The summer is such a wonderful time. It gives fashionistas the license to go bold and big with great dresses and accessories. Check out Eva Mendes' dress! Love it!! She joined Liv Tyler, Janet Jackson and Claudia Schiffer at the Christian Dior spring/summer 2009 couture show at the Rodin museum in France.

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Ooh! How exciting! Jermaine Dupri told People Magazine that as soon as Janet Jackson completes her upcoming tour, the couple has plans to conceive.

"Yeah, soon. Right after the tour."

Dupri is so excited he doesn't care about the gender.

"It really doesn’t matter. Janet would be a great mom. She was around so many brothers and sisters all her life, so she’s got to know what that is (like). And her mom is a great mother."

Jackson is set to hit the road for her Rock Witchu North American tour - the first tour for the singer in seven years - this September (08).

Another one bites the dust. Janet Jackson is the next in a long line of celebrities who will star in her own reality show. She'll be trying to find the next pop superstar.

"It's really about finding who's the next Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake or Usher. And we'll find it from a pool of people who you wouldn't typically find it from. We'll go to YMCAs, church groups, local community centres and try to cast the show."

I'm a sucker for these shows and I grew up loving Miss Jackson, but I'm kind of reality'ed out. What about you, will you watch?

I am going to have to split these pictures up into two posts because there are WAY too many to put on one. Nearly everyone attended the Cartier's Third Annual Loveday Celebration held at a private residence in Bel Air. Can you IMAGINE what that house looked like? I wish we could have seen those shots.

Here is the first group:

• Janet Jackson
• Ashanti
• Fergie
• Hilary Duff and Mike Comri
• Haylie Duff
• Emmy Rossum
• Chloe Sevigny

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I am such a Janet Jackson fan! So when she sat down and talked about her upcoming tour, I was thrilled to hear that she's going to be performing ALL of her hit singles from every album she's ever released! I can only imagine what a show that will be...dancing everything from Rhythm Nation to If to Feedback. :)

On the tour:

"It's a completely different show, like nothing before in the past. My real goal is to try and do every single I've ever had, so I have to figure out how to fit that into two hours and yet give them enough so they don't feel hungry for more of that song in particular."

To see the rest of the interview, including hearing about Janet's differences with her label, read more.

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How fun is this!?! You know Miss Shepard is still thinking about the moment that Janet Jackson walked out on stage and surprised her. Check out today's clip from The View.

 

I'm sorry... did I just say Janet Jackson is 42? Shocked on so many levels. Here she is with Jermaine Dupri at Katsuya restaurant. Are 40s the new 30s or 20s? I just can' keep up these days. :)

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Ahhh, yes, how could we ever forget....the wardrobe malfunction. Reporters asked Janet Jackson about the man who designed her outfit that malfunctioned, Alexander McQueen and she called him a genius.

"I don't blame him; he didn't rip it. Alexander is so great at what he does — he's a genius. I've loved him for a long time, ever since I saw one of his very first shows 10 years ago in London, which is where we first met."

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Celebrities came out in droves to show their support to the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards. TR Knight, Rufus Wainwright, Janet Jackson, Sarah Silverman, Cindy Crawford, Sofia Vergara, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi all walked the red carpet for the show held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. When I visited LA, I totally acted like a tourist and took the theatre tour. It really is an amazing venue.Click on the thumbnails to enlargeBauer Griffin

I love this story.  Janet Jackson has a girl crush on Alicia Keys. So do I! She's gorgeous and talented, what's not to love?!? She said she thinks Alicia is "wonderful." Janet recently talked about how there has been speculation about both Alicia and Oprah's sexually.

She says that's because both are "strong women. Maybe they want to put something else behind it because of the strength. Like, you can't be a woman and be strong, and there has to be something else to it."

She also talked about what would happen if her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri ever came out of the closet,

"I'd be upset because I want to be with him!" she says, laughing. "It's so funny because I joke with him, 'It drives me crazy to be a girl sometimes, so in my next life I'm going to come back as a guy, and you're going to be my b*tch!'"

And Janet opened up about happy ever after,

"I think it's about finding your soul mate. It's finding that person you connect with, but most people don't get it right. Look at me!" she adds. "The thing is I don't know if I ever will or won't get married again. I'm very happy where I am. I just think I jinx marriages, but that's not going to stop me from loving."

She's definitely come a long ways since her Rhythm Nation days, that's for sure. I remember back in the day when she used to wear a giant key as an earring and was married to James Debarge. Times have changed since then but I really hope that this thing with Jermaine that she has now is the real deal.
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