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In Hollywood, you’re only afforded a handful of public spaz-outs before you’re given the severe side-eye and labeled as a looney tune. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actress Janet Hubert, who is still affectionately known as the original Aunt Viv, seems to have used up all of her courtesy melt downs, leaving many of us looking at her with raised eyebrows and asking, “What’s really going on?” Within the past three years, the 57-year-old Chicago native has flipped out on former co-star Will Smith and talk show host Wendy Williams, both on multiple occasions. Now she appears to have beef with The Talk host Aisha Tyler.

During the show, Tyler commented on the vintage Fresh Prince of Bel-Air beef between Hubert and Will Smith, which set Hubert completely off (again). Making it clear that she was not pleased with Tyler’s comments, the 90s actress posted an angry message on the talk show host’s Facebook page.

“Yo, weave woman, your comments were not appreciated. You are not funny in the least. You know some people, and so do I. Remember that. You can be replaced quicker than I was,” Hubert wrote.

“You should remember how you got your job and why you are in that chair in the first place. If you want to dish it out, you better be able to take it as well,” she added.

Tyler, not being one to back down, responded to Hubert’s comments on-air.

“First of all, I think she has fabulous taste in daytime television talk shows -  excellent taste. She’s obviously still very angry about something that happened more than 20 years ago, and that’s the part that I find saddest about all of this. Bad things happen to people all of the time. Unfair things happen to people all of the time. I wasn’t there. I don’t know [what happened]. As an adult, you move on in your life because it’s a trap to be stuck in this place of — from what I can tell — bitterness and it’s just sad,” Tyler expressed.

“I really wish her the best. I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again: She’s gorgeous, she’s talented and she should move on with her life, do great things and stop focusing on stuff that happened a million years ago,” Tyler continued.

Turn the page to see Aisha’s co-hosts Sheryl Underwood and Sharon Osbourne jump in on the action. What do you think of Janet’s latest tongue-lashing?

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By Dr. Matt Morris

In counseling families, I often ask teens if they are sexually active. Some say, “yes” and others say, “not yet.” None of them ask what sex is. That’s right, by the time kids are 14 and up, they all seem to know some information about having sex.

But where are they learning this information? School? Their friends? Grey’s Anatomy? Pornography? Every parent should talk to their kids about sex, beginning at an early age in a non-shaming way and throughout the child’s development. In this post, I’ll describe an overview of how to talk to your kids about sex at any age.

1. Very young children. Talk to toddlers about their bodies. Teach them the names of all their body parts, including their genitals. Teach them the anatomically correct names and then use a nickname if desired. Also begin to teach them (in a non-threating way) that some body parts are private and that private parts are not to be displayed to others or touched by others. Private parts are private — ”for your eyes only” (excluding parents and physicians).

2. Pre-school kids. Continue to talk to them about their bodies. Answer their questions with short, accurate, age-appropriate answers. You don’t have to give all the information — just enough to satisfy their curiosity. Don’t be embarrassed by their questions or make your children feel ashamed for wondering about their bodies. Continue to teach them about private parts and “stranger danger” without scaring them. And if they are touching their own genitals (little boys often put their hands in their pants), teach them not to do this in public and that this is a private activity. Again, no shame.

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Funny lady Sheryl Underwood has always been an “aunt in my head.” She always seems so cool, down to earth and downright real, which is why it didn’t come as a surprise when we learned that homegirl yanked her wig off on national television just to get a little chuckle.

I know you’re probably wondering, “What on earth possessed her to do that?” So, allow me to fill you in on how it all went down. On last Friday’s episode of daytime television show, The Talk Sheryl and her cohorts Aisha Tyler, Sarah Gilbert and Julie Chen were interviewing actress Kristin Chenoweth, along with their guest co-host, Donny Osmond. During the interview the ladies got to chatting it up about hair extensions and making fun their “enhanced,” luxurious locs. In the heat of the moment, Julie took off one of her hair pieces and began waving it around. As everyone broke out in a fit of laughter, Kristin and Aisha did the same, joining in on the fun. Julie then looked at Sheryl, egging her on and chanting, “Do it! Do It.” Sheryl eventually pulled back her wig, exposing her greying hair.

In other The Talk news, according to Always A List, back in January when it was announced that the daytime talk show would be renewed for a third season, it was also revealed that the CBS show had been doing really well as far as ratings are concerned. With an average of 2.35 million viewers, which is an 11% increase from the previous year.

Keep up the good work, ladies!

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Do you think Sheryl should’ve passed on the wig-flipping session?

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From Your Tango

I met Jay when he was four years old. He came into my office because he said, “She’s a Itchbay and I would like to Fawk her” to a preschool girl. He was four.

I truly believe that he had no idea what he was saying and what the actual words meant. However, he had been exposed to these words and had even witnessed many things that he never should have. Jay had been recently removed from his parents custody and sent to live with his grandfather.

Why am I telling you this? Your kids are going to school with other Jays now. He’s the little boy with behaviorial problems. He’s the grade-school kiddo who french kisses girls on the bus. He’s the sexually promiscuous teenager.

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Everybody has their own opinions about the messiness that is the Jackson family right now, but the most bold of all might be the one from fellow celeb Gladys Knight. Yesterday the legendary singer appeared on the CBS daytime show “The Talk” and when the hosts asked her for her thoughts on everything going on with the Jackson clan right now, she didn’t hesitate to say how she really felt.

“It’s drama, that’s what it is. If you lived up under the microscope as this family does, everybody has dysfunctionality in their families, either one way or the other,” she started.

“See, I’m from the south and was raised in that southern way. You have to understand Paris is what, 14? How old is Janet? Who’s the one who tries to direct the other one here? And I would think that it’s a good thing she let’s Paris know who she is. She is a Jackson, she shouldn’t be putting the business out there like that. Cause people read into whatever they want to read into, that’s how they get the drama. So, she’s just trying to protect her, in a way. But if she [Paris] called me that, she wouldn’t have any teeth…You respect your elders.”

I think Gladys might be getting the “spoiled b****” line that everyone has been talking about mixed up because that’s what Janet supposedly called Paris, but everything else I agree with. The public wouldn’t know half of the foolery going on in that Calabasas compound if it weren’t for her tweets—and the police records. When celebrities in their 20s and 30s and even 40s don’t know how to handle Twitter, the social media site can definitely be a dangerous thing in the hands of a teenager who talks a lot of stuff 140 characters at a time 24/7. Eventually she’s going to wish she didn’t have the entire world in her business, especially when there’s enough immediate family to contend with. Maybe Gladys oughtt to pay a trip to the grounds and set them all straight. What do you say?

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Another shock-jock columnist has bitten the dust for his attempt at being cleverly controversial with just a hint of racial prejudice.

Over the weekend, the National Review fired John Derbyshire for his online article, “The Talk: Nonblack Version,” which was written for right-wing publication, Taki’s Magazine, as a response to the conversations black people are having with their children as a result of Trayvon Martin’s killing. The columnist wrote a list of things white parents should be telling their kids about black people, and as you can probably guess, it’s quite off the cuff.

The article has been taken down in it’s entirety since this morning, but a few gems from the authors list of talking points lives on in other reports, including:

• You will observe that the means — the averages — of many traits are very different for black and white Americans, as has been confirmed by methodical inquiries in the human sciences.

• While black-on-black behavior is more antisocial in the average than is white-on-white behavior, average black-on-white behavior is a degree more antisocial yet.

•  Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.

•  Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.

• If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).

• Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.

• If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.

• Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.

• Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character.

• Do not act the Good Samaritan to blacks in apparent distress, e.g., on the highway.

• If accosted by a strange black in the street, smile and say something polite but keep moving.

• The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites.

One could argue that black parents are telling their children the exact same thing about white people, and that both sides even have a point, but the thing is we’re not spouting this “advice” off as fact in national online publications or  making these claims to distract focus on the real matter at hand. When a black man kills a white guy for simply looking suspicious in his neighborhood and doesn’t go to jail for it (on top of hundreds of years of racial oppression), then white people can start having these sorts of “talks.” Oh wait, that will never happen.

Mike Lowry, the editor of National Review, explained John’s firing in response to the article, saying:

“We never would have published it, but the main reason that people noticed it is that it is by a National Review writer. Derb is effectively using our name to get more oxygen for views with which we’d never associate ourselves otherwise. So there has to be a parting of the ways. Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish it constitutes a kind of letter of resignation.”

Unfortunately someone else will probably give him a job in no time.

What do you think about John Derbyshire’s column?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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If you were like me, you probably loved the original cast of CBS’ “The Talk.” (Minus Marissa Jaret Winokur, who left the show last January.) “The Talk,” which was clearly CBS’ answer to ABC’s “The View”was strong in the fact that its co-hostesses all came from diverse backgrounds. There was a lesbian (Sara Gilbert), a Brit (Sharon Osbourne), a black woman (Holly Robinson Peete), an Asian woman (Julie Chen) and the feisty Jewish and Italian woman, Leah Remini. In an industry dominated by white men, it was more than refreshing to see such a diverse cast on daytime television. In all seriousness, it was beautiful. And often more light-hearted and less controversial than “The View.” Sometimes all that screaming over one another really is too much.

But all good things must come to an end right? In a shocking and unexplained move, the network axed Peete and Remini and replaced them with Sheryl Underwood and Aisha Tyler. Interesting, right? While I don’t mean to throw any shade whatsoever to Underwood and Tyler, I miss the old lineup! I loved Leah’s authentic frankness and Holly’s delightful overshares. The dynamic of all the women and how they communicated with one another really made for good television. But what was so unsettling about Peete and Remini’s exit was the fact that no one said a thing about it.

Until now.

Leah Remini took to the 24 hour celebrity press conference, a.k.a. Twitter, to finally address why she and Peete had to go. (Finally, some closure.)

This is what she had to say: (Buckle your seat belts.)

“Sharon thought me and Holly were ‘Ghetto’, (her words) we were not funny, awkward and didn’t know ourselves… She had us fired.”

Oh lawd.

Before we get into this, let’s pause for the cause, if I hear yet another ignorant person, Caucasian or otherwise, incorrectly use the word “ghetto,” I’m going to start a riot…in the confines of my own apartment…without breaking any valuables, of course.

Leah went on to tweet that Sharon revealed all of this on Howard Stern when she, Chen and Gilbert appeared on his show back in December. Looking at the some excerpts of the interview, Sharon did say that the two didn’t “know themselves.” But the ghetto thing, I didn’t see. But who knows. In Ms. Osbourne’s defense though, if she thought Holly and Leah were ghetto, I’m sure Sheryl, though she is not ghetto, would probably be waaay too much for her to handle. And I’m not the only one who believes this, one of Remini’s followers tweeted:

@LeahRemini if so then it looks like Sheryl is the next to go cause Sharon looks like “shut up Beyotch” when Sheryl is talking

(On the real, sometime Sheryl says some very cringe worthy things.)

And Leah replied,

“That’s who she is. she did that to me everyday. I feel for them.She has the power that was given to her. And yes, you are also right”

Looking at these allegations, what do you think? Do you think Osbourne really had the two of them fired? Do you prefer the new line- up on “The Talk”? Hell, do you even watch “The Talk”? Maybe I’m the only one who is still tripping about this absolute scandal…

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Aisha Tyler is one of the latest celebrities to join the Human Rights Campaign’s Americans for Marriage Equality Campaign. In her PSA, the 41-year-old co-host of “The Talk” draws on her personal experience of being in an interracial relationship to draw a parallel between the right to marry someone of a different race with the right to marry someone of the same sex. She says:

“I’m married and my husband is white. But did you know that 40 or 50 years ago in many American states it was illegal for black people and white people to marry?

“Well now we have that same injustice here in the United States, because gays can’t marry each other in many states. And I support marriage equality because I believe that everybody should have the right to marry who they love.”

Not long after, the comedian comes out of Aisha when she says:

“So let’s save traditional marriage by letting gays marry, because we straight people are f***ing it up.”

Jokes aside, a lot of people have taken issue with the comparison of gay rights to various aspects of African Americans’ struggles in society. Interracial marriage obviously isn’t just a black and white thing, but it will be interesting to see how people respond to her specific message.

Do you think the fight for interracial marriage and gay marriage are the same?

Brande Victorian is a blogger and culture writer in New York City. Follower her on Twitter at @be_vic.

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Most people would like to be the one who puts an end to a bad relationship rather than being dumped by their loved one. But the fact is that, even if you want to end your relationship, it’s not easy to tell someone that it’s over.  That’s right, essentially breaking up is a lose-lose situation.  Breaking up with your partner may be necessary at some point but let it have the dignity that your relationship did.

Ending a relationship is all the more difficult when it is not by mutual consent. When one of the partners has to initiate the break in the relationship, it can turn into a situation filled with anger, sadness, confusion and frustration and therefore must be handled with care and lots of thought. Here are 7 tips that might help you along the way to a peaceful break-up.

Fans who were upset that Holly Robinson-Peete wouldn’t be returning to “The Talk” this season won’t have to wait long to catch more of her on TV. The actress will be going from daytime to primetime on CBS to appear on the hit show “Mike & Molly.”

According to Black Media Scoop, Peete will co-star in several episodes of the comedy’s second season as the love interest to Carl (Reno Wilson) — Mike’s (Billy Gardell) romantically challenged partner on the police force.

One of the original hosts for “The Talk,” which premiered Oct. 18, 2010, the network chose not to renew the contracts of Peete or co-host Leah Remin for Season 2 in September.

Viewers weren’t happy with the dismissal of the autism advocate who was also a fan favorite on the third season of “Celebrity Apprentice.” She finished as runner-up to rock star Brett Michaels.

Pette is also set to appear in the upcoming “21 Jump Street” film, reprising her role from the 1980s FOX series which helped launch her career.

Hopefully things work out better for Holly in her new gig on “Mike & Molly” which airs Mondays at 9:30 pm on CBS. Will you tune in to watch her?

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