Outside the box.....

Rihanna’s new ad for GUCCI (above). Also in RiRi world, she nearly
fainted at a concert overseas, she’s fine now!

Kendra Wilkinson of The Girls Next Door is engaged to football star
Hank Baskett, according to her ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner, who plans to
give her away at a ceremony at the Playboy Mansion.

"[She] has met someone who she would like to spend the rest of her life
with," Hefner said in a statement on Thursday.

Wendy Williams announced that WBLS has fired her sidekick Charlamagne
Tha God from her popular radio show.Williams blamed the layoff on the
current financial crisis in the United States. But Charlamagne was
quickly picked up by South Carolina for his own show


Lauren London has just joined the cast of 90210. Her character’s
name is “Christina” and she has already shot 2 episodes

Kat Williams was arrested in NYC on Thursday hours before his
performance. His vehicles had three unregistered fire arms inside

Labels of Love
Sanrio, the parent company of the Hello Kitty brand, is setting up its
first Sanrio Luxe concept shop in Times Square, at 233 West 42nd Street.
The opening is planned for tomorrow. The store, which will sell
merchandise ranging from an exclusive pack of pencils for $5 to a
diamond-encrusted pendant for $30,000.


Target has just announced they will launch Designer Collaborations, a
new initiative that will bring well-established designers to the masses
— and they’ll kick things off with McQ Alexander McQueen for
Target.

Music Notes

LUPE revealed that his final album will be a three-disc set divided
among the letters E, N, and D. The “E” in LupE.N.D. stands for
Everywhere, the “N” for Nowhere, and the “D” for Down Here.


Usher will be the sole musical guest on THE VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION
SHOW, to be taped at Fontainebleau Miami Beach



Beyonce wants to be a black Wonder Women: she tells the Los Angeles
Times. "It would be great. And it would be a very bold choice. A black
Wonder Woman would be a powerful thing. It's time for that, right?"

The singer-actress, 27, has met with representatives at DC Comics and
Warner Bros. to discuss donning the red, white and blue bathing suit on
screen, she says.

Paper Trail

O at Home, the quarterly spin-off of O, The Oprah Magazine, will not be
published as of its winter 2008 issue. The last stand alone issue of O
at Home will be on newsstands Nov. 25…. Also in O’s world: Oprah show
contract ends in 2011 and the rumors are she will not renew. Instead
she will go over to her OWN network for shows…..Also in the magazine
world, Condé Nast has decided not to produce Fashion Rocks the magazine
or the show