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Stars Show Summer Glam at BET Awards

Everyone from Rihanna in flowing yellow ruffles to Alicia Keys in a magenta flirty frock to Jennifer Hudson in a sleek copper-toned sheath, strutted down the red carpet in their summer finery Tuesday night for the star-studded BET Awards '08 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

"The Insider" was there to bring you the glamour and comments by arriving celebs. Hosted by funnyman D.L. Hughley, the night included performances by Fergie, Rihanna, Usher, Kanye West, Keyshia Cole, Alicia Keys, TLC, En Vogue, Jill Scott, Maxwell and more.

Winners included Chris Brown (Best Male R&B Artist), Kobe Bryant (Best Male Athlete), Missy Elliott (Best Female Hip Hop Artist), Kanye West (Best Male Hip Hop Artist, Best Collaboration) and Lil Wayne (Viewer's Choice Award).

The night included a tribute to soul legend Al Green, who was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, and had the crowd singing along on its feet for rousing renditions of his classics "Let's Stay Together" and "Love and Happiness."

Queen Latifah was on hand to honor Quincy Jones with BET's Humanitarian Award for his extensive philanthropic endeavors. In accepting the award, the music legend paraphrased Leo Tolstoy, saying, "'My piece of bread only belongs to me if everybody has a piece to eat.' Nobody has to starve while I eat and that's the way I want to feel the rest of my life." He went on to advise the young people in the audience, "When it rains, get wet. Live your life, baby, and live it real."

Presenters taking the stage included Terrence Howard, Jennifer Hudson, Cuba Gooding Jr., LL Cool J, Ashanti, John Legend, Diddy and more.

Published 6/25/08 by the Insider the Insider

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  • SHe looks very nice and the dress is pretty! Great Story!!!!!
    Andrea772510 1438 Andrea772510 6/25/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • rihanna looks amazing!!!
    givememypencil 172 givememypencil 6/25/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • now THAT sounds like a party!
    EvaDrummer9 68 EvaDrummer9 6/25/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • Yes please, I'd love to see video!
    ROCKinLA 108 ROCKinLA 6/25/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • so beautiful~~
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • NICE! If there is any girl as sweet as her may join "m i l l i o n a i r e l o v e r . c o m" It's a place for romancing with the rich & celeb...see more
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • AR3 YHU AS DUMBFOUNDED AS I AM? I JUST NOT TOO LONG AGO FOUND OUT AND NOW TH3Y AR3 TH3 HOTT3ST COUPL3 OF TH3 Y3AR! WH3R3 HAVE I BEEN AT ALL THIS TIME? IM HAPPY FOR YHU RIHANNA!YHU TOO BIG BROTHER CHRIS!
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
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    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • props to gabrielle union for telling the younguns you can stay covered and still look fly
    leisuresuital 28 leisuresuital 6/25/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • Don't read anything the conseranuts out up, the are lies about "lies", hence they are liars.

    Obama '08 YES WE CAN!!!!! check that out!
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • when will america realize that obama is just as much white as he is black? he will NOT be the first black president - he will be the first bi-racial president (if he wins, God forbid).
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • The elitist drug-induced Hollywood crowd LOVES the Marxist Obama and his America-bashing wife.
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • Imagine the White Entertainment Televison awards. Now that would be racism.
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • Hey BET, why not use your time to clean up your community!!!
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • No he doesn't have experience-that's good-BIG PROBLEM is Pelosi and Reid are EXPERIENCED CROOKS and will put a LEASH on Obama and lead him around like a DOG!!! A black president isn't the problem it the SORRY DEMOCRATS!!!
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • Damn it! They ruined Transformers 2 for me. It has one of those evil Obama supporters in it. Well not evil thats not fair, just stupid.
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • This may surprise many people that it just so happens that the very same company that owns B.E.T. owns C.B.S.,MTV,CNN,TIME,and the Newyorks times.VIACOM.
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • It's funny that almost all of the black people in America are voting for Sen. Obama? But why? I want actual reasons, not because he is black. That is true racism, is it not? This country is f__ked!!!!
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
    • Why do all the people in America vote for someone that is white...................
      anonymous anonymous 6/25/08
       
  • OMG they r so goin out they r always 2 gether. chris da best performance.IT WAZ HOT !!!!!!!!!
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • Rihanna is so butt ugly 4 chris brown wat does he c in her?
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • chris brown better not be dating rihanna he's my man
    anonymous 48 13acgoodson 6/25/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • she is a ugly
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • Because BET is a white-owned station that only caters to the lowest common denominator of(naive teens)African Americans. When BET was Black owned it carried only classy, intelligent shows that anyone would be proud to watch. When MTV/Viamcom bought it early-to-mid-1990's it's like they had an agenda. Degrade the network and the people. Against numerous consumer complaints, the (MTV)BET killed off all of their classy, intellectual shows and resorted to only denigrating shows, (violent gangster rap videos, showing pimp characters, all females had to resemble prostitutes or strippers, all shows were anger-based, all males on the show have to look and talk like they'll murder someone at any given minute. When MTV/Viacom reduced BET to this format, they completely lost their adult audience. Now only young people too naive to understand are feeding on this trash and unfortunately it is shaping them. There are statistic to prove the growth in violence in demographic that nurse on the (new) Viacom-BET. Despite countless pleas to the company, they are forced to stick with the only format that the MTV Corporation (Viacom) will fund.

    www.enoughisenoughcampaign.com is just one of campaigns aimed at trying to get BET back to a reputable format, like the one when all knew and loved before the MTV/Viacom take-over. BET is NOW only watched by naive, influential young people and giving them the impression that gangsters, pimping and hoochies are how they should act. Parents do their part but kids are more influenced by trends in the media and this white-owned BET (MTV/Viacom) is destroying generations of impressionable young people with its negative images. They flatly refuse to show anything positive, despite the countless petitions and complaints. No other teen network in America would be allowed to force feed a steady diet of such influential trash to their young people. Only BET and the majority of BLACK hate this (new) BET. TH3 TRUTH HAS SPOKEN.
    anonymous anonymous 6/25/08 Reply
     
  • Yea rite she all up in his nut and crackin it! They need 2 stop lyin bout that! she's a lucky bitch tho cauz if I was there wit him I'd be tappin that ass all day and I kno they frickin there's no such thing as just friends with celebritys and hot young ones at that yea that's her buddy alright her "frick buddy."
    anonymous anonymous 6/26/08 Reply
     
  • Yea rite she all up in his nut and crackin it! They need 2 stop lyin bout that! she's a lucky bitch tho cauz if I was there wit him I'd be tappin that ass all day and I kno they frickin there's no such thing as just friends with celebritys and hot young ones at that yea that's her buddy alright her "frick buddy."
    anonymous anonymous 6/26/08 Reply
     
  • her profile is on ukblackloving.com. does she wants to find a sugar daddy?
    anonymous anonymous 6/26/08 Reply
     
  • eh boi, no talk stuff bout' rihanna lyke dat kay!!
    watch yo stink mout' fho i crack it lyke its HOT!!


    haLLaH wiT dEm DaLLahz
    PeaCe oUt dEm JigGaleRzz...:)
    anonymous anonymous 6/26/08 Reply
     
  • Dear Insider,
    I liked the Bet awards the other day. Can you email me a scoop on what's happening in the STARS magazine. I love the Stars magazine.
    anonymous 6 mizespiggy 6/26/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • her lis stick or wat ever the hell you want to call it look a f@#$% mess
    anonymous anonymous 6/26/08 Reply
     
  • ohhhhhhhhhh that's sweetzzx
    anonymous anonymous 6/26/08 Reply
     
  • u two are a cute couple i think it would of being cuter i was there instead of u rhianna lol luv u guys both
    anonymous 49 skie_love 6/26/08   Message Add to Friends Reply
     
  • The awards were great this year. I enjoyed all of the performances, especially the tribute to Al green. Jill Scott really tore up the stage with one of Al's greatest hits. And she did it looking so lovely in that dress showing off her Colgate smile. She must have been thinking about her fiancé while she was singing. Now that I think about it, Jill is really out there these days. Singing, acting, a bit of this and that on the fashion side, and now about to jump the broom. She kind of reminds me of Bianca.

    I’m currently working with Toyota and I’m really hyped to spread the word about our new interactive webisodes, If Looks Could Kill. They follow an aspiring fashion assistant, Bianca, who is a prime example of a woman who’s got it going on. I’m talking the dream job, a man who’s got all the ladies drooling, and the spice to keep it all together when hell hits the fan. Think James Bond meets Sanaa Lathan in “Something New”, Bianca is the girl who isn’t afraid to run in her Louboutin heels!

    Link: http://www.iflookscouldkill.com

    You’ll have to see what I’m talking about. Don’t forget to check out the second episode—BFF in a Box—which is available today (6/23). This girl is definitely courageous! She’s kind of like today’s Foxy Brown, don’t you think? You’ve probably already been reeled in so don’t stop now.

    I hope I didn’t overstep my bounds by directly contacting you. After viewing your blog and seeing how hip to the game you are when it comes to what’s hot and current, I figured this would be something that would catch your interest.

    Looking forward to the girl talk!
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    ILCK Ambassador
    Amanda.Clouden@yahoo.com
    anonymous anonymous 6/26/08 Reply
     
  • People need to stop hating! They are so cute together, let them have fun and enjoy their time together and be happy. True fans are fans no matter what! And right now they arent worried about you nut cases.. lol
    anonymous anonymous 6/27/08 Reply
     
  • Chris Brown U was wrong for cheating on Rihanna wit Ciaria!U was so!so! so!so!so wrong!
    anonymous anonymous 6/28/08 Reply
     
  • hi chirs brown

    are you date with rihanna
    anonymous anonymous 6/28/08 Reply
     
  • your not making chris breezy happy
    anonymous anonymous 6/29/08 Reply
     
  • yall sum str8 haters yall no they look fire together...and you know good and well she is not no where near ugly....but wat would the world be without haters...lol
    anonymous anonymous 6/29/08 Reply
     
  • ummmhmmm yea righ dey jus friends dey been going togetha