Jill Scott is Pregnant
R&B singer/actress Jill Scott is pregnant with her first child. She revealed the news to reporters at the Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles on Friday, People magazine reports. “The first trimester I spent in Botswana,” said Scott, who is due April 25. “That was one of the biggest challenges of my life. First trimester! You’re sick every morning. It was seven hours time difference, the heat, the bugs, the 14 hour days.” Scott said she discovered that she was pregnant just before leaving for Botswana where she filmed the show. The three-time Grammy Award winner, who is engaged to drummer Lil’ John Roberts, says she’s glad she went through with the plans to film. “My doctors gave me a clean bill of health and said you can do this, so I did it,” said Scott, 36.

Fantasia’s N.C. Home is Saved 
American Idol winner and Broadway star Fantasia Barrino was able to hang onto one of her North Carolina homes, after a last-minute agreement was reached between the mortgage company and the singer’s representatives, People magazine reports.  The details of the arrangement were not disclosed. The million-dollar, Charlotte-area home would have hit the auction block Monday, to be sold by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office. The money would have been used to compensate Broward Energy Partners for the $68,000 loan it advanced Barrino to pay taxes, the magazine reports.

Keifer Sutherland doubts hit show’s clout. The actor whose popular action and suspense show featured television’s first Black president denies influencing Barack Obama’s election. “24″ star Keifer Sutherland disagrees with his former co-star Dennis Haysbert, who played President David Palmer and said his character helped open “the public’s minds.” “You don’t honestly believe that our show helped get the first African-American into the White House, do you?” Sutherland asks. “All we simply did is look into the future. You have a huge African-American population and it was just a matter of time before they were represented politically by a president.” Sutherland, whose two-hour preview of the new “24″ season was shown this past weekend, points out that a woman president is featured in coming episodes.

Jill Scott is expecting, engaged. R&B singer Jill Scott is sporting a new neck tattoo – one with the name of Atlanta drummer Lil’ John, not to be confused with the gold-mouthed rapper. Scott is reportedly pregnant and engaged to the musician, who’s said to be the dad of three other children by different moms. Baby-momma-to-be Jill was quite public about her romance with her ex, Lyzell Williams, until their marriage and eventual divorce. Maybe neck tats make relationships divorce-proof.