Al Reynolds posted a video on YouTube saying, “I am not a homosexual.” But the way his left eye twitched after he made that statement might make one think he’s not telling the truth.

It’s been four months since Star Jones filed for divorce from Al - the two married in an over-the-top ceremony in 2004 - but he says the breakup still hasn’t hit him.

“I still wear my ring,” he said in the interview. “I still love her.”

“I never dated anyone like Star before,” he said. And no he didn’t say it was because she was a female.

The two are cordial, he said, but no longer friends.

“It saddens me,” he said. “Our relationship is a little tender and hopefully over time we can heal a lot of that, and we can become friends again.”

About his reputation as being a freeloader he said, “Star and I made a decision that I would leave my career in banking and help her.”

He mentions more than once in the three videos that he worked on Wall Street for over 10 years. These days he’s teaching college courses, one on teaching students how to be students in regards to time management, etc., and another on state and local government. He says he is also writing a book on how to help folks who make less than $50,000 a year how to handle their finances.

Don’t look for him to write or say anything nasty about Star.

“A lot of people want me to trash my wife,” he said, “and I’m not interested in doing that.”

He says he wants to be known as Al Reynolds because he is more than Star’s ex. Though we’ll always think of him in another way too.

Lenny Kravitz’ commendable work with the United Nations Millennium Campaign to end world poverty earned him the key to the city of Milan on Tuesday.

But it’s the key to his Paris home that he gave to A-Rod’s wife Cynthia Rodriguez that put him in gossip columns recently. The rocker denied he had an affair with Alex’s wife. He just helped out a friend and let her hide out at his pad. Two weeks ago he expressed his hurt at the insinuation that he was an adulterer. But that’s how rumors get started.

Check out Nick Cannon and wife Mariah Carey at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. yesterday. So cute that their jeans match but Nick apparently didn’t get the memo on which shirt to wear.

Would you bet that the celeb couple’s union lasts as long as Mickey and Minnie Mouse’s?

She’s got three different baby’s daddies – Andre 3000, West Coast rapper The D.O.C. and the latest Jay Electronica - but Erykah Badu, pregnant with her third spawn (and on the cover of VegNews’ upcoming music issue), says don’t question the way she lives her life.

She lashed out at her critics via a post on okayplayer.com that has made its way around the Internet.

“How dare you disrespect the queendom … and my children and my intelligence,” she wrote in her missive. “I’ve never been so disgusted in all of my life.

“I am a great mother and caregiver to my two children, and to this world. My children are two of the kindest and happiest people I have met … I am their doctor and their nurse, and even sometimes their mother and their father. I am an excellent mother and resent all of the negative comments and insults on my character.

“I put much time and thought into having and raising my children. I’ve had the honors of having two home births and two wonderful partners by my side. Every relationship I have been in was because I loved the person dearly and was dedicated to us ‘exclusively’ for a number of years. The fathers of my children are my brothers and friends. We have a great deal of respect for one another and always will. We love our children to no end. We took our own ‘vows’ and continue to uphold them, and that is what that is. Question? What is marriage? Who is the judge? … Would it ‘look better’ to marry and divorce and marry again?”

If you’re thinking about cancelling your membership to her fan club, she doesn’t care.

“If I lose you as a fan because I want to continue to have children, then f*** off … who needs you … certainly not me … kick rocks … call Tyrone … pack light … bite me,” Badu wrote.

At the end, she signs off with a big “kiss my placenta.”

Now what do you have to say?

Two more sports-related parties. Two more Gabrielle Union sightings.

Professional sports’ favorite glam groupie, fresh off her weekend trip to Miami for Zo’s Summer Groove, made the rounds at a couple of parties last night in New York, which is abuzz for tonight’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

She hung out with her friend Derek Jeter at a Team Jordan bash that toasted the All-Star at hot spot Marquee. Michael Jordan, of course, hottie Idris Elba, Mya and Darrin Henson also partied the night away. Gabrielle also hit Vitaminwater’s Best of Baseball and Music party, along with 50 Cent, Fabolous, LL Cool J and Russell Simmons.

The way she’s going she’ll be the first inductee into the Groupie Hall of Fame.

Rihanna not only nabbed the September cover Today’s Black Woman but also the charity conscious singer just signed on as the face of Gucci’s ad campaign to benefit UNICEF.

She’ll rock limited-edition Gucci tattoo-heart motif products in the Tattoo Heart ads with 25% of the sales going to the charity, according to Women’s Wear Daily. Rihanna must have really dazzled Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini when she performed at the fashion house’s star-studded fundraiser Raising Malawi, hosted by Madonna back in February in New York.

Rihanna showed her real heart two years ago when she launched her own charity, Believe, to provide medical services, school supplies and toys for needy children.
 

Shreveport, La., experienced a bit of excitement over the weekend with the arrest of actors Jeffrey Wright and Josh Brolin and four others for interfering with police, a misdemeanor, at a bar. This is, after all, a city whose police department sought the public’s help in tracking down two thugs who snatched a woman’s purse inside a Sally’s Beauty Supply. I kid you not. A press release went out last Thursday.

So you can imagine the hoopla surrounding police and Hollywood actors in town to film Oliver Stone’s movie W., about George W. Bush. Seems as if Wright, who plays Gen. Colin Powell in the film, Brolin, who portrays Bush, and a few crew members stepped in when police were called to the Stray Cat to handle a drunk patron early Saturday morning. All seven (another crew member was arrested on other charges) posted bail, were released and have a mandatory court appearance.

“I can only assume that the officers were trying to do their job,” a police department spokesman told me today, “and drunk individuals don’t make the best judgment at all.”

Well, at least as far as mug shots go, Jeffrey’s (above) isn’t bad.

Thandie Newton plays Condoleeza Rice in the flick. Wonder where she was during all this.

Celebs are known for submitting peculiar requests at hotels but this one goes at the top of the list:

Jay-Z requested a watermelon carved out in the shape of Beyonce’s breasts for display in his $5,000 a night hotel suite in Nigeria, according to Britain’s Daily Mirror, a newspaper famous for its gossip.

The newspaper’s spy says, “One giant watermelon was split in two and ornately carved into a mold of Beyonce’s boobs. Two cherries were used as nipples.”

Jigga performed at ThisDay’s Africa Rising concert in Abuja on Friday, along with Usher, who needs to give his crotch-grabbing a break, Mary J. Blige and Rihanna.

If the watermelon story is true, don’t you think that’s better than him hitting the streets trying to find someone with boobs like Bey?

Congrats to Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas, who tied the knot with Jaymie Dizon on Saturday at St. Andrews Catholic Church in Pasadena, Calif., according to People.

Bandmates will.i.am and apl.de.ap stood up for the groom while Fergie and fiancé Josh Duhamel looked on as the happy couple exchanged diamond and platinum rings. Taboo’s boy back from his childhood days and manager Polo Molina was the best man.

Taboo has two reasons to celebrate. He turns 33 today. His solo album should drop later this year and he signed on to star in the new film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

Quite a year for him.

Miss USA Crystle Stewart of Texas isn’t hiding after her embarrassing fall in last night’s Miss Universe pageant. Showing grace, she chatted with Matt Lauer via telephone on The Today Show this morning from Vietnam, where the pageant was held, to talk about her stumble.“My (beaded) dress got caught under my shoes,” she said. “…It was like I was on roller skates.”After she tumbled, she quickly got up and applauded herself. I couldn’t help but think of when Beyonce tripped and fell down the steps during her concert in Orlando last year. She too was back on her feet and continued on as if nothing happened.

“It’s about how you handle it and how you pick yourself up in life and in general,” Crystle said. “I fell and probably made the show better anyway. You need some drama here and there.”

Well, it is a little odd that this was the second consecutive year a Miss USA fell in the Miss Universe pageant. Last year it was Rachel Smith who was booed after her disaster. Hmmm.

“Maybe somebody dropped marbles,” Crystle said.