Ashleigh and Pudsey: BGT Winners 2012


I haven’t really tuned into this years competition but I am so chuffed that the winners of this years Britain’s Got Talent is Ashleigh and her beloved dog Pudsey. What a fantasic, humble and inspiring duo. The love they have for each other is what makes them so cute.
We have seen so many singer, dancers and singers…oh and dancers to last as all a lifetime, so thank you British public for making tonights win a memorable one.

Now this is definitely Something The Queen and Co. would enjoy, as it’s right up their street.

£500k richer! Fantasic, good luck to them both, they deserved it and I hope this is the start of the great things that are due to come their way.

Enjoy the semi-final clip of these champions
Love and Light x

Conor Maynard


Hailed as the British version of Justin Beiber, Conor Maynard is fast becoming the the ”New Kid on the Block”.  He has been a YouTube sensation for a while now, with amazing renditions of Chris Brown’s ”Crawl” and Taio Cruz’s ”Dynamite” among others.
His debut single ”Can’t Say No” has just been released in the charts, and so it’s safe to say that he is just finding his feet in the industry. 

Alyzah and friends bumped into him somewhere near the Fulham Road, and she said he started walking AND doing the dougie..ooh I mean theres talent and then there’s plain showing off! ;)

I like him..
Enjoy the super ridiculously-small snap
Love and Light x 

Tulisa Sex Tape


This week is a week I am sure Tulisa C.. will be in a hurry to forget but due to the power of the internet, the Camden lass has to understand that this scandal will be around for the rest of her life. No matter how hard her publicist and managers try and ease the damage, her already not-taken seriously image has seriously been tarnished.

Firstly, people need to RELAX and stop going on like she killed someone! People are going on like we are a nation of virgins! Throwing stones in glass houses come to mind..
What she has done is not a crime and the only thing that separates many of us to her is we have the common sense to keep what happens in the bedroom IN the bedroom!

Seriously, when will all these celebrities learn?? Even if I had no talent and I was not fame chasing I still wouldn’t allow a lover to record us engaging in any sexual activities.

Simon Cowell has vowed to stand by her and assured us that her X Factor Judge role was not affected as if she lost her place that means that whoever leaked the video has won. I must say that I agree with him, also X Factor is already a bloody shambles and having a naughty judge is exactly the kind of scandal the show needs -_-

I have to applaud her on coming clean, as there was simply no way she could carry on denying the girl in the video is not her. Not even PR guru Max Clifford could have put a spin on that!
Hold the phone…isn’t this the week she launches her debut single and music video?…maybe this is a PR stunt after all *chuckles*

I couldn’t help but laugh when she tried flip the script on us ”judging” her, implying that it made us bad people. Ermmm I didn’t get caught doing naughty sexual things dude!

The moral of the story kids is NEVER say never and resist the inevitably regrettable decision to record yourself having sexual and intimate moments.
Watch her admission video below..poor thing!

Love and Light x

Whitney Houston R.I.P


 ”We need to start loving and honouring our legends while they are alive. People tear you down while you are here, and love you when your gone” (Tyrese Gibson).

After hearing the sad passing of a true legend, this has to be the best tweet I had read all morning.

Whitney Houston indeed was a music legend, and I think the word ”legend’ gets thrown around way too much in this day and age. I mean I like Adele, but she is hardly a legend..

After a terrible few years I mean this outcome was inevitable really, but it doesn’t mean it’s any less painful. I say this like I personally know her, and not many of us did BUT her early music to her ”My Love Is You Love” album was simply phenomenal. Let us not forget that magical moment she teamed up with Mariah Carey to sing ”When you Believe” on the Prince of Eygpt soundtrack.

Or her moment in ”The Bodyguard” or ”Waiting to Exhale”…oh my days who remembers ”The Preacher’s Wife”?? A wonderful actress as she was a singer, no doubts.

Ahhhhh Whitney, only 48..so so sad :(

I know we would all like someone to blame and it’s only natural we are all going to look to semi- mad man Bobby Brown. Yes she might have been this good Christian girl before the devil cornered her BUT some demons only come out when we want them to.
I don’t think this is the time to play the blame game, it is now time to look after Bobbi Kristina, as though the world mourns the death of a superstar, she is mourning the death of her mother.

We have all seen the photos of her daughter being caught up on drugs and I truly, deeply hope that girl is surrounded by people who can look after her, so she doesn’t follow her mothers steps.

I’m off to play myself some Whitney back to back..starting with ”I Learned From The Best” and then moving onto the woman’s anthem of ”It’s Not Right”…what tunes!

As I said about Amy, I wish Whitney to have found peace with her troubled soul
Love and Light x

Whitney Houston (1963-2012)

Jaime Lester (The Apprentice 6)


Who remembers Jaime Lester from The Apprentice (series 6)?? I do! He now has his own business in Property, and it’s called ‘Haus Properties”. His branch is on Wandsworth Bridge Road in Fulham.

Lovely, humble man who is grafter and didn’t give up on success just because Lord Alan Sugar gave him the finger (so to speak)!

Check out his website http://www.hausproperties.co.uk

Enjoy the snap!
Love and Light X

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Nate James


I just stumbled across this photo of Nate James and I at Mile End Station. What happened to his music career? I loved his songs ”Set The Tone ” and ”Kingdom Falls”.
Kingdom falls was fantastic song, beautifully written and the video/promotion was all self funded. He then used the proceedings to go towards the victims of genocide torn Rwanda. Lovely man!

He just fell right off the melodic radar.

I hope he brings out some new material soon, so we can have a breath of fresh air away from all these manufactured bands.

I remember taking this on my then-new camera and I was fiddling around with the colour settings. Enjoy the snap (sorry peeps I didn’t realise the camera was so close)
Love and Light x

Andrew Castle


What a delightful surprise! Andrew Castle came into my work place by mistake just now, and intercepted him. I have to be honest I did find myself behaving a little giddy, as he has this silver fox charm about him.

He is one of my favourite TV presenters because he is just so direct and blunt in his approach to people. A little passive aggressive but then that’s what I find appealing about him.
Who remembers that interview where he challenged Health Secretary Andy Burnham about the safety on consuming Tamiflu? Awkward!

How about the time he was paired with Ola-The Body-Jordan for Strictly Come Dancing?? Okay probably not my favourite moments of his career but still enjoyable to watch the judges lay into him, and him having to stay schtum to get votes.

Ahhhh good times!

I do love it when a well known TV personality finds 5mins in their time to talk to lil inquisitive me :)

Lovely on screen and super lovely in person

Enjoy the snap
Love and Light x

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Merry Christmas + Happy New Year


Merry Christmas to all my loyal readers out there. Thank you so much for all the support you have given me since I started this blog 10 months ago.

Though I am still learning, I hope you all have enjoyed the work I have featured these past few months and I sincerely thank everyone who has stopped by and more love goes to those who have taken the time out to drop comments on the posts they enjoyed reading.

I hope 2012 is a successful for everyone who has faith in me and what I am doing. I hope all you lovely readers check in from time to time to see what I am up to.

EVERY article featured on this site is my own work (except the one on black cinema which I featured as a part of Black History Month and my first post on Miyazaki, which I used as a catalyst to set me off…(both writers have been credited)).

Please continue to support me and my work, as I really do appreciate it.

2012 hold many great opportunities for me, as I am writing a massive screenplay AND  a stage play right now, and I hope they both become a phenomenon.
I’ll let you all know in due time so you can come and see my words in action :)

Merry Christmas and have a wonderful New Year to all readers, near and far.
God Bless

Love and Light
Abi Shodipe x 

XFactor 2011 Winner: Little Mix


After a looooooong 2 hours of my life (judge me not as I know you was probably watching too) Little Mix have pipped Marcus Collins to winning this years XFactor, and it was pretty obvious that they were going to do so. Not to take anything away from Marcus as he has a lovely voice, it was clear to see that the British public were tired of voting for young guys who after winning fizzle out like last years fireworks. With him coming in 2nd place I actually think his career would go further than if he had won.

Tulisa may have come across a little daft with her rubbish terminology and her weekly power ranger salute, but no one can deny she worked her ass for Little Mix and with all her career arrangements she made sure the group were her priority.

Unlike Kelly-All-Hype-Let-Down-Rowland!!! What a bloody embarassement she has been on the judging panel with her whack american phrases and dumb beauty spot that travels across her face.
She didn’t bring shit to the panel and has lot all credibility when she votes off an act who ends up reaching the finals and keeps in an act that is only suitable for funerals (Janet Devlin)! What kind of nonsense?! I really don’t want her back next year as I don’t think I can handle looking at her tennis ball-muscle breasts anymore. ITV producers hear my pleas, I beg for mercy from these Slazenger breasts.

As for Louis Walsh…what is the point of this human?
Oh and Gary Barlow, Mr Delicious himself, I can’t bring myself to say anything bad about him..especially looking the way he does ;)

Dare I say it..I actually preferred last years judging panel..I think overall this year has been so dry I have had more fun watching paint dry. It wasnt about the singing at all, it was about drugs, racism, bullying, confusion over what songs are rock and pantomime arguments between the judges.
On that note I really hope Misha B comes back fighting, minus the nasty hair and bites all her haters is their tushes.

I am glad it’s all done…whats that I hear?? Oh the sound of and extra zero rolling onto Simon Cowell’s bank account.

Congratulations to Little Mix, and I can only hope you continue to sing with your clothes on and sell records through your voices rather than via flashing your flesh! I suppose once the money starts rolling in Sid the Sloth/E.T/ Cabbage Patch Kid (Jesy Nelson) will look nothing like her former self. In fact they all will forget how they shot to stardom and be walking around like their sh*t don’t stink.

Also earlier this year I ranted on about Tulisa not being worthy enough to sit as a judge but she has actually proven that she kinda knows what she is talking about. Other than the Misha B, bully-gate fiasco, by mentoring the winning group she has done well to silence her critics (me included).

Love and Light x