Halloween is rapidly approaching and this year amid the ghouls and goblins a popular costume choice will be to dress as a celebrity. Even celebrities are being celebrities: Tyra Banks showed off her Kim Kardashian costume on her show earlier this week (pictured above).

One of my friends mentioned going as Rihanna, complete with a black eye and an umbrella and having her boyfriend be Chris Brown in a community service jump suit (too soon, too soon!), here are some other ideas if you want to be one of the stars.

Michael Jackson

“Thriller” is always an unofficial Halloween anthem grab a red leather jacket, pants (make sure to show off your white socks) and a jheri curl wig and be the King of Pop in the iconic video. Points if you know the choreography when the song starts playing while you’re partying.

Lil’ Mama

With a cheap weave ponytail, a bedazzled shirt and jeans you too can be ‘Lil Mama. Run up on folks and interrupt their conversations while breaking into a thug stance or have a friend be Jay-Z (all black everything, easy enough).

Lil Wayne

Rock locks, add fake tattoos on your neck and face (don’t forget the teardrop), get a grill and you’ve got Weezy F. Baby. Just don’t break out into “Lollipop” if little trick-or-treaters are around.

Beyonce

If you’re feeling bold, try an easy Beyonce costume from her “Single Ladies” video. A leg bearing leotard, heels and a blond wig.
Tell any guy who tries to holler if he likes it…well you know the rest!

Share your celebrity costume ideas and tell us who you’ll be tomorrow night! Happy Halloween!

Even though the VMAs have come and gone, people still can’t stop talking about Lil’ Mama crashing Jay-Z and Alicia Key’s “Empire State of Mind” performance. Lil’ Mama apologized saying she just got “caught up in the moment.” Alicia Keys responded and said “We can appreciate her being overwhelmed and inspired, but we would have appreciated it if she would have did it from her seat” and everyone had a laugh by way of all the Twitter jokes and PhotoShopped pictures of Lil’ Mama appearing in everything from the Million Man March to Da Vinci’s Last Supper picture. It seems like the incident was dying down but yesterday, Hov spoke on it during an interview with Angie Martinez of Hot 97.  This is what he had to say:

“Me, personally, I would never do that. I would never have the nerve to do that. It’s just like, someone’s up there performing…We went through rehearsals, we did run-throughs and we worked really hard at the performance to put on a show for people and to interrupt that moment for us, you know, I don’t think that was the right thing to do.”

Like everyone else, Jay also likened the incident to Kanye’s infamous stage crash (which Jay had previously called rude):

“I actually thought it was the equivalent of what Kanye did to Taylor Swift but nobody really talked about that because I’m not a little sweet girl from the middle of America. And I’m cool with [Lil' Mama] being excited and all that but you have to understand, people put in work to make that performance happen, that took weeks the planning of it. If you look at those screens, we had to go to Yankee Stadium to shoot that live, there was a lot of planning. To disrupt that was out of line. I was a little angry to be honest, but what do I do, fight Lil Mama?”

I’m actually surprised Jay-Z spoke on this at all, since he usually chooses to “be above” such issues, but I guess it was bound to come up during his crazy press schedule for Blueprint 3 (can’t wait to watch him on Oprah today!).  Seems like we can finally put this issue to bed, well, as long as Lil’ Mama doesn’t put out any more ridiculous songs about the incident like the one below.

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I don’t want to be even meaner than the people who have already clowned her (hilariously, though), but is there something wrong with Lil’ Mama?

As in is she one piece short of a two piece dinner? Every entertainer knows that you never interrupt another performer’s act. That’s the ultimate sign of disrespect.

I’m not even an entertainer (unless you count me at Happy Hour) and I know that.

Yes, I get that she’s sorry and says she was caught up in the moment, but hopefully becoming the butt of everyone’s joke has taught her a valuable lesson: “Sit down.”

Adding to the joke on Lil’ Mama to prevent future jumps on stage is Diddy.

Take that, take that, Lil’ Mama.

Alright, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, is it time we forgive Lil’ Bow Wow’s twin and move on?

In a perfect world, every blog post and every article about the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards would kick off with praise of Janet Jackson’s tribute to her late brother, Michael Jackson.

But, no, more people are ranting about the Hennessy sipping diva that spoiled the moment minutes later with his antics.

Kanye West decided to hop on stage and throw shade at a teenage country music singer because he felt MTV threw even more shade at Beyonce.

Taylor Swift beat out Beyonce for Best Female Video. While Beyonce herself took it stride, Kanye decided to jump on stage and tell Taylor, “She ain’t no diva.”

‘Ye came out of nowhere, took the mic and award from Taylor and said: “Taylor, I’m really happy for you. I’ll let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!”

The audience booed him, and it’s been reported that Taylor herself went backstage and cried hysterically.

Way to embarrass us, Kanye.

It didn’t take long for other celebrities to share their opinions via Twitter.

Katy Perry said: “F–K U KANYE. IT’S LIKE U STEPPED 0N A KITTEN.”

P!nk chimed in as well: “Kanye west is the biggest piece of sh– on earth. Quote me. Beyonce is a classy lady. I feel for her, too. Its not her fault at all, and her and taylor did their thing. And douche bag got kicked out. HA”

While we’re on Pink: Shout out to her and Shakira’s stylists for putting them in the exact same dress last night. Maybe next time they need to be original like Lady GaGa and wear a bird’s nest. And don’t any of you hate on GaGa. You wish you could wear one flew over the cuckoo’s nest on your head and get love for it.

Now, back to the real diva of the night: Kanye.

Fortunately, when Beyonce did win her much deserved award – Video of the Year for “Single Ladies” – she gave Taylor the opportunity to have her moment.

But to be fair to Kanye, he did apologize.

On his blog he wrote:

I guess. As talented as he is, someone needs to give him a hug, a reality check, and maybe a backhand just in case he ever decided to do some nonsense like that again.

There is no reason for a grown man to throw a fit like that against a teenager on behalf of a grown woman who wasn’t even salty about not winning the award to begin with.

The only person who looked half as silly Kanye was Lil’ Mama.

I don’t know if she got caught up in the spirit of the Hovighost or what, but what would possess Bow Wow’s long lost twin sister to hop on stage in the middle of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ performance?

I understand that we’re in a recession and companies have to cut corners, but had some decent security been in place most of the drama that occurred last night wouldn’t have.

Don’t be cheap on rent-a-cops.

Chris Brown has been all up in the news this week because of the interview he did with Larry King earlier this week to discuss Chrianna-gate, but Breezy also went head to head with another media mogul: Oprah.

In the new issue of People magazine, Chris stepped to Oprah when asked about her “show on abuse, inspired by Rihanna” and said:

“I commend Oprah on being like, ‘This is a problem,’ but it was a slap in my face I did a lot of stuff for her, like going to Africa and performing for her school. She could have been more helpful, like, ‘Okay, I’m going to help both of these people out.”

In response, Oprah’s rep told TMZ, “Oprah is very appreciative that Chris Brown performed at her school, but she takes domestic abuse very seriously. She hopes he gets the counseling he needs.”

How ironic that Chis called Oprah’s actions a “slap in the face!” Boy stop!  Just because you were lucky enough to perform at one of her events doesn’t mean she owes you squat. Period.  I wonder how many more media rounds Chris is going to make about before he gets too busy doing that hard labor.

Also, this Sunday a new episode of America’s Best Dance Crew will air on MTV, but last Sunday ‘Lil Mama sparked a bit of controversy because of comments she made to a transgender contestant, Leiomy Maldonado. When her group, Vogue Evolution, complained that Leiomy was being difficult at practice Lil’ Mama said:

“Leiomy, come on. Your behavior…it’s unacceptable. I just feel that you always have to remember your truth. You were born a man and you are becoming a woman. If you’re going to become a woman, act like a lady. Don’t be a bird, like ‘Oh my god, I’m not doing this!’ You know what I’m saying? It gets too crazy and it gets confusing.”

GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) received several complaints about Lil Mama’s comments and days later, Lil’ Mama issued a formal apology to GLAAD via a statement: “I would like to clarify anything that was misunderstood from Sunday’s show. My remarks were never meant to be disrespectful regarding Leiomy’s gender nor offensive to the LGBT community, which has been a community that has supported me in all my endeavors. However, in hindsight, I recognize that my words may have come across as hurtful. I spoke with her privately after the taping to express that it was not my intent to offend her or any member of the transgender community and that I still live for Vogue Evolution.”

Hopefully Lil’ Mama keeps it cute this weekend (and quiets down her loud outfits while she’s at it)!

Lastly, Michael Jackson was finally buried yesterday at Forest Lawn Memorial Park outside Los Angeles. Just one day before the family gathered to pay their respects, Janet Jackson went to Twitter to show her late brother love:

“I love you, Mike, and I miss you. Dunk.,” she Tweeted signing off with the nickname that Michael used to call her.

According to The YBF.com Janet is scheduled to speak on her brother’s death and updates in her life and career in an upcoming issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

Check out the video below of the MJ funeral service.

Have a great Labor Day weekend! We’ll be back next week!

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