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Mo’Nique recently explained why she chooses to call her husband, Sidney Hicks, “daddy.” When the famed comedian and Tamar Braxton appeared on “The Tamron Hall Show,” they shared their perspectives on love and relationships. At one point during their discussion, Mo’Nique explained her term of endearment for her husband — a term that has often…

Mo’Nique has been given the go-ahead to continue with her race and gender discrimination lawsuit against Netflix. The Precious actress filed documents last year in which she alleged the streaming service had offered her significantly less money for a comedy special in comparison to her fellow male and white comedians and the on Thursday, July…

Round 10 of the Mo’Nique and Oprah Winfrey feud has officially commenced. Or perhaps it is round 12 or 13. We’ve lost count. The comedic actress fired off on Winfrey once again, this time for allegedly favoring disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein over the likes of accused sexual assault perpetrators Russell Simmons and Michael Jackson. Weinstein…

Showtime obviously showed Mo’Nique the love and the coins. Comedienne Mo’Nique is getting the type of appreciation from Showtime and her fans that she believes she did not get in sufficient supply from Netflix. The controversial and combative comic, who won a best-supporting actress Oscar for her portrayal of a batty and perverted mother in…

Mo’Nique has decided to take Netflix to court. The Oscar-winning actress has often voiced her displeasure with the streaming service in interviews and on social media and once called for a boycott. But now Mo’Nique is seeking to fight through litigation, according to a lawsuit obtained by TMZ. In the lawsuit, Mo’Nique says that Netflix…

Finally, some positive news billowing out of the Mo’Nique camp. The caustic comedienne, who is currently more famous for the people she has beef with (Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry) than the Oscar-winning movie they made together (2008’s Precious), is in a celebratory mood after conquering her long-awaited, hard-fought fitness goal. The 51-year-old Baltimore…

Mo’Nique is still busying herself with other women’s pockets. First, she shed tears over Whoopi Goldberg‘s allegedly paltry salary after 10 years on “The View.” And now she is asking if Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson was paid “fairly” by Tyler Perry. Back in June, Henson said Tyler Perry finally paid her closer to her…

Mo’Nique is circling back like a shark to rip at virtually every person whom she has had a feud with over the past 15 years, including Whoopi Goldberg, Charlamagne Tha God, Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry. One of the Hollywood heavyweights Mo’Nique has also feuded with for a decade is prolific director Lee Daniels, who…

Mo’Nique cannot let go of the past as it relates to media moguls Oprah Winfrey and Steve Harvey. The star of Soul Plane had already called Steve Harvey a “coward” for taking Oprah’s and Tyler Perry’s side in her feud with them. Mo won a Best Supporting Oscar for the film Precious that Oprah and…

Donald Glover, aka rapper Childish Gambino, has announced his collaboration with major sports brand Adidas. The partnership was unveiled in a series of short film clips featuring Glover and actress and comedienne Mo’Nique. In a nearly seven-minute video promo directed by Ibra Ake, Mo’Nique repeatedly and unmercifully teases Glover, who is sporting the first sneakers in his “Donald…

Mo’Nique and her husband-manager Sidney Hicks are some of the more famous detractors who hammered Oprah Winfrey for hosting an inflammatory show, “After Neverland,” on her OWN station following the airing of the controversial documentary Leaving Neverland on HBO. The married couple and their fans fired off at Oprah on their podcast that was posted…

Round 3 of the Mo’Nique-Steve Harvey heavyweight verbal smackdown has commenced. The Oscar-winning comedienne and her husband-manager Sidney Hicks said some head-scratching utterances on their podcast in the aftermath of their much talked about appearance on Steve Harvey’s eponymously-titled television show last week. “When her and Steve got a chance to discuss it, you got a…

Television titan Steve Harvey is the latest big name to get torched by acerbic comedian Mo’Nique. Mo’Nique has already taken the flames to the hides of Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry and director Lee Daniels, the three power players who brought the Oscar-winning movie Precious to the big screen. Now, Mo’Nique, 51, is calling Harvey out…

Steve Harvey and Mo’Nique argued about the importance of money and integrity during a heated discussion on his daytime talk show, “Steve.” On the show, which aired on Feb. 13, 2019, Mo’Nique shared her thoughts about claims that she was blackballed by Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry and Lee Daniels. “I’ve said no to some very powerful…

Fellow comedians Mo’Nique and Steve Harvey nearly came to blows on the set of the latter’s daytime talk show after Harvey made a bold request that Mo’Nique found insulting. The Oscar-winning Mo’Nique (Precious) is flexing these days as the proud comedienne markets the fact that she has recently signed a Las Vegas residency. During her…

It was a year ago when Mo’Nique began her infamous boycott of Netflix because she believed she was being lowballed in comparison to her White female and Black male comedian counterparts. She was offered a reported $500K for a comedy special while the likes of Amy Shumer got $10M and Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle got…

Two famous comediennes are stuck in the “sunken place,” and one of them is asking fans to forgive the other for her public pronouncements. Embattled entertainer Mo’Nique is admonishing the public to resist the urge to stone Roseanne Barr because of her recent sociopolitical transgressions. The 48-year-old Oscar winning actress (Precious) defended “her sister in…

Comedic actress Mo’Nique is armed to the teeth with snapbacks and she is unleashing them on Precious director Lee Daniels with a vengeance. After throwing countless shade in Daniels’ direction for years for his alleged contribution to her being black-balled in Hollywood after they collaborated to produce the Academy Award-winning movie Precious — for which…

By now most people have seen the confrontation between Damon Dash and Lee Daniels, where Dash let it be known that Daniels was going to pay him his $2 million or risk another lawsuit and public humiliation. After their confrontation went viral, Daniels went public and agreed he should have repaid Dash’s investment and has made…

One of the big three filmmakers/producers from the Oscar-winning film Precious finally responded publicly to comedienne-actress Mo’Nique’s ceaseless campaign to convince fans that she’s been “black-balled.” Director Lee Daniels, 58, who got his breakthrough on the momentous 2009 film that earned Mo’Nique, 50, an Academy Award for Best Actress, bluntly said she “needs to shut…