They had an episode the other night with this girl named Ebony and her white boyfriend. It was interesting. They both had aspirations to join the Air Force and Ebony was forced to put her dreams aside and let her boyfriend enlist to support the family. It's a pretty good show. I don't think it glamourizes teen pregnancy in any way, it really shows the struggle.

Amanda Marshall (born August 29, 1972 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pop-rock singer.

Marshall studied music extensively during her childhood, including at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. While performing on the Queen Street West bar scene in her teens, she met guitarist Jeff Healey, who was struck by her powerful voice and took her on tour. She was offered a record deal by Columbia Records in 1991, but chose to wait a few years before releasing her debut album.

She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family to a Caucasian father and a Black mother. In several of her songs, Marshall has reflected on her racial identity "as a woman who looks white but is also half-black".

In 1995, Marshall signed to Epic Records, and released her debut album Amanda Marshall the same year. The album was a major success in Canada, generating a great deal of airplay and spawning six Top 40 hits -- "Let It Rain," "Beautiful Goodbye," "Dark Horse," "Fall From Grace," "Sitting on Top of the World," and "Birmingham," which remains her biggest hit internationally

Alek Wek (born 16 April 1977) is a Sudanese model who first appeared on the catwalks at the age of 19 in 1995, sparking a career lasting to date. She is from the Dinka ethnic group in the Sudan, but in 1991 she and some family members fled to Britain to escape the civil war between the Muslim north and the Christian south of the Sudan. She later moved to the United States.

Alek and longtime Italian Boyfriend Riccardo Sala



Oluchi's man is from Italy too. I guess Italians like dark black girls. I better get a plan ticket fast! lol

Charmaine Blake is a famous publicist.

Her clients include Carl Payne from "Martin" fame, Bobby Trendy aka Ana Nicole's former stylist, Christopher Reid aka "Kid" from Kid N Play, Tracey Morgan, Warren G, Eric Bonet, Justin Guarini and more.

She is married to Dr. Frank Ryan.


You can check out her web site at http://www.charmaineprfirm.com.

Garret Dillahunt (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor.

After spending years on and off Broadway, Dillahunt began pursuing television and film roles. He appeared as a regular in several short lived series on ABC and Showtime and landed guest spots on popular TV shows such as The X Files and NYPD Blue among others, before playing two distinct characters on the HBO series Deadwood; Jack McCall in 2004 and Francis Wolcott in 2005. He played a recurring role on the USA Network series The 4400.

Dillahunt portrayed Steve Curtis on several episodes of ER (2005, 2006). He followed that up with the role of Dr. Michael Smith in the 2007 HBO drama, John From Cincinnati. He played John Henry/Cromartie on FOX's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. He has appeared on NBC's Life as Roman Nevikov, a Russian mobster/FBI informant.

Film roles include Ed Miller in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Wendell in No Country For Old Men. Upcoming film roles include: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Wes Craven's The Last House On The Left.

Garret & wife Michelle

Nicole Coleman Mullen (born June 26, 1967) is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and choreographer. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She recorded her first solo album, Don’t Let Me Go, in 1991 with the independent label Frontline Records. Mullen continued her singing-songwriting-choreography career in the 1990s, singing backup for Michael W. Smith and the Newsboys, writing for Jaci Velasquez, and working as a dancer/choreographer with Amy Grant. She also provided backup vocals for the music video at the end of the VeggieTales program, Larry-Boy and the Fib from Outer Space! and the opening of the VeggieTales presentation, Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed. She was signed to Word Records in 1998 by VP of A&R Brent Bourgeois. Her fourth album, Talk About It, was certified gold for sales in excess of 500,000 copies on April 15, 2008.

Mullen established a mentor group for girls called “The Baby Girls Club”. She and her husband, David Mullen, are youth leaders in their local church, tutor inner-city youth, and participate in Kids Across America summer camp( http://kidsacrossamerica.org/) for inner city youth. Mullen is also active with the International Needs Network Ghana, an organization that works to free Trokosi slaves in Ghana.

Mullen is the only black artist to win the Dove Award for Song of the Year.

Nicole & David

A Yale–educated native of Georgia (B.A., Art History) who studied postgraduate at the New York School of Interior Design, Elaine began her design career in the office of architectural behemoth Peter Marino, following a nine–year career as a publicist in New York and Paris. She is a contributing editor of Elle Decor and is ranked as one of House Beautiful's Top 100 American Designers. A participant in the 2003 Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse, Elaine's work has been featured in publications including Elle Decor, House Beautiful, the New York Times, Daily News and Post, Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Accents, New York magazine, and Oprah's O at Home.

She has appeared in design segments on the Today show, Everyday Elegance with Colin Cowie, DIY's Sweat Equity, Fox's Morning Show with Mike & Juliet, the Maury Povich Show, the W.E. network's She-House Cinema, and ABC Family's Bachelor Pad. Elaine shared her expertise with America as the exclusive on-page design consultant for the new Spiegel catalogue.

Elaine's first book, Design Rules: The Professional's Guide to Do-It-Yourself Home Style, will be published by Viking in Fall 2009.

Here's her website on Interior Design: http://www.elainegriffin.com/

Elaine and her Husband

China Forbes (born April 29, 1970) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of Pink Martini.

Forbes was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father is American of French/Scottish descent, and her mother is African American. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy ('88), then studied visual arts at Harvard University, where she met fellow student Thomas M. Lauderdale, a classically-trained pianist. They became friends and met regularly to play music together.

After graduating from Harvard in 1992, where she won the Jonathan Levy Prize for acting, Forbes worked as an actress for several years, performing off-Broadway in New York. She then became a musician, forming a band and recording a solo album. She sang the title song ("Ordinary Girl") for the late 1990s television series Clueless and the version of "Que Sera Sera" used over the opening and closing credits of Jane Campion's 2003 film In the Cut.

Lauderdale, who by then was living in Portland, Oregon, asked her to sing with Pink Martini, a band he had assembled to play at political fundraisers in Portland. After three years, she moved to Portland in 1998 to work full-time with the band.

Apart from her efforts with Pink Martini, Forbes has released two solo albums:

Love Handle (1995)
78 (2008, Heinz Records)
China will also be featured on Michael Feinstein's newest album, “The Sinatra Project”, singing a duet of “How Will It Last?”