to close the festivities and surprised the crowd by bringing event organiser Michael Eavis on to t he stage to praise his work over the last 40 years.
Wonder told revellers, "I want to thank this wonderful man who’s had th is for 40 years. Yes, 40 years. It’s a celebration. Happy Birthday. Micha el Eavis…" He then broke into song, performing Happy Birthday as Eavis - who found ed the event in 1970 - joined in on vocals.

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MICHAEL JACKSON’s mother KATHERINE has dismissed ongoing reports suggesti ng she doesn’t get along with her son’s ex-wife DEBBIE ROWE, insisting sh e has a great deal of love and respect for the woman who gave birth to th e King of Pop’s two eldest kids.
In a candid and rare TV news interview, which aired in America on Frida y (25Jun10) - the anniversary of her son’s death, the Jackson family matr iarch revealed she didn’t meet Rowe until after the King of Pop had died - and she found his ex to be warm and friendly.
This, after the two women were pitted against each other in media repor ts surrounding the custody of Rowe’s biological kids Prince Michael, 13, and Paris, 12.
Jackson says, "I hadn’t met her before Michael died. We met and we clic ked right away… We cried together, we talked, we had a nice time togeth er because, when we met, it was just Michael we thought about mostly - an d the children.
"All the rumours about Debbie Rowe wanting to take the children away (a re) completely false… Debbie’s happy with the arrangement the way Mich ael left it and she sees nothing wrong with me raising the children and I respect her and love her for that." The two women’s mutual friend, Marc Schaffel, made the top secret meeti ng happen - and was the only other person in the room when the two women hugged and cried.
He recalls, "Nobody knew; no lawyers knew, no representatives knew. The y looked at each other and tears just started running down both of their eyes." Jackson has since welcomed Rowe into her home for regular visits with h er kids - and Schaffel insists the former dental nurse has offered to hel p raise the kids if anything should happen to her one-time mother-in-law.
In his will, Michael Jackson suggested that Diana Ross should step in a s his kids’ guardian if his mother should pass.
Schaffel says, "Debbie is the children’s biological mother and she will always be there for them. If Mrs. Jackson wasn’t available she would be right there." Katherine adds, "I feel that she should be in their lives and the child ren should know her."

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Hot young British star EDWARD HOGG insists on handing out all the awards he has been winning at film festivals this year to his parents and drama teacher - because they appreciate the accolades more than he does.
The 30 year old, who had bit parts in Nicholas Nickleby and Alfie, is f ast becoming the darling of the festival circuit, winning acting honours at Berlin Film Festival, European Film Festival, British Indie Film Award s and Mumbai Film Festival for acclaimed new movie White Lightnin’.
But you’ll find none of the prizes dotted around his own home.
He tells WENN, "The award from the Mumbai Film Festival, I gave to my o ld drama teacher because of the support in my career.
"I gave my mum and dad my Berlin Shooting Stars and the award I won in Cannes about three weeks ago, which was called Male Revelation of the Yea r - which made me sound like a porn star! "I’d much rather they (parents) have them because they appreciate them.
" But Hogg has started a collection of keepsakes from his movies after co mpleting Anonymous with director Roland Emmerich.
He adds, "I’ve got the back of the director’s chair that has my name on it. It was the first time I’d ever had a chair with my name on it." (KL/ RXM&WN/KD) ————————————————————————-

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TWILIGHT star TAYLOR LAUTNER is a huge fan of TV talent show AMERICAN IDO L - because he’s tone deaf.
The hunky actor boasts he has never missed an episode in nine years - b ut it’s not because he has secret musical dreams.
He tells WENN, "I can’t sing, which is the funny thing, so maybe that’s why I like watching it so much. I know there’s no way I can do that.
"I think there is a statement in my contract promising there will be no musical numbers!"

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Actor WENTWORTH MILLER is stepping behind the camera - he’s written the s creenplay for a new movie.
The Prison Break star has put pen to paper for Stoker, which tells the tale of an eccentric teenager coping with the death of her father.
Carey Mulligan is the favourite to take on the lead role, while Jodie F oster is also in talks to join the cast, according to the Los Angeles Tim es.

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Actor BILL MURRAY fired his agent when he realised he didn’t want to be a ssociated with someone who kept bothering him.
The Lost in Translation star now has no representation and acts as his own agent and publicist after one particularly keen aide kept calling and calling.
Murray tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, "When you have an agent, th e phone rings all the time, because there’s someone there whose job it is to get so-and-so on the phone, and so they dial the number, and they’ll let it ring 75 times.
"You can be in your house and be like, ‘I’m not answering that phone…
‘ and all you can really think is, ‘I really don’t want to meet the perso n that lets a phone ring like that." Murray insists his life is a lot simpler now - and quieter.
He explains, "The phone just doesn’t ring, it’s nice."

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Actor SEAN PATRICK FLANERY allegedly owes more than $64,000 (=C2=A343,000 ) in unpaid taxes to the state of California.
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles star is facing legal action after of ficials at the State of California Franchise Tax Board issued papers clai ming he owes $64,684 (=C2=A345,789).
The documents, obtained by TMZ.com, allege that Flannery owes the money for payments due between between 2003 and 2008.

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ENTOURAGE star JEREMY PIVEN is still upset by suggestions he faked the il lness that cost him a role in DAVID MAMET’s play SPEED-THE-PLOW in 2008, insisting he regrets not speaking out at the time.
The actor quit the Broadway show less than two months into the producti on and left producers to scramble around and find a replacement. William H. Macy signed up at short notice.
Piven maintains a bout of mercury poisoning cost him the role of a life time - and he wasn’t faking it.
He tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper, "That talk really did hurt. I grew up in a family that dedicated its life to the theatre… There was this misconception that the Hollywood boy tried to do Broadway not realis ing what it was. Doing Mamet on Broadway is the Holy Grail (for an actor) .. If anyone thinks I would take something like that for granted, they’ve got the wrong guy.
"My body was literally trying to survive. I was in bed every day until the moment I hit the stage. As soon as I was offstage, I was in bed." Piven’s only regret is that he didn’t fire back at the criticism at the time: "I didn’t retaliate, decided to take the high road. Now I think I did the wrong thing in doing that." The poisoning turned into the Epstein-Barr virus and floored Piven for weeks. He admits the illness was a wake-up call.
He explains, "I’m dedicated to my health and to getting into the best s hape of my life."

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The costume designer widow of actor and writer SPALDING GRAY has revealed her late husband lost the will to live after suffering brain damage in a car accident in Ireland.
Gray committed suicide by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New Yo rk in 2004, but his widow Kathleen Russo believes something died inside h im years before.
She tells WENN, "The car accident in Ireland is really what led him to commit suicide, which a lot of people don’t know about.
"We were in Ireland in 2001 to celebrate his 60th birthday in County Me ath and it was our second night there and we were coming back from a rest aurant… and someone hit us head on.
"We were on a country road and there’s not really room for two cars to go by and it was just getting dark and I was driving and Spalding was beh ind me in the back seat and he wasn’t wearing his seat belt. There were t hree people in the car and I was the only one wearing a seat belt.
"Spalding flew into the back of my head. I needed stitches and he crush ed his skull on the right side. We didn’t know about that until a couple of weeks after when his head collapsed in and I noticed a dent in his for ehead. We were there for the whole summer for his surgeries.
"When we heard he needed a head operation we flew home to New York… H e had right frontal lobe damage and scar tissue developed, which led to b rain damage and that led him to commit suicide and jump off the Staten Is land Ferry." Gray disappeared for two months before his body was found in the East R iver and Russo admits the press coverage surrounding his whereabouts was particularly difficult for the family.
She adds, "The hardest thing was when he was missing for two months and people were sending me pictures and saying, ‘This is him.’ I knew he was not a cruel person and would never start a new life somewhere else, whic h is what the media was saying."

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Former U.S. Vice President DICK CHENEY has been hospitalised in Washingto n, D.C. after experiencing chest pains and discomfort.
Cheney checked into George Washington University Hospital on Friday (25 Jun10).
The 69-year-old politician has suffered heart problems and was hospital ised for chest pains in February (10), when doctors diagnosed a a mild he art attack.

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The toys and the GROWN UPS rule the U.S. box office, combining to make $1 00 million (=C2=A366 million) over the weekend.
Adam Sandler’s comedy opened with $41 million (=C2=A327.3 million) but failed to steal the top spot from Toy Story 3, which raked in $59 million (=C2=A339.3 million) in its second week on release.
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s action comedy Knight and Day opened in th ird place with a distant and disappointing $20.5 million (=C2=A313.6 mill ion) - the worst opening for a Cruise film in 20 years.
The Karate Kid and The A-Team round out the new top five.

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WILLIE NELSON fears his hippie look held him back at the beginning of his career - because straight-laced Nashville, Tennessee music executives di dn’t give him the credit he deserved.
The country music legend was inducted into Nashville’s music mecca the Grand Ole Opry in 1965, but he now admits he never felt he belonged in Mu sic City - because of the way he looked.
He tells Parade magazine, "The executives in music were a little prejud iced and biased about someone’s appearance. They never stopped to think t hat maybe that long-haired hippie out there might have a little talent.
"There are a lot of people that hate change and want to keep things the way they’ve always been. Nashville was one of the last places to be leni ent toward the hippies and the long hairs. That’s one of the things that held it back.
"I felt like they failed to realise that I really knew what I was talki ng about. I was writing some pretty good songs and my singing wasn’t that bad. I had a base in Texas. But the majority of the people that I record ed for and the publishing companies that I wrote for had heard stories ab out how popular I was in Texas. But they never left their desks in Nashvi lle long enough to come by and check it out.
"Whenever I’d go down to Texas to play to thousands of people on the we ekend, they didn’t know anything about it in Nashville. So it was a big d isconnect between Nashville and the rest of the world for me back in thos e days."

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