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!

Have you wanted to learn how to properly back hand a child?

Or have you said to yourself, “Self, I need to get my babies singing and dancing” but didn’t know how to take it to the next level?  Or have you ever simply thought “Man, that Joe Jackson sure is a likable guy. I wonder what it would be like to hang with him.”

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions what’s wrong with you you’re in luck – you have the opportunity of a lifetime.

Papa Joe is selling what he calls a Platinum VIP package. If you partake in his package deal, you’ll get a chance to watch Michael Jackson’s upcoming concert film, This Is It, with Mr. Jackson himself in Vegas.

Oh and the deal doesn’t just stop there. No, you’ll get an autographed copy of his book, Joseph Jackson: Man In The Mirror, Father of the First Family of Music,” along with dinner with Joe, pictures with Joe, plus a hotel room and your own invite to the opening night party at the Palms Casino Resort Blue Moon Club.

All this for the low price of $3,000. With a sale like that you sure better not be tardy for the party.

To those of you who say, “How can he continue exploiting his son this way?” I say to you Joe’s gotta eat. Might as well let some Jackson stan pick up the tab.

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There’s a reason why Madonna skimmed over why she and Michael Jackson fell off years ago during her VMA tribute: She used to trash him in the press.

While neither has spoken of each other in years, Dateline recently interviewed the King of Pop’s longtime friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach about the taped conversations he recorded with Jackson – which included his thoughts on Madonna.

As you can see the from the posted video clip, “nasty witch” doesn’t suggest Mike was all that fond of her.

More details from the Rabbi’s book have come forward and Michael reportedly claimed that Madonna was in love with him.

He said:  ”I think she was sincerely in love with me and I was not in love with her. She did a lot of crazy things. I knew we had nothing in common.”

With respect to the King, that sounds about as nutty as the idea of Madonna bringing Michael into a strip club.

Nevertheless he didn’t think she was his type, adding: “She is not sexy at all. I think sexy comes from the heart in the way you present yourself.”

If this video were shot in the late 1980s a dance off between angry Michael Jackson and Madonna fans might have ensued.

If released in the early to mid 1990s I don’t doubt that fans of both Mike and Madge would be on the chat lines arguing back-and-forth.

But in 2009 where Michael Jackson is dead and Madonna just paid tribute to him, I’m sure most are willing to look at comments made eight or so years ago and let bygones be bygones.

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LaToya Jackson has always seemed a bit eccentric. There’s not anything wrong with that.

You can be eccentric in style like Andre 3000 or eccentric in everything else like your random schizophrenic who yells expletives outside of gas stations (true story).

With reports that LaToya Jackson is spending all of her money on a psychic that helps her have everyday conversation with Michael Jackson from beyond the grave, well, I’ll let you decide which side of eccentricity street Toy-Toy lives on.

A friend told The Globe:

She went through a half a doen psychics before she found the right one. This woman psychic who lives in L.A. told La Toya some very personal details about Michael that only close family members would know. La Toya knew right then that she was indeed in contact with Michael.

He also communicates he’s constantly watching over his kids, Prince, Paris, Blanket, and sees they’re incredibly loved by their grandmother, Katherine, and the rest of the family. Having this psychic connection to Michael is tremendously reassuring for her.”

La Toya is said to be “ecstatic” that she’s been able to connect with her little brother again and believes the sessions have helped put her “more at peace about the tragedy of Michael death.”

Yet the cost of her talk sessions with baby brother may put her on the street. LaToya is said to be facing foreclosure on her Las Vegas condo as she’s going broke covering up the alleged sessions with the psychic.

The friend added:

“The sessions have already cost La Toya thousands, but they’re so important to her, she’s managing to find the money…Not only does she go to the psychic’s house, but sometimes in the middle of the night when she wakes up thinking of her brother, she knows she can pick up the phone, no matter what time it is and be linked to him via seer.”

I watched Whitney Houston’s interview with Oprah last week. Clearly, if Nippy knew Mike she met Toy-Toy. Why didn’t LaToya ask Whitney for her a referral from her singer-psychic aunt, Dionne Warwick?

Alright, let me shut up before I wake up next to a dead chicken tomorrow morning. Do whatever makes you feel better, LaToya.

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Since Michael Jackson was highly influenced by the late James Brown it’s only fitting that in his death he was a bunch of people claiming he’s their daddy, too.

TMZ reports that a man named Prince Michael Malachi Jet Jackson filed a creditor’s claim yesterday in Los Angeles requesting a DNA test to prove that Michael is his daddy.

On the 24-year-old’s birth certificate, “Michael Joseph Jackson” of Indiana is listed as the father along with Zerline LaVette Dixon as the mother.

What names like Jet and LaVette I bet you can guess which race we’re dealing with for sure this time, huh?

According to Prince Jet’s (I like this combination best) Michael Jackson’s family pressured his family to keep quiet about the King of Pop being his Pop-Pop.

This sounds as fishy as the theory of Rebbie Jackson raising Janet Jackson’s secret long lost daughter with the money she made from “Centipede.”

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Dope cover, but see the headline, “When Michael Was Cool?”

Is that a little offensive to the legacy of the King of Pop?

Jermaine Dupri seems to think so.

Michael Jackson’s almost brother-in-law (but Brandy said almost doesn’t count) took to his blog to lash out at GQ editors, accusing them of throwing shade all the while trying to make money off Mike’s name.

He wrote:

“HOT COVER WACK A– TITLE. SEE THIS IS THE S–T THAT PISSES ME OFF PEOPLE WANNA USE THIS MAN TO MAKE THEM MONEY BUT CONTINUE TO THROW LIL SNEAK DISSES. AS FAR AS ANY FAN WOULD SAY, HE WAS COOL HIS WHOLE LIFE. I SAY THAT BECAUSE THE FANS ARE THE ONES THAT’S GONNA MAKE THIS COVER SELL 3 TIMES MORE MAGAZINES THAN THE LAST ONE SO WHY TITLE IT THIS?”

I’m inclined to agree with JD. If Michael were still alive would he be on the cover of GQ?

I highly doubt it, which means if they’re going to make money off of him couldn’t they at least be a little nicer on the cover?

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More and more is it becoming apparent that for the estate of the late Michael Jackson each week can be summed up best with: “Another day, another leech.”

This time child actor Mark Lester is trying to get his few seconds of fame – and of course a couple of stacks from the King of Pop.

Lester is claiming that he “may” be the father of Paris Jackson.

Although he is the godfather to all three of Michael’s kids, Lester told News of the World: “I gave Michael my sperm so that he could have kids – and I believe Paris is my daughter.”

Maybe I need to go ahead and hit up Kim’s Beauty Supply and pick up some Nubian Light bleaching cream and some colored contacts so I claim to be the father of one of MJ’s kids, too. Couldn’t hurt.

Lester says Paris bears a strong resemblance to one of his daughter, and claims that he has “concerns about the welfare and upbringing of the children.”

The wannabe daddy says he has no contact with any of Jackson’s kids and that it’s “heartbreaking.” Yeah to you and your account, pimp.

Though he claims he’s not trying to start any legal trouble, when you come out to a tabloid with some “I’m her real daddy, and I’m worried” shtick, it’s pretty obvious what you’re getting at.

Katherine Jackson’s lawyer, Londell McMillan, has already responded, saying, “These genetic lottery attempts aren’t going anywhere. They have no legal standing. They may seek 5 seconds of fame but the claims have no merit.”

Shamon.

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When word leaked that Kanye West proclaimed himself to be the new King of Pop, many were ready to grab Joe Jackson’s belt, channel their inner Chris Brown and let the bragging emcee have it.

However, as it turns out, the article was actually some satirical piece that seemed all too believable.

On his blog, ‘Ye defended himself in a new rant, writing IN ALL CAPS:

“I WAS JUST LISTENING TO WENDY WILLIAMS AND HEARD SOME QUOTE ABOUT ME SAYING I’M THE NEW KING OF POP. NOT ONLY DID I NOT SAY THAT, I HAVEN’T SAID ANYTHING. IT MAKES ME FEEL BAD THAT OBVIOUSLY I MADE PEOPLE FEEL THAT I WOULD BE CORNY ENOUGH TO SAY SOMETHING SO WHACK AFTER THE PASSING OF AN IDOL, A LEGEND AND MORE THAN THAT A HUMAN BEING WITH FEELINGS AND FAMILY. IT SCARES ME TO THINK WHAT PEOPLE WILL BELIEVE, WITHOUT EVEN A SOURCE. ANY RANDOM PERSON CAN TYPE SOMETHING ON THE INTERNET AND THEN THE WORLD BELIEVES IT. I DON’T TALK TO PRESS OR DO TV OR DO PROMOTIONS OF ANY SORT. I’VE STOPPED CHASING AND BUYING INTO FAME. FAME IS LIKE CIGARETTES WITH NO SURGEON GENERAL WARNING. IT DESTROYS MOST PEOPLE AS IT DID TO THE TRUE AND ONLY KING OF POP. WE EXPLOIT OURSELVES AND EAT OUR OWN EGOS ‘TILL THERE IS NOTHING LEFT. I HAVE A FEELING THAT THIS WON’T BE THE LAST FALSE STATEMENT WITH MY NAME ON IT, BUT THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME I DEFEND MYSELF. I’M DONE.”

OK, so that statement is nice and all, but one has to acknowledge their role in their own predicaments, no?

Kanye West is famous for making statements that are as pompous as they are ridiculous. If someone can simply make up a quote in his voice and folks believe it, what does that say about him?

TELL ME, YA’LL BECAUSE I WANNA KNOW.

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Lil’ Wayne wears the same type of pants as men who prefer the touch of a strong hand and openly kisses another fella on the mouth yet he’s calling Michael Jackson a gay slur?

In a new freestyle Wayne quipped, “I pledge allegiance to the flag that Michael Jackson is a f-g.”

Where is Papa Joe’s belt when you need it?

I think the little codeine fiend is a nice rapper and all, but not only is that line corny, but people who walk around in tight pants with their crack out and long hair flowing down their back needn’t be trying to call someone else gay.

Baby, the next time you pucker up with Wayne, can you shove a bar of soap in there next?

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I’m all for defending my siblings especially when people outside of the blood line get out of pocket, but even I have my limits.

Allegedly,Tito Jackson claims that Michael Jackson is the biological father to his three children?

Here’s what Tito told the Mirror:

“They are all his children. Blanket is Michael’s, I can tell. Those eyes don’t lie. Them eyes are Michael over again. I see a lot of Michael in him.

Paris and Prince are Michael’s children. Yes they are. Just because they look white doesn’t mean they are not his.

I have an uncle who is married to a white girl and they have three kids. Two of them are white and one is black. When they go to school people don’t even know they are brother and sister.

They are all Michael’s children. Prince looks just like my grandfather. There’s no question they are Michael’s. They are 100% his.

The kids are like three peas in a pod. They remind me of me and my brothers when we were growing up.”

Well, you be the judge.

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