Sigh.
Why couldn't he just be a nice young man?
The news broke this weekend that Jourdan Dunn's boyfriend (and the father of her two month old son) has been jailed for three years for selling coke.
Weirdly enough his name is Jordan too - Jordan Cummings a 20 year old from North London.
British tabloid The Sun broke the story, with one unnamed source saying of Cummings:
The police kicked down his front door when they arrested him.
He's well-known on the streets as a dealer. He's been dealing since he was a teenager, and makes about £1,000 a week. He and Jourdan are always out and have been together about five years - though I've never heard marriage mentioned.
Damn.
Sigh...
And so it has come to pass, nearly a year and a half after we first raised our eyebrows at the painful and foolish pronouncements of Jah Cure's alleged baby mother and known party girl, Gordene... and got blasted for it by Gordene's cyber friends, cousins and assorted supporters.
Turns out that Cure is NOT the father of Gordene's now 10 month old baby girl... which many suspected all along.
Cure released a statement yesterday, trying to quash the whole passa passa which had Jamaica in a tizzy for the last week or so, saying:
There have been recent media reports about a DNA test result that involved Jah Cure. While not wishing to join the media circus that has ensued because of these revelations, Jah Cure wishes to outline a few facts and settle the matter once and for all.
Jah Cure has supported the mother throughout her pregnancy and had his father and manager be with her at the time of delivery in the US. His support for her throughout this period was unwavering.
Before the birth of the child Jah Cure requested a DNA test, a request which the mother refused. Despite this, Jah Cure continued to support the child and the mother.
Now that the DNA test has been done and it has been shown that he is not the father, Jah Cure wishes to move on. The fact is that the most important individual in this whole affair is the child and the longer that this continues the more damage is being done to the child. Jah Cure will not now abandon the child but wishes that the media respect the privacy of the parties as the child is indeed innocent and did not contribute to the mistakes of the adults involved."
What a ting...
There's not much more to add to that.
Except... what a shame. That a presumably intelligent girl (as we noted back in our original post, Gordene is an Andrews girl) would turn to such slack and desperate groupie tactics - and with a man fresh out of jail (and all that portends) too.
Fix up yu life, dear.
Islandista and soca mummy Destra Garcia gave birth to her baby girl, Xaiya yesterday, almost exactly at full term.
The Express in Trinidad reported that the baby, who weighed in at 6 lbs and 15 oz, came a day earlier than her due date - wha kinda island baby little Xaiya is, being so prompt?!
Mother and child are doing well after a long labour for Miss Sassiness, who told the Express:
’It was everything I thought it would be. Now I have to learn how to be a good mum. She is so innocent. Right now she is just sleeping a lot.’
Congrats Destra and looking forward to seeing you back out next Carnival!
Jourdan Dunn has confirmed what we reported a few days back - she is indeed pregnant.
In an interview with Vogue.co.uk, Jourdan said she was excited about motherhood:
"I'm really looking forward to the future and having my baby... I'm lucky - I'm feeling really well. I'm healthy and happy!"
Vogue also reported that the father is Jourdan's boyfriend of many years and that Jourdan plans to continue working between London and New York after the baby's birth in December.
We have to thank our readers for giving us a heads up when necessary. Jane Doe and Socamommy set us right in our last post with some useful tips.Apparently, Ravurz is not the first Kadooment band to have launched. Harbour Lights (aka Blue Box Cart) launched their band on May 3rd with a showing at the club.
Funnily enough, there has been nothing about Lights' launch on the regular Crop-Over sites such as kadooment.com or cropovercarnival.com. There has been nothing in the paper nor even mentioned on radio - not even on Mix 96.There is not even anything official on Harbour Lights' website.It's almost... as if they did not want the general public to know that their band had launched.Funny, funny, funny... why would that be? I can't imagine... (racking brain)So let me rephrase... Ravurz is the first band to let the general public know that they have launched. There is not even anything official about the Lights launch on their Facebook page, Harbour Lights Crew. However, the enterprising Anja managed to snag some grainy pics from a friend who went to the launch so you can take a look at some of the costumes below.
Update: False alarm! Turns out that this was just a rumour - but apparently, even a television station in TnT reported it and from there it went flying. However, we have received reports, both from bandi, in the comments section and also someone who has just returned from Trinidad this evening, that it is false. Fay-Ann is still very much pregnant and she and Bunji actually had a good laugh about it today when they were being interviewed as they made the rounds following her Road March win.
That would have been too perfect timing, wouldn't it?
Ok, so I'm still checking up on this one, but rumours are flying around that Fay-Ann Lyons actually gave birth yesterday - as in Carnival Tuesday.
Both bandi from Trini blog bandwagonist and commenters on regional site islandmix have been reporting this. Reportedly she gave birth to a baby girl.
I'm still checking around to get a solid confirmation of this because... wow! That would be almost eerie timing. It almost seems too crazy to be true - the daughter of Fay-Ann Lyons and Bunji Garlin and granddaughter of Super Blue being born on Carnival Tuesday, even as her mother was storming to her third Road March win?
It should also be kept in mind that Fay-Ann was eight months along and was not due til next month so she still had a few more weeks to go.
If she has delivered, we wish her and Bunji all the best - girl, you is a real super woman if this is true!
So I'm just going to go ahead and call this for Fay-Ann Lyons.
They have not yet announced the results of the Bmobile International Power Soca Monarch contest and the Playwey (?) Groovy Soca Monarch contest but if Fay-Ann ent win de big one (power soca) then the judges did not see what the whole Caribbean did.
Eight months pregnant, Fay-Ann mash up the place with her hit 'Meet Super Blue'. Half way through her performance, she brought on the man himself, her father Austin Lyons, aka Super Blue, eight time road march king. He didn't have to do a thing except be there - he didn't have to sing a note because the crowd was hers already.
Then... Fay-Ann bring de dunner. She hold over and say 'ah feel a pain'. Call me foolish, I fell for it, especially when Super Blue put his arm around her shoulder. Hear me:
"Oh shite, she gine have a Carnival baby fuh trute?"
